Annual Conference of SAFI (Societas Aperta Feminarum in Iuris Theoria)

📍University of Amsterdam

🗓️ 09-10 October 2025

Justice has long served as a cornerstone of both philosophical inquiry and legal practice. Historically, it has been interwoven with the evolution of legal systems that seek to enforce order through punitive measures. Yet, as classical theorists and modern critics have observed, the mechanisms of punishment often reveal a disjunction between the law’s outward appearance and the deeper, more abstract notion of justice. Thinkers such as Arendt have argued that while law can be deconstructed and critiqued, justice remains an ever-receding horizon—an ideal that cannot be fully captured by rigid legal norms. This tension compels us to ask: How can justice be realized when legal practices and legislative frameworks, often imbued with coercive power, fall short of encompassing the moral imperatives they claim to uphold?

I will present a paper titled Rewriting Rights, or Narra(c)ting Justice Through Women's Courts.

International Conference organised as part of my MSCA Project

📍University of Verona

🗓️ 25-27 June 2025

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of her death, this conference focuses on Hannah Arendt’s 'romantic sympathy' for the federal council system, which she envisioned as the emergence of new, local, participatory, and radically democratic institutions. The conference will explore the potential of Arendtian counciliarism for democratic renewal by examining both the historical manifestations of the council system and its broader political significance.

📍University of Verona / Festival Veronetta Contemporanea

🗓️ 17 June 2025

“Resistere” ed “esistere” condividono la stessa radice latina, che rimanda al verbo sistere: “uscire, apparire, stare”. Se esistere significa essere in vita, ossia manifestarsi sulla scena del mondo, il prefisso “re-” indica la ripetizione dell’azione. Resistere, dunque, esprime un desiderio ostinato di stare in vita, di permanere ed uscire fuori sulla scena del mondo. I film di Anna Marziano danno voce a questo desiderio, esplorando la forza del resistere di fronte al dolore e alla vulnerabilità: dalla malattia che segna il corpo alla nebbia che avvolge una piccola isola della laguna veneziana, sempre più minacciata dal rischio di scomparire sotto le acque. (R)esistere si rivela così come la sorgente di un desiderio collettivo, politico, mai egocentrico. Apparire, uscire fuori, continuare ad esistere implicano, fin dalla loro etimologia, la presenza imprescindibile dell’altro/a e di un luogo che si faccia spazio d’incontro e comunità. La relazione con gli altri e con il mondo è condizione imprescindibile per l’esistenza di ogni forma di vita. A partire dalla visione di Farsi seme e di alcuni estratti di Al largo e del nuovo film attualmente in fase di produzione intitolato Schiuma di mondi, la regista Anna Marziano intreccerà un dialogo con gli ospiti dell’evento, esplorando le molteplici forme contemporanee di (r)esistenza. Tra cura e giustizia, corpi e desideri, malattia e natalità, ci interrogheremo insieme su che cosa significhi resistere ed esistere nel nostro tempo.

Lecture Series organised as part of MSCA project

Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies

📍University of Verona

🗓️ 5 March - 19 March 2025

Discussant for Adriana Cavarero's paper "Euripides' Bacchae and the defeat of the polis"

📍University of Trento

🗓️ 9 April 2025

With Nausica Palazzo (Nova School of Law)

Workshop

Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos de Género

📍University of Lisbon

🗓️ 4 April 2025

Symposium ICI Berlin,

27 June 2024

Organized by Natascia Tosel and Valentina Moro

Vulnerability has emerged as a crucial term to describe the human condition, especially in light of the pandemic. Its etymology can be traced back to the Latin term ‘vulnus’, which denoted both a ‘generic wound’ and the ‘infringement of a right’. This semantic ambiguity still persists in current interpretations of vulnerability, with some understanding it as an ontological concept (namely vulnerability as a shared human condition) and others as a political and legalcategory that identifies specific groups or individuals who are exposed to discrimination. While the universalistic account of the notion fails to bear witness to the unequal distribution of precarity as it affects certain lives, the particularistic approach risks reproducing and even fostering the isolation and marginality of groups and individuals identified as needing protection. In this latter approach, one fails to account both for the agency of such subjects and groups as they resist those conditions and for the systematic and structural connotations of certain forms of violence.

However, many feminist theorizations claim that vulnerability, in its embodied and relational connotation, is still a helpful tool for mapping the present since it allows one to grasp how forms of resistance emerge. Taking this perspective entails many critical questions:

What would it mean to understand vulnerability as a situated condition linked to relationality and interdependency, rather than as a state that pertains to certain subjects? How should politics, institutions, and law take care of vulnerable lives? Can vulnerability be theorized, politicized, and ‘juridified’ in a manner that takes into consideration the diverse and plural ways in which everyone is exposed to it? In what senses does this concept necessitate an understanding that is derived from situated knowledge, such that the concept does not remain a theoretical abstraction? In order to address such urgent issues, this symposium aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue between feminist and gender studies, political philosophy, post- and decolonial studies, critical theory, legal studies, and social sciences.

Symposium Università La Sapienza di Roma

13 June 2024

Talk: Juridification. Genalogies of a Critical Concept

Symposium ICI Berlin

23-24 May 2024

Organized by B Camminga, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Natascia Tosel

Constitution as a viable social subject is dependent on being recognized by others as such, whether that recognition takes the form of an ethical gesture, a political objective, or a legal instrument. The desire for recognition is therefore often assumed to be universal. For many activists and theorists, recognition of rights and identities has been at the heart of social justice movements, particularly since the 1980s. This is reflected, for example, in the ‘gay rights’ slogan, ‘recognize our relationships’. Yet, appeals to recognize what certain groups have in common tend to be made at the expense of more widely expanding the range of lives that might be acknowledged as possible and worthy of protection. Moreover, the identificatory categories through which rights claims can be made often fail to map onto the actual lived experiences of those they purport to describe, suggesting that becoming socially legible as part of a group can come at the expense of true recognition as an individual. In such ways and more, the demand for recognition is inherently intertwined with a dimension of conflict and often manifests as a struggle.

Workshop ICI Berlin

16-17 October 2023

Talk: Remake and Repair. Modeling Institutions and Instituting Models

Models and modeling are polysemous terms that take on distinct but related mea- nings in the sciences, humanities, arts, and everyday language. Models can be material entities or mathematical constructs, they can be living organisms or ma- keshift frames for found objects, they can be of a system or for a project. This workshop will focus on how the meaning of models changes as it travels between different domains, and on how a given model is constructed and broken depending on how tightly it is bound to its reference. Opposing the idea that models are mere representations, contributions will inquire into their generative properties: to make a model involves abstractions and idealizations that can have very real effects in its target system. Likewise, to break a model often leads to novel theoretical insights, revealing hidden presuppositions and opening up the possibility of making, and breaking, again.

Since the inception of the project in Fall of 2022, several foci have emerged in the collective research into model theories and modeling practices. These include the formal or relational qualities of models, their temporal dimensions, the incommen- surability between a model and its object, and models’ world-building potential. This workshop aims to bring together and extend these perspectives in a broader, interdisciplinary dialogue.

Conference Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l'Homme - Alsace, Strasbourg

17 April 2024

Gilles Deleuze, dans "Instincts et institutions", définit les institutions humaines comme des modèles pour l'action. À partir de cette trame conceptuelle entre l'institution et le modèle, l'intervention se propose comme une tentative de repenser les deux en dehors des catégories de représentation et de stabilité ou de durée, avec lesquelles ils ont été traditionnellement associés. Au contraire, une constellation conceptuelle différente sera mobilisée, liée aux notions de performativité d'une part et de processus d'autre part. Dans le but de réimaginer à la fois les institutions et les modèles, nous analyserons à titre d'exemple la manière dont les acteurs sociaux utilisent de plus en plus le langage juridique comme moyen politique et sémiotique pour traduire de nouveaux modèles de conduite qui visent à transformer (faire et défaire) les institutions.

Symposium Università degli Studi di Firenze

23 Februray 2023

Talk: Re-instituting the Social. Between Normativity and Contingency

Symposium Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

14 October 2022

Talk: The State, the Law, the Institutions. A Study on Juridification