Participation to "peer-reviewed" conferences as paper giver (2020-today):

I regularly participate to the most relevant conferences for political science in multiple roles (paper giver and discussant) to present my latest researches. I am often invited to conferences, seminars and round tables as invited lecturer or keynote speaker both in Italy and abroad on the main topics of my research and expertise.

• 25-26 Oct 2025 Annual Conference Serbian Political Science Association, Belgrad (Serbia)
• 4-6 Sept 2025 Annual Conference SISP Naples
• 18-19 Sept 2025 Annual Conference of Central European Political Science Association (Poland)
• 26-29 Aug 2025 ECPR General Conference Thessaloniki (Greece)
• 15-19 July 2025 IPSA World Congress Seoul (South Korea)
• 6 June 2025 DEMSCORE Conference 2025 Gothenburg (Sweden)
• 11-14 Sept 2024 Annual Conference SISP  Trieste
• 12-15 Aug 2024 ECPR General Conference Dublin (Ireland)
• 10-12 Sept 2023 Annual Conference SISP Genova
• 15-19 July 2023 IPSA World Congress Buenos Aires (Argentina)
• 8-10 Sept 2022 Annual Conference SISP, Sapienza Univ. Rome
• 22-26 Aug 2022 ECPR General Conference Innsbruck (Austria)
• 9-11 Sept 2021 Annual Conference SISP (online)
• 30 Aug-3 Sept 2021 ECPR General Conference Innsbruck (online)
• 10-15 July 2021 IPSA World Congress Lisbon (online)
• 29-31 March 2021 PSA Annual International Conference Belfast (online)
• Paper accepted to the 2020 PSA Edinburgh, 2020 IPSA Lisbon, 2020 ECPR GC Innsbruck (all canceled or re-scheduled due to Covid-19 emergency)

  Participation as invited speaker/invited lecturer (2020- today):

• December 2025 XXXVIII Encuentro Internacional de Ciencias Sociales Neofascismo y democracia, Feria Internacional Libro (https://www.youtube.com/live/LB5Aufjll0Y ), Guadalajara (Mexico)
• December 2024 XXIII Encuentro Internacional sobre Cultura Democrática Partidos, Elecciones y Gobernabilidad (www.fil.com.mx/prog/resultados.asp?r=0&idsr=0&f=20241203&n=&a=&c=&ids=28&tipo=&b=1&e=2024), Feria Internacional Libro, Guadalajara (Mexico)
• October 2024 Public Lecture, Rising Tide. Populism and the EU elections, Department Political Science, Grand Valley State University (Michigan, USA)
• April 15, 2024 Seminar Voto e comportamento elettorale tra Europa e livello locale: il ruolo dei territori (Electoral behaviour between local and European elections: the role of the territory), University of Verona
• February 7, 2024 QoG Seminar At the roots of municipal politics. Exploring municipal turnout in Europe, Quality of Government Institute, Univ. Gothenburg (Sweden)
• July 19-21, 2023 SAAP (Sociedad Argentina Analisis Politica), Keynote Speech: Going Local: como es la participación electoral en los municipios y por qué nos importa (Going Local: which electoral participation in municipalities and why it matters), Buenos Aires (Argentina)
• July 19-21, 2023 SAAP (Sociedad Argentina Analisis Politica), Invited Speech La ciencia política italiana hoy. Tras las huellas de los grandes maestros (Italian political science today. In the footsteps of the great masters), Buenos Aires (Argentina)
• May 26-27, 2023 SISE International Conference, Round Table Democracy and elections in a dis-ordered political world, Univ. Urbino
• October  13-14, 2022 H2020 Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay, LMU Munich, Germany (speech title: IGR architecture and the representation of urban and rural local governments)
• October 6, 2022 Keynote Speech: Tendencias globales para la innovación en la gestión a nivel local (Global trends for management innovation at the local level), Univ. Guillermo Brown, Buenos Aires
• October 5, 2022 Keynote Speech: La antipolítica en Europa ¿Amenaza o renovación para el sistema político? (Anti-politics in Europe - threat or renewal for the political system?), OEI Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos, Buenos Aires
• May 9, 2022 Il governo locale in Europa di fronte alla pandemia, webinar at EURAC, Bolzano/Bozen (speech title: Local level and global health emergency: insights from comparative experiences)
• Dec 10, 2021 La nuova Germania. Equilibri politici e sfide internazionali, Università per Stranieri Perugia (speech title: The new Germany after Angela Merkel)
• Nov 24, 2021 Sapienza Univ. Rome Brown Bag Seminar (speech title: Local territorial reforms and political participation in Europe: a wicked relation)
• Nov 4-6, 2021 International Conference SISCALT Trent’anni dalla riunificazione tedesca e le scommesse del 21° sec(Speech: Italia e Germania di fronte alle sfide dei populismi del XXI secolo),Univ Naples Federico II
• May 28, 2021 International Workshop H2020-Rise project LOGOV Local Government Structures, Intergovernmental Relations and People’s Participation in the Changing Urban Rural Interplay in South-East Europe
• Feb 4, 2021 Winter School Federalism and Local Self-Government, Eurac Research/Uni Innsbruck (Lecture: Mergers as a Policy Tool for Local Government: Features and Implementation) https://www.eurac.edu/en/research/autonomies/sfereg/training/Pages/-Winter-School-on-Federalism-and-Governance.aspx
• Oct 23, 2020 International Workshop H2020-Rise project LOGOV Country Workshop Italy Eurac Research, Bolzano

• Conference organization and relevant roles

  My international conference activity also entails chairship of Panels and Sections, as well as organization of workshops, seminars, and conferences.

• 2025 panel chair ECPR General Conference, Thessaloniki, August 2025
• 2025 panel chair World Congress IPSA Seoul, July 2025
• 2024 organizer and member of the scientific committee, Workshop on the European Elections, Viminale, Roma, Oct 17-18 – endorsed by SISP, SISE and other political science research groups
• 2024 ECPR Section Chair (with B. Field, Bentley Univ - USA) Democracy and Democratic Governance in Southern Europe - endorsed by the Standing Group Southern European Politics - General Conference Dublin August 11-15
• 2021-2023 Scientific Coordinator of the Research Scholars/Guest Lecturer Program, and relevant scientific, institutional, and organizational tasks
• Excellence Project LEPA Two-day Conference June 16-17
• 2021 ECPR Section Chair (with B. Egner UniDarmstadt) Local Government in a Challenged World - endorsed by the Standing Group Local Government and Politics - General Conference Innsbruck
• since 2005 on a regular basis Panel Chair in the Annual Conferences of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP)