Roberta Garieri

Roberta Garieri holds a PhD in art history from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, specializing in Latin American artistic practices and their transnational dynamics. Her research combines art history, memory studies and political theory, with a particular focus on decolonial approaches. During her PhD, she carried out research in Chile, Italy and France, and was a fellow in the department headed by Tristan Weddigen at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (2022-2023). In 2025, she was awarded the Silvana Vassallo prize for her doctoral thesis, which will be published in 2026 by ETS.

Her project explores the history of the Italian-Latin American Institute (IILA), founded in Rome in 1966. By articulating a transnational perspective, the aim is to shed light on the intellectual, cultural and political dynamics that ran through the IILA, at the intersection of Latin American and European histories. Its study is part of the historiographical renewal devoted to the cultural history of international relations, crossing the approaches of global history and transnational art history. IILA, as a space for mediation, enables us to rethink the cultural and political dynamics of the 20th century from a South-North perspective.