4-7/01/2024: 2024 Modern Language Association Annual Convention, held in Philadelphia. Presentation title: The reception of Greek classics and myths in the nahḍah periodicals.

14-15/12/2023: Co-organization (with Francesca Rondinelli and Morad Montazami) of the International conference La volonté d’horizon of Georges Henein (1914-1973). Literature, Art, and Politics 50 Years Later, held at Villa Medici – Académie de France à Rome and Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino in Rome. Presentation title: Echoes of Georges Henein in the journalistic writings of Unsī al-Hājj.

14-16/12/2022: International conference Thresholds to Arabic Literary Criticism, organized by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University of New York. Presentation title: Theory in Use: Samples of Literary Comparativism in the Footnotes of Sulaymān al-Bustānī’s Translation of the Iliad.

21/09/2022: International conference Insaniyyat 2022 (International Forum for Humanities and Social Sciences), Université de la Manouba, Tunis. Co-organizer (with Dr Fernanda Fischione) of the panel: How to face the socio-political crisis: reflections about Just Peace in the Arab cultural production. Presentation title: ʿIṣām Maḥfūẓ and the illusions of (inhumane) peace in the era of the unipolar world.

11-13/11/2021: international workshop The Journal as Form: Re-Thinking Approaches to the Study of Arabic Periodicals, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. Presentation title: The Form of the Arabic Surrealist Magazine: The Case of al-Ġurfah al-suryāliyyah (2020).

23/09/2021-24/09/2021: Iraq after 2003. When Trauma becomes Art. Myth, History, and Literature, Department Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome. Presentation title: The Search for Solitude of the Iraqi Poet in Exile ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ǧanābī.

20/01/2019-22/01/2019: series of three conferences given at Qassim University and at the literary club of Buraydah (Saudi Arabia) with the following titles: al-Ǧīl al-ǧadīd li-ʾl-mustašriqīn al-īṭāliyyīn (The new generation of Italian orientalists), Dirāsāt al-adab al-ʿarabī fī Īṭāliyā (Studies about Arabic literature in Italy), Dirāsāt al-adab al-saʿūdī fī Īṭāliyā (Studies about Saudi literature in Italy)

16/07/2018-20/07/2018: WOCMES 2018, held at the University of Sevilla. Presentation title: The memory of the Great War in some writings of Mārūn ‘Abbūd.

11/07/2018: The Berliner Seminar, held at EUME-Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. Presentation title: The Rebellious in Tradition: Sufism and Surrealism in Issam Mahfouz’ Work.

28/05/2018-1/06/2018: XIII EURAMAL Conference, “Fiction and History: the Rebirth of the Historical Novel in Arabic”, held at University of Naples “L’Orientale”. Presentation title: Ḥiwārāt ‘Iṣām Maḥfūẓ ma‘a al-turāṯ (‘Iṣām Maḥfūẓ’s conversations with the literary heritage).

13/03/2018: Giornata di studi sulla narrative saudita, held at Sapienza University of Rome. Presentation title: La rivista “Ab‘ād” del Nādī al-Qaṣṣīm al-Adabī fī Buraydah.

15/01/2018: Seminar at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps Universität Marburg, Marburg. Presentation title: Surrealism and its Arabic Interactions.

5/07/2017-7/07/2017: BRISMES Conference 2017, “Movement and Migration in the Middle East: People and Ideas in Flux”, held at the University of Edinburgh. Presentation title: The Flux of a Mystical-Surrealist Trend through the Middle East and North Africa.

23/03/2017-25/03/2017: Colloque International “La lecture des créateurs”, organized by the University of Sfax and held at Hammamet (Tunisia). Presentation title: الرسم في قراءة الشاعر السوريالي السوري أورخان ميسر (Painting in the reading of the Syrian surralist poet Ūrḫān Muyassar).

14/11/2016-15/11/2016: Workshop “The Avant-Garde and its Networks. Surrealism in Paris, North Africa and the Middle East from the 1930s”, held at Orient-Institut Beirut. Presentation title: Syria and Surrealism: Urkhan Muyassar’s Pioneering Role in Translating Surrealism into Arabic

30/05/2016-4/06/2016: XII EURAMAL Conference, “Upholding Humanity in a Post-human World? Arabic Literature After the ‘Arab Spring’”, held at Oslo University. Presentation title: Muʿāraḍat al-karāǧāt: Luqmān Dayrkī and ʿAbbūd Saʿīd together to tarnish writers’ reputation

16/01/2015-17/01/2015: XII SeSaMo Conference, “Beyond the Arab Uprisings rediscovering the MENA region”, held at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Presentation title: al-Ša‘b al-Sūrī Wāḥid (The Syrian people are one): Syrian Artists and Intellectuals against Sectarianism

24/05/2014: Conference “Construction des avant-gardes: Georges Henein, le surréalisme et l’Égypte”, organized by Paris-Sorbonne and Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 Universities. Presentation title: Literature and Politics in Georges Henein’s Arabic production

7/05/2014-10/05/2014: XI EURAMAL Conference, “New geographies and genres: The function of literature”, held at Universidad Autonoma in Madrid. Presentation title: Syria and the reception of Surrealism: Siryal 1947 vs. Radio SuryaLi 2012

28/11/2013-29/11/2013: International Conference “Intercultural Studies: Theories and Practices of Cultural Exchanges with the Southern Coast of the Mediterranean”, held at Sapienza University of Rome. Presentation title: The Algerian Exile in Paris in Waciny Laredj’s novel Aṣābi‘ Lolita