Workshops, Seminars, Conferences, etc.

 
 

2024

  • “Le strade non intraprese. Riflessioni a margine del volume di Leonardo Ambasciano An Unnatural History of Religions: Academia, Post-truth, and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge (Bloomsbury, 2019).” In occasione della Presentazione del Centro Dipartimentale EIDOLA. Materiality, Cognition and the History of Religions. 16 January, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy.

2022

  • “Moderno, Postmoderno, Metamoderno: Breve cronistoria del complicato rapporto tra lo studio della religione e la scienza.” 23 May. Sapienza Università Roma, Italy.

  • “Boom or Bust? Comparative Religion Past and Present.” 6 May. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

2021

  • “Hypermasculinisation, Mythological Machines, & Toxic Tweets: The Deep History Behind the MAGA Movement and QAnon Conspiracy Theories.” 1 November. Organized by Global Politics, Economy and Society (GPES) Research Centre, Oxford Brookes University.

  • “The Metamodernist Turn in the Study of Religion/s: The New Sacred, Worldview Studies, and Religious Philanthrocapitalism.” 7 September. British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR) Annual Conference 2021. Organized by the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

  • “Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR). Le origini, lo sviluppo e le prospettive.” 17 March. Workshop Religione e scienze cognitive – Dialoghi interdisciplinari intorno al volume di Armin W. Geertz, “Approcci cognitivi ed evoluzionistici alla religione” (Bologna: Pàtron 2020). Organized by Università di Bari, Italy.

  • “Comparison Is Dead, Long Live Comparison? The Impact of the Cognitive Revolution on the Study of Religion(s)”. 8 January. Organized by the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Universität Erfurt.

2015

  • “The Eternal Return of Eliadology? Epistemic Illusions and Immunizing Strategies in the Italian History of Religions.” Dangerous Liaisons: Italian History of Religions and Fascism, Rome (Italy), 3-4 December. Organized by the Department of History, Cultures, Religions at the University Sapienza, Rome.

  • “The Goddess Who Failed? Competitive Networks (or the Lack Thereof), Gender Politics, and the (Un)successful Diffusion of the Roman Cult of Bona Dea.” Network Theory, Cognitive Science, and Historiography III, Kavala (Greece), 01-04 September. Organized by the Greek Society for the Study of Culture and Religion (GSSCR), the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion (Toronto), the Department for the Study of Religions (Masaryk University) and the Czech Society for the Study of Religions.

  • “Better Late than Never: Contemporary Historiography Faces the Depth of Time.” Network Theory, Cognitive Science, and Historiography II, Brno (Czech Republic), 23-25 October. Organized by The Institute for the Advanced Studies of Religion (Toronto), the Department for the Study of Religions (Masaryk University) and the Czech Association for the Study of Religions.

  • “Three Card Players: Agentive Thinking and the Impossible Sleight of Hand.” Network Theory, Cognitive Science, and Historiography II, Brno (Czech Republic), 23-25 October. Organized by The Institute for the Advanced Studies of Religion (Toronto), the Department for the Study of Religions (Masaryk University) and the Czech Association for the Study of Religions.

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