• Walking the Narratives. Ecocriticism on the Hiking Trail

    Paper to be presented at ICA2026 – 23rd International Congress of Aesthetics, “Aesthetics Today”, Prešov, Slovakia, 20-24 July 2026 Abstract The fields of ecocriticism and intermediality have seen a growing interest for aesthetic phenomena that see literary elements intertwined with natural environments. The hiking trail represents a special form of human-nature relationship, and a phenomenon

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  • Migranti senza migrazione. Epistemologie femministe dal margine

    6th Annual Conference SWIP Italia “Prospettive femministe sul potere” (Feminist perspectives on Power), Pavia 13th-14th November 2025. I will bring the conference on Antimeridionalism and Femminismo Terrone presented at the Braga Meetings back in Italy. Photographer: Serra Utkum İkiz su Unsplash

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  • What We Are (Not): Between New Materialism and the Theory of Sexual Difference

    What we are as humans is a question we will never stop answering. If a definitive answer cannot be given, we could, however, analyse how the question has changed in contemporary times, and especially how it has returned to the centre of attention in recent decades. The way in which we question ourselves today is

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  • Migrants without migration. Political epistemologies from the margins

    15th Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy 2025, 25th-27th June 2025, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal When speaking of migration, one generally assumes a separation, between a geographical-cultural place of departure and one of arrival; a temporal succession, between the definition of a border and the movement of people; a verticality, in power relations.

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  • “Writing the Landscape. Literary Guidance on the Hiking Trail” book chapter

    To be published in M. Maggi (edited by), Captioned Landscapes, Vernon Press, Wilmington, USA. The hiking trail represents one of the many shapes took by the relationship between the human and what in the Western cultures has been called ‘Nature’ – and which I prefer to refer to as ‘non-human’ to avoid the implicit conceptualization

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  • “Walter Benjamin” entry

    Invited entry for Encyclopedia of Scepticism and Jewish Tradition, edited by Giuseppe Veltri, De Gruyter Brill, Berlin, Germany. Expected publication: 2026

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  • Asja and the Others. Images of the Revolutionary Feminine in Walter Benjamin’s Writings

    International Walter Benjamin Conference 2025, “Southern Benjamin. Mourning, Play, Revolution”, International Walter Benjamin Society, Società italiana Walter Benjamin, 17th-20th September 2025. Benjamin’s relationship with women colours his philosophy from his earliest writings to the end of his life, reflected in the many – often crucial and usually subversive – roles that different images of the

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  • City as Commodity; City as Artwork

    Theory and Criticism of Architecture and the Postmodern City DIA – Department of Engineering and Architecture, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy The postmodern city was designed by capitalism. In the contemporary world, we seem to find new ways of commodifying its inhabitants, its structures, and its material and cultural resources. In the era of

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  • Interview to Ivone Gebara on Feminist Theology and Ecofeminism

    Co-authored with Vittoria Ferri, Mariateresa Muraca, Chiara Zamboni, Giulia Testi and Anna Maria Piussi. Translated by Caterina Diotto. This article was originally published in italian here. We introduce ourselves to Ivone Gebara. We are Mariateresa Muraca, Chiara Zamboni, Caterina Diotto, Giulia Testi and Anna Maria Piussi. Vittoria Ferri cannot be here, but she is participating

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  • A Colonial Legacy. The Disproportionate Removal of Inuit Children from Their Mothers in Denmark

    Denmark’s policies toward Greenlandic families and children from the 1800s to the present day reflect the broader history of colonialism, cultural assimilation, and eventual decolonization. One of the most distressing aspects of this history is the forced removal of Inuit children from their families, a practice that, despite the official recognition of the Inuit culture

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