Welcoming Visiting Scholars José Luis Gómez-Barroso and Matteo Pasetti

José Luis Gómez-Barroso (left) and Matteo Pasetti (right)

The European Union Center warmly welcomes visiting scholars José Luis Gómez-Barroso and Matteo Pasetti. Dr. Gómez-Barroso will be affiliated with the EU Center as a Fulbright-Schuman scholar for the 2022-23 academic year. He will be working primarily on the topic of public economics in the EU but will also be helping with organizing EU Center conferences and events. Dr. Pasetti will be at the EU Center until Sept. 16. During his visit, he will examine published and archival materials related to his research interests, in particular drug use as a socio-historical phenomenon in the last decades of the twentieth century. This will be the subject of his keynote presentation for the EU Center’s fall reception on Thursday, Sept. 15. 

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Gómez-Barroso and Dr. Pasetti to the EU Center and UIUC, and see below for their bios.

 

José Luis Gómez-Barroso is a professor in the department of Applied Economics and Economic History at UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia – Spanish National Distance Education University). His educational background includes degrees in Economics, Law and Telecommunication Engineering. His research has focused on the foundations of the digital economy and, in particular, on the role that the public sector should play in this area. Building on this, he extended his work to Public Economics in general. He is now interested in framing the activity of the European Union institutions and bodies within the context of Public Economics.

 

Matteo Pasetti is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, University of Bologna, where he teaches History of Mass Communication and History of Journalism at the School of Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage. He is a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals and he is the author, among other publications, of the books Tra classe e nazione. Rappresentazioni e organizzazione del movimento nazional-sindacalista, 1918-1922 (Carocci, Roma 2008), Storia dei fascismi in Europa (Archetipolibri, Bologna 2009), and L’Europa corporativa. Una storia transnazionale tra le due guerre mondiali (Bononia University Press, Bologna 2016).

 

His research deals with twentieth-century European history and, more specifically, the history of fascism by a comparative and transnational approach. In this field of studies, his interests include the issues of memory and public use of the past after dictatorships. He is also interested in the evolution of mass communication, public spheres, and circulation of ideas from a global perspective. His current work focuses on the topic of drug consumption in the last decades of the twentieth century as a socio-historical phenomenon.