2025
Course (10h) "Là dove non si guarda. Riconoscere, legittimare e prendersi cura delle vulve" (ECM possibility) - on the platform "Scuola Capitale Sociale", October 2025. https://www.scuolacapitalesociale.it/la-dove-non-si-guarda/
Full day training (8 hours) on "Vulvar health through a socio-anthropological perspective" , University of Pavia - dep. Clinical scientific surgey, Diagnosis and Pediatrics. Post BA course in "Family and Community Midwife". 12.6.2025.
Seminar "Vulvar-pelvic Pain" , Tor Vergata University of Medicine, Rome. 30.5.2025 (3h). Invited by the student collective and in dialogue with the gynecologist Alessandra Logoteta.
Teaching class "Vulvodynia as a biomedical mistery" at the Course of Medical Anthropology, University of Torino, invited by Lucia Portis for the MA students of the graduation course in Nursery. 29.5.2025.
Teaching class "Creative method and ethnogaphic research" at the course of Medical Anthropology, University of Torino, invited by prof. Lucia Portis for the MA students of the graduation course Professional Education. 13.3.2024
Seminar "Beyond Pain. " organized by Social Changes and Cultural Innovation academic group (MuSIC), University of Torino. Discussant: Prof. Stefania Palmisano and Prof. Paola Sacchi. 12.3.2025.
Lecture "Sexuality as Gender Performance" (3h), with prof. Ferrero Camoletto, at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Research and Woman and Gender Studies (CIRSDe), University of Torino. 28.02.2025
Teaching at the Network for the Advancement in Social and Political Studies (NASP), Ph.D. programme in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research, University of Torino. Responsible of the Module 5 - DOING FOCUS GROUP (9 h), with Prof. Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto and Nicole Braida. 17-27.02.2025
2024
Educator in ECM course for health practitioners about socio-anthropological aspects of vulvar pain disease at the hospital Regina Montis Regalis (Mondovì, Italy). 7.12.2024
Key-speaker at the KISMIF international summer school, 9 July 2024, University of Porto. Lecture: “Vulvar Pain. Art. Science. Resistance”. An art-based method to investigate vulvar pain and an ethnography-based exhibition to rise awareness on sexual health” https:// www.kismifconference.com/pt/call-summer-school/
Lecture “Pain in Health Research: experimenting with cloth, ceramic and metal to go beyond a logo-centric approach” presented at the seminar “Methodological Frontiers: Innovative research techniques for the social sciences”, University of Torino.
Lecture “Invisible pain, useless bodies, broken women. A medical anthropology research action to unfold vulvar pain meanings” at the University of Torino, invited by prof. Lucia Portis.
Seminar “Antropologia e dolore vulvare. Le sfide epistemiche e metodologiche tra design di ricerca e disseminazione” at the University of Torino. Lunch seminar hosted by the department of Cultures, Politics and Society, 17.4.2024.
2023
“Il dolore senza senso: patologizzazione del dolore volontario e strategie di invisibilità” seminar lecture at the University of Torino for the congress day “Corpi (ri)produttivi, malati, medicalizzati” (Italy), 16.11.2023.
Lecture “Il dolore vulvare. Design della ricerca, metodo, analisi e restituzione”, University of Torino (Italy) for MA and BA students. 8-16.11.2023. Invited by prof. Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto.
Invited speaker at the 2nd congress of the Vulvodynia Italian Association (AIV), round table “Vulvodinia,https://www.vulvodinia.org/29-settembre-2023-ii-congresso-nazionale-associazione-italiana- vulvodinia/
“Bisturi, ganci e aghi sulla pelle. L’antropologia delle manipolazione corporee” seminar for the BA in Psychology and social processes, course in Cultural Anthropology, Università la Sapienza di Roma (Italy). Invited by prof. Osvaldo Costantini, 26.4.2023.
“La (de)costruzione sociale del dolore. Un’indagine di antropologia medica tra stigma, patologizzazione e alibi” masterclass in Medical Anthropology for the students of the BA Educazione Professionale, University of Turin (Italy). Invited by prof. Lucia Portis, 4.4.2023.
“L’ antropologia e il dolore” masterclass for the post-graduation course “Pain Therapy”, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Scuola di Medicina e Chirurgia. Invited by prof. Caterina Pace, 24.2.2023.
“Antropologia del dolore” masterclass for the post-graduation course “Palliative Cares”, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Scuola di Medicina e Chirurgia. Invited by prof. Caterina Pace, 17.2.2023.
Podcast meeting “Hooks and Pain. Ethical concerns in the practice-based research on body suspensions”, in the series Practice as Research, invited by Dr Nicole Brown, UCL (London) 1.2.2023. https://practiceasresearch.nicole-brown.co.uk/category/seminars/
2022
“Anthropology at the service of Home Staging”, seminar for the European Association of Home Staging Professionals. Online format, 23.11.2022 https://eahsp.eu/anthropology-at-the-service-of- home-staging-for-italian-eahsp-members-only/
“Be F**KING PERFECT. Corpi di plastica e cultura visuale”, lecture for MA students of the University politecnico di Milano - MA in Communication Design. Course: Anthropology of communication. Invited by Giuseppe Mazzarino, 22.11.2022.
“Barbie e invecchiamento. Un percorso di antropologia medica”, lecture for MA student at the University of Milano Bicocca. Invited by Gloria Frisone, 21.11.2022
“Melaninocrazie. Il contributo dell'antropologia medica”, lecture with Chiara Pussetti for the medical congress of the Italian Association of Dermatologist (ADOI), Riccione 26-29 October 2022. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/federica-manfredi-5605828b_federica-mnfredi- antropologa-59-congresso-activity-6995703638140571648-ZpZM? utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
“Limitless bodies. Hooks and needles in the skin to regenerate the self”, dissemination talk at the art-gallery Óriq during the exhibition Be F**King Perfect . The Pursuit of Excellence. 17.9.2022
“Challenging fieldworks and ethical concerns in the ethnographical practice”, class for the students of the Laboratorio di Metodologia etnografica at the University of Milan Bicocca. Invited by Dario Nardini. 6.5.2022.
“La (de)costruzione sociale del dolore. Un’indagine di antropologia medica tra stigma, patologizzazione e alibi” class for the course of Medical Anthropology lead by prof. Lucia Portis for the students of the BA Educazione Professionale, University of Turin (Italy). 20.4.2022
2021
“Contra o pelo. Practice-based ethnographical traces on body-hairs’ conflicts and hegemonic beauty”, at the “Body Hair Day. Roda de Conversa”, 7.12.2021. Organized by Chiara Pussetti, Federica Manfredi and Isabel Pires at Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. https:// www.excelproject.eu/blog/2022/3/23/body-hair-day-roda-de-conversa
“Pain and body suspensions. Not so extreme after all”, presented at “The Extreme Seminar. Bodies & Practices”, co-organized with Chiara Pussetti at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. 13 November 2021. Available at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1EIglNNN-5J7gRg- MTVq-g
“La Barbie Hackerata”, workshop proposed during the DANT seminar for doctoral students at the Institute of Social Sciences - University of Lisbon. 4 June 2021.
“La Barbie Hackerata”, workshop for Anthropology post-graduation students at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy), for the Laboratory of Ethnographical Methodology lead by Dario Nardini. 9 April 2021.
“Sangue, ganci e dolore in ricerca etnografica. Un’esperienza di studio sulle sospensioni corporee tra pregiudizi, tabù e occasioni di crescita sul campo”, lecture presented at the Seminar of Medical Anthropology lead by Lucia Portis for the students of the BA Educazione Professionale, University of Turin (Italy). 31 April 2021.
“Research experiences between MA and PhD”, lecture for the students of the MA in Anthropology, University Milano Bicocca. 5 March 2021.
2020
“Le sospensioni corporee, un’esperienza di campo in-progress”, lecture presented at the Seminar of Medical Anthropology for the students of the BA Educazione Professionale, University of Turin (Italy). 31 March 2020.
2019
“La parola agli oggetti (perchè noi non ne abbiamo a basta!): presentazione di una ricerca antropologica sperimentale attraverso opere realizzate sul campo”, lecture presented during the workshop “Restituire alla città. Esperienze a confronto”, organized by Lucia Portis and Angela Biscaldi. VII° SIAA congress (Italian Society of Applied Anthropology), Ferrara 12-14 December 2019.
“Methodology of qualitative interviews in the ethnographical practice. A role-play exercise”, lecture presented to MA students of the Area and Global Studies for International Cooperation course. 14 May 2019, University of Turin (Italy).
2017
“La memoria ritrovata, viaggio alla scoperta della storia di Civitavecchia - Piazza Leandra -”, Cultural public event “Percorsi 2017”, 22 September 2017, Civitavecchia (Italy).
“Processes of self-construction through flesh and blood manipulation”, International Scientific Conference “Identity in Culture”, 19-20 October 2017, Limanowa (Poland). Invited by Dr. Joanna Popielska.
“Per delle sospensioni a regola d’arte...”, lecture delivered at the 13th Suscon Festival, 17-19 September 2017, Tirrenia (Italy), organized by The Italian Association of Professional Piercers and Tattooers (APTPI).
2016
“Ethnography based art project: per delle sospensioni a regola d’arte...”, lecture delivered at the12th Suscon Festival, 18-21 September 2016, Tirrenia (Italy), organized by The Italian Association of Professional Piercers and Tattooers (APTPI). Fully founded expensed.
2014
“Which kind of gender violence? An anthropologist gender lecture of female genital mutilation in contemporary Italy”, International Conference Violence in life contemporary human being - I react when I see, Pruszkòv (Poland), 23th December 2014. Fully founded expensed.
“Body Symbols. The use of body in an anthropological perspective”, lecture delivered at the 10th Suscon Festival, 11-15 September 2014, Tirrenia (Italy), organized by The Italian Association of Professional Piercers and Tattooers (APTPI). Fully founded expenses.
“Trance, vita e morte. La processione del Venerdì Santo di Civitavecchia”, lecture delivered at the members of the Lion Club Civitavecchia-Santa Marinella Host, Civitavecchia (Italy). 11 April 2014.
“Il genere, la violenza e le donne”, 8 March 2014, event: “Io dico no alla violenza sulle donne”, organized by Giovane Italia Association, Civitavecchia (Italy). Fully founded expenses.
2011
“Trance experience. The Good Friday Procession as a case of study”, lecture delivered at the Pultusk Accademy of Humanities (Poland), 9 November 2013. Fully founded expenses.“A testimony from a winner of CRT Master dei Talenti Neolaureati Program”, Collisioni Festival, Novello (Italy), 27-28-29 March 2011. Fully founded expenses.