Talks

• “Governing nuclear waste disposal in Italy (1987 to the present),” Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Milan, Italy, October 24-27, 2019.

• “I nodi di ricerca di Carlo Poni e una breve panoramica degli Science and Technology Studies (STS),” Conference in Honour of Carlo Poni, Bologna, Italy, October 3, 2019.

• “Misunderstood Misunderstandings and the crisis of expertise: Re-reading and advancing Wynne’s Classic Work,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, New Orleans, September 3-7, 2019.

• “Below the Surface: A New Wave of Interdisciplinary Mediterranean Studies and Environmental Changes,” International Workshop, co-organized with Sciences Po, Paris, and Aix Marseille. Menton, October 18-20, 2018.

• “When Knowledge is not There Yet: Towards a Semiotic Approach to Risk,” Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Lancaster, UK, July 20-22, 2018.

• “On the crisis of expertise and the emergence of counter-critique: STS, history, and contingencies in the nuclear field,” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 30-December 2, 2017.

• “STS after truth: narrative, translation, and advocacy,” panel organized for the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Boston MA, August 30-September 2, 2017.

• “Technologies of Secrecy in Cold War Italy: A Selected Catalogue and Some Methodological Clues,” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, November 18, 2016.

• “Nuclear accidents and sociotechnical controversies: the rationalizing role of citizens’ participation in La Maddalena,” Annual meeting of STS Italia, Trento (Italy), November 26, 2016.

• “Nuclear Dystopias: Imaginaries about Waste Disposal in Italy,” panel on “Regulating the Nuclear Imaginary,” Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, Washington D.C., April 2016.

• “Environmental Justice and Cold War Technopolitics in the Archipelago of La Maddalena (Italy),” panel on “International Perspectives on Environmental Justice and STS,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Denver, CO, November 2015.

• “Toward a Semiotic Analysis of Citizen Risk Perceptions,” Anthropology and the Environment Rappaport Prize Panel, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, CO, November 2015.

• “Waiting for Discovering The ‘Truth’: Uncertainty and Claims of Radiation Exposure in La Maddalena,” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., December 2014.

• “Bodies of evidence: Ecologies, Proofs, and the Politics of Risk Perception,” panel organized for the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Dearborn, MI, November 2014.

• “History in the Anthropocene: The Environment, Natural Sciences, and Planetary Narratives,” Panel Discussion, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop Series, University of Michigan, September 2014.

• “Italian Radioecology and the Radiosurveillance System of La Maddalena,” invited presentation, ENEA Center for the Study of Marine Environments and Contamination, Fiascherino (La Spezia), Italy, December 16, 2013.