SEMINARS, PANELS AND CONFERENCES

Organized

  1. Panel: ‘Just Prices: Moral Economic Legacies and New Struggles over Value’. European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference, University of Milan-Bicocca. Co-convenor: Peter Luetchford.
  2. Conference: ‘Food, Sustainability and Territory: From Alternative Food Networks to New Forms of Governance’, University of Bergamo.
  3. Seminar: ‘The Recovered Factories Movement in Italy’, University of Bergamo.
  4. Panel: ‘Ethical Foods after the Global Recession: Navigating Anxiety, Morality and Austerity’. European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference, University of Paris-Nanterre. Co-convenor: Cristina Grasseni. Discussant: Heather Paxson.

Invited as guest speaker

  1. ‘Understanding Contemporary Mutualism in Italy’s Recovered Enterprises: The RiMaflow Case as a Laboratory of Utopia’. Conference: Pathways to a Cooperative Market Economy, University of Padua.
  2. ‘Studying Ethical Consumption after the Crisis: Some Reflections on Theory and Method’. Food Studies Centre, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies.
  3. Discussant. Conference: Alternative Food Networks: An Interdisciplinary Assessment. Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Turin.
  4. ‘Food, Sustainability and the Closed Economy: Some Thoughts on Alternative Food Networks in the New Age of Man’. Panel: Alternative Food Networks. Conference: Food, Sustainability and Territory: From Alternative Provisioning Networks to New Governance Forms, University of Bergamo.
  5. ‘An Introduction to the Concept of Sustainable Development’. Doctoral Training School in Human Capital and Labor Relations, University of Bergamo.
  6. ‘Reflections on the Environment, Justice and Social Change in Southern and Northern Italy’. Working Group on Consumption, Networks and Practices of Sustainable Economies, University of Bergamo.
  7. ‘Searching for Sustainability Cultures: Organic Food, Technological Risk and Limits’. Food Studies Centre, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies.
  8. ‘Fair Trade Retail Co-Operatives in Palermo, Italy: A Worker’s Moral Economy of Ideals and Necessity’. Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex.

Presented as speaker

  1. ‘After the Crisis, Novel Alliances: Renewing the Politics of Mutualism to Make Food a Commons’. Conference: Sovereignty, Contestation and ‘the Economy’, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University.
  2. ‘Alternative Food Networks after the Crisis: More or Less Uprooting?’ Panel: Geographies of Food: Between Uprooting, De-territorialization and Strategies of Resistance. Conference: Beyond Globalization, Society of Geographical Studies, University of Turin.
  3. ‘Recovered Enterprises as a Response to Economic Crises: Comparing the Italian and Argentinian Experiences’. Panel: Austerity and “Accidental” Effects: Engaging with Crisis across Social and Historical Lines. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis.
  4. ‘Anxious Appetites in a Post-Pasteurian World: What about Sustainability?’ Conference: Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century: Anthropological and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, University of Liverpool.
  5. ‘Alternative Food Networks: Toward a Symbology of the Anthropocene’. Italian National Association of Cultural Anthropologists Biennial Meeting, University of Bolzano.
  6. ‘Local Organic Food and Sustainable Possibilities: Risk, Excess and Planetary Boundaries’. Conference: Global Sustainability and Local Foods, American University of Rome.
  7. ‘Promoting Sustainable Consumption: A Food Studies Case on the Limits of Reflexivity’. Panel: Responsible Consumption and Sustainable Lifestyles. 10th Annual Conference of Environmental Sociology, University of Bologna.
  8. ‘The Uses of Mutualism in the Italian Recovered Factories Movement’. Panel: Engagement and Disengagement in Crisis: Anthropology as a Mutualist Concern. UK Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Conference, University of Exeter.
  9. ‘Struggles against the Market Society: Short Food Supply Chains in Sicily’. Panel: The Local as a Space of Food Justice. Conference: Food Justice: Knowing Food/Securing the Future, University of Reading.
  10. ‘Reflections on Neoliberal and Organic Food Values in Europe’. Panel: Ethical Foods after the Global Recession: Navigating Anxiety, Morality and Austerity. European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference, University of Paris-Nanterre.
  11. ‘Alternative Food Networks, Imagined Economies and Class in Western Sicily’. Panel: Artisans, Cultural Capital, And Locality. British Sociological Association, Food Study Group Conference, British Library, London.
  12. ‘Organics, Urban Sustainability and Nature Contact in Palermo (Italy)’. Panel: Sustainability: Urban and Rural. Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Conference, New York University.
  13. ‘The Gender of the Ethical Food: Organic, Fair Trade and Women in Palermo, Italy’. Panel: Food Activism (1): Individual Practices: from the Home to the Public. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
  14. ‘Doing Ethnography “at Home” when your Home is Sicily: From Problem-Solving to Appreciating, and Back Again’. Anthropology in London Annual Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies.
  15. ‘Sustainable Food, Unsustainable Politics in the City of Palermo, Sicily’. Panel: Sustainability as Myth & Practice in the Global City. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
  16. ‘Exploring a Site through Ethical Commodities: Fair trade and Organic in Palermo’. UK Association of Social Anthropologists Annual Conference, University of Bristol.
  17. ‘Activism vs. Politics: A Farmer’s Market in Palermo, Italy’. Graduate School Seminar, Goldsmiths College London.
  18. ‘Practicing Solidarity Economy in Palermo, Sicily: Widening the Circle of Society or Navigating through the Archipelago of Class?’ Anthropology in London Annual Conference, London School of Economics.
  19. ‘Market (Re-)embeddedness or Capitalist Encapsulation? Reflections on Ethical Consumption and Political Economy in Palermo, Sicily’. Conference: Speculative Futures: After Neoliberalism? Cultural and Political Imaginings, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol.
  20. ‘Approaching Polanyi’s Embeddedness Through Complexity’. 11th International Karl Polanyi Conference, Karl Polanyi Institute, Concordia University.