Other Activities
2023-11-20 - Invited seminar titled "Alien-ing the migrant. The semiotic power of borders and the Anthropocenic biopolitics of monstrosity", Higher Education and Social Inequality research theme, University of Durham.
2023-07-16 - Invited to intervene in the radio programme "Paixões privadas", RDP Africa, Ep. 27.
2023-05-04 - Invited to give a seminar titled "Per una critica postcoloniale dell'Antropocene" by the FUEL (Feminist and Queer Philosophy Lab) at the University of Milan Statale seminar series "Decolonialità e Postcolonialità".
2023-04-27 - Invited to organise a talk titled "Sguardi incrociati, molteplici resistenze" in conversation with Rahel Sereke, in the Public annual event of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, University of Venice Ca' Foscari, Italy, titled "DFBC Lectures
LO SGUARDO: Vicinanza ed estraneità, reificazione e inclusione", at Procuratie Vecchie Piazza San Marco 128 Venezia
2023-04-17 - Co-organization with prof. Marco dalla Gassa of the screening and talk with the film director of the Portuguese film "Para-me de repente o pensamento" by Jorge Pelicano, film series "CinemARTa Zone di Contatto", Cinema Santa Marta, Venice, Italy
2023-04-03 - Invited paper titled "Mostri, catastrofi e l'antropocene. Per una critica postcoloniale" at the Scuola di Politica Popolare "Utopie Reali: per una nuova immaginazione" in Rome.
2023-04-03 - Invited seminar titled "I confini della catastrofe. Antropocene, capitalismo razziale e colonialità del presente" at the CIDOSPEL: Centro Internazionale di Docum,entazione e Studi Sociologici sui Problemi del Lavoro, Department of Sociology, University of Bologna, Italy.
2023-01-11 - Invited seminar:"Narratives of the state of 'crisis' and constructions of the monster", at the CES Working Group Epistemology of the South.
2022-11-18 - Seminar "Monsters, Catastrophes, and the Anthropocene: a Postcolonial Critique"", at ITM Seminar series "Migration(s) and Global Crises" (2022-2023), CES Alta.
2022-10-05 - Invited research seminar: "Materialising the invasion: race, borders and the semiotic preproduction of racial capitalism", at the GEM LAB Seminar series, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
2021-12-20 - Book launch of my book "Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene", at the Ass. Orlando / Biblioteca delle Donne, Bologna. With F Minuz (Orlando), C Demaria (univ. Bologna), A Frisina (Univ. Padova), A Gribaldo (Univ. Roma Tre), G Giuliani.
2021-10-21 - Opening lecture: "Privilege, Resistance and Care in a time of catastrophes"", comunicação apresentada em CREATIVE STUDY LAB - Pigorini Museum of Civilisations Creating Shared Futures through Contested Heritages, Rome and online.
2021-07-05 - Presentation of my research work and in particular, of my three monographic books in Italian: "Bianco e nero" (2013), "Il colore della nazione" (2015) and "Zombie alieni e mutanti" (2016) at the Central Library "Mediateca Montanari" in the city of Fano. Organized by Memo and the municipality of Fano. Discussants: historian Marco Labbate; journalist Asmae Dachan.
2021-03-26 - Invited seminar "On the Semiotic Power of the Border: Intersectional Iconographies of 'The Invasion' in Italy" (online) at the "Border Criminology Seminar Series", Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
2021-03-23 - Lecture titled "Monsters, catastrophes and the Anthropocene. A Postcolonial toolbox to rethink the Anthropocenic Anthropos" at the COST ACTION "Decolonising development" (2020-2024) CA19129 (Working Group 1: Decolonising Research) Lecture series.
2021-03-17 - Invited seminar "Bordering, Outsiding and Other(world)ing in the Anthropocene" at the Hazard, Risk and Disaster Research Lecture Series 2020-21, Bath University
2021-02-18 - Invited research seminar titled "Exterminate all the Brutes. For an intersectional and postcolonial Critique of the Anthropocene" at the "Bridges. Intersectional Knowledge in Action" seminar series in collaboration with HUmanities and Social Change Centre at Ca' Foscari, university of Venice.
2020-11-10 - Seminar "Representações mediáticas, alterização e securitização na pandemia" with the intervention of Pereira, A C; Giuliani, G; Santos, R; Roque, S (2020) - CES Seminar Series «Conversas Desconfinadas» 1st season (2020).
2019-12-11 - Co-organised seminar "Borders", at Migrating Rights | Keynotes. Keyword #1 | Border, CES - University of Coimbra, 11 to 11 December. Speakers: Giuliani, Gaia; Panico, Carla ; Velicu, Irina.
2019-11-14 - Respondant of Sheila Khan's paper at ERC project EXCHANGE Workshop: "Care, Critique, Correction? Engaging with Migration & Crime Control Infrastructures", University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
2018-10-01 - Discussant at the colloquium "Tradizioni, circolarità e orizzonti concettuali
Per una conversazione sui femminismi islamici oggi". Organized by prof. Gianni Ruocco, within the PhD Programme of Studi Politici, Dept. Political Sciences, University of Rome La Sapienza.
2017-03-17 - Respondant of profs. Ann Morning (New York University) and Marcello Maneri (Università Milano Bicocca), in the PhD seminar "Race and Razza: Discussing Difference in the U.S. and Italy", organised by prof. Annalisa Frisina, FISPPA, University of Padova, Italy
2017-03-10 - Respondant of drs. Chiara Marchetti (Università degli Studi di Milano) e Elena Fontanari (Escapes), in the PhD seminar "Dopo l'accoglienza: Storie di protesta e cittadinanza interculturale con rifugiati e comunità locali". Other repondants: Alvise Sbraccia (Università di Bologna), Claudia Mantovan (Università di Padova), Stefano Collizzoli (ZaLab), organised by porf. Annalisa Frisina, FISPPA, University of Padova (Italy).
2016-05-24 - Invited lecture: "L'invasione degli extra-corpi. Metafore della paura: Zombies, alieni, mutanti e cloni nel cinema e nella televisione", invited by Prof. Sergio Brancato, Department of Social Sciences - University of Naples "Federico II" (Italy).
2016-04-19 - Invited lecture: "Lampedusa (un)disciplined", invited by Dr. Stefania Barca, ENTITLE | Encontros de leitura, CES - University of Coimbra (Portugal).
2016-01-21 - Respondant of Prof. Monica Moreno Figueroa - University of Cambridge, UK, keynote speaker at the InteRGRace symposium "Visuality and (anti) racism", FISPPA, University of Padova, Italy
2016-01-20 - Book launch: 'Il colore della nazione' (Le Monnier/Mondadori Education, 2015)" at the Libreria delle donne, Padova, Italy
2014-11-05 - Invited lecture: "Pour une histoire de l'identité raciale des Italiens" , invited by Drs. Orazio Irrera, Matthieu Renault, Francesca Bertino "Les épistemologies politiques de la décolonisation", Collège International de Philosophie, Paris (France).
2013-11-12 - Invited lecture: "Black and white. History of the Italians' racial identity 1860s-2010s", invited by Dr. Monica Moreno Figueroa (ex University of Newcastle, today University of Cambridge), Gender Research Group, Department of Sociology - University of Newclastle (UK)
2013-10-23 - Book launch: Gaia Giuliani and Cristina Lombardi-Diop (2013) "Bianco e nero. Storia dell'identità razziale degli italiani" (Le Monnier/Mondadori Education, 2013) at the Centre for Racism Studies (CERS), University of Leeds, UK
2011-03-17 - Invited lecture: "Assigning colour in the Pacific: For a racialised political anthropology of settler colonialism", su invito dei profs. Larry Grossberg e Michal Osterweil, Department of Sociology and Athropology - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA)
2011-03-09 - Invited lecture: "The construction of Italianness: Masculinity and race in late Liberal and early Fascist Italy" invited by Beatrice Bain Research Group on Gender (BBRG), Seminar cicle: Nations, Art and Darkness: Visions of Post-Colonial Citizenship and Race,; co-sponsors: Department of Italian Studies, Center for Race and Gender, Center for the Comparative Study of Right Wing Movements - University of California Berkeley (USA)
2010-10-12 - Invited lecture: "The politics of colour in Liberal and early Fascism Italy", invited by prof. Lars Jensen, International Seminars on Postcolonial Europe, Department of Culture and Identity - Roskilde University (Denmark)
2010-04-28 - Invited lecture: "Lombroso and Australia", invited by prof. Lorenzo Veracini, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne (Victoria, Australia).
2010-03-31 - Invited lecture: "Aren't Italians White? The Italian way to whiteness", invited by prof. Ilaria Vanni Accarigi, Bagel Seminar Series, Transforming Culture Research Centre - University of Technology Sydney (NSW, Australia).
2009-11-19 - Invited lecture: "Whose whiness? Cultural Dislocations between Italy and Australia", invited by prof. Lorenzo Veracini, ISR 2009 Seminars and Public Lectures Series, Institute for Social Research - Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne (Victoria, Australia).
2009-03-03 - Invited lecture: "Not enough white: Mediterraneans, Lombroso and the making of White Australia", invited by prof. Ilaria Vanni Accarigi, Bagel Seminar Series, Transforming Culture Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney (NSW, Australia).
2007-08-31 - Invited lecture: "Beyond curiosity. James Mill's History of British India and the new colonial imaginary", South Asian Seminar series coordinated by prof. Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney (NSW).
2007-01-22 - Invited lecture: "Precarity of the femaleness and feminisms of precarity", at the Dept. of Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC).
2007-01-16 - Invited lecture: "The precarious subject and European women's activism" at the Dept. of Comparative Studies, University of Columbus (Ohio).