Annarita Gori holds a PhD for the Universidade di Siena and is researcher in the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Unviversidade de Lisboa (ICS-UL), with a project on cultural diplomacy links between Portugal and Italy during the era of fasicsm. She is also professor of Comparative Politics in the PhD School in ICS-UL. She has also been visiting researcher in the New York University and Sciencies Po in Paris.

She is part of the editorial staff in the Contemporary History journal Memoria e Ricerca and also member of the scientific committee in the young investigators Persistenze o Rimozioni.

She is specialist in studying national identity building, Visual Propaganda and, recently, cultural diplomacy as an international promotion of pan-latinist community. She recently participated in two international and interdisciplinary research groups: Dreitas, História e Memória (Universidade de Juiz de Fora) y La patria hispana, la raza latina: Intelectuales, identidades colectivas y proyectos políticos entre España, Italia y Argentina (1880-1945) (Universitat de Girona).

She has several book chapters and academic journal articles, where highlight the latest “Pan-latinismo e reti di intellettuali tra le due guerre” in Genealogie e geografie dell’anti-democrazia nella crisi europea degli anni Trenta (editado por L. Cerasi, 2019) and the collective books Percorsi. Scienze social tra Italia e Portogallo (with G. Accornero y D. Serapiglia, 2017) y Intellectuals in the Latin Space during the Era of Fascism: Crossing Borders(with V. Galimi, 2020).

Annarita Gori

SpecialityCultural diplomatic relations between Portugal and Italy in the era of fascismUniversityUniversidade di Siena // Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Unviversidade de Lisboa (ICS-UL).Areas of interestThe study of the formation of national identity, the mechanisms of "Visual Propaganda" and, recently, the study of cultural diplomacy understood as the international promotion of the pan-Latin community.