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Valentina Brogna is Guest lecturer in EU Politics and International Relations at UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles (USL-B) since 2023.
She is also Guest lecturer in European Institutions and Policies at ESPOL (Lille) and in Sociology at UCLouvain Mons in 2023/2024. Previously, she has been teaching assistant in Security Practices and Political Violence at ULB (2022/2023) and in Diplomacy, Negotiation and Mediation at ESPOL (2021/2022).
She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, earned in 2023 under the co-supervision by Prof. Amandine Orsini (USL-B) and Prof. Isaline Bergamaschi (ULB) and funded through FRESH (F.R.S. FNRS) and FSR (USL-B) grants.
Her PhD thesis is titled “From Sustainable Development to African Renaissance? Transnational Civil Society Organisations narrating development between Europe and Africa”. It focuses on narratives around “development” by International Non Governmental Development Organisations (INGDOs) and Pan-African Diaspora Organisations mostly active at EU level.
She holds a Master’s degree with honors in Institutions and Policies of Human Rights and Peace and a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Political Science and International Relations from Padua University (Italy). She also holds a Certificate of Political Studies with honors (CEP, mention très bien) from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux (France).
From 2012 to beginning 2017, Valentina worked at the European Women’s Lobby (Brussels), an umbrella of women’s organisations in Europe, holding different positions including communication, policy and advocacy, governance and membership management. Previously, she worked as an intern at FOCSIV (Rome), an Italian federation of NGDOs, and as volunteer editor for a grassroot Afro-Italian association in Verona.
Contact information:
valentina.brogna@usaintlouis.be
Research interests :
EU-Africa relations; politics of development; development theories; civil dialogue and lobbying; International Development NGOs; Pan-African diaspora in Europe.
Academic Blogs:
Brogna, V.: European NGOs still dance to the tune of their interlocutors – but this might be changing, BLIss, The Hague, 7/10/2021 (IT version: Le ONG europee si adattano ancora al registro dei loro interlocutori – ma ci sono segnali di cambiamento)
Brogna, V.: An African Renaissance perspective on EU-Africa relations, Convivial Thinking, 20/11/2020
Brogna, V.: A come Afriche: perché è sbagliato parlare del ‘Continente nero’ al singolare, Connessioni, Blog di EuropaToday, 04/03/2019
Brogna, V.: Pan-African Diasporas in the Brussels bubble: new actors, new business?, BLIss, The Hague, 14/12/2018
Conference presentations:
(2023)
European Union International Affairs Conference 2023 (EUIA23), 3-5 May 2023 / Paper: “When the African diasporas go European: diversifying development actors, re-centering Europe, silencing (de)coloniality”
(2021)
17th Development Dialogue “Engaged scholarship for development: building solidarity, peace and social justice” – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, EUR), online, 5-6 July 2021 / Paper: “Alternative, rights-based, sustainable, post-growth: the sedimentation of development framings in CONCORD narrative (2010-2020)”
GLOBE International Relations Winter School, online, 10-11 February 2021 / Paper: “What is ‘development’? “Development” narratives by International Civil Society Organisations: the case of the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development (CONCORD) – 2010-2017”
(2019)
ISA 60thAnnual Convention “Re-visioning International Studies: Innovation and Progress”, Toronto 27-30 March 2019 / Paper: “Are Pan-African Diasporic Networks driving a decolonial turn within EU-Africa relations? The case of the Post-Cotonou negotiations”
(2018)
16th Development Dialogue “Social Justice amidst the convergence of crises: Repoliticizing inequalities” – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, EUR), The Hague, 1-2 November 2018 / Paper: “Pan-African Diasporic Networks in Brussels as arising actors within EU-Africa relations”
Fifth ASAI Conference “PluralAFRICA. Politics, knowledge and social dynamics in time and space” – Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna 5-7 September 2018 / Paper: “Reti diasporiche panafricane quali attori emergenti delle relazioni UE-Africa”
(2017)
First Concordia– McGill Universities African Studies Conference “Deconstructing and Reconstructing Africa: Politics, Society and Economics” – Montreal, 5-6 October 2017 / Paper: “The European Union for Africa towards 2030: perspectives from transnational organisations”
CReSPo Doctoral Conference “Les relations entre Etat et société civile au travers de leurs déséquilibres” – 8-9 June 2017 / Paper: “A participatory revision? The negotiation process around the Revised European Consensus on Development. INGDOs and African organisations’ contributions to the EC online public consultation”.
Publications:
Articles (selection):
(2021)
Brogna, V.: The Case for Epistemic Decolonization: How Africa Can Take its Development upon Itself, in International Studies Review, published 30 July 2021.
(2018)
Brogna, V.: « The European Union and Africa towards 2030: perspectives from transnational civil society organisations » In Un nuovo ‘nomos della terra’ ? Governance internazionale, sviluppo e aiuto umanitario – POLITICS. Rivista di Studi Politici, VIII 2/2017, 65-82
Brogna, V., book review: « Norichika Kanie and Frank Biermann (eds), Governing through goals: Sustainable Development Goals as governance innovation, Cambridge, MA, and London : The MIT Press. 2017, 352 pp. », International Affairs 94(2), 1 March 2018, pp. 441-442.
Editing:
(2015)
Do-Nascimento: Storia del continente africano. Una lettura razionale e sintetica, Qui Edit, Verona, 2015
AA.: Afriknow, Africa’s reports on EXPOMagazine, Africa’s Friends, Zenit ADV Verona, 2015 (EN version)
(2013)
AA.: Women’s Watch Report 2012-2013, European Women’s Lobby, Brussels, 2013 (EN and FR versions)
(2010)
AA.: « Sovranità alimentare: la forza dei piccoli produttori per nutrire il pianeta », FOCSIV Volontari e Terzo Mondon° 4/2010, Roma, 2010
AA.: « 2010 – 2015: cinque anni per reinvestire sulfuturo », FOCSIV Volontari e Terzo Mondon° 3/2010, Roma, 2010
AA.:« 2015: Cinque anni per costruire un partenariato vincente per lo sviluppo », FOCSIV Collana Strumentin° 29/2010, Roma, 2010
Belotti, V.: Il Barometro della solidarietà internazionale degli italiani 2010, FOCSIV, DOXA, Famiglia Cristiana, Padua University, Roma, 2010 (IT and EN versions)
Version française
Valentina Brogna est chargée de cours invitée de EU Politics et International Relations à l’UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles depuis 2023.
Elle est aussi chargée de cours invitée de European Institutions and Policies à ESPOL (Lille) et de Sociologie à l’UCLouvian Mons en 2023/2024. Elle a été assistante en Securoty Practices and Political Violence à l’ULB (2022/2023) et en Diplomacy, Negotiation and Mediation à ESPOL (2021/2022).
Elle est titulaire d’un Doctorat en sciences politiques et sociales de l’Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, obtenu en 2023 sous la co-direction de la Prof. Amandine Orsini (USL-B) et de la Prof. Isaline Bergamaschi (ULB) et financé par un mandat FRESH (F.R.S. FNRS) et une bourse FSR (USL-B).
Sa thèse, s’intitule “From Sustainable Development to African Renaissance? Transnational Civil Society Organisations narrating development between Europe and Africa”. Elle porte sur les recits du « développement » par des Organisations non gouvernementales internationales de développement (ONGID) et des Organisations panafricaines de la diaspora actives notamment au niveau européen.
Elle est titulaire d’un diplôme de Master en Institutions et politiques des droits humains et de la paix, avec félicitations du jury, et d’un diplôme de Bachelier en Science politique et Relations internationales, avec félicitations du jury, de l’Université de Padoue (Italie). Elle est aussi titulaire d’un Certificat d’Etudes Politiques (CEP, avec mention très bien) de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux (France).
De 2012 à début 2017, Valentina a travaillé au Lobby européen des femmes (Bruxelles), une coupole d’organisations de femmes en Europe, y occupant différents postes, y compris de gestion de la communication, des politiques et plaidoyer, de la gouvernance et de la participation des membres. Précédemment, elle a travaillé comme stagiaire auprès de FOCSIV (Rome), une fédération italienne d’ONGD, et en tant que rédactrice bénévole pour une association afro-italienne de Vérone.
Coordonnées:
valentina.brogna@usaintlouis.be
Intérêts de recherche :
Relations Ue-Afrique; Politique du développement; Théories du développement; Dialogue civile et plaidoyer; ONG internationales de développement; Diaspora pan-africaine en Europe.
Blogs académiques:
Brogna, V.: European NGOs still dance to the tune of their interlocutors – but this might be changing, BLIss, The Hague, 7/10/2021 (IT version: Le ONG europee si adattano ancora al registro dei loro interlocutori – ma ci sono segnali di cambiamento)
Brogna, V.: An African Renaissance perspective on EU-Africa relations, Convivial Thinking, 20/11/2020
Brogna, V.: A come Afriche: perché è sbagliato parlare del ‘Continente nero’ al singolare, Connessioni, Blog di EuropaToday, 04/03/2019
Brogna, V.: Pan-African Diasporas in the Brussels bubble: new actors, new business?, BLIss, The Hague, 14/12/2018
Participations à conférences:
(2023)
European Union International Affairs Conference 2023 (EUIA23), 3-5 mai 2023 / Papier: “When the African diasporas go European: diversifying development actors, re-centering Europe, silencing (de)coloniality”
(2021)
17th Development Dialogue “Engaged scholarship for development: building solidarity, peace and social justice” – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, EUR), online, 5-6 juillet 2021 / Papier: “Alternative, rights-based, sustainable, post-growth: the sedimentation of development framings in CONCORD narrative (2010-2020)”
GLOBE International Relations Winter School, 10-11 février 2021, en ligne / Papier: “What is ‘development’?“Development” narratives by International Civil Society Organisations: the case of the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development (CONCORD) – 2010-2017”
(2019)
ISA 60thAnnual Convention “Re-visioning International Studies: Innovation and Progress”, Toronto 27-30 mars 2019 / Papier: “Are Pan-African Diasporic Networks driving a decolonial turn within EU-Africa relations? The case of the Post-Cotonou negotiations”
(2018)
16th Development Dialogue« Social Justice amidst the convergence of crises: Repoliticizing inequalities” – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, EUR), La Haye, 1-2 novembre 2018 / Papier: “Pan-African Diasporic Networks in Brussels as arising actors within EU-Africa relations”
Vème Conférence ASAI PluralAFRICA: Politique, savoirs et dynamiques sociales dans le temp et dans l’espace – Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna 5-7 septembre 2018 / Papier: « Reti diasporiche panafricane quali attori emergenti delle relazioni UE-Africa »
(2017)
First Concordia– McGill Universities African Studies Conference « Deconstructing and Reconstructing Africa: Politics, Society and Economics » – Montreal, 5-6 October 2017 / Paper: « The European Union for Africa towards 2030: perspectives from transnational organisations»
CReSPo Doctoral Conference« Les relations entre Etat et société civile au travers de leurs déséquilibres » – 8-9 June 2017 / Paper: « A participatory revision? The negotiation process around the Revised European Consensus on Development. INGDOs and African organisations’ contributions to the EC online public consultation».
Publications:
Articles (sélection):
(2021)
Brogna, V.: The Case for Epistemic Decolonization: How Africa Can Take its Development upon Itself, in International Studies Review, published 30 July 2021.
(2018)
Brogna, V. “The European Union and Africa towards 2030: perspectives from transnational civil society organisations” In Un nuovo ‘nomos della terra’ ? Governance internazionale, sviluppo e aiuto umanitario – POLITICS. Rivista di Studi Politici, VIII 2/2017, 65-82
Brogna, V., book review: « Norichika Kanie and Frank Biermann (eds), Governing through goals: Sustainable Development Goals as governance innovation, Cambridge, MA, and London : The MIT Press. 2017, 352 pp. », International Affairs 94(2), 1 March 2018, pp. 441-442.
Travaux d’édition:
(2015)
Do-Nascimento: Storia del continente africano. Una lettura razionale e sintetica, Qui Edit, Verona, 2015
AA.: Afriknow, Africa’s reports on EXPOMagazine, Africa’s Friends, Zenit ADV Verona, 2015 (EN version)
(2013)
AA.: Women’s Watch Report 2012-2013, European Women’s Lobby, Brussels, 2013 (EN and FR versions)
(2010)
AA.: « Sovranità alimentare: la forza dei piccoli produttori per nutrire il pianeta », FOCSIV Volontari e Terzo Mondon° 4/2010, Roma, 2010
AA.: « 2010 – 2015: cinque anni per reinvestire sulfuturo », FOCSIV Volontari e Terzo Mondon° 3/2010, Roma, 2010
AA.:« 2015: Cinque anni per costruire un partenariato vincente per lo sviluppo », FOCSIV Collana Strumentin° 29/2010, Roma, 2010
Belotti, V.: Il Barometro della solidarietà internazionale degli italiani 2010, FOCSIV, DOXA, Famiglia Cristiana, Padua University, Roma, 2010 (IT and EN versions)