“Forgotten and Unwelcome “Brothers”: The Italians of the Ex-Zone B,” the 23rd International Conference of Europeanists, CES,
Philadelphia, April 2016.
“The European Union as a Peacebuilder in its Neighborhood,” Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Atlanta,
Georgia, March 2016.
“A Failed Transition: Perspectives from post-war Trieste,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta,
Georgia, January 2016.
“From Foes to Friends: Italy, Yugoslavia, and the Cold War in the Adriatic,” Conference of the Society for Historians of
American Foreign Relations, Arlington, Virginia, June 2015.
“Cold War Metamorphosis: Trieste and its Territory,” 10th Annual History Graduate Student Association Conference, University
of Maryland, College Park, February 2015.
“The Breakup of Yugoslavia,” guest lecture presented at American University, Washington DC, November 2014.
“Fighting for Trieste: Political Violence at the Edge of the Iron Curtain 1945-1954,” paper presented at the World Convention
of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 2014.
Chair, panel on “Legacies of Displacement and Postwar Community Rebuilding.” Conference: the 21st International Conference
of Europeanists, CES, Washington, D.C., March, 2014.
“Our Neighbors Are Fighting: The European Community and the Yugoslav Wars of Succession,” paper presented at the
21st International Conference of Europeanists, CES, Washington, D.C. (USA), March 2014.
“Diplomacy at Work: the Dayton Agreement,” guest lecture presented at Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey, November 2012.
"Patterns of Protest in Post-War Trieste," poster presented at Pattern of Protest in Modern Italy, the Annual Conference of
the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI),University of London (UK), November 2012.
“A Shattered Peace,” guest lecture presented at The Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta (LUMSA), Rome, Italy, April 2012.
“Trieste and the Urge for a Homeland: Italianità on the Border,” paper presented at (Dis) Unity in Italy, Italian Graduate Student
Association, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (USA), January 2012.
“Post-war Nationalism in Italy: Insights from Trieste,” paper presented at 14th Bertoti Graduate Conference, University of Virginia
Tech, Blacksburg VA (USA), March 2011.
“Shaping a National Identity: Italian Irredentism on the Italian Eastern Border,” paper presented at the World Convention of the
Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN),Columbia University, NY (USA), April 2010.
“Memories of Fascism,” paper presented at Society and Culture in Transition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Boston (USA),
March 2010.
“Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Europe: The Trieste Question and the Invisible Wall 1945-1975,” paper presented at European
Studies Conference, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska (USA), October 2009.
Discussant, panel on “Social Agency and European Integration.” Conference: The Nature of the Beast, University of Warwick,
Warwick (UK), June, 2009.
“The European Approach to the Elusive Question of Poverty,” paper presented at The nature of the Beast, University of Warwick,
Warwick (UK), June 2009.
“Fascist Italy 1922-1926: An Ambiguous Case of Totalitarianism,” paper presented at Phi Alpha Theta Western Pennsylvania Regional
Conference, Morgantown, WV (USA), March 2009.
“Totalitarian Phenomena in Twentieth Century Europe,” paper presented at Seventh Annual Graduate Research Symposium,
College of William and Mary's, Williamsburg, Virginia (USA), March 2008.
“Islamic Terrorists’ Violent Reaction to Globalization,” paper presented at Western Social Science Association (WSSA),Calgary
(Canada), April 2007.