Giovanni Puglisi

GIOVANNI PUGLISI Rector Emeritus of IULM University, is Deputy Vice-President of the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana “Giovanni Treccani” and President of “Treccani Scuola”.

He is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at IULM University in Milan, where he was also Rector from 2001 to 2015, and Member of the Istituto Lombardo – Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.

He has been Rector of the University Kore of Enna from 2011 to 2023.

He is Board Director of Fondazione CRUI

He is an Honorary Doctor in Philology of the University of Salamanca.

He is President of the Società Siciliana per la Storia Patria and President of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Società Dante Alighieri.

He has been Chairman of the Fondazione CERBA (European Centre for Advanced Biomedical Research) in Milan.

He is Emeritus President of the Fondazione Sicilia and the Italian National Commission for UNESCO.

He is Onorary President of ICOMOS Italia.

He has been Dean of The Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI), up to January 2023.

He has been member of Consiglio Universitario Nazionale (CUN) in 1989-1996 and 2014-2022.

He is President of the Lauro Chiazzese Foundation for Art and Culture and of the Teatro Biondo Stabile in Palermo.

He has beeenVice-President of Banca Sistema until 2025.

He is an Ordinary Member of the Aspen Institute Italia.

He is Board Director of  Civita Cultura Holding.

He is President of Fondazione Snaitech.

He was awarded the honour of Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by the President of the Republic.

He was awarded the honour of the “Ambrogino d’oro” from the City of Milan.

He was awarded the honorary citizenship of the city of Palermo.

He was awarded the Special Merit Award and was entered into the Golden Register of the International Mauritian Academy.

He has been a journalist and publicist since 1972 working as editor on a number of scientific journals and publications and focusing his interests on aesthetics, philosophy and literary criticism.

He was awarded the Medal for 50 Years of Journalistic Service by the National Order of Journalists

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He has published numerous scientific and academic works, the most recent of which include:

• Il tempo della crisi, Sellerio Editore;
• L’Italia fra politica e cultura nelle pagine, Le Monnier Firenze;
• Parole, non fatti! , in Il testo e l'opera, Milano Ledizioni, 2015, pp. 189-202;
• Le culture del ‘sì’ nel dialogo interculturale del Mediterraneo, in A. Brettoni, E. Pellegrini, S. Piazzesi e   D. Salvadori (a cura di), Per Enza Biagini;
• I luoghi della letteratura, in G. Puglisi (a cura di), L’Italia. La Sicilia, Treccani-Roma;
• Prefazione al volume G. Lipovetsky-J. Serroy, L’estetizzazione del mondo. Vivere nell’era del  capitalismo artistico, Sellerio Editore;
• Introduzione al volume Metodologie di lettura, per una cultura europea: Testi - Letterature – Interpretazioni. Symbolon, anno IX, n.5, pp 9-20;
• L'Europa nelle istituzioni sovra-nazionali, in Calendario civile europeo, Roma Donzelli, 2019 pp. 191-200;
• Prefazione al volume Fiabe siciliane, Laura Gonzenbach, Donzelli Editore, 2019;
• Machiavelli, la politica e lo spirito del tempo in la Biblioteca di via Senato, Mensile anno XI n. 12 – Dicembre 2019, pp. 5-9;
• Prefazione al volume Innovazione territorio e comunità – Il Terzo Settore nel terzo millennio, Giandomenico Genta, Alberto Franco, nino argano editore, 2019;
• Letteratura e vita. L’eterna scoperta in la Repubblica - I RACCONTI DEL BALCONE. Diario della quarantena in Sicilia – Settembre 2020, pp.89-95;
• L’immortalità degli uomini liberi in la Biblioteca di via Senato, Mensile anno XII n. 12 – Dicembre 2020, pp. 5-9;
• Ricordando Giovanni Santangelo in  L'ape iblea dalla zagara all'edelweiss, Palermo University Press - 2020, pp.495-498;
• Une abeille dans la ruche des études comparatistiques italiennes in Revue de Littérature copmparée, n. 2/2021, pp.199-206.
• Fiaba, tradizioni popolari e valore universale: l’Unesco, la demologia e la cultura europea in La Fiaba come cifra dell’identità europea, Roma Treccani 2024 pp 47-51
  

In 2016 he was the editor of the volume Sicilia in the Collection entitled L’Italia published by the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani.

Although IULM University takes all necessary care to ensure the publication of correct, updated and complete information, it is not responsible for the contents of the curricula published online on the Portal www.iulm.it. The holder of this curriculum vitae is the exclusive guarantor and responsible for the correctness and truthfulness of the information contained therein.