Simonetta Tabboni, after having taught in Italy for many years, was elected in 1997 full professor at the University Denis Diderot in Paris (Paris VII), where she gave courses especially on social times, modernity, the figure of the stranger and the notion of ambivalence until 2002.

In 1999, she has organized and edited an international colloquium on Norbert Elias (special issue of the Journal “Tumultes”, 2000).

Since the beginning of her academic activity in France, she is a member of C.A.D.I.S. (Centre for Sociological Analysis and Intervention),
a Research Centre of Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, founded by Alain Touraine and the headed by Michel Wiewiorka. With Wiewiorka, she participated in a Research Project on Cultural Difference in 2000 and on Anti-semitism in 2004.

She is finishing a new book (The Social Times), a revised version of a book published in Italy in 1984 (The Social Representation of Time), that will be published at the end of 2005 by Armand Colin.

She is revising the final version of her next book on Sociological and Cultural Ambivalence.