EMPLOYMENT
2007-present: Senior Researcher at Institute: Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee (ILIESI), Italian National Research Council (CNR), Rome (full position) www.iliesi.cnr.it
EDUCATION
2004: PhD in Philosophy (with distinction), thesis: On the metaphorical network of Leibniz’s philosophy. Tel Aviv University, School of Philosophy, Tel Aviv, IL
1994-1995: Laurea in Pedagogy, 110/110 cum laude, thesis on Semiotics awarded for print. Thesis: Materiali per un Lessico Critico-Linguistico in G.W. Leibniz. Faculty of ‘Magistero’, University of Cagliari, IT
1989-90: Laurea in Philosophy, 110/110, Thesis on theoretical philosophy and aesthetic: Il Problema della Ricezione dell'Arte in H. R. Jauss. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cagliari, IT
TEACHING (selected from 2000)
2018-2019: Professor of Digital Humanities for Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University Sapienza, Rome
2015-2016: Professor of Philosophy of Language, Faculty of Philosophy, University Sapienza, Rome
2012-2014: Professor of Semiotics, Faculty of Philosophy, University Sapienza, Rome
2007-2012: Professor of Theory of Communication, Faculty of Philosophy, University Sapienza, Rome
1990-2000: Teacher of Italian Language and Culture, Department of Foreign Languages, Tel Aviv University, IL,
Recent INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS in learned societies (selected)
2019-: nominated general chair of the Italian 9th Conference of AIUCD (Milano, January 15-17, 2020)
2016-: member of the PhD committee Scienze documentarie linguistiche e letterarie, Sapienza University, Rome
2016-: elected member of the governing board of ILIESI
2017-2018: member of the scientific committee of the EAHD international conference
2014-2017: elected in the governing board of AIUCD (Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Culture)
2011-2014: member of the governing board of the Project Agora, Accessing a Growing Open Research Archive (CIP-ICT PSP-2010-4, n. 270904)
2013-2014: member of the CNR Foresight S&T, Coordination and orientation group
2010-2011: science officer at ESF, European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, Fr
2010: founder member of the Sodalitas Leibnitiana (2010-2016 elected member of the board)
2007-2013: elected secretary of the International Association for the Study of Controversy (IASC)
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES (selected)
2019: co-organizer of the lectures series on ‘plurilinguism’ with M.Eugenia Cadeddu, at Macro Asilo, museo ospitale, Rome (October – December 2019)
2019: workshop: “The models that steer us”, with Oyvind Eide, Heather Bradshaw, CLE Biannual conference Cultural Literacy & Cosmopolitan Conviviality, Lisboa 9-11 May 2019
2017: co-organizer of the international Workshop: Thinking in practice, 19-20 January, 2017, Cologne (DE)
2016: Co-scientific organizer and curator in Italy of the exhibition: Brückenschläge – Daniel Ernst Jablonski im Europa der Frühaufklärung. Tafelausstellung zum Leben und Werk des Comenius-Enkels Daniel Ernst Jablonski (1660–1741), Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, 25 October 2016 – 20 March 2017.
2016: Co-organizer of the panel: Die Sprache von Leibniz, X. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress Hannover, 18-23 July 2016
2015: Member of the scientific committee and curator of the exhibition: Segno e Parola, Carlo Lorenzetti e il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo. Mostra per I 50 anni di attività dell’ILIESI, Roma, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, 16 April - 21 June 2015
2014: Scientific coordinator of the training seminar series: Migrazione di tecnologie e linguaggi. Teorie e pratiche per il trattamento dei testi nelle scienze umane, with Ada Russo (ILIESI-CNR), at CNR Rome
2013: Co-organizer panel: Digital Humanities: Text-edition– research– education, with S. Rusinek (Van Leer Institute) at EVA/MINERVA 2013, Jerusalem, 13-14 November 2013
2013: Co-organizer focus group: Open Platforms for Humanities. State of the art and perspectives; Cortona, Palazzone della Scuola Normale di Pisa, 18-19 January 2013, http://openplatformsforhumanities.org
2010: Chair of the panel “Our scientific communities on the web”, COST Action 32 final conference, Munich University, 28 September -2 October 2010
RESEARCH PROJECTS (Selected)
September 2019: “Dalle parole alla materia: andata e ritorno” project selected for the artistic residence at FabLab Cagliari, ManiLab competion, Assemini
2017-2020: Scientific coordinator for ILIESI, project: PON “Beni e Patrimonio Culturale: governare la progettazione" Programma Operativo Nazionale (PON) “Governance e Capacità Istituzionale”, CNR, Agenzia per la Coesione Territoriale
2015-2019: Parthenos, Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage E-research Networking, Optimization and Synergies (http://www.parthenos-project.eu/), Role: researcher
2016-2018: co-Pi, project Modelling between digital and humanities: thinking in practice; financed by Volkswagen Stiftung - Application No. A115838 - Program: "Original - isn't it?" New Options for the Humanities and Cultural Studies”, Funding Line 2 “Constellations” (April 2016-June 2018)
2015-2017: Co-coordinator of the educational project: “Leibniz, Roma e i Gesuiti”. ILIESI-CNR and Classical High School, Liceo E. Q. Visconti, Rome.
2014-2017: Scientific coordinator for ILIESI, national research project: CNR ‘Premiale’ SM@RT-INFRA, Infrastrutture integrate intelligenti per l'ecosistema dei dati delle scienze sociali, umane e del patrimonio culturale
2011-2014: Agora. Scholarly Open Access Research in European Philosophy, CIP-Pilot Action, Role: WP6 leader “Peer Review” http://www.project-agora.org
2007-2009: Discovery, Digital Semantic Corpora for Virtual Research in Philosophy eContentplus (ECP-2005-CULT-038206), Role: WP5 leader “Semantic Web” http://www.discovery-project.eu
2009-2010: Comunicazione scientifica, stili linguistici, etica ed efficacia del messaggio: analisi e formalizzazione comparata, financed by AST, Role: researcher
2005-2010: The reconstruction of the dialogue between Leibniz and Locke, Israel Science Foundation, Role: researcher.
Recent CONFERENCES participation (selected)
- 5 December 2019: Plurilinguismo e metafore: la Torre di Babele, lesson for the Lectures series "Plurilinguismo", Macro Asilo, Contemporary Dictionary program
-28 November 2019: L'iter italicum di G.W. Leibniz, cooridnate per una mappa digitale, Giornate di Studio Leibniz e l'Italia, Villa Mirafiori, Roma 28-29 November 2019
- 14 November 2019 Le metafore del sonno e il sonno come metafora, lesson for the Lectures series “Sonno”, DSU-CNR, MACRO Asilo, Contemporary Dictionary program
- Panel “Filosofia e Digitale/Digital Philosophy?”, with Fabio Ciracì (Università del Salento), Annual Conference AIUCD 2019, Didattica e Ricerca al tempo delle Digital Humanities, Udine 22-25 January 2019
-“Modelli metaforici della filosofia di Leibniz per leggere la multidisciplinarietà del XXI secolo” Jornadas Internacionales de la Sociedad Española Leibniz, “Leibniz y la multidisciplinariedad: el mejor de los mundos posibles” Madrid, CCHS-CSIC, 15-16 June 2017
- “The relational nature of Digital Humanities: pragmatics and metaphorical modeling”. 13th IASS-AIS world congress of Semiotics: “Cross-inter-multi-trans”, Kaunas, 24-30 June 2017
- “Città di fondazione città migranti città poliglotte”, Workshop Internazionale: Fertilia in Movimento. Un progetto interculturale di rigenerazione urbana, Department of Architecture and design, University of Sassari, Alghero-Fertilia, 21-27 May 2017
- “Leibniz, Locke e il diritto naturale: gli argomenti di una polemica tra “radicalismo politico e eterodossia teologica”, Conferenza internazionale Leibniz e il diritto naturale, Padova, 15-17 December 2016
- “Old and new towns: architecture, languages, discourses”, with P. Gregory, CAUMME III, Napoli 26 november 2016
- Leibniz's language practices and communication strategies; X. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress, Hannover, 22 July 2016
- poster: Modelling between digital and humanities, DH16 conference, Cracovia, 11-16 July 2016
- Key note: “From the theatrum mundi to metaphorical cartography: Languages, models, and methods for displaying and sharing knowledge”, Workshop: “Epistemological questions in knowledge representation systems”, Center for cultural Informatics – Institute of Computer Science – FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, 25 September 2015
- Esplorando gli ambienti digitali per la ricerca in filosofia: sostenibilità e modelli di sviluppo, 3th AIUCD Annual Conference 2014, Bologna 18-19 September 2014
- Circling around texts and language: towards ‘pragmatic modelling’, with A. Ciula, Digital Humanities 2014 conference, Lausanne 7-12 July 2014
- From Texts Indexing to the Daphnet Portal: New Tools for Research in Philosophy, with M. Tardella, 2nd AIUCD Annual Conference 2013, Padova 11-12 December 2013. (Invited)
- Scholarly Open Access in European Philosophy: a model for open research in the humanities with advanced scholarly semantic linking, EVA/Minerva, The IXth Jerusalem Conference on Digitization of Cultural Heritage 13-14 November 2012. (Invited)
- Open peer review experiment”, International Conference: Open Access Philosophy. Five Experiments with Philosophical Editions on the Web, Maison Française, Oxford, 9 May 2012.
recent PUBLICATIONS (selected)
2020 Forthcoming. Filosofia digitale? Orizzonti disciplinari, in Digital Humanities: metodi, strumenti, saperi, eds. Fabio Ciotti and Francesca Tomasi, Roma, Carocci.
2020 Forthcoming. Ciula, A. and Marras, C., Modelli, meta-modelli e modellizzazione nell’Umanistica Digitale. In Digital Humanities: metodi, strumenti, saperi, eds. Fabio Ciotti and Francesca Tomasi, Roma, Carocci.
C. Marras, Sprachwissenschaft. In: Beiderbeck Li, Waldhoff (Hrsgs) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Rezeption, Forschung, Ausblick, Franz Steiner Verlag
2020 C. Marras, G. Franzini, E. Litta, M. Passarotti (a cura di). La svolta inevitabile: sfide e prospettive per l'Informatica Umanistica. Atti del IX Convegno Annuale AIUCD. UD, Bologna, http://amsacta.unibo.it/6316/
2019 “Some remarks on Leibniz, Locke and natural law: language and forms of argumentation from ‘political radicalism’ to ‘theological heterodoxy’”, in Leibniz Naturrecht, Luca Basso (Hrsg), Studia Leibnitiana Sonderheft .
2018 Models and Modelling between Digital and Humanities. A Multidisciplinary Perspective, co-editors A. Ciula, O. Eide, P. Shale, Historical Social Research Supplement, 31, 2018
2018 Ciula, A. and Marras, C. Exploring a Semiotic Conceptualisation of Modelling in Digital Humanities Practices. In Meanings & Co.: the Interdisciplinarity of Communication, Semiotics and Multimodality, eds. Olteanu et al., Humanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress, Dordrecht, Springer.
2017 Les métaphores dans la philosophie de Leibniz, Lambert–Lucas, Limoges
2017 “Leibniz’s language Tools, Practices, and Strategies: Notes on De docendis linguis”. In Vorträge des X. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses, “Für unsere Glück oder das Glück anderer”, Hannover 18-23 luglio 2016, Hrsg. W. Li, Band VI, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zürich, New York, pp. 567-579
2016 "Language, metaphors and patterns of enunciations in Leibniz's Monadology", in La Monadología de Leibniz a debate. J. Nicolás, M. Sánchez, M. Escribano, L. Herrera. M. Higueras, M. Palomo, J. M. Gónez Delgado (Eds.), Granada: Editorial Comares, pp. 173-181
2016 Ciula, A and C. Marras. “Circling around texts and language: towards ‘pragmatic modelling’ in Digital Humanities”. Digital Humanities Quarterly 10.3
2016: Mes papiers sont assez en désordre» Some Notes on the Philosophical Language and Metaphors of the "Essais de Théodicée", in Theodicy and Reason, collana “Philosophica2", a cura di M. Favaretti Camposapietro et alii, Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venezia, 2016, pp. 45-63.
2015: C. Marras, A. Schino (a cura di), Linguaggio, filosofia, fisiologia nell'età moderna, Atti del Convegno (Roma 23-25 gennaio 2014), «ILIESI digitale. Ricerche filosofiche e lessicali», volume 1, ILIESI-CNR, settembre 2015, URL: http://www.iliesi.cnr.it/pubblicazioni/Ricerche
2015: “Che lingua parla la filosofia? brevi riflessioni tra Nizolio e Leibniz”, in: C. Marras e A. Schino (a cura di), Linguaggio, filosofia, fisiologia nell’età moderna, Atti del convegno, Roma 23-25 gennaio 2014, Roma, “ILIESI digitale. Ricerche filosofiche e lessicali”, volume 1, ILIESI-CNR, settembre 2015, http://www.iliesi.cnr.it/pubblicazioni/Ricerche-01-Marras_Schino.pdf
2015: S. Gensini e C. Marras (a cura di) Prospettive leibniziane (1716-2016), ,Blityri, IV 1-2, 2015, Edizioni ETS, Pisa
2015: “Metaphorical interrelations in Leibniz’s Monadology”, in Blityri, Prospettive leibniziane (1716-2016), a cura di S. Gensini e C. Marras, IV 1-2, 2015, Edizioni ETS, Pisa
2015 Exploring digital environments for research in philosophy. Metaphorical models and sustainability. Proceedings of AIUCD ‘14, September 18-19 2014, F. Tomasi (ed.) NYC, ACM.
Editorial activities – reviewer
Editorial scientific committee of:
GATE (Gregorian Archives Texts Editing), Archivio storico della Pontificia Università Gregoriana
Book series:“L'altro dell'architettura”, Timìa Edizioni, Roma; “Archeologia Filosofica”, Efesto Edizioni, Roma (https://www.archeologiafilosofica.it/)
Founder of the CNR Edition series “Plurilinguismo e Migrazioni” with M.Eugenia Cadeddu
Editorial commette of the scientific journals: Lexicon Philosphicum http://www.lexicon.cnr.it/index.php/LP; Umanistica Digitale https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it; Syzetesis, rivista semestrale di Filosofia, http://www.syzetesis.it/rivista.html
Referee for:
- journal: Blityri (ETS, Pisa), Bollettino della SFI, Synthezesis, Lexia
- Grants, funding programs: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions; FIRB MIUR.
- Series: Springer Neumanities Series
LANGUAGES
English - French – German - Native Italian