Con: Francesca Alby, Guelfo Carbone, Annamaria Carusi, Marina Ciampi, Marilena Fatigante, Giolo Fele, Renata Galatolo, Hubert Knoblauch, Katarina Limacher, Giuseppe Losacco, Francesca Lulli, Michael Mair, Francesco Mattioli, Barbara Pentimalli, Larissa Schindler, Philippe Sormani, Andrea Spreafico, Anna Maria Paola Toti, Cristina Zucchermaglio

Evening lecture, 23 March 2016:
Prof. Giolo Fele (University of Trento)
Accounting for taste. Video analysis of tasting sessions

Giolo Fele

I took a degree in 1984 in Sociology (with honors) at Università La Sapienza in Rome. I then did a research doctorate (2nd cycle) in “Sociology and Social Research” at the Department of Sociology, University of Trent (1986/1988). In the period from July 2004 to July 2005 I was a researcher at the Department of Sociology of the University of California, Los Angeles.

I was awarded a Marie Curie OIF – Outgoing International Fellowship of the European Commission to conduct research on emergency communication (July 2004 – December 2005).

I generally focus on sociology of communication and various areas of sociology of cultural processes. In particular, my interests involve analysis of social interaction, using naturalistic and ethnographic research methods; the role of symbolism and rituals in social life; the study of social organization of discourse and conversation in context.

In 1995 I won the competition for a research position at the Department of Communication Disciplines, School of Letters and Philosophy, Università di Bologna. In September 2002 I was approved as qualified for a teaching poast at the 1st level, following a comparative evaluation procedure. In October 2002 I was appointed as a special professor for the class SPS/08 (Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes) at the Department of Sociology of the University of Trento.

In the Department of Sociology of the University of Trento I teach Sociology of Communication and Methods and Techniques of Social Research (Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods) in the masters program in Sociology and Social Research.

I also teach regularly at the PhD program in Sociology and Social Research of the Department of Sociology of the Università di Trento. I teach (2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009) a module on Analysis of Discourse and Analysis of Conversation at the 2nd level University Masters MetRiS, Department of Sociology, Università La Sapienza in Rome.