Interational and national conferences

18 October 2025. National conference: 38th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Criminologia nella società digitale. Sfide e confronti nel nuovo millennio” (EN: Criminology in the digital society. Challenges and debates in the new millennium). Place: Trento (IT). Pre-arranged panel. Title (panel): La prevenzione della corruzione nell'era digitale: i sistemi AID negli Stati Membri e Candidati UE (EN: Corruption prevention in the digital era: AID systems in EU Member and Candidate States). Title (speech/presentation): Sistemi AID in Europa: una mappatura per l'individuazione di buone pratiche (EN: AID systems in Europe: mapping to identify good practices).

18 October 2025. National conference: 38th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Criminologia nella società digitale. Sfide e confronti nel nuovo millennio” (EN: Criminology in the digital society. Challenges and debates in the new millennium). Place: Trento (IT). Pre-arranged panel. Title (panel): La prevenzione della corruzione nell'era digitale: i sistemi AID negli Stati Membri e Candidati UE (EN: Corruption prevention in the digital era: AID systems in EU Member and Candidate States). Title (speech/presentation): Verso un modello armonizzato e digitale di risk analysis per i sistemi AID nel contesto europeo (EN: Towards a digital and harmonised risk analysis model for AID systems in the European context).

18 October 2025. National conference: 38th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Criminologia nella società digitale. Sfide e confronti nel nuovo millennio” (EN: Criminology in the digital society. Challenges and debates in the new millennium). Place: Trento (IT). Pre-arranged panel. Title (panel): La prevenzione della corruzione nell'era digitale: i sistemi AID negli Stati Membri e Candidati UE (EN: Corruption prevention in the digital era: AID systems in EU Member and Candidate States). Title (speech/presentation): La valutazione dell'efficacia dei sistemi AID: modelli, dati e criticità (EN: Evaluating the effectiveness of AID systems: models, data and challenges).

17 October 2025. National conference: 38th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Criminologia nella società digitale. Sfide e confronti nel nuovo millennio” (EN: Criminology in the digital society. Challenges and debates in the new millennium). Place: Trento (IT). Pre-arranged panel. Title (panel): La criminalità digitale tra indagini empirico-criminologiche e paradigmi giuridici: presentazione delle ricerche del progetto PNRR SERICS CybeRights (EN: Digital crime between empirical-criminological investigations and legal paradigms: presentation of research from the PNRR SERICS CybeRights project). Title (speech/presentation): La vittimizzazione dei cittadini e delle imprese in Italia nella società digitale (EN: Victimisation of citizens and firms in Italy in the digital society).

17 October 2025. National conference: 38th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Criminologia nella società digitale. Sfide e confronti nel nuovo millennio” (EN: Criminology in the digital society. Challenges and debates in the new millennium). Place: Trento (IT). Plenary session. Title (session): Polizia e giustizia nel nuovo millennio (EN: Police and justice in the new millennium). Title (speech/presentation): Polizia predittiva tra opportunità e rischi (EN: Predictive policing between opportunities and risks)

17 October 2025. National conference: 38th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Criminologia nella società digitale. Sfide e confronti nel nuovo millennio” (EN: Criminology in the digital society. Challenges and debates in the new millennium). Place: Trento (IT). Pre-arranged panel. Title (panel): Comunità online: nuove dimensioni digitali di subculture devianti e criminali (EN: Online communities: new digital dimensions of deviant and criminal subcultures). Title (speech/presentation): Gli incel italiani come subcultura digitale: un'etnografia virtuale (EN: Italian incels as digital subcultures: a virtual etnography)

16 October 2025. National conference: 38th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Criminologia nella società digitale. Sfide e confronti nel nuovo millennio” (EN: Criminology in the digital society. Challenges and debates in the new millennium). Place: Trento (IT). Roundtable. Title: Nuove tecnologie, nuove opportunità per il crimine organizzato e la criminalità economica (EN: New technologies, new opportunities for organized crime and economic crime).

16 October 2025. National conference: 38th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Criminologia nella società digitale. Sfide e confronti nel nuovo millennio” (EN: Criminology in the digital society. Challenges and debates in the new millennium). Place: Trento (IT). Author meets critics. Title (book): Criminalità in rete. Dalle piattaforme illegali alle cybermafie (EN: Crime online. From illegal platforms to cybermafias) - Lorenzo Picarella.

6 September 2025. International conference: 25th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “Logos of Crime and Punishment". Place: Athens (GR). Title (speech/presentation): Assessing the Impact of Asset and Interest Declaration Systems.

4 September 2025. International conference: 25th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “Logos of Crime and Punishment". Place: Athens (GR). Title (speech/presentation): Social control in the digital society: new perspectives on the concept.

4 September 2025. International conference: 25th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “Logos of Crime and Punishment". Place: Athens (GR). Title (speech/presentation): Assets and Interest Disclosure (AID) systems in Europe: comparing existing risk analysis mechanisms.

4 September 2025. International conference: 25th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “Logos of Crime and Punishment". Place: Athens (GR). Title (speech/presentation): Mapping Asset and Interest Disclosure (AID) systems: key lessons from EU Member and Candidate States.

16 June 2025. National workshop: “Dal cybercrime alla Cyberwar” (EN: From cybercrie to Cyberwar). Place: Pisa, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Victimization surveys on digital crimes against individuals and SMEs in Italy. 

12 December 2024. National workshop: “Progetto PNRR, Partenariato Esteso SERICS, Spoke 1 – Aspetti umani, sociali e legali, Progetto CybeRights” (EN: PNRR Project, PE SERICS, Spoke 1 – Human, Social and Legal Aspects, Project CyberRights). Place: Pisa, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Digital criminology. 

19 October 2024. National conference: 37th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “La criminologia del futuro” (EN: The Criminology of the future). Place: Turin (IT).  Title (speech/presentation): Sistemi di dichiarazione di asset e interessi (AID) negli Stati membri e candidati dell’UE: verso una valutazione (EN: Asset and Interest Declaration (AID) systems in EU Member and Candidate States: toward an evaluation).

19 October 2024. National conference: 37th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “La criminologia del futuro” (EN: The Criminology of the future). Place: Turin (IT).  Title (speech/presentation): La valutazione delle politiche penali contro le frodi digitali IVA negli Stati membri dell’UE (EN: Evaluating criminal policies against VAT digital fraud in EU Member States).

19 October 2024. National conference: 37th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “La criminologia del futuro” (EN: The Criminology of the future). Place: Turin (IT).  Title (speech/presentation): L’intelligenza artificiale conversazione a sostegno delle vittime di reato: il caso dell’usura (EN: Conversational artificial intelligence in support of crime victims: the case of usury).

14 September 2024. International conference: 24th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “Criminology goes East". Place: Bucharest (RO). Title (speech/presentation): Conversational AI to support victims of crime: the case of usury.

14 September 2024. International conference: 24th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “Criminology goes East". Place: Bucharest (RO). Title (speech/presentation): Organized cybercrime: to be or not to be? Definitions of organized crime on the test bench of the digital society.

13 September 2024. International conference: 24th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “Criminology goes East". Place: Bucharest (RO). Title (speech/presentation): Asset and Interest Disclosure (AID) systems in EU Member and Candidate States: an assessment.

20-21 June 2024. International conference: 4th Human Trafficking Research Network Conference – "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human Trafficking from Research and Practice". Place: A Coruña (ES). Title (speech/presentation): Human Trafficking in the Digital Age: Mapping the Current Criminological Landscape and Charting Future Frontiers. 

10-11 June 2024. International conference: Crime Refracted Symposium – "Online Deviance in the New Platform Ecosystem". Place: Copenhagen (DK). Title (speech/presentation): Digital crime, deviance, or conformity? Young people and digital social reactions. 

5-6 April 2024. National conference: Festival della Criminologia (EN: Festival of Criminology) – "FAQ Crime". Place: Turin (IT). Title (speeches/presentations): "A psychologist in the criminological multidisciplinary research" & "Is the Web a resource for Mafias?". 

20 October 2023. National conference: 36th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Genere, cultura e criminalità” (EN: Gender, culture and crime). Place: Siena (IT). Plenary session. Title (speech/presentation): Transizione digitale e violenza di genere: la deepfake pornography (EN: Digital transition and gender violence: deepfake pornography).

20 October 2023. National conference: 36th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Genere, cultura e criminalità” (EN: Gender, culture and crime). Place: Siena (IT). Plenary session. Title (speech/presentation): Donne vittime di tratta: le differenti politiche degli Stati membri dell’UE sulla prostituzione e le loro implicazioni sui diritti delle donne (EN: Women victims of trafficking: the different policies of the EU Member States on prostitution and their implications on women’s rights).

22 September 2023. National conference: Giornate di studio "Le transizioni e il diritto" (EN: Study days "Transitions and the law"). Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentation): La deepfake pornography: tra criminologia e diritto (Deepfake pornography: between criminology and law).

21 September 2023. International conference: Giornate di studio "Le transizioni e il diritto" (EN: Study days "Transitions and the law"). Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentation): La protezione dell’identità nella società digitale: considerazioni criminologiche e giuridiche (Protecting identity in the digital society: criminological and juridical considerations).

7 September 2023. International conference: 23rd Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “The Renaissance of European Criminology. Place: Florence (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Movida: from media representantion to perception of urban disorder. The case study of Trento (Italy).

6 September 2023. International conference: 23rd Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “The Renaissance of European Criminology. Place: Florence (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Human trafficking in the digital society: state of the art, theoretical perspectives and future directions.

16 June 2023. National conference: GTR23- XXII EDIZIONE DELLE GIORNATE TRIDENTINE DI RETORICA. Il diritto come cura. L'esperienza delle cliniche legali nella prospettiva della retorica forense (EN: GTR23- XXII EDITION OF TRIDENTINE RHETORIC DAYS. The law as a remedy. The experience of legal clinics from the perspective of forensic rhetoric). Place Trento (IT). Speaker in the round table L’esperienza trentina (EN: The Trento experience). 

14 April 2023. National seminar: La legge Rognoni-La Torre tra storia e attualità (EN: The Rognoni-La Torre Law between history and the present). Place: Trento (IT), Faculty of Law. Introductory speech. 

25 March 2023. National conference: Crimini economici-finanziari: analisi e contrasto del fenomeno (EN: Economic and financial crime: analysing and combating the phenomenon). Place: Treviso (IT).  Title (speech/presentation): Crimini economici-finanziari e società digitale (EN: Economic and financial crime and digital society). 

16 March 2023. Conference: “Dialoghi sulla giustizia riparativa” (EN: Dialogues on Restorative Justice). Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech): Vittime, autori e giustizia riparativa: una prospettiva criminologica (EN: Victimis, Authors and Restorative Justice). 

10 November 2022. International Conference: Protection of victims of Human trafficking: grounding in consolidated experiences to address new challenges. Place: Torino (IT).  Title (speech/presentation):  The digitalization of human trafficking. 

12 October 2022. National conference: Prevenzione e gestione del sovraindebitamento. Presupposti e procedura: dalla ristrutturazione dei debiti del consumatore alla liquidazione controllata (EN: Prevention and management of over-indebtedness. Assumptions and procedure: from the restructuring of the consumer's debts to controlled liquidation). Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentation):  Test di autovalutazione del rischio da sovraindebitamento (EN: Over-indebtedness risk self-assessment test). 

7 October 2022. National conference: 35th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Relazioni virtuali, vittime reali” (EN: Virtual relations, real victims). Place: Rome (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Il commercio del sesso nella società digitale (EN: Sex commerce in digital society).

2 September 2022. EMERGENCY Festival 2022: “La scelta”. Place: Reggio Emilia (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Migrazioni, il lato oscuro - trafficanti di migranti e social network (EN: Migration, the dark side - Migrant smugglers and social media). 

18 June 2022. International Conference: “Countering Hate Speech in Media”. Place: Istanbul (TR). Title (speech/presentation): Monitoring, analyzing, and tackling online hate speech.

24 November 2021. International conference in the context of “Operation Aphrodite” (EUROPOL). Place: Den Haag (NL), remote participation due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (speech/presentation): The role of social media in the illegal trade of medicines.

17 November 2021. International conference: “2021 Anti-Counterfeiting Virtual Research Symposium”, organised by Underwriters Laboratories (USA). Featured speaker and round table participant. Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (speech/presentation): The illegal trade of medicines on social media. Title (round-table): Counterfeit products and social media.

20 September 2021. International conference: “Best Practices against Islamophobia”. Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (speech/presentation): The experience of the University of Trento - Project Hatemeter.

7 July 2021. International workshop: “Online identity theft - best practices workshop”. Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (speech/presentation n.1): “The Irish experience on law enforcement and monitoring”. Title (speech/presentation n.2): “The Irish experience on victim support and protection”. 

11 June 2020. National seminar: “Quando il bullismo è cyber” (EN: When bulling is cyber). Place: Online event due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation. Title (speech/presentation): Cyberbullismo - La prospettiva criminologica (EN: Cyberbulling - The criminological perspective). 

21-22 November 2019. International workshop: “Technical meeting on e-commerce controls system”, jointly organised by the Italian Ministry of Agricultural Food and Forestry Policies/ICQRF and the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety. Place: Rome (IT). Title (speech/presentation): The role of academia in preventing and fighting food fraud.

20 November 2019. Seminar: “Codice rosso: una novità legislativa non priva di criticità” (EN: The so-called “red code”: a novel law with some critical pointes). Place: Rovereto (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Nuove tecnologie e pornografia non consensuale (EN: New technlogies and non-consensual pornography).

25 October 2019. National conference: 33rd Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Dal rischio al crimine” (EN: From risk to crime). Place: Modena (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Hatemeter: misurare e combattere l’islamofobia online attraverso l’uso di strategie e contro-narrative intelligenti (EN: Hatemeter: measuring and fighting online islamophobia through intelligent strategies and counter-narratives).

20 September 2019. International conference: 19th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology - “Convergent roads, bridges and new pathways in criminology”. Place: Ghent (BE). Title (speech/presentation): Hate speech against Muslims on social media - evidence from project Hatemeter.

21 August 2019. International conference: 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association - “Europe and beyond: boundaries, barriers and belonging”. Place: Manchester (UK). Title (speech/presentation): Hate speech against Muslims on social media in Italy and the United Kingdom - Evidence from European project Hatemeter.

20 June 2019. International conference: 7th Migration Conference. Place: Bari (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Hate speech against Muslims on social media in Italy - Evidence from the European project Hatemeter.

11 May 2019. TEDx: “BE SAFE! La sicurezza a 350°” (EN: BE SAFE! Security at 350°). Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech): Sicurezza social (EN: “Social” security). 

19-20 February 2019. International conference in the context of the Operation IOS kick-off meeting (EUROPOL). Place: Den Haag (NL). Title (speech/presentation, 19 February): IPR Infringements and the illegal trade of dangerous products. Chair and moderator of the workshop (20 February) with academics, representatives of LEAs and private industries titled: Tailoring academic activities on the needs of the public and private sectors.

19 October 2018. National conference: 32nd Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Relazioni violente” (EN: Violent relationships). Place: Catanzaro (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Relazioni violente tra giovani in internet - Conoscere cyber-bulli e cyber-vittime grazie alla ricerca quali-quantitativa (EN: Violent relationships between young people on the internet - Knowing cyber-bullies and cyber-victims thanks to qualitative-quantitative research). 

8 October 2018. National seminar: “Fuori campo: Confini” (EN: Out of scope: borders). Place: Milan (IT). Title (speech): Trafficanti social (EN: Social traffickers).

26 October 2017. National conference: “La sicurezza urbana tra ordinanze, regolamenti di polizia locale e nuovi poteri dei Sindaci” (EN: “Urban security between ordinances, local police regulations and new powers of the Mayors”). Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentantion): Sicurezza urbana oggettiva e percezione di insicurezza - Una prospettiva criminologica (EN: “Objective” urban security and perception of insecurity - A criminological perspective). 

21 September 2017. International conference: Cybersecurity Management Challenges Symposium 2017. Place: Lugano (CH). Title (speech/presentation): Cybercrime and health.

20 September 2017. International conference: “Europol IP Crime Conference - Innovative Strategies for Effective Enforcement”. Place: Antwerp (BE). Title (speech/presentation): Pharma crime and the role of academia. 

14 July 2017. International conference: 17th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology - "Challenging Crime and Crime Control in Contemporary Europe". Place: Cardiff (Wales, UK). Title (speech/presentation): Social smugglers - The role of the Internet in people smuggling.

13 April 2017. National conference/public hearing organised by the Italian Parliament (Parliamentary investigatory commission on counterfeiting, product piracy and illegal trade): “La tecnologia della tracciabilità nella lotta alla contraffazione” (EN: The traceability technology in the fight against counterfeiting). Place: Rome (IT). Title (speech): Le tecnologie anticontraffazione - Modelli, punti di forza e criticità (EN: Anticounterfeiting technologies - Models, strenghts and weaknesses). 

29 March 2017. International conference: “Social Traffickers The role of the Internet in human trafficking and migrants’ smuggling”. Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Guidelines for LEAs and NGOs. 

26 March 2017. National seminar (speaker and moderator): Il ruolo di internet nella tratta di esseri umani e nel traffico di migranti e richiedenti asilo (EN: The role of the Internet in people smuggling and human trafficking). Place: Rome (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Il ruolo di internet nel traffico di migranti e richiedenti asilo (EN: The role of the internet in the smuggling of migrants an asylum seekers).

3 March 2017. National conference: “Novel Psychoactive Substances –  diffusione del fenomeno, aspetti sociali, clinici, psicopatologici e nuove strategie terapeutiche” (EN: Novel Psychoactive Substances - diffusion of the phenomenon, social, clinical, psychopathological aspects and new therapeutic strategies). Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentation): Il mercato online delle NPS (EN: The online trade of NPS).

23 September 2016. International conference: 16th Annual Conference, European Society of Criminology - "Crime and Crime Control - Structures, Developments and Actors". Place: Münster (DE). Title (speech/presentation): Improving and sharing knowledge on the Internet role in human trafficking and people smuggling processes - Evidence from the EU project www.surfandsound.eu.

20-21 June 2016. International conference: “Present and future of countering pharmaceutical crime”. Place: Osnabrück (DE). Title (speech/presentation): The FAKECARE project: EU logo and technical tools. 

17 December 2015. Internation conference: “The online trade of falsified medicinal products. Knowledge and tools from research to support institutions, pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies”. Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentation): The EU Directive 62/2011 - Implementation and vulnerability of the EU logo. 

11 December 2012. International conference: “The Online Trade of Fake Medicines: From Research to Action”. Place: Trento (IT). Title (speech/presentation): The contribution of legal analysis: comparing regulations on online pharmacies in the EU Member States.

16-18 October 2025. National conference: 38th Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Criminology - “Criminologia nella società digitale. Sfide e confronti nel nuovo millennio” (EN: Criminology in the digital society. Challenges and debates in the new millennium). Place: Trento (IT), University of Trento. 

15 November 2024. Seminar: "Trattamento e rieducazione in carcere: tra principi teorici e ostacoli strutturali" (EN: "Treatment and re-education in prison: between theoretical principles and structural obstacles ). Place: Trento (IT), Faculty of Law. 

23 November 2023. Seminar: "Istituzione carcere: rieducazione tra mito e realtà - seconda edizione" (EN: "Prison institution": re-education between mith and reality - second edition). Place: Trento (IT), Faculty of Law.

14 April 2023. National Seminar: La legge Rognoni-La Torre tra storia e attualità (EN: The Rognoni-La Torre Law between history and the present). Place: Trento (IT), Faculty of Law.

24-25 November 2022. Seminar: "Istituzione carcere: rieducazione tra mito e realtà" (EN: "Prison institution": re-education between mith and reality). Place: Trento (IT), Faculty of Law