Conferences Participations

• May 29-30, 2025 - 10th annual NEST (The Network for Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions), Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex (Online)

Paper: Understanding Informality in Recycling Sector in Indonesia: Challenges of Integrations for Just Circularity Transition (Aulia Rahman)

• June 9-12, 2025 – CLACSO2025 10th Conferencia Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Ciencias Sociales, Bogotá (Colombia)

“Horizontes y transformaciones para la igualdad. Democracias, resistencias, comunidades, derechos y paz”. 

(Marta Avesani, Diego Carracedo, Sara Mengato)

• June 2025 – 45th SEA Annual Meeting (Society for Economic Anthropology of the AAA - American Anthropological Association), Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla (Mexico)

"Sustaining Life between Popular and Illicit Economies". Poster: "This Fight is for Life": Contesting In / Formality through Relational Zapatista Economies. (Miria Gambardella)

• June 25-28, 2025 – 10th ECAS (European Conference on African Studies), Charles University Prague (Czech Republic)

PRESILIENT Panel: “Reimagining Economies: Transformative Perspectives on Informality across Africa”. Co-convenors and discussants: Marta Massera (from the PRESILIENT Africa working group) and Tom de Herth (University of Antwerp). Presenters: all other PRESILIENT PhD fellows in the Africa working  (Benjamin Cisagara, Wiza Kabaghe, Daniela D'Urso)

• July 6-11, 2025 – 5th ISA Conference (International Sociological Association), Rabat (Morocco)

Panel: "The State of the Urban Informal Sector". Paper: Informality and Innovation: Building Post-Pandemic Resilient Communities in Morocco. Echoes from the Suq: Exploring Informality. The Case of Rabat. (Daniela D'Urso)

• July 2025 – 10th Ethnography and Qualitative Research International Conference, University of Trento, Trento (Italy)

Panel: “Aesthetics and imaginaries of eco-activist movements”. Paper: “This Zapatista Coffee Tastes Even Better if You Drink it in the Struggle”: Imaginaries and Aesthetics of Rebel Coffee Distribution. (Miria Gambardella)

• July - August 2025 - 2025 International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Virtual Conference

State-Sponsored Domestic Informality in (Non-)Complicity with International Norms: Case Studies on Thailand's Customs Procedure for Travellers. (Namchoke Sasikornwong)

• August 26-27, 2025 – ECPR General Conference, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki (Greece)

(Marta Avesani)

• August 2025 – Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) Mid-Term Workshop, Helsinki (Finland)

Panel: "Critical political economy and the time of monsters: Understanding the present, imagining the future". Paper: Zapatista Critical Thought in the Time of Monsters: Resistance, Autonomy, and the Capitalist Hydra. (Miria Gambardella)

• August 2025 – RGS-IBG 2025 Annual Conference. Latin American Geography Research Group

New and Emerging Research Session at the RGS Conference. (Diego Carracedo)

• September 2025 – XVII Congreso Internacional de Antropología ASAEE "Antropologías comprometidas" (Asociación de Antropología del Estado Español), Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife (Spain)

Panel: "El quehacer antropológico orientado a la intervención social y a las políticas públicas". Paper: Trincheras compartidas: repensando el compromiso entre la etnografía militante y la intervención social. (Miria Gambardella)

• September 2025 – EUROCRIM 2025 (25th annual conference of the European Society of Criminology), Athens (Greece)

(Marta Avesani)

• October 2025 – PRESILIENT Workshop Diverging (individual vs state) moralities? Towards an informality framework for Southeast Asia beyond the simplistic legal-illegal binary or moral-immoral, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Thailand)

(Asankojo Isaev)

• October 2025 – 10th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy, Science Po Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France)

Paper accepted with working paper titled: Exploring the Role of Digital Platforms in the Formalization and Just Circularity Transition for Informal Waste Sector in Indonesia. (Aulia Rahman)

• October 2025 – 6th International Conference on Night Studies (ICNSLX) "Global Night: Past, Present, and Future"

(Diego Carracedo)

• November 21-23, 2026 - The 6th International Marxist Feminist Conference, Porto (Portugal)

"Decolonising territories - Feminist experiences and representations in urban public" (Sara Mengato)

• November 27-28, 2025  2nd Transnatinoal Law Review Conference (TCLR), “Transnational Criminal Law in the Asia / Pacific", Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)

State-Sponsored Smuggling in (Non-)Complicity with International Norms: Case Studies on Thailand's Customs Procedure for Travellers. (Namchoke Sasikornwong)

• December 2024 – 4th International Conference on the Economics of Informality, Universidad de los Andes & Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá (Colombia)

Panel “What is Informality and What Could it Be? Examples from the Latin American Region”. Co-convenors: Griet De Lombaerde, Miria Gambardella (PRESILIENT PhD Fellows), Abel Polese (General PRESILIENT Coordinator), Jairo Baquero-Melo (local PRESILIENT partner), and Elio Della Monica (DCU PhD Fellow)

• November 2024 – 4th International Conference Social Solidarity Economy & the Commons, University of Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal)

PRESILIENT Panel: “Informal Economies as a Reservoir for Post-Patriarchal and Post-Developmentalist Alternatives to Modernity”. Panel Co-convenors and presenters: Brenda Andrias, Benjamin Cisagara, Miria Gambardella, Marta Massera, Aulia Rahman.

• August 2024 – ESA Biennial Conference 2024 (European Association of Sociology), University of Porto, Porto (Portugal)

Panel: “Alternatives in and Beyond Disaster Capitalism” (organized by CPERN: Critical Political Economy Research Network). Paper: Economic Alternatives to Capitalism: Anthropology of Resistance through Zapatista Coffee Exchange. (Miria Gambardella)

• July 2024 – 10º Congreso Internacional de Antropología AIBR (Asociación de Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red), Madrid (Spain)

Panel: Economic Anthropology. Paper: Radical Epistemologies: Economic Ethics in Zapatista Critical Thought. (Miria Gambardella)

• July 2024 – 18th EASA Biennial Conference (European Association of Social Anthropologists), University of Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)

Paper: Institutionalizing the informal? Post-pandemic recovery for women entrepreneurs in Papua New Guinea. (Brenda Andrias) Paper: Informal Practices as forms of Resistance: Challenging the Boundaries of Legality and Policy Making. (Miria Gambardella)

• June 2024 – POLLEN2024 International Conference (Political Ecology Network), Lund University, Lund (Sweden)

Panel: “The Pluriverse of transitions”. Paper: Un mundo en el que quepan muchos mundos: exceeding coloniality of power through economic alternatives, contested epistemologies, and political ontology. (Miria Gambardella)

• June 2024 – SASE International Conference (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics), University of Limerick, Limerick (Ireland)

Research Network “Alternatives to Capitalism”. Paper: Cosechado con dignidad: Prefiguring Economic Alternatives to Capitalism through Zapatista Coffee Exchange. (Miria Gambardella)

• May 2024 – 2024 IGU Thematic Conference “Connecting Geographies from the Global South”, Quito (Ecuador)

(Marta Avesani)

• May 13-16, 2024 - Presentation and workshop participation at the IRS Spring Academy “Investigating Space(s): Current Theoretical and Methodological Approaches” in Berlin, Beelitz and Luckenwalde (Germany)

(Sara Mengato)

• March 2024 – VII Congreso ALA (Asociación Latinoamericana de Antropología), Universidad del Rosario, Rosario (Argentina)

Panel: “Los imaginarios del futuro como herramientas políticas: luchas, reconocimientos y planes de vida”. Paper: Construyendo otro futuro posible: café zapatista y antropología aplicada a economías informales y éticas. (Miria Gambardella)

• January 2024 – 3r Congreso CoCA (Congrés Català d’Antropologia), University of Lleida, Lleida (Spain)

Panel: “Alternatives viables i mons possibles: Reptes per una antropología dels moviments sociales”. Paper: Otro mundo es posible: economías éticas y antropología comprometida con los movimientos zapatistas. (Miria Gambardella)