Lectures and Conferences

TEACHING ACTIVITY

• 2025 Visiting professor.

Seminars delivered:

1.      “Buddhist Psychology in Seven Fundamental Ideas: Mindfulness, Perception, and Language” (November 12, 2025) [SHOW].

2.      “From meditation techniques to meditation technologies: Psycho-anthropological perspectives on the new frontiers of AIDMT (AI-Designed Meditative Techniques)” (November 19, 2025) [SHOW].

Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.

• 2025 Lecturer in charge of courses and seminars.

Courses delivered [SHOW]: 

1.      Anthropology of Death.

2.      Buddhist conception of Death and Dying.

Context: “Master in Death studies & the end of life for the intervention of support and the accompanying”, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padua, Italy.

• 2025 Seminar lecturer.

Title of the lecture:

1.      “Language and Construction of Psycho-Cultural Networks and Social Dynamics” (October 17, 2025) [SHOW].

Course in “Social Integration and Psycho-cultural Dynamics” (prof. Marilena Fatigante), degree program in “Social Sciences”, Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

• 2024-2025 Visiting professor.

Lectures delivered [SHOW]:

1.      “Experience and Practice of Knowing in Meditation: Tools for Understanding Buddhist Psychology” (December 4, 2024).

2.      “Investigating the Unfathomable: Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Meditative Experience between Psychology, Phenomenology and Contemplative Ethnography” (December 11, 2024).

3.      “Potential and perspectives of the contemplative approach to qualitative psychology: theory and practice of meditation applied to research” (April 17, 2025).

Seminars of transcultural psychology for psychology specialization students. The seminars were held in the context of Marilena Fatigante’s project “A Middle Ground: Between Psychic Physicalism and Therapeutic Immaterialism: Towards a New Epistemology”, Department of Psychology of Developmental and Socialization Processes, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

• 2024 Lecturer in charge of courses and seminars.

Courses delivered [SHOW]: 

1.      Anthropology of Death.

2.      Buddhist conception of Death and Dying.

Context: “Master in Death studies & the end of life for the intervention of support and the accompanying”, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padua, Italy.

• 2024 Seminar lecturer.

Title of the seminar:

1.      “Orient/Occident and Epistemic Violence” (May 7, 2024).

“Anthropology of Asian Countries” course (prof. Elena Bougleux), University of Bergamo, Italy.

CONFERENCES

• 2025 Invited speaker.

“Origins and development of the conception of ‘anthropological risk’ and ‘crisis of presence’ in the thought of Ernesto de Martino”, (October 13, 2025), University of Bergamo, Italy.

Seminar within the framework of the “Research Projects of National Relevance” (2022) titled “Declinations of risk: towards an archaeology of aesthetic-literary imaginaries from the twentieth century to the contemporary era in French-language literature”. Sixth seminar of the cycle organized by the University of Bergamo Unit: “The imaginary of risk. Explorations of contemporary European literature (1960–2025)”.  

• 2024 Organizer & Speaker.

“Apocalypses and Technology” (13-14 November, 2024), University of Bergamo, Italy. 

I co-organized an international seminar on the topic of apocalypse and technology in which I took part as a speaker presenting a paper on Technology and modern apocalyptic myth, which will be published as a paper for the journal Apocalyptica (Heidelberg University Press) in 2026.

• 2024 Invited speaker.

“The World is Ablaze: Unraveling Buddhist Ascetic conception of Catastrophes and Apocalypse”. 

Workshop: 8-9 November 2024 at the University of Vienna, Austria – Calamities Workshop: “Calamities and Countermeasures in Pre-modern South Asia”.

• 2024 Invited speaker.

“The Dawn of the Physician: A Buddhist Approach to the History of Medicine”.

International conference (30 August-2 September 2024) hosted at the University of Cambridge: “The Healer-King Curing the Three Poisons, while the Master Navigator Overcomes the Nine Misfortunes” administered by the Glorisun Global Network for Buddhist Studies.

• 2023 Invited speaker.

“Yoga apocalypse: the crisis of presence in contemporary contemplative practices and the Buddhist "end of the world" to the test of Demartino’s theory”.

International conference (23-24 November 2023) at the University of Bergamo, Italy, and sponsored by the Ernesto de Martino International Association.

• 2022 Invited speaker.

“For a Cognitive Anthropology of Early Buddhist Philosophy”.

Conference: “Cross-tradition Engaging Approaches in Epistemology and Cognitive Science” (April 21, 2022), International Society for Comparative Philosophy toward World Philosophy (CPWP) - San José University State.