talks

2025

What is Interoception?, Mind and Reason Seminars, York, October 22, 2025.

Olfaction and the Sense of Self: Possible Applications to the Study of Prosthetic Embodiment [invited speaker], Symposium: Mente Fatta a Mano, Roma (Sapienza), July 10, 2025.

Olfaction and the Self [invited speaker], UKSN Meeting, Cambridge, July 8-9, 2025.

The power of “being there”: affective scaffolding through smell regulation (with Giulia Piredda), 12th EPSSE Annual Conference, Paris, June 11-23, 2025.

Affective Perceptual Habits and the Situated Self, Spring School ‘Habits Between Phenomenology and Pragmatism’, Parma, March 17-18, 2025.

Ecological Plasticity (with Emanuele Capozziello), panel: Inhuman Smell: Olfaction and Interspecies Histories, Uncommon Senses V, Montréal, May 7-11, 2025.

Affective Perception and the Sense of the Self, Uncommon Senses V, Montréal, May 7-11, 2025.

Olfaction and the feeling of being there [invited speaker], Workshop on Olfactory Philosophy, UNR Lake Tahoe, April 30 - May 3, 2025.

Affective Perception and the Situated Self (poster presentation), Situated Cognition Spring School (SCSS) 2025: ‘Situated Cognition in Human Minds, Animal Minds and AI Systems’, Bochum, March 24-27, 2025.

2024

Breathing Postures, White Rose Graduate Conference in Phenomenology & Philosophy Of Mind, York, October 10-11, 2024.

Breathing Postures, Exploring Personal Identity. San Raffaele School of Philosophy 2024, Milan, October 2-4, 2024.

The Vaporous Self, 2nd Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind, online, October 18-19/25-26, 2024.

What is it like to be (olfactively) biased?, FINO Graduate Conference on Mind, Science, and Language, University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, September 12-13, 2024.

Boundaries. Olfaction and the Embodied Self, XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome, 1-8 August 2024.

The Shaping of the Self Through Olfactory Preferences (poster presentation), 19th International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT) 2024 conference, Reykjavik, June 22 – 26, 2024.

Airy nothing? The shaping of the embodied self through olfactory tastes, 20th annual Conference of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Trondheim, Norway, June 17-19, 2024.

2023

The value of smell. A multidisciplinary approach to olfaction, 19th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences. “Values and Cognition", Genova, December 14-16, 2023

The Ambiguity of Olfaction: How Smells Shape Identities Through Attraction and Repulsion, Annual International Graduate Philosophy Conference - University of Galway, online, December 1, 2023.

Visceral, yet ineffable: on the biases of olfaction. Workshop - Implicit bias: What are we missing?, Munich School of Philosophy, October 11-12, 2023.

Perceptual style as embodied taste. Leiden Summer School - The Agency of Style, University of Leiden, September 21, 2023.

2022

Jade, jadeite, and nephrite. An analysis of the Fodor-Kim debate in the light of some contemporary insights, 5th TILPS History of Analytic Philosophy Workshop, Tilburg, August 23-25, 2022.