LO SCHIAVO Lidia

Lidia Lo Schiavo is an Associate Professor in General Sociology at the University of Messina, where she teaches. She was promoted to full professorship on December 1st 2023. On 18/02/2026, she was declared eligible as full professor. Her main research interests revolve around Social Theory, Youth Studies, Sociology of Movements, Sociology of Migrations. She is currently a member of the Scientific Board RN 30 Youth&Generations, ESA Network and a member of the RC48 ISA Network and of academic associations and scientific boards such as The Italian Association of Sociology – AIS and she has been a member of the National Scientific Board “Everyday Life” for two terms, in the same Sociological. On 16-23 October 2024 she was visiting professor at the Metropolitan University of Manchester. She has participated as a presenter at various International and National Conferences, most recently at the as keynote speaker at the Young People Shaping the Future Workshop, University of Turin, with a contribution entitled: Student subjectivities in transformation: between intersectionality and the society of care”, 31 March-1 April 2025; at the Workshop "Youth between crises and strategies", 11-12 January 2024, held in Paris at the EHEES- CNRS LAB (Laboratoire anthropologie Politique) on the topic “Youth condition, generational units, and political engagement in the age of polycrisis. Theoretical reflections from a case study”, Her recent publications include: Soggettività studentesca, Generazioni, Partecipazione e Condizione giovanile in Italia, Morlacchi, Perugia, 2023 (book); Student Protests against Neoliberal Education Policies in Italy. Three Student Organizations, in Bessant J., Mesinas M. A., Pickard S. (eds) (2021), When Students Protest, Rowman & Littlefield, New York- London: 105-122; Youth Condition, Student Movements, Generations, and Sociological Critique. A Theoretical Discussion Based on a Case Study, “Quaderni di Sociologia”, n. 87, 2021: 187-207.