Giulia Bogliolo Bruna is an Italian ethno-historian, living in France, specialist of the discovery travels at the Renaissance, of the imaginary (and the image) of the north and of the Inuit in Frencophone and Anglophone travel literature and of the Inuit, their culture and traditional art
A member of the prestigious Paris Centre of Arctic Studies, founded and directed by Jean Malaurie, she sits on the editorial board of Internord, International Review of Arctic Studies and, for two decades, of Thule, Italian review of American Studies .
She participated in the International Congress Arctic Problems, Environment, Society and Heritage, held in Paris, March 8 to 10, 2007, at the National Museum of Natural History (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle) under the honorary chairmanship of Jean Malaurie, which unveiled the International Polar Year celebrations in France.
She recently gave a series of lectures on traditional Inuit art (“Epiphanies of Inuit Shamanism: Songs, Amulets, and Objects of Memory”) and the image of the Inuit from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (“From Fish-Men to Savages of the Savages”) as part of the series “At the Crossroads of Cultures”, promoted by the Barbier-Mueller Museum Cultural Foundation and the ARCH, under the sponsorship of the Société de Géographie.
Giulia Bogliolo Bruna is member of the Société de Géographie (Geographical Society) of Paris, of the Société des gens de lettres (as a professional writer) as well as the Società Geografica Italiana.
She is strongly committed in Human Rights promotion and knowledge transmission.
