Overturning Eliminativism. Practical Wisdom as Ethical Expertise - Jubilee Center for Character and Virtues, Feb. 7, 2023 (invited, with M. Croce)
Media Challenges to Digital Flourishing. A symposium on technology ethics and media practice – Donald P. Bellisario College of Communication, Penn State University (USA), Oct. 5-6, 2022. Talk: ‘Civility in the Post-Truth Age: an Aristotelian Account’ (keynote).
Conference in Honor of Professor Linda Zagzebski – University of Oklahoma (USA), July 21-22, 2022. Talk title: ‘Discussion of Robert Audi’s talk’ (invited).
Civic Virtue and Vice workshop – Bristol University, July 13, 2022. Talk title: ‘Civility: An Aristotelian Account’ (invited).
Dialectic as an ‘Aristotelian’ Teaching Method conference - Bologna University, June 30 - July 1, 2022. Talk title: ‘From moral development to moral progress: an Aristotelian account’ (keynote)
Supporting the Establishment of Character Education Research Centres in Europe – University of Birmingham, June 13-14, 2022. Talk title: ‘Lessons from Genoa’s Aretai Center’ (invited).
Network for Research in Morality conference, online, hosted by the University of Miami (USA), May 17, 2022. Talk title: ‘Overturning eliminativism. Practical wisdom as ethical expertise’ (invited)
Thumos Seminar Series– University of Geneva, May 12, 2022. Talk title: ‘In defense of inspiring envy’ (invited)
Annual conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA),Noto, Sept. 22-24, 2021. Talk title: ‘Too much of a good thing. Four moralistic vices and their two sources’ (accepted)
The Moral Psychology of Envy, online workshop hosted by the University of Puget Sound (USA), May 17, 2021. Talk title: ‘In defense of inspiring envy’ (invited, with A. Niccoli)
Virtues and the Flourishing Life. Jubilee Center Annual Conference.Oriel College, Oxford, 3-5.02.2020. Talk Title: Paths to flourishing: Ancient models of the exemplary life (with A. Campodonico).
Civic Virtues workshop. University of Nottingham (UK), 6-7.11.2019. Talk: Cultivating Civic-Epistemic Virtues to Counteract the Spread of Fake News (with Michel Croce).
Ethique et Philosophie. Colloque organisé par l'institut ESPHIN de l'Université de Namur (BE), 16.10.19. Talk: Aristotle, Aquinas and Virtue Ethics (invited).
Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2019 Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA (USA), 10-13.07.2019. Accepted talk title: A threat to traits: ethical expertise and the situationist challenge (with M. De Caro).
10th Braga Meeting on Ethics and Political Philosophy. University of Minho (Braga),13-15.06.2019. Accepted talk title: Exceeding the boundaries of morality. Varieties of moralism and their correlative virtues (with F. Zuolo).
EPSSE Conference, Pisa,June, 10-11, 2019. Talk title: Emotional Skillfulness and Virtue Acquisition (with A. Niccoli).
Seminario di etica.Padova, 4.06.2019. Talk: Teoria morale esemplarista. Una lettura critica (invited).
Seminario permanente di teoria politica. Pavia, 9.05.2019. Talk: Eccessi di morale (invited, with F. Zuolo).
Good Judgment, Critical Thinking and Other Epistemic Virtues in Academic Education. Amsterdam, April 3-5, 2019 (invited speaker). Talk title: Educators as exemplars of intellectual generosity.
Virtues: Local or Universal? 7th annual conference of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues.Oriel College, Oxford, January 3-5, 2019. Talk title: A threat to traits: ethical expertise and the situationist challenge (with M. De Caro).
Irish Philosophical Society Annual Conference. Dublin, November 8-10, 2018. Talk title: Exceeding the boundaries of morality. Varieties of moralism and their correlative virtues (with F. Zuolo).
3rd Aretai Center on Virtues Conference, Virtue Ethics and Psychology. Towards a New Science of Virtues?. Rome, October 18-20, 2018 (invited speaker with Mario De Caro). Talk title: Reasons, Emotions, and the Virtuous Mind.
EPSSE Conference. Tallinn, June 13-15, 2018. Talk title: The dark side of the exceptional. On moral exemplars, character education, and negative emotions (with A. Niccoli).
Virtue & Moral Education. University of Gdańsk, Poland, 17-18 May 2018. Talk title: The dark side of the exceptional. On moral exemplars, character education, and negative emotions (with A. Niccoli).
International conference on Natural Normativity and the Normativity of Human Action.University of Bamberg, Germany, 8-10 March 2018 (invited speaker with A. Niccoli). Talk title: In defence of non-reductionist naturalism. From phronesis to ethical expertise.
Central American Philosophical Association Meeting, Palmer House, Chicago, 21-24.02.2018 (invited speaker). Talk title: Ordinarily admirable. Aristotle on the nameless honour-related virtue.
Thumos seminar series, University of Geneva, 23.11.2017 (invited speaker). Talk title: An excess of excellence: on virtue ethics and supererogation.
Ninth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP9), Munich, 21-26/08/2017. Talk title: Four Kinds of Moralism (and a Virtue-Ethical Response).
21st-Century Theories of Literature: Ethics, Tropes, Attunement, University of Warwick, 6-8/4/2017. Talk title: “A Huge Hall of Reflection”: Iris Murdoch on Literature as a Guide to Morals.
Character, Wisdom and Virtue. Jubilee Center Annual Conference. Oriel College, Oxford, 5–7.01.2017. Talk title: An eye on particulars with the end in sight. An account of Aristotelian phronesis.
XII Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA),Pistoia, 5-7.09.2016. Talk title: “To see another as human”: emotional correctives and imaginative engagement as a way to defeat stereotype-based emotional reactions.
Moralism: The Boundaries of Moral Thinking,University of Essex, 20-21.06.2016. Talk title: A Threefold Account of Moralism (and a Virtue-Based Response).
Filosofia y Mística, Universidad de Salamanca, 21-23.10.2015. Talk title: Self-transcendence and Practical Mysticism.
Ethics of nature – Nature of Ethics, University of Manchester, 16.05.2015. Talk title: Nature in Ethics: Philippa Foot and Iris Murdoch.
Love’s Passion: Philosophical Perspectives on Love, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 15-16.09.2014. Talk title: Emotion or virtue? The role of love in Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil
SITA (International Society for Thomas Aquinas’s studies) annual conference. Rome, 12.03.2014. Talk title: Practical wisdom in Aquinas (invited),
First International Conference on Iris Murdoch – Roma Tre University, Rome, 20-22.02.2014. Talk title: Saving the Contingent. A Dialogue Between Iris Murdoch and Thomas Aquinas. Iris Murdoch and Virtue Ethics: Philosophy and the Novel.
The Eighth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies. Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, 17-20.06.2010. Paper: Aristotle on civic friendship.