Katia Pilati

2008    PhD, Thesis title: “Structures of ethnicization, collective identities and political participation by immigrants in Milan”. Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy

2001    Master (DES) in Development Studies, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland. 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2021    July 23, Associate Professor, University of Trento, Department of Sociology and Social Research, Italy. 

2018    July 23 – present, tenure track Assistant Professor, (RTD B), University of Trento, Department of Sociology and Social Research, Italy

2013    September 2 – 2018, July 22, Assistant Professor (RTD A), University of Trento, Department of Sociology and Social Research, Italy

2012    September 1- August 31, 2013, Marie Curie Fellow, Institute of Social and Political Research, University of Geneva, Switzerland

2009    October 1 – 2012, January13: FRS-FNRS post-doc research fellow in social and political science, Institut de Sociologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

2006    August – 2009, January: research fellow, LOCALMULTIDEM project “Multicultural Democracy and Immigrants Social Capital in Europe: Participation, Organisational Networks, and Public Policies at the Local Level” 6th Framework Programme’s Priority 7 “Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society” (contract no. CIT5-CT-2005-028802), University of Trento, Italy.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Since 2021-2022: Movimenti sociali, Politica e Società, (48h), Bachelor's Degree in Sociology, University of Trento (Italy)

Since 2014-2015: Sociology of Collective Action (48 h), MA in Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (Italy) 

2017-2018 Spring Term, Political Sociology (48h), Bachelor's Degree in Sociology, University of Trento (Italy)

2013-2014 /2014-2015/2015-2016 Spring Term, Sociology of Change (48h), Bachelor's Degree in Sociology, University of Trento (Italy)

2013-2014 Fall Term, Methods of Political Research (12 h), MA in Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (Italy) 

2011-2012 Spring term, Quantitative methods – Lab, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento (Italy)

2011-2012 Fall term, Sociology of Economic and Labour Practices (36h Fall term), Bachelor in Multilingual Communication, Free University of Bozen (Italy) 

2004 -2007 Fall term, Teaching assistant, General Sociology-Institutions (24h course), Department of Sociology and Social Research, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy. 

2002-2003 Tutor of Sociology, ‘Joint European Master in Comparative Local Development for the Balkans and other Areas in Transformation’, University of Trento, Italy.

Social movement, labor movements, civic and political participation, social networks, migration and political integration

PROJECT ACTIVITIES

Nov 2023-Oct 2025 “RESCRISES- RESisting the CRISES: forms of political engagement by low-skilled workers” Principal Investigator, PRIN: PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE – Bando 2022 PNRR, Prot. P2022N2WL9; University of Trento and University of Pisa; awarded 241.504 euros.

2018- present. Collective actions in the Italian labour-market field from 2008 onwards (with Sabrina Perra )

2018 January 1 - present, SNIS Swiss Network for International Studies, “Social and Solidarity Economy, Urban Communities and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups”, Head, University of Trento. Coordinator: Prof. Marco Giugni, University of Geneva and Prof. Passy, University of Lausanne; Other partners: Prof. Maria Kousis, University of Crete; Dr. Ilcheong YI, UNRISD.

2018- present. Collective actions in the Italian labour-market field after the crisis (with Sabrina Perra and Federica Frazzetta)

2016 Oct - present: COST Action CA16111, International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities' Survey Data Network, Italian Member of the Management Committee.

2015-present: “Living Integration Laws. Immigrant Women Care Workers between Social Biographies and Legal Careers”-  Progetto di ricerca piano strategico 2014, University of Trento, Young Researcher.

2009    October – 2012, January: “Ethnic social capital and its impact on generalised trust and political participation among ethnic minority groups”, GERME (Groupe d’Etude sur l’Ethnicité, le Racisme, les Migrations et l’Exclusion), Institut de Sociologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. FRS-FNRS research fellow.

2006    August – 2009, January: LOCALMULTIDEM “Multicultural Democracy and Immigrants Social Capital in Europe: Participation, Organisational Networks, and Public Policies at the Local Level” 6th Framework Programme’s Priority 7 “Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-Based Society” (contract no. CIT5-CT-2005-028802), University of Trento, Italy. Research fellow.

Editorial boards

Jan 2023 - present: member of the Editorial Board, Mobilization - an international quarterly

June 2018-present: member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

June 2018-present: member of the Editorial Board (Comitato Redazionale), Quaderni di Sociologia

2014-present: member of the Editorial Board, Quaderni del Dipartimento, DSRS, University of Trento

November 2019-2022: Review Editor for Frontiers in Political Science, Editorial Board of Political Participation

Member of PhD Programme Committees:

Since Feb. 24, 2016: member of the Programme Committee, Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Trento.

Membership of Scientific Networks and Societies

ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization (2016-present); ECPR Standing Group Immigration and Ethnicity (2016-present); ECPR Standing Group (SG) on Political Networks (2017-present); American Sociological Association, Collective Behavior and Social Movement Section (2012-2013); Co-ACT, DEMOGLOB, SMMS, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (2016-present).

External reviewer

Journal articles: Acta Sociologica, American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, City & Community, European Journal of Political Research, European Journal of Social Theory, European Political Science Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, European Sociological Review, Global Networks, International Migration Review, International Review of Sociology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of International Migration and Integration, Mobilization, Political Psychology, Quaderni di Sociologia, Qualitative Sociology, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell’Amministrazione, Social Indicators Research, Social Movement Studies, Sociological Focus, Theory and Society.

Special Issues: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Books: Routledge; Palgrave Macmillan

August 2021-december 2021: External referee for the national evaluation of the quality of research (Revisore esterno per la Valutazione della Qualita della Ricerca 2015-2019 (VQR 2015-2019)

Oct-Nov 2022: External referee for the programme FRA 2022 (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS       

June 2021 Italian National Scientific Qualification for the position of Full Professor of Political Sociology (14/C3) 

May 2019 Italian National Scientific Qualification for the position of Associate Professor of General Sociology (14/C1) 

March 2017 Italian National Scientific Qualification for the position of Associate Professor of Political Sociology (14/C3)

March 2017 Italian National Scientific Qualification for the position of Associate Professor of Political Science (14/A2)

2019 August, grant. SNIS project meeting, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. Awarded 7, 415 euros

2018 July. Call for Starting Grant - young researchers 2018, Internal call for proposals, University of Trento. Awarded 9, 140 euros

2012    Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship (24 months); proposal n° 300444  Project Acronym: PROAFRI “Protests in Sub-Saharan African countries”; Call identifier FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF; University of Geneva, Switzerland. EU contribution: EUR 192, 622

2010    March. Awarded the ‘Young Researchers Prize’, POLIS (journal on researches and studies on society and politics in Italy).

2009    April. Awarded the first prize for the best PhD dissertations against racial and ethnic discriminations. Italian Government (National Office on Racial Anti-discriminations, Department of Equal Opportunities) and Conference of Italian University Rectors (UNAR-CRUI). Awarded 5,000 EUR and PhD thesis publication

2007-2008 spring semester. Fulbright ‘visiting research student’ scholarship. Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley, USA (declined).

2007-2008 fall semester. EAP-Education Abroad Programme- reciprocity student. Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley, USA (declined).

2004    April-May: Visiting student researcher, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Migration and Ethnic studies (IMES), Travel fellowship.

2003    July: Grant, University of Essex, Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection: Social Network analysis; Advanced Network analysis; Mixed quantitative and qualitative methods.

2001    Travel Grant for fieldwork in Kinshasa, (DRC). Graduate Institute of Development Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

EVALUATION of my publication within the national evaluation of Italian Research, VQR 2011-2014 (range: limited-excellent): excellent

PAPERS PRESENTED AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Pilati Katia and Sabrina Perra. Trade unions and workers’ collective actions. SISEC, Catania 12-15 June 2021; SASE virtual Annual meeting, 2-5 June 2021. 

Pilati, Katia, “Organized and unorganized workers. Trade unions and workers’ collective actions in Italy (2008-2018)”. ECPR Joint Sessions, 14-16 April 2020, University of Toulouse, France (cancelled); presented at the workshop Working Class Politics in the 21st Century, 5-6 November, University of Geneva.

Pilati, Katia, Eva Fernández, Charoula Kokkinou and Chiara Demaldé, “Networks of Solidarity During the Great Recession”, 26 August 2020, ECPR Virtual General Conference

Pilati, Katia and Davide Rocchetti, “Low-skilled workers’ political actions: from protests to populist vote. A comparison between Italy, France and Spain”; paper presented at the ESA meeting, Manchester 20-23 Aug 2019; and at the ECPR General Conference, Wroclaw 5-7 Sept 2019.

Pilati, Katia, Frazzetta, Federica, and Perra Sabrina. “The Italian labor-capital conflict during and after the crisis. Between trade unionism and social movement unionism”, presented at the ESA meeting, Manchester 20-23 Aug. 2019; and at the ECPR General Conference, Wroclaw 5-7 Sept 2019.

Pilati, Katia “Group resources and protest participation in the Egyptian and Tunisian Arab uprisings” presented at ECPR General Conference, 6-9 September 2017, University of Oslo.

Perra, Sabrina and Pilati Katia “The incorporation of trade unions into institutional politics in varieties of capitalism. Consequences on labor protests in Italy, France and China” to be presented in Industrial Relations and the Political Economy, Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), University Claude Bernard 1, Lyon, 29 June to 1 July 2017; presented at ECPR General Conference, 6-9 September 2017, University of Oslo.

Pilati, Katia and Morales Laura “The civic and political participation of migrants and their offspring at the local level in European Cities”, Conference ‘Cities of Migration’ Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, 10-11 November 2016

Perra, Sabrina and Katia Pilati. “Is Neo-Liberalism the Best Strategy to Manage Capital-Labor Conflict? The Italian and Chinese Cases" presented in the panel “Movements on the Job: Theorizing Strikes and Workplace Protest in Comparative Context” at the RC 44 sessions of the 3rd ISA Forum, Vienna, July 10-14 2016

Pilati, Katia, Gunnar Myrberg, Laura Morales, and Nina Eggert “Migrant Engagement in Voluntary Organizations across European Cities”, presented at SGEU- ECPR 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union, University of Trento, 16-18 June 2016

Pilati, Katia, “Informal groups as structures of mobilization of the Egyptian and Tunisian Arab uprisings”, presented at : ECPR Pisa, Joint Sessions of Workshops 2016, Pisa, 24-28 April 2016

Eggert, Nina and Katia Pilati, “Organizational networks in the field of immigration” Sunbelt XXXV, International Sunbelt Social Network, Brighton, UK, June 23 – 28, 2015.

Katia Pilati, Gunnar Myrberg, Laura Morales, and  Nina Eggert “ Service Delivery or Political Mobilization? Explaining Migrant Engagement in Voluntary Organizations across European Cities”, American Political Science Association, 2014 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC August 28-31, 2014.

Nina Eggert, Laura Morales, Gunnar Myrberg and Katia Pilati “Policies, Socialization or Social Structure? Disentangling and Comparing the Sources of Migrants’ Political Preferences across Europe” American Political Science Association, 2014 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC August 28-31, 2014.

Pilati, Katia and Barbara Herman, “Migrants’ transnational political participation in European cities-assessing the impact of contextual factors” presented at American Sociological Association meeting, New York. 10-13 August 2013.

Herman, Barbara and Katia, Pilati. “Organizations mobilizing transnational political activities by immigrants in Europe.” presented at a GERME workshop (chaired by Portes Alejandro), 2 May 2011, ULB, Brussels; presented at ECPR General Conference, 25-27 August 2011, Reykjavik, University of Iceland.

Pilati, Katia. “Organizing and mobilizing in Arab countries.” presented at the ECPR General Conference, 25-27 August 2011, Reykjavik, University of Iceland and at ESA 10th conference, 7-10 September 2011, University of Geneva, CH.

Eggert, Nina and Katia, Pilati. “Networks of migrant organizations and protest activities in 5 European cities.” Presented at the ECSR conference, Paris 11-12 December 2009; at the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Riva del Garda (Italy), 3 July 2010; Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge; at the NORFACE conference, Research Programme on Migration and Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London, 7 April 2011.

Pilati, Katia. “Participation in protest activities across African countries.” Presented at the American Sociological Association meeting, San Francisco, 8-11 August 2009.

Morales, Laura and Katia, Pilati. “The role of social capital in migrants’ engagement in local politics in European cities.” Presented at the University of Manchester, 24-25 November 2008; at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, 28–29 January 2009.

Pilati, Katia. “Institutional categorization and inequalities involving political participation by migrants.” Presented at the ESA Research Network Social Movements Mid-Term Conference, University of Trento, Italy, 10-11 October 2008.

Eggert, Nina and Katia, Pilati. “Religious cleavages, organizations and the political participation of immigrants in Milan and Zurich.” Presented at the ECPR European Conference of Political Research, Pisa, 6-8 September 2007.

Pilati, Katia. “Depoliticized society. Collective actions of immigrant organizations in Milan.” American Sociological Association meeting, New York. 10-14 August 2007.

Perra, Sabrina and Katia, Pilati. “Citizenship, gender and the integration of migrants.” AIS, Methodological Section of the Italian Association of Sociology. 27-30 June 2007.

PANEL CHAIR/DISCUSSANT/INVITED TALKS  

Invited talk: 2023 ECPR-COSMOS Summer School on Methods for the Study of Political Participation and Mobilisation. Title: “Social Netwrok Analysis”, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, June 14 2023

Invited talk:“Migrant participation across European cities”, Workshop “Transnational Belongings: migrants’ practices of placemaking and participation in Europe, the US and Asia.” University of Sydney, July 3, 2023.

Invited talk, title: “Labor Movements: Trade Unions and Social Movement Organization Alliances over Time, Mercredis de la citoyenneté, Department of Political Science, University of Geneva, (with Eva Fernández G. G.,Université de Genève.

Panel chair: “Organisations and Social Movements”, ECPR Standing Group Political Networks, ECPR General conference, Innsbruck 26-28 August 2022.

Invited talk: “Come cambia il contesto dell'immigrazione - La partecipazione politica”, Centro Studi Medì, Scuola estiva, Sociologia delle migrazioni, 4-8 luglio, Genova.  

Session chair, Critical Margins. Politicizing the Crisis, ESA RN 25 on Social Movements and ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization Midterm Conference, University of Trento, 15-17 June 2022

Panel chair: “Organisational and Social Movement Networks”, ECPR Standing Group Political Networks, ECPR Virtual General conference, 26 August 2021.

Panel chair: “Social movement networks in times of crisis”, ECPR Standing Group Political Networks, ECPR Virtual General conference, August 2020

Lecture: Trade unionism and social movements, Istituto Gramsci and Università degli Studi di Cagliari, May 23, 2019.

Discussant: Research design in Social movement studies, Palazzo di Cortona, Scuola Normale Superiore, May 12-14, 2019.

Lecture: Contestualizzare - Una contestualizzazione del '68 attraverso la prospettiva dei movimenti sociali – Katia Pilati (Università degli Studi di Trento), DSRS, University of Trento, October 4, 2018.

Paper presentation, “I movimenti populisti”, Seminari di Politica, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e Studi Internazionali, Università degli Studi di Padova, 21 March 2018.

Discussant, Session VIII, Politics, 2nd Joint Graduate Conference, University of Trento, Bamberg, Tilburg and Milan, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, 26-27 March 2018.

Paper presentation, “Organizational networks in the field of immigration” (with Nina Eggert), Papers in SNA and migration, InCite workshop “Les rencontres de la citoyenneté”, Department of Political Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland. May 17, 2017.

Discussant, Presentation of the book Donne morte senza riposo (AM&D Edizioni, 2016) by  Nereide Rudas, Sabrina Perra e Giuseppe Puggioni, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. May 9, 2017  

Discussant, Panel Femminismi e movimenti sociali, Saperi di Genere, Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, University of Trento. January 20-21, 2017

Discussant, Panel, ‘Flight, Journey and Territories – Analysing the Life Path of Migrants’, 16 September 2016. LIL. University of Trento

Chair (with Nina Eggert). Panel Civil society’s role in conflicts in migration (e.g. refugees) and citizenship policies across the EU. SGEU- ECPR 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union The Union’s Institutional and Constitutional Transformations: Stress or Adaptation?, University of Trento, 16-18 June 2016.

Paper presentation “Organizational networks in the field of immigration” Collective action networks between online and offline interactions, Workshop, University of Trento, March 17, 2015.

Discussant. “Le rivolte Arabe e l’Islam” ed. By Massimo Campanini, book presentation, 4 Dec. 2013

Chair, Social Movement Session “Politicization, Transnational Protest and Democratic Alternatives”, ESA meeting, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 7-9 September 2011.

Chair, Social Movement Session “The Policing of Dissent and New Forms of Political Participation in Social Movements”, ESA meeting, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 7-9 September 2011.

Chair, Session “Diasporas and development” International conference The Migration-Development Nexus Revisited: State of the Art and Ways Ahead, University of Trento, Italy, 8-10 June 2011.  

Discussant, session “Acteurs, mobilisation et expression politique” Graduate School «Migrations et Diversité culturelle », Séminaire doctoral annuel, Etudes migratoires et post-migratoires : débats théoriques et méthodologiques, Louvain, 19-20 May 2011.  

Paper presentation, “Structurer un article”, Workshop, GERME, Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB, Brussels, May 2011.

Book presentation: Katia Pilati. 2010. La partecipazione politica degli immigrati. Il caso di Milano. Roma: Armando Editore, collana UNAR, Exhibition of the small and medium publishers “Più libri, più liberi” Roma, 6 December 2010.

Presentation,‘POLIS Young Researchers’ Prize’, Come stanno le scienze sociali italiane?, Milan, Italian Sociological Association Meeting, Casa della Cultura, 24 September 2010.

Chair, Session “Migrant networks”, Migration and Social Theory Graduate Conference. Graduate School, School of Migration Studies, University of Trento, Trento, 12-13 June 2009.

LOCALMULTIDEM Symposium. Presentation of the city study: Civic and political participation by Filipino, Egyptian and Ecuadorian migrants in Milan, University of Manchester, 24 November 2008.

Discussant, ECPR Panel “Organizational networks, social capital, and immigrant’s political participation. European Conference of Political Research”, Pisa,6-8 September 2007.  

Organization of conferences/workshops

2002, 1-2 December, “Contentious labor-capital relations - Trade unions and social movements in the representation process”, DSRS University of Trento (con Andrea Signoretti, Sabrina Perra and Marcello Pedaci).

2022, 30 settembre 2022, “Lavoro, rappresentanza e mobilitazione politica”, DSRS University of Trento (con Andrea Signoretti, Sabrina Perra and Marcello Pedaci).

2019, 25 September, SNIS meeting organizer, “How organizations matter. A social Network Approach”, DSRS, University of Trento  

2010, November 5. Workshop “Social capital and political participation by migrants in Europe”, ULB, Brussels.

2002 - 2003: ECSR (European Consortium of Sociological Research) Summer School on Social Capital. Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (with Antonio Chiesi, Mario Diani, Ivano Bison).

PANEL CHAIR/DISCUSSANT/INVITED TALKS  

Panel chair: “Organisational and Social Movement networks”, ECPR Standing Group Political Networks, ECPR General conference, Praha 4-8 September 2018

Invited talk: 2023 ECPR-COSMOS Summer School on Methods for the Study of Political Participation and Mobilisation. Title: “Social Network Analysis”, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, June 14 2023

Invited talk: “Political belonging and integration of migrants in European cities”, Workshop Transnational Belongings: practices of placemaking and participation in Central America and Europe. School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney, July 3, 2023.

Invited talk, title: “Labor Movements: Trade Unions and Social Movement Organization Alliances over Time, Mercredis de la citoyenneté, Department of Political Science, University of Geneva, (with Eva Fernández G. G.,Université de Genève.

Panel chair: “Organisations and Social Movements”, ECPR Standing Group Political Networks, ECPR General conference, Innsbruck 26-28 August 2022.

Invited talk: “Come cambia il contesto dell'immigrazione - La partecipazione politica”, Centro Studi Medì, Scuola estiva, Sociologia delle migrazioni, 4-8 luglio, Genova. 

Session chair, Critical Margins. Politicizing the Crisis, ESA RN 25 on Social Movements and ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization Midterm Conference, University of Trento, 15-17 June 2022

Panel chair: “Organisational and Social Movement Networks”, ECPR Standing Group Political Networks, ECPR Virtual General conference, 26 August 2021.

Panel chair: “Social movement networks in times of crisis”, ECPR Standing Group Political Networks, ECPR Virtual General conference, August 2020

Lecture: Trade unionism and social movements, Istituto Gramsci and Università degli Studi di Cagliari, May 23, 2019.

Discussant: Research design in Social movement studies, Palazzo di Cortona, Scuola Normale Superiore, May 12-14, 2019.

Lecture: Contestualizzare - Una contestualizzazione del '68 attraverso la prospettiva dei movimenti sociali – Katia Pilati (Università degli Studi di Trento), DSRS, University of Trento, October 4, 2018.

Paper presentation, “I movimenti populisti”, Seminari di Politica, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e Studi Internazionali, Università degli Studi di Padova, 21 March 2018.

Discussant, Session VIII, Politics, 2nd Joint Graduate Conference, University of Trento, Bamberg, Tilburg and Milan, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, 26-27 March 2018.

Paper presentation, “Organizational networks in the field of immigration” (with Nina Eggert), Papers in SNA and migration, InCite workshop “Les rencontres de la citoyenneté”, Department of Political Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland. May 17, 2017.

Discussant, Presentation of the book Donne morte senza riposo (AM&D Edizioni, 2016) by  Nereide Rudas, Sabrina Perra e Giuseppe Puggioni, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. May 9, 2017 

Discussant, Panel Femminismi e movimenti sociali, Saperi di Genere, Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, University of Trento. January 20-21, 2017

Discussant, Panel, ‘Flight, Journey and Territories – Analysing the Life Path of Migrants’, 16 September 2016. LIL. University of Trento

Chair (with Nina Eggert). Panel Civil society’s role in conflicts in migration (e.g. refugees) and citizenship policies across the EU. SGEU- ECPR 8th Pan-European Conference on the European Union The Union’s Institutional and Constitutional Transformations: Stress or Adaptation?, University of Trento, 16-18 June 2016.

Paper presentation “Organizational networks in the field of immigration” Collective action networks between online and offline interactions, Workshop, University of Trento, March 17, 2015.

Discussant. “Le rivolte Arabe e l’Islam” ed. By Massimo Campanini, book presentation, 4 Dec. 2013

Chair, Social Movement Session “Politicization, Transnational Protest and Democratic Alternatives”, ESA meeting, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 7-9 September 2011.

Chair, Social Movement Session “The Policing of Dissent and New Forms of Political Participation in Social Movements”, ESA meeting, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 7-9 September 2011.

Chair, Session “Diasporas and development” International conference The Migration-Development Nexus Revisited: State of the Art and Ways Ahead, University of Trento, Italy, 8-10 June 2011. 

Discussant, session “Acteurs, mobilisation et expression politique” Graduate School «Migrations et Diversité culturelle », Séminaire doctoral annuel, Etudes migratoires et post-migratoires : débats théoriques et méthodologiques, Louvain, 19-20 May 2011. 

Paper presentation, “Structurer un article”, Workshop, GERME, Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB, Brussels, May 2011.

Book presentation: Katia Pilati. 2010. La partecipazione politica degli immigrati. Il caso di Milano. Roma: Armando Editore, collana UNAR, Exhibition of the small and medium publishers “Più libri, più liberi” Roma, 6 December 2010.

Presentation,‘POLIS Young Researchers’ Prize’, Come stanno le scienze sociali italiane?, Milan, Italian Sociological Association Meeting, Casa della Cultura, 24 September 2010.

Chair, Session “Migrant networks”, Migration and Social Theory Graduate Conference. Graduate School, School of Migration Studies, University of Trento, Trento, 12-13 June 2009.

LOCALMULTIDEM Symposium. Presentation of the city study: Civic and political participation by Filipino, Egyptian and Ecuadorian migrants in Milan, University of Manchester, 24 November 2008.

Discussant, ECPR Panel “Organizational networks, social capital, and immigrant’s political participation. European Conference of Political Research”, Pisa,6-8 September 2007. 

Organization of conferences/workshops

2002, 1-2 December, “Contentious labor-capital relations - Trade unions and social movements in the representation process”, DSRS University of Trento (con Andrea Signoretti, Sabrina Perra and Marcello Pedaci).

2022, 30 settembre 2022, “Lavoro, rappresentanza e mobilitazione politica”, DSRS University of Trento (con Andrea Signoretti, Sabrina Perra and Marcello Pedaci).

2019, 25 September, SNIS meeting organizer, “How organizations matter. A social Network Approach”, DSRS, University of Trento 

2010, November 5. Workshop “Social capital and political participation by migrants in Europe”, ULB, Brussels.

2002 - 2003: ECSR (European Consortium of Sociological Research) Summer School on Social Capital. Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento (with Antonio Chiesi, Mario Diani, Ivano Bison).