(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) organizzatrice della sessione: “Language, work, technology”, Research Committee 25: Sociolinguistics, ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 luglio.

(2006) Communication and decision making aspects of the work of call operators in control rooms of the medical emergency number in Italy, intervento presentato nella sessione “Language, work, technology”, Research Committee 25: Sociolinguistics, ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 luglio.

(2006) co-organizzatrice della conferenza Sociologia e Globalizzazione, Roma 6 Settembre;
interveto da presentare: Il contributo della Sociologia per una solidarietà senza frontiere, Sociologi Senza Frontiere, Italia.

Invitata come relatrice in plenaria (2005) The gendered culture of caregiving, intervento presentato a International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology (19-21 May), The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Invitata come relatrice (2004) “When is an older woman?” intervento presentato al seminario internazionale Menschenbilder und Geschlect – Erziehungskonzepte in verschiedenen Lebensphasen, Zurigo, 23 marzo.

Invitata ad organizzare la sessione (2004) “Caregiving: The complexity of the caring relationship” nella conferenza internazionale: ISA (International Sociological Association) Sociology of Ageing Conference: Ageing Societies and Ageing Sociology: Challenges and Possibilities, University of Surrey, Roehampton 7-9 settembre.

(2003) “Membership categorization analysis”. Workshop organizzato per il Dipartimento di Sociologia dell’Università di Trento.

(2002) organizzatrice del “Language and Gender” Session, RC25 Sociolinguistics, nella conferenza dell’ International Sociological Association a Brisbane, luglio 2002.

(2002) Resisting commonsense assumptions in caregivers talk. Intervento presentato al: Gender and Language session, RC25 Sociolinguistics, ISA conference, Brisbane, Australia, 7-13 luglio.

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

Invitata come relatrice (2001) La valutazione della comunicazione pubblica, intervento presentato al seminario di studio organizzato dall’Università di Trieste, Pordenone 11 maggio.

Invitata come relatrice (2001) When is an older woman?, intervento presentato a: International Conference on the Study of the Elderly and Ageing, Norrköping, Sweeden, Febbraio 1-2.

(2001)Partecipante all’incontro di esperti di analisi della conversazione “CLAN and Converation Analysis” within the “Talk Bank Project”, Odense, Danmark, 21-23 settembre.

(2000) Being in and out of a culture: an interview with a second generation italian-australian woman. Intervento presentato a: Sociolinguistics Symposium, Bristol, 27-29 aprile.

(1999) Family carers of disabled elderly: The intricacy of gender, moral, relational, financial and housing issues. Rapporto di ricerca. INRCA, Ancona.

(1998) Intergenerational solidarity: Membership categorization and time appraisal of carers of disabled elderly. Intervento presentato a: “Social construction of age and the life course” session of the international conference “Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland, 28 giugno - 1 luglio.

(1998) The discourse of love: feminine identity and caring practices. Intervento presentato a: the “Language and Gender” session of the IPrA conference, Reims, 19-24 luglio.

(1998) Caring for older people: a gendered practice. Intervento presentato a: RC 11 & RC 32 “Women and Aging” session of the ISA World Congress of Sociology, Montreal, 26 luglio- 1 agosto.

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

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

(1998) Indicazioni per la modifica del questionario per le assistenti” Rapporto di Ricerca: Dipartimento di Ricerche Gerontologiche, INRCA, Ancona.

(1997) La costruzione del soggetto senile. Intervento presentato alla Conferenza Nazionale della Società Italiana di Gerontologia e Geriatria, Roma, 9-12 novembre 1997.

(1997) Consructing Senility. Intervento presentato a: International Conference “Disorder and order in Talk”, UCL, London, 25-26 giugno.

(1997) Women caregivers of older people: The effect of caring on their life sryle and health. Intervento presentato a: ESA Conference, University of Essex, Coulchester, 24-27 agosto.

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

(1995) The social construction of elderliness and gender differences. Intervento presentato a: II European Congress of Gerontology, Amsterdam, 30 agosto – 2 settembre.

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

(1995) An interpretative approach to the analysis of classroom interaction, Seminario presentato al Santa Barbara Classroom Discourse Group, G.S.E., University of California, Santa Barbara, 24 aprile.

(1994) La produzione dell’identità nell’intervista con anziane. Intervento presentato alla Conferenza Internazionale “Analisi della conversazione e prospettive di ricerca in etnometodologia”, Urbino, 11-13 luglio.

(1994) Being a foreigner in primary school, Intervento presentato a: Sociolinguistic Session of the XIII World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany, 18-23 luglio.

(1994) The social production of elderly women's identities and institutional settings, Intervento presentato a: Sociolinguistic Session of the XIII World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany, luglio.

(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, ottobre.

(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, ottobre.

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

Con Marziali, M.T. (1993) The third age: Gender differences and the solidarity among generations, intervento presentato al 14th International Congress of EURAG, Copenhagen, Denmark, marzo.

(1991) Being unpopular: an analysis of a conversation with three primary school students, Intervento presentato a: International Conference, Current Work in Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis, Amsterdam, luglio.

(1988) Con Perrot, C. organizzatrice del Video Analysis Workshop, Australian Educational Research Association Annual Conference, novembre.

(1987) organizzatrice del workshop: Participatory teaching and learning in the University Context, Armidale Peace Education Conference, maggio.