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November 2025-March 2026: Organiser of the Lecture Series “Historiography of the ‘Annales’:  Authors, Works, and Methodological Perspectives“, Doctoral School in Historical Studies, University of Milan.

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May 2025: Chair and organiser of the seminar on “Arnaldo Momigliano’s historiography between Italy and England”, special session of The Betty Behrens Seminar, Clare Hall, Cambridge.

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January 2025: Istvan Hont Memorial Lecture, “What is a Classic in Historiography? Some Ideas in Historical and Global Perspective, Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews.

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Michaelmas 2023-Easter 2025-…: Convener of The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

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November-December 2023: Organiser of the Lecture Series, “Revolutions and Democracy in the Modern Era“, Doctoral School in Historical Studies, University of Milan.

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May 2023: Convener of The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

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May 2023: Speaker at the Keele’s Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series, promoted in association with the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian Research Centre and the Forum for Philosophical Research, Keele University (UK).

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April 2023: Erasmus visiting professor at the Uniwersytet Wrocławski (Poland), Institute of Journalism and Social Communication, in order to lecture on the history of political communication.

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February-March 2023: Convener of The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

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October-November 2022: Organiser of the Lecture Series “Studying the History of Political Thought in Cambridge and Beyond”, Doctoral School in Historical Studies, University of Milan. 

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September 2022: Convener of The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

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August 2022: Speaker at the XXIII International Congress of Historical Sciences (Poznan), session “Sources of Historiographical Methodology in East Asia and Europe”, organised by the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography.

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April-June 2022: Visiting research scholar at the School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham.

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January-March 2022: Senior member of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.

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January-July 2022: Visiting fellowship at the college Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

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November 2021: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS), in recognition of contribution to historical scholarship.

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September 2021: Erasmus visiting professor at the Universidade Fernando Pessoa (Portugal), in order to lecture on the history of contemporary political thought and the theory of globalisation.

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July 2021: D. Cadeddu, Towards and Beyond the Italian Republic: Adriano Olivetti’s Vision of Politics (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).

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April 2020: D. Cadeddu (ed.), A Companion to Antonio Gramsci: Essays on History, Theories of History, Politics and Historiography (Brill 2020).

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March 2020 (suspended): Erasmus visiting professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in order to lecture on the history of Italian historiography.

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November 2019: Coordinator of the International Colloquium “Global Civilizations: From History to Sustainable Developments Goals“, promoted by Globus et Locus and the Department of Historical Studies, University of Milan.

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September 2019: Erasmus visiting professor at the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), in order to lecture on the idea of democracy in the history of political thought.

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July 2019: Coordinator of the International Round Table “Global Civilizations, Identities and Violence“, Venezia, Palazzo Ferro Fini, promoted by Globus et Locus.

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September 2018: Erasmus visiting professor at the Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), in order to lecture on Adriano Olivetti’s political thought.

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April 2018: Speaker on “Rethinking the EU: some ideas from the history of political thought to cope with the challenges of globalisation” in the hearing on “Globalisation ‘trilemma’: how to reconcile globalisation, democracy and welfare – lessons for the EU”, April 25 2018, promoted by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) at the European Parliament, Brussels.

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November 2017: Moderator of the Conference “‘Italics’ as a Global Commonwealth“, at the United Nations, New York.

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June 2017: With Salvatore Veca on Political Liberalism by John Rawls for the first meeting of Seminario permanente sui classici del pensiero politico (Seminar on the Classics of Political Thought), at Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foudation, Milan.

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March 2017: Erasmus visiting professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, in order to lecture on “John Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration“.

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October 2016: Lecture on “The “Carta de Logu” (1392) as Contemporary Political Symbol for Sardinian identity” at the Conference “Constitutional Moments: Founding Myths, Charters and Constitutions Through History, Universitat de Barcelona, October 19, 2016, promoted by the ESHPT – European Society for the History of Political Thought.

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March 2016: Erasmus Mundus Scholarship on “The Idea of Europe” at the University of Montenegro.

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February 2016: Erasmus visiting professor at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of History, in order to lecture on “Free speech: history and theory”.

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March 2015: Erasmus visiting professor at the University of Cyprus, Department of Social and Political Sciences, in order to lecture on “The Concept of Political Representation”.

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November 2014: “Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation” and Laboratorio Expo meet Roland Robertson.

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May 2014: Erasmus visiting professor at the National University of Public Services, Budapest (Hungary), Department of International Relations and Security Studies, in order to lecture on “An Idea of Europe: Urlich Beck and his ‘Risk Society'”.

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September 2013: Erasmus visiting professor at ISCTE – Instituto
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June 2013: I have been selected to receive a scholarship within Erasmus Mundus A2 Project Sigma, coordinated by the University of Warsaw (Poland) and sponsored by the European Commission, in order to hold a course on “The Idea of Europe” at the University of Montenegro by July 14th, 2016.

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