(2007) Organizzazione della sessione: Academics and Human Rights Activism, SSF Organizer(s): Isabella Paoletti and Judith Blau, World Social Forum,  Nairobi, Kenia, 19-25 Jan

(2006) Organizer of the paper session: “Language, work, technology”, Research Committee 25: Sociolinguistics, ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July.
Paper presented in this session: Communication and decision making aspects of the work of call operators in control rooms of the medical emergency number in Italy.

(2006) coorganizer of the conference “Sociology and Globalization”, Rome, 26 September;
paper to be presented: Il contributo della Sociologia per una solidarietà senza frontiere (The contribution of Sociology for a solidarity without borders); Sociologists Without Borders- Italy.

Invited plenary speaker (2005): The gendered culture of caregiving, paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Cultural gerontology, Center for Ageing and Biographical Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, 19-21 May.

Invited speaker (2004)“When is an older woman?“, paper presented at the international conference“Menschenbilder und Geschlect – Erziehungskonzepte in verschiedenen Lebensphasen” Zurigo, 23rd March.

Invited to organise the paper session (2004) “Caregiving: The complexity of the caring relationship” paper presented at the ISA – RC11 International Sociology of Ageing Conference: Ageing Societies and Ageing sociology: Challenges and Possibilities, University of Surrey, Roehampton 7-9 September.

Invited speaker at the workshop (2003) “Membership categorization analysis” Sociology Department, University of Trento.

(2002) Organizer of the “Language and Gender” Session, RC25 Sociolinguistics, in the ISA World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, July 7-13.

(2002) Resisting commonsense assumptions in caregivers talk. Paper presented at Gender and Language session, RC25 Sociolinguistics, ISA conference, Brisbane, Australia, July 7-13.

(2002) The complexity of the caring relationship. Paper presented at the TAMOC conference: “Talk and the moral order” South Stradbroke Island, Australia, 3-5 July.

Invited speaker (2001) When is an older woman?, paper presented at the International conference on the Study of the Elderly and Aging, Norrköping, Sweden, February 1-2.

Invited speaker (2001) La valutazione della comunicazione pubblica (Evaluation of institutional communication), paper presented at the seminar organized by the University of Trieste, Pordenone, 11 May.

(2001) Participant in the expert meeting “CLAN and Conversation Analysis” within the “Talk Bank Project”, Odense, Danmark, 21-23 September.

(2000) Being in and out of a culture: an interview with a second generation Italian-Australian woman. Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium, Bristol, 27-29 April.

(1998) Intergenerational solidarity: Membership categorization and time appraisal of carers of disabled elderly. Paper presented at the “Social construction of age and the life course” session of the international conference “Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland, 28 June- 1 July.

(1998) The discourse of love: feminine identity and caring practices. Paper presented at the “Language and Gender” session of the IPrA conference, Reims, 19-24 July.

(1998) Caring for older people: a gendered practice. Paper presented at the RC 11 & RC 32 “Women and Aging” session of the ISA World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, 26 July- 1 August.

(1998) organizer of the paper session “The production of gender in multiple settings”, in the ISA World Congress of Sociology - RC 25 Sociolinguistics, Montreal, 26 July- 1 August.

(1998) The gendered construction of the moral order: interviews with women caregivers. Paper presented at the RC 25 “The production of gender in multiple settings” session of the ISA World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, 26 July- 1 August.

(1998) The discourse of “caring”: Formal versus ordinary order of relevancy. Paper presented at the RC 11 “Caregiving” poster session of the ISA World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, 26 July- 1 August.

(1998) Indicazioni per la modifica del questionario per le assistenti. (Indications for changes in the questionnaire for caregivers) Research report. Gerontology Research Department, INRCA, Ancona Italy.

(1997) La costruzione del soggetto senile (The construction of the senile subject). Paper presented at the national conference Società Italiana di Gerontologia e Geriatria, Roma, 9-12 November 1997.

(1997)Constructing Senility. Paper presented at the international conference “Disorder and order in Talk”, UCL, London, 25-26 June.

(1997) A half life: women caregivers of older disable relatives. Paper presented at the ESA conference, University of Essex, Coulchester, 24-27 August.

(1996) When is an older woman? A study in the social construction of identity. Paper presented at the ISA, RC 25 International Conference "The Linguistic Construction of Social and Personal Identity", Evora, Portugal, 23-26 March.

(1995) The social construction of elderliness and gender differences. Paper presented at the II European Congress of Gerontology, Amsterdam, 30th August - 2nd September.

(1995) The production of the foreigner child, Paper presented at the Symposium "Writing, identity and social power in school and community context: An interactional perspective" AERA Conference, San Francisco, 18-22 April.

(1995) An interpretative approach to the analysis of classroom interaction, Seminar presented at the Santa Barbara Classroom Discourse Group, G.S.E., University of California, Santa Barbara, 24 April.

(1994) Being a foreigner in primary school, Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Session of the XIII World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany, 18-23 July .

(1994) The social production of elderly women's identities and institutional settings, Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Session of the XIII World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany, July.

(1994) Social and Cultural activities as a form of health prevention for older women, “Health and Reproductive Rights Workshop”, NGO Forum, Action for Women in a Changing World: the ECE perspective, Vienna, October 1994

(1994) Older Women's participation in decision making in their communities, “Political Participation Workshop”, NGO Forum, Action for Women in a Changing World: the ECE perspective, Vienna, October.

(1994) European Older Women's Network Agenda for Action, EPSO Conference, “Integrating the European Dimension”, Brussels, October.

With Marziali, M.T. (1993) The third age: Gender differences and the solidarity among generations Paper presented at the 14th International Congress of EURAG, Copenhagen, Denmark, March.

(1991) Being unpopular: an analysis of a conversation with three primary school students, Paper presented at the International Conference, Current Work in Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis, Amsterdam, July.

With Perrot, C. (1988) Video Analysis Workshop, Australian Educational Research Association Annual Conference, November.

(1987) Participatory teaching and learning in the University Context, Workshop, Armidale Peace Education Conference, May.