Scholarly / Public Engagement Activities:

• 2016-2017
  
  

  • Public talk at Musei Civici of Reggio Emilia as part of the event Il tè delle Muse: "Da Campegine ad Oxford: attraverso l'Europa sulle tracce di un lingotto dell'età del Ferro."

  • Paper at the Central Mediterranean Prehistory Workshop “Bucchero pottery in Inner Liguria: Cultural contacts and technological transmission in Iron Age northwestern Italy” (University of Durham, 4th May 2017).

  • Paper at the Archaeology Postgraduate Conference (University of Nottingham, 16th May 2017): "Bucchero Pottery in Inner Liguria: Contacts, Transmission and Innovation in Iron Age Italy".

• 2017-2018
  
  

  • Co-organisation of the conference "Building Cohesion and Unity: combining approaches to the study of the past" (University of Nottingham, 2nd December 2017)

    • Joint paper with Chiara Ravera "Genoese is as Genoese does. Ligurian identity through the centuries"

• • Co-organisation of the workshop "Who do you think you are? Ethnicity in the Iron Age Central Mediterranean" (March, 24^th 2018,  UCL Institute of Archaeology, London). The programme of the event is available here.

  • Paper at the conference "I lingotti col ramo secco (aes signatum)" (Castelfranco Emilia, 21^st April 2018): "Found at Campaggine, near Reggio. Prof. Chierici, 1879". L'aes signatum nelle collezioni del Regno Unito.
    

  • Co-organisation of the session #696 at EAA 2018 (Barcelona, 6th-8th September 2018) "Re-thinking "interaction" in Iron Age Europe: comparing research traditions to explore alternative ways to interpret archaeological data"

Teaching Activities:

• 2017-2018:

  • "Mysterious, superstitious pirates: the Etruscans beyond the stereotype". Lectures for the module "The Living and the Dead"

  • Lecture on "Post-excavation and Publication" and practical sessions for the module "Understanding the Past:Introduction to Archaeology"
  • "Working with monographs". Workshops for the module "Understanding the Past:Introduction to Archaeology"
  • Practical sessions for the module "Understanding the Past:Introduction to Archaeology"

Past projects:

2014 The Northern Dongola Reach Survey (Sudan)

The British Museum (Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan) and Sudan Archaeological Research Society (Director: D. Welsby)

The project consisted in conducting a detailed contour survey of the ancient town of Kawa, one of the best preserved archaeological sites in Sudan, which was occupied for nearly two millennia from the fourteenth century BC. Activities included excavating and planning buildings, and investigating the adjacent cemetery.

2009 - 2010 Bliesbruck-Reinheim Project (France)

University of Parma and Department of Moselle (Directors: Prof. S. Santoro, J.P. Petit)

Archaeological excavation in the public area of the small settlement of Bliesbruck (Moselle). Following the result of geophysics survey, the investigation was run with the aim to explore a building with the shape of a horseshoe open towards east. The architectural features of the building, as well as its position in the centre of the forum in front of the public baths, suggested a function as a monumental fountain or as a nymphaeum, built at the end of the III century AD.

2006-2008 Italian Archaeological Mission in Durres (Albania)

University of Parma and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Albania with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the program PASARP UNOPS United Nations for the development of human resources in Albania. (Directors: Prof. S. Santoro, A. Hoti)

Technical and scientific cooperation project between Italy and Albania with the aim of preserving the archaeological heritage of the city. In particular the project involved the research and restoration of the Roman amphitheater of the city of Durres. During 2005, 2006 and 2008 surveys were carried out and archaeological excavations targeted ascertain the geometry of the building and to the knowledge of the phases of abandonment and destruction.