MECHI Lorenzo

Current positions:

• Associate Professor, History of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padua.
• Scientific Coordinator of the “Ettore Anchieri” Library, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padua.
• Director of the Master Course in “European Integration: EU policies and project management”, University of Padua.

Previous positions and experiences

• November-December 2014: enseignant invité, Université d’Artois – Arras (France)
• September-October 2007: chercheur invité, Université de Cergy-Pontoise (France).

• From 2005 to 2015 Permanent Researcher in History of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padua.
• PhD. in History of International Relations, University of Florence, 2000.
• Master’s Degree in European Studies, University of Florence, 1997.
• From 2007 to 2013: Director of the “Corso di Aggiornamento” in “EU project management”

• Referee for: European Research Council; Research Foundation Flanders (FWO – Belgium); Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); research councils of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the University of Venezia Ca’ Foscari and the University of Padova; Italian ministry’s Vqr (evaluation of research quality), editions 2004-2010 and 2011-2014; journals Mouvement Social, Ventunesimo Secolo, Afriche e Orienti, Officina della Storia; publishing houses UTET Università, De Gruyter.
• Member of PhD final commissions: PhD Istituzioni, Idee e Movimenti Politici nell’Europa Contemporanea, University of Pavia (2011); PhD Storia delle Relazioni Internazionali, University of Firenze (2014, 2017); PhD Intégration européenne au XXe siècle. Histoire des relations économiques et monétaires internationales, Université de Paris – Sorbonne (2014), PhD History and Civilization, European University Institute (2017).

Scientific activity:

• 2001-2004: post-doctoral grants from the University of Padua.
• 1996-2000: grants from the Fondazione Giulio Pastore, the Unione Armeni d’Italia and the European Economic and Social Committee.

• 2008-2010: in charge of a research group financed by the University of Padua on “Sindacati, imprenditori e l’inizio della globalizzazione: una prospettiva internazionale (1968-1981)” (“Unions, employers and the beginning of globalization: an international perspective, 1968-1981”).
• 2006: in charge of a research group financed by the Istituto di Studi Politici S. Pio V on “Le Nazioni Unite e il problema dello sviluppo nei ‘creativi anni 70’” (“The United Nations and the question of development in the ‘creative 1970s’”).
• Since 2005: in charge of annual personal research projects financed by the University of Padua
• Since 1998: member of 5 two-year national research projects financed by the Italian Ministry of the University (3 of which being so-called “Projects of Relevant National Interest” = PRIN) and of 2 two-year research projects financed by the University of Padua.
• Member of a network of external experts working with the ILO Century Project (www.ilo.org/century/).
• Member of the international research network “WAGE (Wage Analysis in Globalising Europe)”, led by the Université d’Artois.
• Member of the international research project “Histcom3: History of the European Commission, 1986-2000”, financed by the European Commission.

• Since 2004: member of the direction board of the journal Storia e Politica – Annali della Fondazione Ugo La Malfa.
• From 2007 to 2015: correspondent of the Scientific Committee of the journal Sindacalismo.
• From 2004 to 2010: member of the editorial board of the journal Ventunesimo Secolo

• Member of the scientific committee of 11 national and international conferences, held in Florence, Padua, Perugia, Teramo and Siena.
• Participation as speaker in more than 60 scientific national and international conferences held in Italy, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Spain, Romania, China and the United States.

Teaching positions:

• Since 2015-16 in charge of the graduate course in History of the International Organisations, University of Padua
• In 2017-2018 in charge of the undergraduate course in History of European Integration, University of Padua.
• In previous years in charge of graduate courses in History of International Relations, History of the European Political Institutions, Diplomatic History, History of Transatlantic Relations, History of Europe.
• Has given courses or lectures at the universities of Florence, Siena, Trento, the University “Suor Orsola Benincasa” in Naples, the Université de Genève, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the West University of Timisoara, the Université de Cergy-Pontoise, the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-neuve, the Université d’Artois in Arras and the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis (Brasil).