Chiara TRIBULATO  

PhD in Historical, Geographical, Anthropological Studies. (University of Padova, Italy)

Post-doctoral researcher 2021-2022 (former member of LACITO)

Research expertise

‘Performing Romani’: Communicative practices and daily interaction routines of a Romani community in Bogotá

Research projects

Opérations de recherche au Lacito :

Romani language repertoires in an open world (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2019–2026)

Keywords

Romani studies, Linguistic Anthropology, Anthropology of movement and nomadism, Jargon studies, Anthropology of emotions, Language and emotions.

Academic works

— 2019: PhD in Historical, Geographical, Anthropological Studies. Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padova. Thesis title: Here among us. To be Sinti in the Italian Funfair.
— 2014: MA in Anthropology, Ethnology and Ethno-linguistic Faculty of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy – 110 with honours. Thesis title: Dritti e gaggi. Lo spettacolo viaggiante in Sicilia.
— 2011: BA in Italian literature Faculty of Humanities, University of Messina, Italy, Italy – 110 with honours. Thesis title: Esercizi di sopravvivenza. Pratiche culturali e strategie identitarie nell’universo romanés.

Publications 

Articles or book chapters

— 2022. Tribulato C. The jargon of Italian travellers in change: a new scenario for relexification. A New Social Scenario for Reflexification. Languages 7, no. 1:44. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010044
— 2020 Tribulato C., Dritto in contatto: elementi romaní nel gergo di una comunità girovaga italiana. Argot e plurilinguismo, Scala A. (ed.), Argotica 1 (9): 81-102.
— 2019 Tribulato C. & Pastori B. “Per raccontare tutta una vita non bastano poche pagine”. Il diario di Jucki tra ricerca e presentazione di sé. In Archives and Ethnography: intersections in the history and anthropology of Europe’s Sinti and Roma, Tauber E. & Trevisan P. (eds.) «La ricerca Folklorica» 74: 43-59.

Talks

— 2020 Mobilités et contacts dans les mondes romani: histoire, linguistique et anthropologie. Title: To be Sinti in the Italian funfair: social boundaries and spaces of value in a shared economic niche. EHESS, FR, 22 janvier.

— 2019 14th International Conference in Romani Linguistics. Title: Lombard Sinti in change: an overview. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (webinar), september 10-11.

— 2018 Laboratorio Demo-etnoantropologico. Title: Dirsi Sinti nello spettacolo viaggiante: spazi di riconoscimento e geografie del rispetto in una nicchia economica condivisa. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, march 26.

— 2018 13th International Conference on Romani Linguistics 3. Title: Romani elements in the jargon of Italian funfair. Power and prestige relations. Paris – Sorbonne University, september 14.

— 2018 Laboratorio Demo-etnoantropologico. Title: Modi di morire: Pratiche e rappresentazioni di una nicchia girovaga. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, March 26.

— 2017 Annual meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and conference on Gypsy/Romani studies. Title: Ways to die: Sinti and “Dritti” in the Complex world of Italian Funfair. University of Cyprus,August 30.

— 2016 1st National PhD Conference in Social Science. Title: Relazioni in viaggio: La vita familiare dentro e fuori dal parco. University of Padua, june 25.

— 2015 Laboratorio Demo-etnoantropologico. Title: Dritti e Gaggi. Lo spettacolo viaggiante in Sicilia. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, november 23.