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Upcoming Talks

Invited

13/05/2026 - The Human and the Meat, Visiting Lecture at Vienna Animal Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna.
16/05/2026 - "Beyond Speciesism: Animal Domination, Capitalism, and the Limits of Moral Critique" in Humane Science and Planetary Health: Prevention Through Innovation Course, at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. (online)
20/05/2026 - Del dominio sugli animali. Forme della subordinazione dal sacrificio alla carne, Keynote Speaker, University of Milan, Milan.
20/06/2026 - "Title TBD", at Animals, Ethics, and Justice: Beyond the Human (online)

Past Talks

Animal Studies and Critical Animal Studies Venues

Marxist Scholarship Venues

The Human and the Meat, book presentation at The Animal Philosophy Study Group of the Netherlands, online, April 2026 (invited)
"What’s the Matter with Materialism(s)? Revisiting the Anthropocentric Controversy for Trans and Critical Animal Studies", Connecting Trans and Critical Animal Studies in an Age of Authoritarianism Symposium, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, April 2026.
The Human and the Meat,  visiting lecture at Department of Literature, Philosophy, Communication, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, March 2026. (invited)
The Human and the Meat,  visiting lecture at LUCASN (Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network), Lund University, Lund, Feb. 2026. (invited)
"From Dis/Enhancement to Disability: Politicizing Genome Editing in Farmed Animals", The Politics of not Eating Animals Conference, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, May 2025 (read the zine conference here).
"Breaking Down the Wall of Flesh: Blurring the Human-Animal Distinction in the Slaughterhouse through Ivano Ferrari’s Poetry,” Nonhuman Animals in the Age of Extinction and Mass Production Conference, University College Dublin, Dublin, May 2024.
”Multispecies Relation in the Climate Catastrophe,” Lecture series: Climate Catastrophes. Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Jan. 2024, (invited).
”The Grey Role of Animal (Dis)enhancement in Antispeciesism,” 4th Padua Summer School on Philosophy and Cultural Studies of Technology "Animal Technologies", Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Oct. 2023.
”Toward a Materialist Critique of Violence: Challenging  'Slaughterhouses with Glass Walls’ Discourses in Animal Ethics,” MANCEPT Workshops "Animal Politics" Panel, University of Manchester, Manchester, Sept. 2023.
”Ecology Without Nature and Anthropocene Without Anthropos: Perspectives from the Critical Animal Studies,” Defining the Human in Environmental Humanities Conference, Venice International University, Venice, June 2022.
”Readings of Marx in Critical Animal Studies: Appraising Traditions and New Directions,” 7th EACAS Conference of the European Association for Critical Animal Studies, Online, June 2021.
”Nutritional Transition as Dietary Dispositif : An Inquiry on the Advent of Meat-Based Diet in the Nineteenth-Century West,” International Multidisciplinary Conference "Veganism: a Paradigm Shift", Università La Sapienza Roma and University College Dublin, Online, June 2021.
”“Hygienizing” Meat: The Dietary Dispositif and the Birth of the Industrial Slaughterhouse.” Multispecies Knowledges and the Industrialization of Animal Exploitation Conference, University of Turku, Online, June 2021.
”“Toffee-Nosed”: The Rise of the Modern Slaughterhouse, Hygiene and Miasmas,” Postgraduate Animal Studies Symposium, University of Glasgow and University of Strathclyde, Online, May 2021.
”The Eye of the Crocodile: Val Plumwood’s Epiphany and Critical Animal Studies,” Vegetarian Epiphanies Conference, Université de Rennes, Online, Nov. 2020.
”Conceptualising Animal Resistance: Questions and Approaches,” MANCEPT workshop "Animal Politics Panel", The University of Manchester, Online, Sept. 2020.
”Animals within Capitalist Social Complexes: Forms, Dispositifs, Politics,” 6th EACAS European Association for Critical Animal Studies Conference, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, May 2019.
”From Marxist Feminism to Queer Materialist Theory: Conceptualizing Gender as Social Form,” with Francesco Aloe,  22nd Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS University, London, Nov. 2025
”The Queer ‘Viewpoint of Reproduction’: De Lauretis as a Reader of Althusser and Foucault,” Foucault and Marx Ambivalences, Legacies, and Future Struggles International Symposium, University of Vienna, Vienna, Oct. 2024.
”Animals in Capitalism: Forms, Dispositifs, Politics of Species Oppression” Bio-communism: Reconceptualizing Communism in the Age of Biopolitics, Nordic Summer University, Warsaw, Jan. 2020.

Outreach

Public talks in Italian:
  • “Prede o “predatori”? Il problema della vulnerabilità nelle relazioni multispecie,” Orsi e umani in Trentino – Una coesistenza (im)possibile?, Trento (IT), Feb. 2025. (video recording of the talk here, from minute 2.14.23)
  • “Capitalismo e oppressione animale,” Antropocene.org Webinar, Online, Oct. 2023.
  • “Filosofia italiana e questione animale,” Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Hamburg, April 2022.
  • “Il clima, il virus, la specie,” OltrEconomia Festival 2021, Trento (IT), Sept. 2021. (video recording of the talk here)
  • “Nient’altro che vulnerabilità” - presentation of my first book, Duemilalibri 2021 Book Festival,
    Gallarate (IT), Oct. 2021.
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