I am an economic and political sociologist, lecturer and public speaker interested in the critical study
of contemporary capitalism, its crises and its alternatives.
I am an economic and political sociologist, lecturer and public speaker interested in the critical study
of contemporary capitalism, its crises and its alternatives.
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE
EVENTS
Dec 10 2021
3.30pm
Webinar Transforming Capitalism: Paradox or Opportunity? A dialogue between Rebecca Henderson and Julia Ott moderated by Lara Monticelli
Dec 08 2021
8pm
Invited lecture &Utopia Lecture Series – Kim Stanley Robinson on “Ecology and Utopia”, Q&A moderated by Lara Monticelli
Nov 24-26 2021
Keynote Speech Ruptures, Transformations, Continuities. Rethinking Infrastructures and Ecology – Young Researchers Conference 2021
DFG Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability" University of Hamburg
Nov 18-19 2021
Workshop Can we Experiment Ourselves out of the Crisis? Scope, Limits and Blind Spots of Urban, Experimental Responses to Climate Change
Institute for Social Change and Sustainability (IGN), Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Socioeconomics
Sep 30 2021
Invited Online Lecture International Research Colloquium on Ecovillage and Sustainable Lifestyles – the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN)
Aug 24-28 2021
Roundtable 8th International Degrowth Conference – Caring Communities for Radical Change
The Hague, NL
Jul 07 2021
Invited Online Lecture Podcast Episode for FutureFramedTV – Why we need alternatives to capitalism
Jul 02-05 2021
Conference SASE 2021 – After Covid? Critical Conjunctures and Contingent Pathways of Contemporary Capitalism
Online
Jun 11-12 2021
Workshop Workshop at the transition town of San Lazzaro and visit to the school of permaculture
Bologna, Italy
May 29 2021
Workshop Workshop at the ecological village of Granara (Parma, Italy)
May 07-08 2021
Invited Online Lecture Prefigurazione e Utopie del Vivere in Comune – Prefiguration and Utopias of Collective Living
Master Saperi in Transizione - Università degli Studi di Verona, Università di Trento, Università di Parma
Apr 29 2021
Invited Online Lecture Capitalism, Its Crises and Its Alternatives: Understanding Real Utopias – Danish Science Festival
Mar 18 2021
Invited Online Lecture On The Necessity of Prefiguration – Lund University
Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund University (Sweden)
Dec 17 2020
Webinar Capitalism, Its Crises and Its Alternatives: Understanding Real Utopias
Global Tapestry of Alternatives
Dec 12 2020
6.30pm
Webinar Le Molteplici Crisi del Capitalismo Contemporaneo
Idee Sottosopra
Nov 03 2020
10am
Online Workshop Experimental Practice. Technoscience, Alterontology and More-Than Social Movements
Politics Ontologies Ecologies 2020 Symposium
Oct 13 2020
Invited Online Lecture Lecture on “Ecovillages”, course “Sociology of Food Consumption”
University of Parma
Sep 22 2020
Webinar Presentation of New Master Program “Saperi in Transizione”
Joint event with University of Verona, University of Trento and University of Parma