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Recent lectures

  • "The Oregon Petrarch Open Book: Poetry, Digital Humanities, and the Landscape." Arizona State University, February 16, 2023.
  • "Ricordati di vivere": La Teologia Biocentrica di Pier Cesare Bori." Vivere per sé e per gli altri. Ricordando Pier Cesare Bori. Bologna, Archiginnasio, November. 3, 2022.
  • "Petrarca's Canzoniere from Early Print to the Oregon Petrarch Open Book." Université de Franche Comté à Besançon, Master Rare Book and Digital Humanities. March 15, 2022.
  • “Petrarch’s Open Book from the  Editio  Princeps  (Inc. Queriniano G V 15) to Digital Culture.” Université de Franche Comté à Besançon, Master Rare Book and Digital Humanities. March 11, 2021.
  • “Re-reading Manzoni at the time of Covid-19: Contagion, Ethics, and Justice. The Graziadio Center, California State University Long Beach, February 22, 2021.
  • “Pre-human, Human, and Post-human in Giambattista Vico”. MLA Annual Meeting, Seattle, January 2020.
  • “Exploring the Dolomites: A View From Above.” University of Bolzano in Bressanone, September 2019.
  • “WW1 Between Sleepwalkers and Witnesses”. The Idea of Europe, University of Oregon, May 2019. 
  • “L’ipertesto tra rimediazione e ipermediazione.” Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC, March 17, 2019.
  • "Hypertext and Twitterature." Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, Istituto Sant'Anna (Sorrento), Italy, June 14-16, 2018.
  • “Le Dolomiti tra Natura e Storia.” Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, Istituto Sant’Anna (Sorrento), Italy, June 14-16, 2018.
  • “Pythagoras’ Mediterranean: Travels, Migration and Philosophy”: presentation at the 2018 Spring Workshop and Conference of the Mediterranean Seminar.
  • “The Candle of Light: Revisiting Cesare Beccaria’s Vision.” University of Oregon. November 2, 2017.
  • "Language in Life and Work." Commencement Speech University of Oregon, Department of Romance Languages. June 20, 2017.
  • "Reading, Rewriting and Encoding Petrarca's Rvf as Hypertext." Annual Conference of the MLA, Philadelphia, PA, January 5, 2017.
  • "The Ancient Roots of a Non-Anthropocentric Humanism: A Pythagorean Perspective." Mellon Symposium – Environmental Posthumanities in the Anthropocene - Friday, Dec. 2nd 2016, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
  • "Early Modern Ecocriticism?." Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, April 23, 2016.
  • "Twiitterature and Hermeneutics of the Text." Annual Conference of the American Association for Italian Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, April 23, 2016."The Oregon
  • Petrarch Open Book: Preservation, Hypertext, and Pedagogy." University of Oregon. Digital Humanisties Working Group, November 20, 2015.
  • "Roberto Saviano's Letter to My Land." Annual Conference of the PAMLA, Portland, Oregon, November 7, 2015.
  • "Lector in Rete: The Oregon Petrarch Open Book as Hypertext." Annual Conference of the Sixteenth Century Society, Vancouver, October 23, 2015.
  • "Suggestioni mediterranee: la Riviera Ligure da Montale a Biamonti." California State University, Long Beach. March 24, 2015. 
  • "Sicilian Ruins from Vittorio De Seta's Documentaries to Vincenzo Consolo's Citiscapes." Common Knowledges Symposium 2014, Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Culture, the Environment and Labor. Wednesday May 14, 2014. UC San Diego. 
  • "Natura parens from Bernardus Silvestris' Cosmographia to Petrarch's Canzoniere." Renaissance Society of America, New York, March 29, 2014.
  • "Poetic Geography and More than Human Humanism in Sardinian Literature from Grazia Deledda to Marcello Fois." Notre Dame University, November 7, 2013.
  • "Philology and Sense Making in the Oregon Petrarch Open Book." Digital French and Italian conference held at Darmouth College, October 30-31, 2013.
  • “Vico’s more than Human Humanism.” AAIS Conference, Eugene, Oregon, April 11-13, 2013.  
  • “Encoding Text and Images in the  Oregon  Petrarch Open Book.”  AAIS Conference, Eugene, Oregon, April 11-13, 2013.  
  • “Petrarch's Open Book from the  Editio  Princeps  (Inc.  Queriniano G V 15) to Digital Culture.” International Conference on  Petrarch and His Legacies . University of Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin, March 4-5, 2013.
  • “Oregon Petrarch Open Book Project.” Symposiumon Textualities in the Digital Age held at the University of Oregon on April 14, 2012.
  • "The Daimon, the Wisdom and the Pietas: Giambasttista Vico's Paths to a More Than Human Humanism." Keynote Address Graduate Student Symposium on "Giambattista Vico: Education, Politics and Poetics." Yale University, March 2-3, 2012.