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Fernanda Gallo

@fernandag.bsky.social
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Born in Naples 🇮🇹, roots in 🇵🇹, lived and worked in🇩🇪🇨🇭and now in 🇬🇧 Associate Prof in History and Politics at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Author of “Hegel and Italian Political Thought: the Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900”(CUP, 2024)

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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
📢 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship at the University of Cambridge! 🌿 2026–27 Theme: Italian Ecologies 📅 Fellowship period: 27 April – 30 June 2027 📌 Application deadline: 18 September 2026.  🔗 Full details: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/fel...
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CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship - CRASSH
The Fellowship is offered to an outstanding early career scholar whose research focuses on Italy.
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/
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Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
So blessed that my book received such thoughtful and generous engagement from my fantastic colleagues: Gusejnova, Moggach, Ragazzoni and De Laurentiis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Beyond Va Pensiero and the Prison Notebooks. Fernanda Gallo Explains Why Modern Italian Political Thought Can Be Best Understood Through the Reception of Hegel
The review considers Fernanda Gallo's Hegel and Italian Political Thought against the background of common conceptions of Italian political thought. It reconstructs how Hegelian philosophy shaped t...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I’m feeling truly grateful and honoured today. Receiving such thoughtful and generous comments on my book from my wonderful colleagues, Dina Gusejnova, Douglas Moggach, David Ragazzoni and Allegra De Laurentiis, means a great deal to me and is incredibly encouraging. Links in the comments
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Beyond Va Pensiero and the Prison Notebooks. Fernanda Gallo Explains Why Modern Italian Political Thought Can Be Best Understood Through the Reception of Hegel
The review considers Fernanda Gallo's Hegel and Italian Political Thought against the background of common conceptions of Italian political thought. It reconstructs how Hegelian philosophy shaped t...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I am deeply honoured that my book has received such thoughtful and generous engagement from great scholars Hugo Drochon,Allegra De Laurentiis,Dina Gusejnova,Douglas Moggach, and David Ragazzoni, in the book Symposium on History of European Ideas. Here my response: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CEG7G...
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A Response to Readers
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It was a great experience to be at the University of Freiburg to discuss “The Significance of the Cambridge School for Contemporary Political Theory”. Three generations of Cambridge scholars debating with many great colleagues from all over the world about new exciting directions in the field
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Honoured to be invited to the conference “The Significance of the Cambridge School for Contemporary Political Theory” at the University of Freiburg. Looking forward to speaking about the Cambridge School and the practice of ideas with a focus on Hegel uni-freiburg.de/politik/camb...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I am truly honoured to share that my book “Hegel and Italian Political Thought” has been selected as one of the finalists for the Giuseppe Galasso Prize. The jury recognised the “excellent scientific quality and the valuable contribution to the international historiographical debate.”
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Delighted to have been awarded the CRASSH Fellowship for this term!
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I am honoured to share this news!
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Dear friends, this is great opportunity to come and work with us! This is a temporary (4 years) lectureship in European Social and Economic History post 1800. Please do apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR005/s...
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Senior Teaching Associate [Temporary Cover] at University of Cambridge
An academic position as a Senior Teaching Associate [Temporary Cover] is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Hi London friends! If you happen to be available tomorrow and are interested in hearing about my new book, I will be presenting at the IHR Seminar in the History of Political Ideas, hosted at the London School of Economics. I would be delighted if you could join us www.history.ac.uk/events/ethic...
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The Ethical State in Italy: From Vico to Hegel
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
It was great fun to have this conversation on my book with Lilly Goren for the New Books Network Podcast. If you want to know more about Hegel in Italy and have a few minutes to spare here is the link: newbooksnetwork.com/hegel-and-it...
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Fernanda Gallo, "Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Join us today to know more about Labour in Italy!!
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It seems that my book launch appeared on the Homerton College website ☺️ www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/homersphere/...
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Dr Fernanda Gallo launches latest book 'Hegal and Italian Political Thought'
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Research Institute for Politics and Government @lupspolitics.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The upcoming speaker of our research seminar series this Wednesday from 10.30 am (CET) is @fernandag.bsky.social (@uniofcam.bsky.social), who will talk about the contribution of the political thought and praxis of Hegelians in Italy; more information: ripg.uni-nke.hu/hirek/2025/0...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
It was a great honour to discuss my book with David James, Axel Körner, and all my amazing colleagues and friends in Cambridge who shared with me their insights and comments. Thank you all!
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
So excited to kick off the Cambridge Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar discussing my book with David James (Warwick) and Axel Koerner (Leipzig) on Monday 27th of January. Please join us if you are around! www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminar/lent @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
A very busy year with special guests at Homerton such as Reverend Al Sharpton, Diana Abbott, and Armando Iannucci; incredible conversations with great colleagues…and finally holding my new book in my hands. My students filled with energy and sparks this very intense 2024 and I am so very thankful.
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
JOB‼️ 4 years postdoc in Politics at our amazing @homertoncollege.bsky.social www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/junior-resea...
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Junior Research Fellow Competition 2025
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The book is now available on line here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... For more info look at the Cambridge History webpage: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/hegel-a...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It is a special feeling to hold your book in your hands and maybe even more special to find it in the Cambridge University Press bookshop. I could not be happier❤️ 30% discount with the code HIPT2024: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @homertoncollege.bsky.social
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
In two days my book will be available and you can buy it here with 30% discount with the code HIPT2024 at checkout. @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/homersphere/...
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How 19th Century liberals made modern Italy
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A brief snapshot of a piece of my current research on the podcast The Academic Minute is on air today. It only takes a minute to listen to it 🙂 academicminute.org/2024/11/fern...
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Fernanda Gallo, University of Cambridge - Italy and the United States of Europe - The Academic Minute
An earlier version of the European Union was imagined by secret societies centuries ago. Fernanda Gallo, associate professor in history and politics at the University of Cambridge, delves into this hi...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hi everyone! A lot of new followers recently so want to introduce myself. Interested in intellectual history, history of modern European political thought, Italian history and political philosophy. My new book is coming out on December 5th: www.cambridge.org/core/books/h.... Here the discount flyer
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
To get around the limit, I have made a Part 2! If you think I should add anyone or I missed you do let me know & I will add you go.bsky.app/7DTVem6
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you! go.bsky.app/77uSk3m
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 03/11/2024
My book is ready for pre-order here and you can also have a look inside :) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit... Here the flyer to get 30% discount on the book!
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Very excited to be presenting about my forthcoming book at the Oxford Political Thought Seminar on Monday 21st of October. If you happen to be around please join us 😊
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Our Modern European History term card is out and we start on Thursday with a seminar in collaboration with the Modern British history Seminar with our own @SarCaputo and Julia Moses (Sheffield) on “Writing British Histories in European Contexts: Challenges and Opportunities”
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
It was so much fun to talk about my book on “Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900” at the Political Theory Workshop at Yale University. Great conversations, insightful comments, and a very interesting exchange of ideas. www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
My review essay on Richard Bourke’s “Hegel World’s Revolutions” is out on “History of European Ideas”…and in great company! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Re-thinking the history of political thought with Hegel: on Bourke’s Hegel’s World Revolutions
Richard Bourke brings Hegel back to the forefront of the debate with masterful theoretical clarity, philosophical acumen, historical accuracy, and impressive knowledge, presenting to us a vivid acc...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
My book has a cover and I love it! It’s coming 🥳
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
‼️JOB ‼️ Come and work with us! Postdoctoral Research Associate in Modern Italy and Memory Studies for 30 months to collaborate on a project on 'Escape, Community, Resistance, Memory. Italian populations and Allied prisoners of war'. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/45574/
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Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
It has been a great experience to write this piece for Aeon on how, long before the European Union, 19th century Italian radicals imagined a United States of Europe, including Ukraine and Turkey, based on republican principles of freedom and equality aeon.co/essays/could...
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Could we recover the radical vision of a free and united Europe? | Aeon Essays
A free and unified Europe was first imagined by Italian radicals in the 19th century. Could we yet see their dream made real?
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
It’s here! Getting ready for the final revision! My book “Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1932-1900” will be out in September! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 23/04/2024
‼️JOB ‼️ Great 3 years-postdoctoral opportunity in Modern European History at Oxford (St Edmund Hall) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHG386/e... @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 07/04/2024
My book has received its first endorsements and I could not be happier! You can read the endorsements and pre-order the book here: www.cambridge.org/it/universit...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Amazing evening yesterday at LSE for the IHR Political Thought seminar. A conversation between me and Richard Bourke on the state of the scholarship about Hegel and the Hegelian traditions of Political Thought…a contextual turn in Hegel studies seems on the way! Great questions and audience!
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
‼️ London friends! Please join us tomorrow at 5:30pm at LSE for the History of Political Thought Seminar. I will be giving a talk together with Richard Bourke on “The State of Research: Hegel in Europe and the US”. It will be fun! www.history.ac.uk/events/state...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 13/03/2024
JOB‼️ We are hiring a College Lecturer in Law at Homerton College. Come to work with us! www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/cto-in-law
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
What could be better to celebrate #internationalwomensday than a lecture to undergrad on Women’s emancipation in Europe and a Mediterranean Research Cluster with amazing female scholars discussing women in Albanian and Gipsy communities in the Med…I missed the mimosa though😬
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The Cambridge School @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Action shot from Monday's seminar: @chrisbrooke.bsky.social, Sylvana Tomaselli, and Georgios Giannakopoulos discuss the United States of Europe, 1848-1914. (via @fernandag.bsky.social)
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
It still seems unreal but my new monograph “Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900” is getting ready to be out in September with Cambridge University Press in the prestigious series “Ideas in Context”. I am so excited! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 22/01/2024
What a great evening! Hegel is back and now everyone knows that it can be fun! Thanks to Richard Bourke for his amazing book “Hegel’s World Revolutions” and to Chris Clark and @leaypi.bsky.social for their insightful and thought-provoking comments @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
2nd Cambridge History Faculty Anniversary Lecture - Michael Bentley on 'The Peculiarities of Cambridge History: Comparative Thoughts on the Historical Tripos', marking 150th anniversary of the Tripos. All welcome, Peterhouse Theatre, Tuesday 30 January, 5pm, reception to follow.
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
The Cambridge Modern European History Seminar is ready for our Lent term. Honoured to comment on Joseph Viscomi’s paper on Tuesday 23 January “Rethinking Mediterranean Migrations”. Thanks to my co-convenors Jean-Michel Johnston, Chris Clark, and Marcus Colla. www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Our Lent term Political Thought and Intellectual History seminar card is ready. Great line up of people.Thanks to my co-convenor @chrisbrooke.bsky.social Sylvana Tomaselli Adam Woodhouse Starting with Richard Bourke’s book on Hegel polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminar/lent @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Our own Chris Clark, Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, will give the annual lecture of the Cambridge Italian Research Network on ‘Italy in 1848/49” on Nov 8th, 5:15pm St John’s College (Lightfoot room). Don’t miss it! @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
It’s here! Thrilled to have in my hands the new book by Richard Bourke “Hegel’s World Revolutions” and looking forward to the discussion in January at the Cambridge Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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