Thomas Walli
Senior Scientist
Department of Political Science
University of Innsbruck
Universitätsstrasse 15
A-6020 Innsbruck
e-mail: thomas.walli@uibk.ac.at
phone: +43 512 507-70102 | +43 676 8725 70102
fax: +43 512 507-70199
room: w 2.45
consultation hours: as arranged by e-mail
Research and teaching interests
- Science and Technology Studies; Science Communication
- European Economic and Social Committee; European Parliament
- Italian Politics; Italian Contemporary History
- Political Philosophy
Education and scientific positions
Academic positions
- as of 2019 Senior Scientist, Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck
- as of 2019 Assistant Editor, Austrian Journal of Political Science (OZP)
- as of 2016 Research Associate, Innsbruck Center for European Research (ICER)
- 2018–2019 Research Assistant (science communication and science/project management), Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck
- 2018 Research Assistant (especially EGTC "Euregio Tyrol - South Tyrol - Trentino", local elections in Austria), Department of Media, Society and Communication, University of Innsbruck
- 2014–2018 Assistant of the Research Coordinator, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Innsbruck
- 2016–2018 Research Assistant and Tutor in European Politics (multi-level parliamentarism, EU's trade policy), Innsbruck Center for European Research (ICER)
- 2014–2016 Research Assistant and Tutor in International Relations (Nuclear Weapons and Digital Discursive Spaces and Emotionality and the Nuclear Order), Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck
Education and additional training
- 08/2023: "STS Summer School @ Harvard", Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School and Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA)
- 09-10/2021: "Summer School Technikkommunikation", Wissenschaft im Dialog and acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, Munich (D)
- 09/2016: Summer School „Wissenschaft kommunizieren!”, Wissenschaft im Dialog and Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Salzburg (A)
- 2015 Certificate of Third-Party Fund Management, University of Innsbruck
- as of 2014 ongoing training in science communication, Science and Technology Studies, science management, project administration
- 2011–2019 Studies: Political Science, History, and Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck and Università degli studi di Pavia
Publications
- Walli, Thomas (2023): Book Review: Alice Engl/Günther Pallaver/Elisabeth Alber (Hrsg.) (2022): Politika 22. Südtiroler Jahrbuch für Politik. Stärke durch Wandel. 50 Jahre Zweites Autonomiestatut und seine Zukunft, in: Austrian Journal of Political Science (ÖZP) 52 (2), 18-19.
- Walli, Thomas/Dialer, Doris (2022): Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss, in: Weidenfeld, Werner/Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2022, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 143-146.
- Walli, Thomas (2022): Interview zur Parlamentswahl in Italien 2022, in: Südtirol 1 / Radio Tirol, 26.09.2022.
- Walli, Thomas (2022): Italia al voto! Italiens Obsession mit Wahlreformen und die Parlamentswahlen 2022, in: Powi Blog, 23.09.2022.
- Walli, Thomas (2022): Obsession Wahlrecht, in: ff - Das Südtiroler Wochenmagazin, Nr. 38, 38-39.
- Walli, Thomas (2022): Droht Italien ein Faschismus 2.0?, in: salto.bz und Powi Blog, 18.09.2022.
- Walli, Thomas (2022): Beratene Demokratie, in: subject_11: Skepsis. Augen auf und durch, Universität Innsbruck, 24.02.2022.
- Walli, Thomas/Dialer, Doris (2021): Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss, in: Weidenfeld, Werner/Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2021, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 139-142.
- Walli, Thomas (2021): Politik und Wissenschaft: Eine schwierige Beziehung, in: derstandard.at, 12.03.2021 (auch als Powi Blog am 15.03.2021).
- Walli, Thomas/Dialer, Doris (2020): Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss, in: Weidenfeld, Werner/Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2020, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 151-154.
- Walli, Thomas (2020): Der Philosoph in der Revolte. Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre und der Algerienkrieg von 1954 bis 1962, in: Walli, Thomas/Hug, Theo/Maurer, Andreas (eds.) (2020): Crossing Borders - Passaggi di confine - Grenzgänge. Festschrift für Günther Pallaver, Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 167-181.
- Walli, Thomas/Hug, Theo/Maurer, Andreas (eds.) (2020): Crossing Borders - Passaggi di confine - Grenzgänge. Festschrift für Günther Pallaver, Innsbruck: innsbruck university press.
- Walli, Thomas (2020): Die Strategie der Vernetzung. Die interinstitutionellen und externen Beziehungen des Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschusses, Baden-Baden/Innsbruck: Nomos/innsbruck university press.
- Walli, Thomas/Dialer, Doris (2019): Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss, in: Weidenfeld, Werner/Wessels, Wolfgang (eds.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2019, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 151-154.
- Walli, Thomas (2017): Die getrennte Erinnerung. Der Resistenza-Mythos in Italien von 1943 bis heute: Ursprünge – Wandel – Ausblick, in: historia.scribere 9, 9-43.
- Walli, Thomas (2017): Status, Überprüfungsmaßstab und Vergleichsanalyse des Gemeinsamen Auslegungsinstruments und der einseitigen Protokollerklärungen zum Umfassenden Wirtschafts- und Handelsabkommen zwischen Kanada einerseits und der Europäischen Union und ihren Mitgliedstaaten andererseits. Gutachten und Handlungsempfehlungen für die Abgeordneten der SPÖ in der S&D-Fraktion des Europäischen Parlaments (Gutachten im Auftrag der SPÖ-Delegation im Europäischen Parlament), in: ICER Papers on European Governance 3 (3) (with Andreas Maurer, in collaboration with Kief Albers, Anna Santolin, Philipp Umek).
- Walli, Thomas (2016): Stärkere Integration – mangelnde Legitimation? Der Einfluss des Europäischen Parlaments auf die WWU-Governance seit Beginn der Euro-Krise am Beispiel des Six-Packs und Fiskalpakts, in: ICER Papers on European Governance 2 (1).
- Walli, Thomas (2016): „Wir kommen unter die Metzger.“ Die Umsetzung des nationalsozialistischen Euthanasieprogramms im Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg, in: historia.scribere 8, 253-286.
Teaching
- VU Science and Society: Introduction to the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, Science Policy Studies and Science Communication (annual, interdisciplinary elective course for PhD students)
- VU Italian Politics (annual, Bachelor's Programme Political Science)
- PS European Integration - Introductory Level (each semester, Bachelor's Programme Political Science)
- Excursion to the Mauthausen Memorial (all study programs, all faculties)
- as of 2020: supervisor of bachelor theses on Italian Politics
Third mission
- Podcast PolitikWissen, Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck
- Editor of the Powi Blog, Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck
- Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck: www.uibk.ac.at/politikwissenschaft/kommunikation/
- Young Science-Botschafter for Political Science and Conemporary History (school workshops on Democracy, European Politics and Italian Politics)
- Civic education courses for adults on European politics (VHS)
Awards and prizes
- Marianne-Barcal-award 2018 by the City of Innsbruck
- Merit-based scholarship 2018/2019, University of Innsbruck
- Merit-based scholarship 2017/2018, Autonomous Province Bolzano – South Tyrol
- Merit-based scholarship 2016/2017, University of Innsbruck
- Best-Paper-Award 2017 by historia.scribere 9
- Runner-Up-Award 2016 by historia.scribere 8
Open data
- European Economic and Social Committee 1952-2017 (2018): https://zenodo.org/record/5707614 | https://www.icer.at/research/data/ewsa/
- The European Parliament in the Economic and Monetary Union: Six-Pack and Fiscal Compact (2016): https://zenodo.org/record/5707670 | https://www.icer.at/research/data/six-pack-fiskalpakt/
Membership and professional affiliation
- politika - South Tyrolean Political Science Association/Südtiroler Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft/Società di Scienze Politiche dell'Alto Adige/Südtiroler sozietà per scienza pulitica
- Innsbruck Center for European Research (ICER)
- Research Center Social Theory, University of Innsbruck (affiliated member)
- Geschichte und Region / Storia e regione
- Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft (ÖGPW)
Other
- 3rd Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2020 (virtual conference), University of Innsbruck, May 14th to 16th, 2020; member of the organizing team
- EUSALP 2018. Eine interdisziplinäre Konferenz, University of Innsbruck, April 4th, 2018; member of the organizing team