Selected talks and presentations:
(invited talks: †)
From Sovereignty to Suzerainty: A Neo-Feudal Diagnosis of Modern Oligarchy. MANCEPT Workshop 2026 – Plebeianism, Popular Government, and the Challenge of Modern Oligarchy. 2-4 September 2026 (scheduled).
† The normative loop at the end of sovereignty: Public Authority, Legitimacy, and the Common Good. Mobile Jour Fixe seminar, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main, September 30, 2026 (scheduled).
† Climate Sovereignty, invited talk, Forum for Maritime Justice (The Sea and the State in the Climate Age), Nottingham Trent University, July 15, 2026. Video available here: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/groups/forum-for-maritime-justice.
As an Unidentified Star to a Pilot’? Defending the Common Good Against Liberal and Sceptic Critique. Political Theory Conference 2026. University of Passau. October 2026 (accepted abstract).
The Eco-Authoritarian Horizon. Reconstructing Public Authority for and against the Climate Crisis. Authority and Authoritarianism: Moral, Political and Epistemic Issues. Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan (Italy). 25-26 September 2025.
Sovereignty and the Common Good: Against Ideological Reductionism. Minds and Worlds. 16th Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, University of Turin (Italy). August 27-29, 2025.
On Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the “Common Good” After Neoliberalism: A Normative Reconstruction. Practical Philosophy at Institutional Intersections. Department of Philosophy. King’s College London, 21-22 May 2025.
Sovereignty, the Public-Private Divide, and the Common Good. A Historical and Theoretical Perspective. Midlands Political Thought Graduate Conference. University of Nottingham, 17 October 2024.
† Rethinking the Relationship between Climate Change and Sovereignty. Political Philosophy Seminar Series (POTY). London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Government, 17 October 2024.
Neo-feudalism and the Future of Sovereignty. Neutralisation of Indirect Powers. The Future of Capitalism: Neo-Feudalism? University of Chicago, 2 May 2024 (accepted abstract).
† Introduction to the Philosophical Work of Nancy Fraser: Starting from ‘A Triple Movement’?, invited talk, preparatory seminar for the 2024 Rotelli Lectures. Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, 10 April 2024.
Rethinking the Relationship between Climate Change and Sovereignty Through the Lens of Climate Justice. Gecopol Graduate. University of Geneva, 15 February 2024.
Environmental and Social Objectives vs. Austerity and Deregulation (in Italian). VIII CNDSS – 2023. University of Catania, 10 December, 2023.
Critically Navigating Global Climate Governance. Reimagining Public Power to Counteract Neoliberal Environmentalism. SASCT 5th Annual Conference. University of the Free State (SA), 11 November 2023.
Climate Change, Capitalism, and the State. A Critical Analysis of the Anthropocene and Capitalocene Narratives (with D’Agata, S.). Economic Philosophy in the Age of the Anthropocene, 6th “Economic Philosophy”, Sciences Po Lille. 29 June 2023.
Temporality, Markets and Sovereignty. Reviewing Foucault’s Contribution to the Analysis of Neoliberal Temporality (with Porrino, A.). Unliveable Time. University of Brighton (UK), 16 March 2023.
Problematising the Top-down Dichotomy in Climate Action and Policymaking. Challenges for Environmental and Political Philosophy in the Anthropocene, Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, V.V.I., Bratislava (SVK), 13 January 2023.
Rethinking the Relationship Between Climate Change, Sovereignty, and the Public Interest. VII CNDSS 2022. University of Catania (IT). 5 December 2022.
Private Sovereigns on a Warming Planet. Food, Consumption and Climate Change. Graduate Conference. The University of North Texas (USA). 8-9 October 2022. (Accepted abstract).
Beyond Neoliberal Presentism: An Eco-Temporality for the Anthropocene. Eco-temporalities and Geopolitics, University of Cologne (GER), 15 October 2022.
Rethinking the relationship between Climate Action, Sovereignty and Public Interest. Souveraineté, autonomie et fédéralisme multinational, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Montreal (CA) 22 September 2022.