(Selected) Conference and Workshop Presentations
2025. Session on the economic history of the ancient world (co-organized with M. Fochesato) at the World Economic History Conference in Lund.
2025. Primordial Legal Origins. Hayek Conference, LSE London.
2025. Writing and the Early State: Information and State Capacity in Mesopotamia. 2025 NICEP Conference, Nottingham (UK).
2024. The Origins of (a Culture of) Cooperation (with C. Guerriero). History and Democracy Conference, King´s College London-University of Cambridge.
2023. Climate Change and State-Building in the World's Most Agricultural Countries (with C. Guerriero). 27th SIOE Conference, Frankfurt.
2022. A Game of Bones: Security, State Capacity and Nutritional Welfare in the Middle East, 10.000–400 BCE (with J. Baten, A. Soltyziak). Economic History Society Annual Conference, Cambridge; XIX World Economic History Congress, Paris.
2021. Climate Change and State Building in Developing Countries. London Workshop on Institutional Issues.
2021. The Use of Bioarchaeological Data in Economics, Seminar on Bioarchaeology of the Near East – Warsaw University, Poland.
2020. The Rise and Fall of Mesopotamian City-States, congress on History and Cultures of the Early Americas, Library of Congress, Washington DC [cancelled due to Covid-19].
2018. The Fiscal Structure of the Ebla State in Early Bronze Age Syria (with M. Bonechi). Charles University, Prague – Workshop on Management of Resources and Taxation in the Ancient Near East.
2018. The Rise of Political Institutions: The Case of Ancient Mesopotamia. Center for Ancient Studies, Penn Museum - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, and Department of Classics, Stanford, USA.
2018. Administration, Bureaucracy and State Formation in Mesopotamia. Workshop “Archaic Texts and Early State Economies in Mesopotamia”, Bologna – Department of History & Cultures.
2017. The Economics of Early Mesopotamia between Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Models. Congress “Ancient Economies in Comparative Perspective: Material Life, Institutions and Economic Thought”, Rome.
2016. Performance, Growth and Institutional Management of Agricultural Production in Early Mesopotamia. Paper presented at the Workshop “Economic Growth in Antiquity”, Excellence Cluster Topoi, Berlin.