Scientific Events

Organisation of scientific events

Member of the Organizing Committee of Summer School "Global Mental Health and Human Rights: perspectives on environmental, gender and economic racism", Venice International University, 22 to 26 July by 2024 (com Guido, Veronese; Francesca, Antonacci; Ilan, Pappe; Billie Jeanne, Brownlee; Maziyar, Ghiabi; Rami, Rmeileh; Alex L., Pieterse; Brinton, Lykes; Francesco, Vacchinao; Sabrina, Marchetti; Giulia, Zanini; Giuliani, Gaia; Ashraf, Kagee; Lou Marie, Kruger; Ruchi, Chaturvedi).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the open academic seminar "Teach-in on Palestine and the coloniality of the present", CES, University fo Coimbra online)(, 12 December 2023 (com Giuliani, Gaia Indelicato, Maria Elena).

Member of the Organizing Committee of CES Summer School "Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Race Theory in the Age of Ultra-Violence (2nd Edition)", CES Alta, CES, University of Coimbra, 26 to 30 June by 2023 (com Giuliani, Gaia; Indelicato, Maria Elena; Panico, Carla; Veloso Resende, Susi Anny; Jorge Ayoub, Daniela).

Organization of the panel on "Media and migration" at the H2030 Vulner project´s International conference titled "Vulnerabilità in migrazione" (7-8/11/2022), University of Venice "Ca' Foscari", 07 November 2022.

Member of the Organizing Committee of the CES Summer school "Endangered Theories: Standing by Critical Race Theory in the Age of Ultra-Violence", CES Alta, 18 to 22 July by 2022 (com Giuliani, Gaia; Maria Elena, Indelicato; João, Figueiredo; Carla, Panico).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the CES Summer school "The Pluriverse of Eco-social Justice", CES Alta, 11 to 16 July by 2022 (com Giuliani, Gaia (ECOSOC/CES), Ecology and Society Workshop ).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the ITM Seminar series 2022-2024 Migration(s) and Global Crises, CES - University of Coimbra and online, 12 May 2022 (com Giuliani, Gaia; Gianolla, Cristiano; Leira Viegas, Silvia; Indelicato, Marilena; Panico, Carla; Sousa Ribeiro, Joana).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the panel "Em busca da perfeição. Práticas de self-enhancement como utopias pós-crise" at the XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro (CONLAB 2021), online, 15 to 17 September by 2021 (com Giuliani, Gaia; Pussetti, Chiara (ICS); Rohden, Fabiola (Univ do Rio Grande do Sul)).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the Second edition of the Seminar series Conversas desconfinadas (CES) , online, 18 February to 18 November 2021 (com Giuliani, Gaia; Raggi, Giuseppina; Silva, Patricia; Sequeiros, Paula; Santos, Filipe).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the First edition of the Seminar series Conversas desconfinadas (CES) , online, 01 June to 17 November 2020 (com Giuliani, Gaia; Moura, Tatiana; Pinto, Hugo; Serapioni, Mauro; Carvalho, Claúdia).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the ITM Seminar series 2020-2021 "Migrating Rights | keywords", CES - University of Coimbra, 11 December 2019 (com Giuliani, Gaia; Gianolla, Cristiano ; Panico, Carla; Sousa Ribeiro, Joana; Velez, Fatima; Indelicato, Marilena; Keating, Clara; Roque, Silvia; Viagas, Silvia).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the the International Workshop: "How can Science and Technology Studies help to reflect on the political crisis associated with refugees and asylum seekers?". The workshop was financially supported by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). The workshop received additional support from CES (University of Coimbra), the EXCHANGE project (executed at CECS, University of Minho and funded by ERC), and the (DE)OTHERING project (held at CES ), CES - University of Coimbra, 26 to 28 September by 2018 (com Amelung, Nina; Gianolla, Cristiano; Giuliani, Gaia; Sousa Ribeiro, Joana; Solovova, Olga).

Organization of the second of the three academic events at Birkbeck Institute for Humanities (UK) as visiting scholar and visiting fellowship recipient: Open interdisciplinary panel on "Lampedusa and Beyond", Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University fo London, 04 to 04 June by 2018.

Organization of the first of the three academic events at Birkbeck Institute for Humanities (UK) as visiting scholar and visiting fellowship recipient: Workshop: "Monstrosity, Abjection and Climate Change in the Mediterranean Area", Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University fo London, 25 to 25 May by 2018.

Organization of the third of the three academic events organized by Gaia Giuliani at Birkbeck Institute for Humanities (UK) as visiting scholar and visiting fellowship recipient, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University fo London, 01 May to 01 July 2018.

Member of the Organizing Committee of the InteRGRace Symposium 2018, University of Padova (Italy), 26 to 28 March by 2018 (com Giuliani, Gaia , InteRGRace).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the second workshop of the ITM (Inter-Thematic group on Migrations of CES), as a co-founding member , at CES (Portugal), 15 to 15 March by 2018 (com Giuliani, Gaia; , Cristiano Gianolla; , Olga Solovova; , Joana Sousa Ribeiro).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the first workshop of the ITM (Inter-Thematic group on Migrations of CES), as a co-founding member, CES (Portugal), 06 to 06 April by 2017 (com Giuliani, Gaia; , Cristiano Gianolla; Solovova, Olga; , Joana Sousa Ribeiro).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Winter school "Times and Spaces of Globalization" (University of Padova) co-organized by Nextgeneration Global Studies and InteRGRace, University of Padova, 20 to 24 February by 2017 (com Giuliani, Gaia; , Nextgeneration Global Studies; , InteRGRace).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the Research seminar: "Crime e Fim-do-mundo na literatura e no cinema" co-organised with Fabrice Schurmans (CES), Andrea Pezzé (CES), CES, University of Coimbra (Portugal)., 03 May 2016 (com Giuliani, Gaia; Pezzé, Andrea; Schurmans, Fabrice).

Organization of the International conference panel: "(Un)disciplined Movements: Ecology, Race, and Resistance in the Government of Mobility", at the Undisciplined Environments International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE), KTH, Stockholm (Sweden), 22 to 22 March by 2016.

Member of the Organizing Committee of the InteRGRace Symposium 2016, University of Padova, 21 to 22 January by 2016 (com Giuliani, Gaia , InteRGRace).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the symposium: "Le esclusioni della bellezza. Costruzione e incorporamento di ideali estetici", as a member of InteRGRace with CSGE and MoDI , Dept. Scienze dell'educazione, University of Bologna (Italy), 05 to 05 June by 2015 (com Giuliani, Gaia , InteRGRace).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the InteRGRace Symposium 2014, University of Padova, 16 December 2014 (com Giuliani, Gaia , InteRGRace).

Member of the Organizing Committee of the Round Table: "The thin white line. Intersections of race, gender, and class in postcolonial Italy". Co-panelist and discussants: prof. Cristina Demaria (University of Bologna); drs. Devi Sachetto (University of Padua), Sonia Sabelli (University of Rome, 'La Sapienza'), Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh (Università di Macerata) and Vincenza Perilli (InteRGRace), Dept. Philosophy and Communication (University of Bologna) , 21 May 2014 (com Giuliani, Gaia , InteRGRace).

Organization of the international conference panel: "Colonialism, settler colonialism, indigeneity and migration: new perspectives for Postcolonial Theory". Co-panelists: prof. Nandita Sharma (University of Hawaii), Dr. Kiran Grewal (University of Sydney), International EACLALS Triennial Conference in Istanbul, Bogazici (Bosphorus) University., 26 April 2011.

Organization of the International Round Table: "Settler colonialism and colour line: a topicality?". Co-panelists: Drs. Lorenzo Veracini (the Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne; Dinesh J. Wadiwel, Maria Giannacopoulos (Macquarie University), Kiran Grewal (University of Sydney), University of Technology Sydney, 03 May 2010.

Organization of the International symposium: "Tutti i colori del Bianco. Prospettive teoriche e sguardi storici sulla whiteness" (All colours of whiteness. Theoretical perspectives and historical gazes on whiteness), ex Dept. Politica Istituzioni Storia, University of Bologna, 05 March 2009.

Presentations in scientific events

Giuliani, Gaia (2023), "Public memory and private memory in a battlefield: on the impossibility of memorialisation of the 21st century Mediterranean Middle passage", paper presented at International conference "Interdisciplinary perspectives on International migration: Policies, gender, cities, identity, climate", Aula Magna Silvio Trentin - Ca' Dolfin, University of Venice, Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy, 28 to 29 November.

Giuliani, Gaia (2023), "(invited paper) No postcolonial studies, no revolution. Approcci critici alle scienze umane esociali"", paper presented at Critica postcoloniale e decolonizzazione dei saperi. Una riflessione teorica e metodologica, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, 26 to 27 October.

Giuliani, Gaia (2023), "(invited paper) Distopie antropoceniche, la paura del Dis-Ordine e il capitalismo razziale"", paper presented at International conference "Contemporary dystopian imaginaries: discontinuities and conflicts", Dipartimento Culture, politica e società, Turin University, Fondazione Firpo. Centro Studi sul pensiero politico and Fondazione Luigi Einaudi onlus di Torino, Turin, Italy, 04 to 06 October.

Giuliani, Gaia (2023), "(keynote) Grammatiche criminali. Nazione immaginata, archivi coloniali e violenza razzista nell'Italia di oggi"", paper presented at International conference "Criminologie a Sud: Prospettive "meridiane" sulla questione criminale, University of Bologna, Italy, 11 to 12 September.

Giuliani, Gaia (2023), "(invited paper in an organised panel) Of lynching in Italy: The Civitanova Marche murder, the inevitable spectacle of public lynching and the sublime of live death"", paper presented at Ethnography and Qualitative Research International Conference ERQ 2023 - 9th edition, University of Trento, Italy, 07 to 10 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2023), "(invited paper) Stereotipi coloniali: L'archivio coloniale e le figure della razza nell'iconografia degli sbarchi (2018-2021)", paper presented at International symposium "Italiani brava gente? Angelo Del Boca e la storia del colonialismo italiano", Milano, Palazzo Moriggia, Museo del Risorgimento, Italy, 25 May.

Giuliani, Gaia (2023), "(invited paper) Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene. A Postcolonial Critique", paper presented at RAI (Royal Anthropology Institute) Film Festival Conference, online, 06 to 10 March.

Giuliani, Gaia (2022), "(Keynote) The monster at the border", paper presented at International workshop: "Contactos culturais em língua portuguesa: negociações de convivência" (DAAD), FLUC, Coimbra, 05 to 10 December.

Giuliani, Gaia (2022), "(invited paper) Il brodo primordiale. Innocenza bianca e colonialità nella cultura italiana conteporanea", paper presented at Workshop: "I colori dell infanzia. Per una storia degli stereotipi visivi che alludano o parlino a bambini e bambine", University of Florence, 01 to 02 December.

Giuliani, Gaia (2022), "(invited paper) Geographies of race in Italy", paper presented at International workshop: "'Race' et politique de la 'race' en Italie hier et aujourd'hui", University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, 26 October.

Giuliani, Gaia (2022), "(Keynote) PPP and the Decolonizing/Postcolonial Subaltern: for a Postcolonial Critique", paper presented at International conference: "PPP / RRR: Pier Paolo Pasolini / Riprese Reprises Retakes", Concordia University and Uquam (Montreal) and University of Saint Paul (Ottawa), Canada, 28 September 01 October.

Giuliani, Gaia (2022), "(Keynote) The monster at the border: the shaming of the postcolonial Other in Europe in the time of Anthropocenic crises", paper presented at International conference "(Post)Colonial Shaming. Practices and materiality of degradation", Technische Universität Dresden, Germany and Grassi Museum Liepzig, 16 to 18 June.

Giuliani, Gaia; Pereira, Ana Cristina (2022), "(invited paper) (De)Othering the grammar of the nation. Black and anticolonial counter publics in Portugal and Italy", paper presented at International conference: "Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe", University of Venice "Ca' Foscari", 26 to 27 May.

Giuliani, Gaia (2022), "(invited paper) Decostruire la bianchezza, ripensare l'identità italiana", paper presented at Workshop: "Reimagining mobilities: prospettive creative per reimmaginare mobilità, confini e alterità", Department of Sociology, University of Bologna, 11 May.

Giuliani, Gaia (2022), "(Keynote) The semiotic power of borders, or the materialisation of race in Italian mainstream media representation of 'the invasion", paper presented at International Conference "Humanity/Humanities on the move", University of Minho, CEHUM, 27 to 29 April.

Giuliani, Gaia (2022), "(invited paper) Racial capitalism and the reproduction of whiteness", paper presented at Workshop: "Racial Capitalism, the colonial experience and their afterlives in Italy", Centre for Migration and Diaspora, SOAS (London, United Kingdom), 17 March.

Giuliani, Gaia (2021), "(invited paper) Monsters, catastrophes and the Anthropocene. A Postcolonial toolbox to rethink the Anthropocenic Anthropos", paper presented at International symposium: 'D'autres imaginaires. Approches postcoloniales à l'Anthropocène', University of Lyon, France, 08 November.

Giuliani, Gaia (2021), "(Keynote) Innocenza bianca e colonialità nella cultura italiana contemporanea. Alcune riflessioni", paper presented at VII encontro Internacional de Italianistas e Professores de Italiano do/no Brasil e IX Seminario Andrea Camilleri, Bahia (online), 08 to 10 September.

Giuliani, Gaia (2021), "(Keynote) Deconstructing Whiteness in Italy", paper presented at Italian Studies: Theory and Practice. An SIS Workshop for Early Career Academic, School of Languages, Literature and Culture, University of College Cork, 24 to 26 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2021), "(invited paper) Constructions of colour in postcolonial Italy", paper presented at International conference "Toward A History of Modern Colour", University of Cambridge, 09 to 10 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2021), "(invited paper) Care, Self-Care and Earth-Care in a time of catastrophes", paper presented at International Conference "Feminists Care for the Political 2021", Sabanci University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence, 03 to 05 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2021), "(invited paper) A Nation at Siege: Intersectional Iconographies of the 'invasion' in Italy", paper presented at International graduate conference: "(Italian) Media StudiesToday", Department of French & Italian at The Ohio State University in coordination with FIGSA, the Department of French and Italian's graduate student organization, 06 to 07 May.

Giuliani, Gaia (2021), "(invited paper) Sotto assedio: iconografie intersezionali, paura dell'invasione e del contagio e costruzione del mostro nei media italiani che rappresentano gli sbarchi (2015-2021)", paper presented at "Migrazioni, cittadinanze, inclusività. Narrazioni dell'Italia plurale, tra immaginario e politiche per la diversità" XXVI Convegno Internazionale di Studi Cinematografici, Università Roma Tre, 06 to 08 May.

Giuliani, Gaia (2020), "(invited paper) Fears of catastrophe in the Anthropocene: a postcolonial critique", paper presented at Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS) 2020 Annual Meet, Calcutta (Online), 17 December.

Giuliani, Gaia (2019), "(invited paper) La grammatica della nazione: riflessioni intersezionali sulla relazione tra frontiera corpo e cittadinanza tra razzismo e antirazzismo in Italia ", paper presented at International workshop "Contro il razzismo. Per una storia dell, Fondazione Firpo, Torino, 07 November.

Giuliani, Gaia (2019), "(invited paper) Environmental disasters and migrations: mapping the imaginary of fear", paper presented at International workshop: "Degradação Socioambiental, Catástrofe e Distopias" , UNICAMP, Campinas, Brasil, 13 to 14 August.

Giuliani, Gaia (2019), "Defending the colour of the nation in postcolonial Italy: the national imagined community and the banality of racism", paper presented at Society for Italian Studies, Biennial Conference 2019, University of Edinburgh, UK, 26 to 28 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2019), "As fronteiras fazem as raças: para uma cartografia das construções das monstruosidades racializadas e genderizadas ao longo e através das fronteiras", paper presented at VII Congresso APA | 7th APA Congress Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Facultade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 04 to 07 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2019), "Lampedusa: The Border Spectacle and the Postcolonial Chronotope of the Migrant Boat", paper presented at NORA conference: Border regimes, territorial discourses, feminist politics, Reykijavick, Island, 22 to 24 May.

Giuliani, Gaia (2018), "(De)Othering: The Italian case", paper presented at A imaginação do futuro. Saberes, experiências, alternativas, FEUC, University of Coimbra, 07 to 10 November.

Giuliani, Gaia (2018), "Monstrosity, the colonial archive and the migrant body: intersectional perspectives on visual constructions of migrants and asylum seekers", paper presented at Endangered Bodies: Representing and Policing the Body in Western Culture, the School of Arts and Humanities, at the University of Lisbon, 08 to 09 October.

Giuliani, Gaia (2018), "(invited paper) Race, Gender and the Nation in Contemporary Italy", paper presented at International Symposium: "Languages of Discrimination and Racism in Italy in the 20th Century", The New York University, Florence campus (Italy), 03 October.

Giuliani, Gaia (2018), "Mobility, Monstrosity, Postcoloniality: Containment and Resistance", paper presented at How can Science and Technology Studies help to reflect on the political crisis associated with refugees and asylum seekers?, CES - University of Coimbra, 26 to 28 September.

Giuliani, Gaia (2018), "(invited paper) Genere e razza. Una prospettiva intersezionale ", paper presented at Summer school of the Società Italiana delle Storiche (SIS) on "Violenza contro le donne e violenza di genere. Storie e pratiche di resistenza dall'età moderna a oggi" , Florence, Italy, 29 August 02 September.

Giuliani, Gaia (2018), "Beauty That Matters: White Gaze and Black Female Bodies in the Italian Cinema of the 1970s", paper presented at American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Washington (USA), 04 to 07 January.

Giuliani, Gaia (2017), "The white male gaze in Italian cine-reportages 1960s-1970s: masculinity and Otherness between colonialism and decolonisation", paper presented at Italian cinema, italian identity. Visual Culture and National Imaginary between Tradition and Contemporaneity, University of Roma Tre, 28 to 29 November.

Giuliani, Gaia (2017), "(invited paper) Valorised Displaced Voices", paper presented at COST final international conference on "New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Policies and Practices" | Final Whole Action, FLUC, Universidade de Coimbra, 14 to 16 September.

Giuliani, Gaia (2017), "The white male gaze in Italian cine-reportages 1960s-1970s: masculinity and Otherness between colonialism and decolonisation", paper presented at International conference: "What's New in Queer Studies?", University of L'Aquila (Italy), 31 March 02 April.

Giuliani, Gaia (2016), "(invited paper) Monstrosity, Abjection and Europe in the War on Terror", paper presented at International workshop "The Mediterranean Border Regime in Crisis", the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, 19 to 22 October.

Giuliani, Gaia (2016), "The future (past?) Boundaries of citizenship: segregation (district 9, 2009), cohabiting (monsters, 2010), elimination (war of the worlds, 2005)", paper presented at VI Congresso Da Associação Portuguesa De Antropologia, Universidade de Coimbra, 02 to 04 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2016), "Lampedusa (un)disciplined - organized panel titled: panel '(Un)disciplined Movements: Ecology, Race, and Resistance in the Government of Mobility", paper presented at Undisciplined Environments International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE), KTH, Stockholm , 20 to 23 March.

Giuliani, Gaia (2015), "The colour(s) of Lampedusa", paper presented at The Politics of Location Conference, The Innovation Forum, University of Salford, Manchester (UK), 12 November.

Giuliani, Gaia (2015), "(invited paper) Razza genere e classe nell'Italia contemporanea: per una lettura postcoloniale ed intersezionale dell'immaginario televisivo italiano (1970-90)", paper presented at Symposium: "Colonialismo e identità nazionale. L'Oltremare tra fascismo e Repubblica. Seminario SISSCO III. I conti col passato: l'Italia repubblicana e l'eredità coloniale", University of Cagliari (Italy), 02 to 04 July.

Giuliani, Gaia (2015), "(invited paper) Razza e bellezza in Italia: per una lettura postcoloniale ed intersezionale della razza nell'immaginario televisivo italiano (1970-1990)", paper presented at Symposium: "Le esclusioni della bellezza. Costruzione e incorporamento di ideali estetici", organised by CSGE, MoDI (University of Bologna) and InteRGRace (University of Padova), the Dept. Sciences od Education, University of Bologna (Italy), 05 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2015), "(invited paper) Visuality and race in Italy: for a postcolonial intersectional reading of race in Italian TV imaginary (1962-1980)", paper presented at International symposium: "Black icons", Dept. Studi Linguistici e Letterari - University of Padova, Italy, 03 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2015), "Per una mappatura transnazionale dell'assegnazione del colore tra colonialismo e condizione postcoloniale", paper presented at Archivi del futuro: il postcoloniale, l'Italia e il tempo a venire, University of Padova, 18 to 20 February.

Giuliani, Gaia (2014), "Mediterraneità e bianchezza. Il razzismo italiano tra fascismo e articolazioni contemporanee (1861-2011)", paper presented at Cultura, Transcultura, Razza, University of Macerata (IT). , 10 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2014), "(invited paper) Mediterraneità e bianchezza. Il razzismo italiano tra fascismo e articolazioni contemporanee", paper presented at Symposium: "Cultura, transcultura, razza. Categorie della differenza, dinamiche di differenziazione e razzializzazione transnazionali", University of Macerata (Italy), 10 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2014), "(invited paper) People or perish: leggere Lombroso in Australia dopo l'approvazione della White Australia Policy", paper presented at Symposium "Global Lombroso? Eredità e persistenze del discorso sulla "razza" nella costruzione delle scienze sociali", Biblioteca di Storia moderna e contemporanea, Roma, Italy, 13 May.

Giuliani, Gaia (2014), "The future (past?) boundaries of citizenship: elimination, inclusion, contamination", paper presented at Memories of the Future, Chelsea College of Arts (UAL) & Institute of Modern Languages Research, 02 to 03 May.

Giuliani, Gaia (2013), "Fears of disaster and white fantasies in European popular culture (2001-2013)", paper presented at Cultures of Disasters. An international conference on humanistic disaster studies, University of Oslo (NOR), 06 to 08 November.

Giuliani, Gaia (2013), "Critical Whiteness Studies, Intersectionality and Emotional coding as the fundational analytical scheme for an anti-Racist university and society ", paper presented at International Conference Building an Anti-Racist University, , University of Leeds (UK), 18 October.

Giuliani, Gaia (2013), "(invited paper) Critical Whiteness Studies, Intersectionality and Emotional coding as the fundational analytical scheme for an anti-Racist university and society", paper presented at International symposium Building an Anti-Racist University, University of Leeds, UK, 18 October.

Giuliani, Gaia (2013), "Fears of disaster and (post-)human raciologies in European popular culture (2001-2013)", paper presented at International Conference The Posthuman: differences, embodiments, performativity, University of Roma Tre (IT), , 11 to 14 September.

Giuliani, Gaia (2013), "Omino bianco. Images of Blackness and Whiteness in contemporary (postcolonial) Italy, 2010-2012", paper presented at International Conference After the Empires Reflections of European colonialism in a globalized world, Roskilde University (DEN), 29 to 13 May.

Giuliani, Gaia (2012), "European self-representation(s) in a time of crisis", paper presented at International Conference on Implications of the Eurozone crisis for perceptions, politics and policies of migration, University of Malmö (SWE), 29 to 30 November.

Giuliani, Gaia (2012), "The Construction of Italianness: Race and whiteness in Liberal and early Fascist Italy", paper presented at 2nd Global Conference Images of whiteness. Exploring critical issues , Mansfield College, University of Oxford (UK), 07 to 09 July.

Giuliani, Gaia (2012), "The Construction of Italianness: Masculinity and Race in Liberal and Early Fascist Italy", paper presented at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute's conference on Reimagining White Ethnicity. Expressivity, Identity, Race, City University of NY (USA), 27 to 28 April.

Giuliani, Gaia (2011), "Prior-ness, In-sidedness and Out-sidedness: Colour-assignment at the Foundation of the Settler Body-Politic ", paper presented at International Graduate Conference on Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Contestations: Decolonizing The Social Sciences And The Humanities, Frankfurt Research Center For Postcolonial Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt (GER), 16 to 18 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2011), "Postcolonial Theory and the construction of Otherness in settler colonialism", paper presented at EACLALS Triennial Conference, Bogazici University, Istanbul (TK) , 26 to 30 April.

Giuliani, Gaia (2011), "From the Internal to the External Black: an Historical Discussion of Contemporary Italian Whiteness", paper presented at International symposium "Across the Borders of Desire: Italy as a Land of Departure and Destination", Princeton University - Italian Studies program, 31 March 01 April.

Giuliani, Gaia (2011), "Coloring geographies of power. The color line in settler colonialism", paper presented at Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy" Conference, University of California Riverside (USA), 10 to 12 March.

Giuliani, Gaia (2010), "(invited paper) Relocating blackness. The construction of the Italian whiteness 1861-1945", paper presented at International workshop "Postcolonial national identities in the Nordic countries - and beyond", Third Workshop in the Series "Decoding the Nordic Colonial Mind", Oslo University College, Norway, 13 October.

Giuliani, Gaia (2010), "L'italiano negro", paper presented at 8th Crossroad in Cultural Studies Conference , Lingnan University of Hong Kong (HK), 18 to 21 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2010), "Matching-colours: settler colonialism and colour line", paper presented at Round Table: Settler colonialism and colour line: a topicality?, Transforming Culture Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney (NSW), 05 May.

Giuliani, Gaia (2010), "Politics of Colour in early 20th century Italy", paper presented at Conference Transcultural Mappings. Emerging Issues in Comparative, Transnational and Area Studies , University of Sydney (NSW), 09 to 11 April.

Giuliani, Gaia (2009), ""Sovereignty and colonialism. From national sovereignty to anticolonial sovereignties"", paper presented at 10th Biennial EASA Conference Dis/solutions. The Future of the Past in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, University of Balearic Islands (ESP), 22 to 25 September.

Giuliani, Gaia (2009), "Whose whiteness? Cultural dislocations between Italy and Australia", paper presented at 2nd Imagined Australia International Forum IAIRF: Borders. Theory. Art. And Power, University of Bari (IT), 17 to 19 June.

Giuliani, Gaia (2009), "Fantasie di bianchezza nell'Australia indipendente", paper presented at International symposium: "Tutti i colori del bianco. Prospettive teoriche e sguardi critici sulla Whiteness", University of Bologna, Faculty of Political Sciences., 05 March.

Giuliani, Gaia (2008), "Selecting Whites. The Sovereign Subject in Early Independent Australia", paper presented at ACRAWSA Annual Conference, University of Melbourne (VIC), 03 to 05 December.

Giuliani, Gaia (2008), "(invited paper) Selecting Whites. The Sovereign Subject in Early Independent Australia", paper presented at International symposium: "Relational Dis/locations: Mediterranean Cultures in Translocal and Transnational Contexts" , Macquarie University, NSW, Australia, 28 November.

Giuliani, Gaia (2008), "(invited paper) The Double Face of Sovereignty", paper presented at International symposium: "Lex of Somatechnics" , Somatechnics Research Centre & Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University (NSW, Australia), 04 July.