This section presents invited seminars, conference papers, and academic events related to my research on recycling, reuse, material culture, and the circular economy in late medieval Tuscany.
January 2025 · Invited Discussant
Waste, Sustainability and Innovation in Renaissance Italy: The Case of the Textile Industry
PRIN Workshop, Museo del Tessuto, Prato (Italy)
Tuscany.
June 2025 · Conference Paper
Circular Economy and Charitable Assistance in Late Medieval Florence: The Ospedale degli Innocenti and the Misericordia
Objects in Motion PRIN Project Conference, Università di Bologna, Bologna (Italy)
July 2025 · Conference Paper
The Economic Value of Waste in Paper Production: Recycling Rags and Playing-Card Leftovers in Late Medieval Tuscany International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds (United Kingdom)
July 2025 · Session Organiser
Waste, Recyclables and Value in Western Europe and the Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages International Medieval Congress, Leeds (United Kingdom)
November 2025 · Conference Paper
An Economy of Leftovers in Fifteenth-Century Arezzo: Textile By-products and the Second- Hand Market in a Florentine Subject City EMECC-STVDIO Workshop: Waste, Recycling and Leftovers in Early Modern and Renaissance Europe, University of Warwick, Warwick (United Kingdom)
November 2025 · Seminar
Tracing Circularity: Medieval Economic Practices in Conversation with Modern Sustainability Università di Firenze, Firenze (Italy)
April 2026 · Seminar
Del archivo a la historia viva: el proyecto RELMI y las huellas del reciclaje y la reutilización en la Toscana medieval Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain)
May 2026 · Conference Paper
Reusing Matter, Defining Quality: Wood, Metal, and the Governance of Reuse in the Florentine Guilds (13th–15th Centuries) LVII Settimana di Studi, Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini”, Prato (Italy)
June 2026 · Conference Organiser
Sustainability Before Modernity: Cultures of Reuse and Recycling in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Universidad de Valencia, Valencia (Spain)
June 2026 · Conference Pape Repositories of Waste: Storage, Management, and the Economy of Reuse in Late Medieval Tuscany Sustainability Before Modernity, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia (Spain)
November 2026 · Seminar
Paper on the Move: Production, Reuse, and the Life of Documents in Late Medieval Tuscany UVSQ, Université de Tours and the Archives Nationales, Paris (France)
April 2027 · Seminar
Reuse, Regulation, and Quality: Metalworking Guilds and the Governance of Materials in Late Medieval Florence Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz (Germany)