Profile updated on July 31, 2025

 

Andrea Pala is PhD associate professor of History of Medieval Art (L-ART/01), belongs to the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage in the Faculty of Humanistic Studies of Cagliari. From 31st October 2012 to 30th December 2018, he acted as researcher (TdA 2012/15 – TdB 2015/18). He qualified as a second level professor, competition sector 10/B1-2012 Call (DD n. 222/2012). He graduated from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Cagliari with a thesis on the “Bulzi Deposition Wooden Group” (supervisor: prof. Robert Coroneus). He obtained his PhD in Written Sources of Mediterranean Civilization – XXII cycle, with thesis in History of Medieval Art on The liturgical furnishings of churches in Sardinia in written sources of the medieval age (6th-14th century).

Teaching activity 

The teaching activity involves teaching History of Medieval Art in the three-year degree course in Cultural, Archaeological, Historical-Artistic and Archival Heritage and in the e-learning degree course in Cultural Heritage (online). He teaches also Comparative History of Medieval Art in Europe in the Master of Arts degree program in Art History. Since the 2022/2023 academic year he has been teaching Environmental art and urban context (1st part architecture and medieval art in the urban context) in the School of Specialization in Architectural and Landscape Heritage at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari.

From 2016 to 2022 he taught History and Criticism of Medieval Art and History of Art of Byzantium in the master’s degree course in Archeology and History of Art (interclass). 

In the 2012/2013 academic year he was scientific coordinator for class A61, competition sept. 10/B1, at the TFA (Active Training Internship).

Integrative teaching workshops

Since the 2017 academic year, he has been involved in integrative teaching laboratories as coordinator (individually or in sharing with other Unica teachers) of the following laboratories:

• Systems and methods of Cataloging Historical and Artistic Heritage 

• Notions of artistic techniques

• Iconography and iconology from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age

• Medieval written records for the History of Art

 

International teaching activity

 He was Visiting professor & Researcher at the Department Ciències Històriques I Teoria de les Arts of the Universitat de Les Illes Balers (Spain). Winner of the international call: 'Convocatòria per la concessionó de projects de recerca amb investigators convidats de prestigious reconegut (first semester of l'any 2023).

He carried out Teaching Staff Mobility (MOSTA) LLP–Erasmus AA Program 2013/2014 at the Departamento Ciències Històriques I Teoria de les Arts of the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) with seminar activities on the “Circulation of wooden artefacts in the western Mediterranean: relations between islands and mainland from the 12th to the 14th century”.

He is professor of the course in English “History of medieval art”, taught for the Alliance “European Digital UniverCity” (EDUC), established in response to the European Commission initiative "European Universities" (co-financed by the European Erasmus+ Programme), which sees the participation of the following transnational universities: University of Cagliari (Italy), Jaume I University (Spain), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), University of Pecs (Hungary), University of Potsdam (Germany), University of Rennes (France), University of South-Eastern Norway (Norway), University Paris Nanterre (France).

 

Collaborations, affiliations and scientific committees

He is Honorary Inspector for the city of Cagliari and the provinces of Oristano and Southern Sardinia, appointed by the General Directorate of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of the Ministry of Culture (Italy).

Since 2004 he has collaborated continuously with the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the metropolitan city of Cagliari and the provinces of Oristano and Southern Sardinia (formerly BAPPSAE Superintendency for the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano), in the capacity of medieval art historian and scientific consultant.

He is a member of the National University Council for the History of Art (CUNSTA). 

He is a member of GRESMED, an international research group of the Universitat de Les Illes Balears (Spain) composed of professors who are experts in the field of Medieval studies (History, History of Arts and Literature). 

He is a member of the Red Temática de Investigación Cooperativa sobre Tardogótico. The Network has as its objective the study and enhancement of the architectural and artistic heritage of the late Gothic Mediterranean (15th-17th centuries) and is composed of international experts from Spain, Portugal and Italy.

He is a member of the International Scientific Committee (CIS) of the biennial series of conferences "Medieval Mediterranean". Architecture, Archeology and Art', organized by the Archaeological Park of the Aeolian Islands, curated as part of the Laboratoire d'Archéologie Médiévale et Moderne en Méditerranée – LA3M - Universtité Aix-Marseille/CNRS. 

He is a member of the Scientific Technical Committee (CTS) of the Sardinia Isola del Romanico Foundation, as a historian of medieval art and expert in the discipline. He is also member of the scientific committee (CS) of the "I Tempi" series of the ISKRA publishing house in Ghilarza (OR).

 

Direction/participation in editorial boards of scientific journals

Since 2019 he has been Editor in Chief of the international scientific journal of Art History ABside, Open Acces (Ojs) journal of the University of Cagliari, of which he is the founder.

Since 2018 he has been a member of the Consell de redacció of Mayurqa. magazine of the Departament de Ciències Històriques I Teoria de les Arts de la Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) SPAIN.

Since 2012 he has been co-director of ArcheoArte. International scientific journal of Archeology and Art of the University of Cagliari, peer-review and Open Access

He works as a peer reviewer for various national and international scientific journals, conference proceedings, monographic volumes in Italy and abroad. 

 

Institutional positions 

He is a member of the PhD of History, Cultural Heritage and International Studies of the University of Cagliari. From 2013 to 2023 he was an expert member in the CAV self-evaluation commission and other internal commissions and public competitions. He is currently a tutor teacher of the CdL in History of Art, Erasmus Contact for Universitat De Les Illes Balears (Spain), member of the Steering Committee of the degree course in Archaeological, Historical, Artistic and Archival Cultural Heritage and of the master's degree course in History of art.

He is also a member of the following commissions:

1) Guidance Commission Faculty of Humanities 

2) CdL Guidance Commission History of Art

3) CdL History of Art Study Plans Commission

4) Supplementary Teaching Commission

5) Study Plans Commission CdL Cultural, Archaeological, Historical, Artistic and Archival Heritage (historical-artistic curriculum)

 

Research Activities 

Printed and digital publications reflect the main research interests in the following thematic fields: iconography, medieval sculpture and architecture, circulation of artefacts in the western Mediterranean, with a particular focus on central Italy, the Iberian Peninsula and the islands. He has collaborated on international research projects with the University of Cagliari, Department of Archaeological and Historical Artistic Sciences and the Universitat de Barcelona, Departement d'Historia de l'art (UB), Facultat de Geografia I Historia (ITALY-SPAIN), and national with the Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe ISEM –CNR and University of Cagliari, Department of Classical Philology, Glottology and Historical Sciences of Antiquity and the Middle Ages of Cagliari. From 2014 to 2017 he was part of the Claustra International Research project: Atlas de la espiritualidad femenina de los Reinos peninsulares s. XII – XVI, coordinated by the Departament d'Història Medieval, Paleografia I Diplomatica dell'Universitat de Barcelona”. From 2014 to 2019, he was a member of Unita II of the Fundamental and Basic Research Project (RAS): “E Pluribus unum. The Sardinian identity profile from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary”, coordinated by ISEM-CNR of Cagliari.  From 2016 to 2018, he was a Member of the Research Unit of the Project “Knowing the sea to experience the sea” Know the Sea to live the Sea. University of Cagliari (Foundation of Sardinia Convention), Annuality 2016, of which he was scientific director of the research grant: Sculptural artefacts from marine discoveries and in the coastal area of Sardinia (6th-10th century).

From 2019 to 2021 he was a member of unit 2 of the Research Project "Cities between sea and lagoon: from Santa Gilla to Cagliari. Archaeological, geological, historical, settlement and social aspects', coordinated by the CNR National Research Council - Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe, in collaboration with the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari. From 2021 to 2023, he was a member of Unita II of the two-year Fondazione di Sardegna Project “Talking stones”. Society and culture in Sardinia through the analysis of stone materials. An interdisciplinary path from ancient times to the present day, across archaeology, architecture, art and literature (annuality 2020), of which he was scientific director of the Research Grant: Written sources and from the restoration archive of the church of Sant'Efisio di Nora in Pula. From 2023 to 2025 he was Principal Investigator (PI), coordinator and scientific director of the research project “Santa Chiara DTrecento. Virtual reconstruction for the promotion and enhancement of the medieval monument”, carried out as part of the activities of the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage, in collaboration with the monastery of Santa Chiara in Oristano, the Archdiocese of Oristano - Diocesan Cultural Heritage Office. Since 2023 he has been coordinator of the Guillelmus Project, which takes place as part of the activities of the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage, in collaboration with the Archdiocese of Cagliari and the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the metropolitan city of Cagliari and the provinces of Oristano and Southern Sardinia.

The dissemination activity was expressed in participation in conferences in Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Switzerland, Croatia and England, in individual conferences on the occasion of exhibitions, television programs or other events.

 

Conferences, national and international symposiums

• September 18, 2025. Speaker at the International Doctoral Conference on Medieval Art History – 2025 (Venice, Ca'Foscari University, September 16-18) “Fragments of Memory. Themes and Methods for the Study of the Lost.” Paper entitled: Medieval Sculptures in the Liebeghouse in Frankfurt from the Cathedral of Oristano.

• April 7, 2025. He presented the volume “Il tempo dei Giudicati. Medieval Sardinia from the 10th to the 15th century AD, Nuoro, Ilisso 2024. The event was organized by Itinera Romanica, the Friends of the Romanesque Association in the Arborense Diocesan Museum (Piazza duomo 1 – Oristano), in collaboration with the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, Ilisso Edizioni and the Diocesan Museum itself.

• March 6-7, 2025. Invited speaker at the seminar cycle “Medieval Naples in the Italian context. Seminars on themes and works of the Middle Ages in Naples in parallel with other urban centres”, edited by Stefano D'Ovidio and Monica Santangelo, Department of Humanistic Studies of the Federico II University. Title of speech: Guglielmo's pulpit in the cathedral of Cagliari.

• December 28, 29, 30, 2024. Speaker at the three conferences held in Alghero (Gavino Ballero Civic Theatre), Bosa (Capuchin Convent) and Castelsardo (Doria Castle, Room 11), entitled Women protagonists of the Sardinian Middle Ages, organized by the La Casa Rosa Association, and by Itinera Romanica - Friends of the Romanesque Association and the Autonomous Region of Sardinia.

• December 5, 2024. Speaker at the Conference “1964 - 2024. Sixty years since the “Rebirth”, Remembering Foiso Fois, organized by the MUA Civic Museum of Sinnai. Title of speech: The fortified architecture of Foiso Fois and the landscape of Romanesque Sardinia.

• October 5, 2024. Chair (president) of a Session of the International Conference "Defend sacred spaces Fortified churches and monasteries in the medieval Mediterranean (9th-14th centuries)" included in the biennial cycle of conferences "Medieval Mediterranean. Architecture, Archeology and Art', curated as part of Laboratoire d'Archéologie Médiévale et Moderne en Méditerranée – LA3M - Universtité Aix-Marseille/CNRS, organized together with the Archaeological Park of the Aeolian Islands.

• September 27, 2024. He participated in the Sharper 2025 event, organized at the Ex Ma’ in Cagliari, via San Lucifero n. 71, with the informative event “Young art detectives”, curated by N. Usai.

• September 10, 2024. Speaker at the International Doctoral Conference "Altar Furnishings. The arts for ritual in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean', organised by Alma Mater Studiorum Università degli Studi di Bologna, curated by Daniele Benati, Gianluca del Monaco and Fabio Massaccesi (Bologna, Palazzo Marescotti Brazetti, via Barberia 4 – Palazzo Malvezzi, via Zamboni 22 /10-12 September 2024). Title of speech: The lost fourteenth-century altars of the basilica of San Saturnino in Cagliari.

• July 18, 2024. Conference entitled: Saint Elias of Nuxis and the domed churches of medieval Sardinia, within the series of conferences “Meetings after the excavation”, organized by R. Cicilloni in the archaeological Geo-Speleo site “Sa Marchesa, former Sa Marchesa Nuxis Mine (SU).

• July 10, 2024. Conference entitled: “Fortified architecture in the landscape of Romanesque Sardinia”, organized by the Italian Castles Institute within the series of conferences: The fortified heritage of Sardinia, between history, art and architecture.

• March 11, 2024. Conference entitled: Reception, conservation and elaboration of antiquity in the monuments of Medieval Sardinia”, organized by Sant'Efisio University College within the seminar cycle: Antiquity, Middle Ages and Contemporaneity. The legacies of the ancient world, material culture, the language of communication

• March 6, 2024. Conference entitled: "Medieval churches in Decimoputzu and in the territory", organized by the pro loco tourist association and with the patronage of the municipal administration of Decimoputzu for the University of the Territory Project.

• January 30, 2024. Speaker at the International Conference “Stones and time. Modern destinies of medieval sculpture”, organized by the University of Genoa at the Aula Magna of the School of Humanities, via Balbi, 2 (30-31 January 2024) and the University Library of Genoa, via Balbi, 40 (1-2 February 2024). Speech entitled: New data on the reuse of Guglielmo's pulpit in the seventeenth-century construction site of the Santa Maria factory in Cagliari.

• From 18 to 20 September 2023. Organizer and curator (in collaboration with N. Usai.) of the International Doctoral Conference “Middle Clarified Micat Hall his. Finding, tracing, reconstructing works and monuments of medieval Europe” held in Cagliari from 18 to 20 September 2023 (Aula Coroneo, Piazza Arsenale, 1). Curator of Guglielmo's guided tour of Pergamum in the cathedral of Santa Maria in Cagliari.

• July 10, 2023. Speaker at the International Conference “Mapping sacred space: from fragment to context (Italy, 11th-14th centuries)", curated by Manuela Gianandrea, Ruggero Longo, Elisabetta Scirocco and Tanja Michalsky, organized by the Bibliotheca Hertziana and the Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for the History of Art, 10-12 July 2023). Intervention entitled: William's pulpit (1159-1162): movement, relocation and adaptation of liturgical furnishings dismembered in medieval and modern times.

• June 16, 2023. Speaker at the Study Conference “Talking stones. Society and culture in Sardinia through the analysis of stone materials. An interdisciplinary approach” (Cagliari, Cittadella dei Musei - Aula Coroneo) 15-16 June 2023, organized by the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari. Intrevento entitled: The church of Sant'Efisio di Nora in the framework of Victorian architecture.

• May 8, 2023. Speaker at the Seminar - internationally - entitled: “The medieval artistic heritage in Sardinia and university dissemination in the territory”, held in the Sala de Graus de la Facultat de Filosofia I Letres (Palma de Mallorca, SPAIN), organized by the Departamento de Ciencias Históricas y Teoría de las Artes de la Universitat de le Illes Balears.

• October 30, 2022. Speaker at the Studies conference “Canon Giovanni Spano and humanistic studies 145 years after his death”, organized by the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari (Cittadella dei Musei, Aula Coroneo 3-4 April). Speech entitled: The cathedral of Cagliari in the Middle Ages seen from the eyes of a nineteenth-century scholar.

• October 20, 2022. Speaker at the International Conference "City between sea and lagoon: from Santa Gilla to Cagliari. Archaeological, geological, historical, settlement and social aspects', organized by the CNR National Research Council - Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe, by the University of Caliari (Aula Boscolo CNR-ISEM, 19/20 October 2021). Speech entitled: “The church of San Pietro dei Pescatori in Cagliari, medieval architecture and furnishings”.

• October 7, 2022. Speaker at the International Study Conference “The cloisters in the Mediterranean area between the 11th and 13th centuries. Architecture, archaeology, art (Lipari Island, L. Bernabò Brea Archaeological Museum, 7-8-9 October 2022), organized by the L. Bernabò Brea Archaeological Park. Speech entitled: "The monastic cloister in Sardinia from the 12th-13th century, surviving architecture and sculptural works".

• June 18, 2022. Speaker at the International Doctoral Conference “European and Mediterranean Middle Ages. Exchanges, circulation and artistic mobility”, organized by Sapienza University of Rome (15-18 June 2022). Speech entitled: Sculptural workshops in 12th and 13th century Sardinia, relationships and interactions with the northern Tyrrhenian peninsular area.

• February 17, 2022. Speaker at the series of conferences “Conversations on the Middle Ages” organized in a Google Meet environment by Meca (Mezzogiorno, Cultura Arte). Conference entitled: “Medieval wooden sculpture in Sardinia from the 12th to the 14th century. Written sources and material testimony”,

• January 14, 2022. Speaker at the series of seminars "The Afternoons of the Romanesque". The saints protagonists of Sardinian Romanesque. Sanctuaries and devotional routes in medieval Sardinia, organized by the Friends of the Romanesque Association-Romanesque Itinerary. Conference entitled: "The spaces of devotion: crypts and altars in Sardinian Romanesque churches".

• October 2, 2021. Speaker at the 28th Annual International Scientific Symposium of the International Research Center for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages University of Zagreb Rab, Croatia, September 30th - October 3rd 2021. Speech entitled: Renaissance between innovation and tradition in two sculptural monuments of medieval Sardinia.

• September 23, 2021. Speaker at the international doctoral conference “Worship and image. The work, public and contexts”, organized by the University of Padua (Palazzo Liviano. Palazzo Dina - Aula Magna Galilean Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts 23-25 September 2021). Speech entitled: The thirteenth-fourteenth century phase of the convent of San Francesco in Oristano.

• September 17, 2021.  He participated in Sharper Night 2021 - Live Stream, as curator organizer of the Round Table [in collaboration with N.Usai]: Art in Sardinia in the “centuries of the sword”.

• August 26, 2021. Conference entitled: Saint John of Sinis in Cabras and Romanesque architecture, within the event “Summer meetings at the Museum of Cabras” at the Church of Saint John of Sinis, Cabras (OR), organized by the Museum of Cabras. 

• December 3, 2020. Speaker at the Marina Cafè Noir - Festival of applied literature. Speech entitled: Hagia Sophia of Istanbul and Paolo Silenziario (Reading and commentary on some verses of the EKPHRASIS written by the Byzantine poet Paolo Silenziario for the Hagia Sophia basilica in Constantinople - 6th century).

• october 10, 2020. Speaker at the Conference: Light and Stone. Beauty and mystery in San Pietro delle Immagine, organized by the Cooperativa Simbranos, the Diocese of Tempio-Ampurias and the Municipality of Bulzi. Report from the Title: Medieval liturgical furnishings: The group of Bulzi's Deposition

• December 2, 2019. Speaker at the International Conference “Medieval architecture: the fourteenth century. models, techniques, materials”, organized by the Polytechnic of Turin-Inter-University Department of Territorial Project and Political Sciences DIST. Medieval Heritage Platform Project, Report title: Construction sites and workers in the fourteenth-century architecture of central-southern Sardinia.

• Nov 27, 2019. Speaker at the international conference The spaces of the sacred in Medieval Italy, organized by the University of Bologna, curated by Fabio Massaccesi (Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna) and Giovanna Valenzano (University of Padua). Report entitled: The church of Santa Chiara in Oristano: architecture and decorations in the 14th century.

• july 4, 2019. Speaker at the series of conferences “Summer Evenings between music, images and words”, organized by the municipality of Milis. Report entitled: The colors of Romanesque in medieval Sardinia. 

• march 15, 2019. Speaker at the VII Seminari d'Estudis Medievals: “Ciutat és congregació concordant de many people. La ciutat medieval I les seves gents”, at the Arxiu del Regne de Mallorca, Palma 8 I 15 de març de 2019, organized by the Grup de Recerca d'Estudis Medievals (GRESMED), Universitat de les Illes Balears. Speech entitled: Art and architecture of the Franciscans and Poor Clares in the cities of medieval Sardinia (17th century. XIII-XIV).

• march 14, 2019. Seminar entitled: History of medieval art in Sardinia: written sources and material documents, at Room 14, Ramon Lull buildings (UIB Campus) - Illes BAlears (Spain)

• march 8, 2019. Speaker at the Conference “Know the sea to live the sea– Cagliari, Cittadella dei Musei, 7/9 March 2019, organized by the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage. Speech entitled: Sculptural artefacts from marine discoveries and in the coastal area of Sardinia (6th-10th century) [In collaboration with N. Usai].

• March 1°, 2019. Speaker at the Festival “Happy Birthday Faber” 2019. On the De Andrè routes [dedicated to Riace], at Spazio Kairós, via Martini 23 – Cagliari. Speech entitled: Goldsmithing in late medieval Sardinia (1200-1300): relations between the island and the mainland.

• 8/15 February 2019. Curator and speaker “Meeting with the students of the Domenico Alberto Azuni Institute of Higher Education, –Pula headquarters” [in collaboration with M. Brandolini, V. Carta, A. Pergola, N. Usai, M. Zucca]. 8/2 (at Cittadella dei Musei, Aula Coroneo, piazza Arsenale, 1), report entitled The church of Sant'Efisio di Nora in Pula: the building, the cult, the images. 15/2 (Visit in situ – Church of Sant'Efiso di Nora in Pula).

• january 25, 2019. Speaker at the series of conferences The afternoons of the Romanesque: the saints protagonists of the Sardinian Romanesque. Sanctuaries and devotional itineraries in medieval Sardinia, at the Arborense Diocesan Museum, Piazza Duomo, 1 – Oristano. Conference entitled: The spaces of devotion: crypts and altars in Sardinian Romanesque churches.

• Nov 26, 2018. Speaker at the conference 1618-2018. Four hundred years of the “Shrine of the Martyrs” in the cathedral of Cagliari, organized by the Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory of the University of Cagliari and the parish of the cathedral church of Santa Cecilia in Cagliari (Cagliari Cathedral Church). Report entitled: Medieval sculpture in the cathedral of Cagliari.

• june 23, 2018. Presentation of the Volume by Claudio Nonne, The church of Saints Lorenzo and Pancrazio in Cagliari, Iskra Edizioni, Ghilarza (OR) 2018, organized by Don Mario Ledda, Canon of the Metropolitan Chapter of the Cathedral of Cagliari. 6.30 pm Church of Saints Lorenzo and Pancrazio, near Buoncammino (Cagliari) [In collaboration with N. Usai].

• june 4, 2018. Speaker at the IV Cycle of Medieval Studies (4-5 June 2018), organized by the Research Group on the Latin Middle Ages (NUME), former convent il Fuligno, via Faenza, 48n, Florence. Report entitled: Notes for the study of architectural sculptures in the Romanesque churches of Lower Medieval Sardinia (sec. XII-XIII) [in collaboration with V. Paper].

• may 31, 2018. Speaker as part of the series of conferences “Cultural Aperitifs”, organized by the Itzokor Onlus association at the Spazio Kairós, via Pietro Martini 23, 09124 – Cagliari. Conference entitled: History, technique and circulation of wood sculpture in the Middle Ages.

• may 17, 2018. Speaker as part of the Cycle of initiatives related to the Exhibition “Efisio. Martyred by the Romans, sanctified by Christians, venerated by contemporaries” organized by the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari, Piazza Arsenale, 1 – Cagliari.  

• february 21, 2018. Speaker at the Festival “Happy Birthday Faber”. On the routes of Fabrizio De Andrè, at Casa della Cultura – Via Giulio Cesare 37, Monserrato. Speech entitled: Roberto Coroneo: “The unpublished works leave me completely indifferent” [in collaboration with R. Martorelli- N. Usai].

• february 14, 2018. Presentation of the Volume: S. Elijah of Montesanto. The first Benedictine monastery in Sardinia between history, art and popular devotion, curated by Giovanni Strinna and Giuseppe Zichi. Publisher: Under the banner of the Lily – Nov.  2017. 5.30pm Foundation of Sardinia, Via Carlo Alberto 7, Sassari.

• November 2, 2017. Speaker at the International Congress sobre escultura medieval: Almas de pedra. Escultura tumular da critição à musealizacção (2-4 November 2017, Lisboa- Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga), organized by Facultade de Lisboa (Portugal): Instituto de Estudios Medieval (IEM), Istituto de Historia da Arte (IHA), Centro de Investigacção e Estudos em Belas Artes (CIEBA). Partnership: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Câmara Municipal de Odivelas. Communication entitled: Funerary sculpture on the island of Sardinia between the 12th and 14th centuries. Relationships and interactions with the figurative culture of the Western Mediterranean.

• 9-11 October 2017. Participation with posters in the conference Instrumenta inscripta Texts and symbols of the Christian sphere in common use, (9-11 October 2017, Cagliari, Cittadella dei Musei, Aula Coroneo) (http://convegni.unica.it/instrumenta7/), organized by the Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory of the University of Cagliari, in collaboration with the Universities of Barcelona, Macerata, Sassari, Verona and with the patronage of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archeology in Rome. Poster title: Sacred and profane use of pectins in the Late Middle Ages (17th century. XI-XIII).

• May 20, 2017. Speaker at the conference San Giovanni di Sinis: stories of peoples and faith, (20-21 May 2017, church of San Giovanni di Sinis –Cabras. OR), organized by the Cultour and Sinis Peninsula cooperatives. Title of speech: San Giovanni di Sinis: Byzantine or Romanesque church?

• july 7, 2016. Speaker at the 48èmes Journées romanes de Saint-Michel de Cuxa: L'art Roman e la mer (4-9 Julliet 2016, Abbaye de Saint-Michel de Cuxa, 66500 – Codaet Prades), organized by the Association culturelle de Cuxa (http://www.cuxa.org). Speech entitled: Architecture et sculpture dans la Sardaigne des XIe-XIIe siècles, interactions entre l'île et la terre ferme dans le cadre de l'art roman dans la Méditerranée occidentale.

• June 18, 2016. Speaker at the conference The church of San Pietro di Oddini, a precious testimony of the Romanesque in Sardinia, organized by the San Pietro di Oddini Cultural Association [Orotelli (NU), 18 June – Franco Pintus Cultural Center].

• June 8, 2016. Speaker at the Study Days Paths in the History of Art. Study Days in honor of Maria Luisa Frongia (Cagliari, 7-8 June 2016 – Cittadella dei Musei- Giovanni Lilliu, Piazza Arsenale, 1 Aula Coroneo), curated by Rita Pamela Ladogana and Simona Campus. Speech entitled:NINUS MAGI(S)TRI ANDREE DE PISIS ME FECIT. The statue of Nino Pisano in the church of San Francesco in Oristano.

• may 21, 2016. Speaker at the international conference Romanesque, a Mediterranean and European language. Experiences of knowledge and comparison (Santa Giusta, 21 May 2016), organized by the Municipality of Santa Giusta and the Autonomous Region of Sardinia. Speech entitled held in the Basilica of Santa Giusta: Aspects and problems of the Romanesque in Sardinia.

• april 8, 2016. Speaker at the educational laboratory promoted and organized by the Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory at EXMÀ (Exibiting and moving arts) via San Lucifero, 71 – Cagliari, curated by Rita Pamela Ladogana and Simona Campus. Report and educational workshop entitled: Tourists not by chance: how a historical-artistic guide was born.

• february 11, 2016. Speaker at the conference on Arab-Norman art in Sicily, organized by the UNESCO Club of Cagliari and promoted by the Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory [Aula Coroneo, Cittadella dei Musei- Giovanni Lilliu, Piazza Arsenale, 1].

• 3 November 2015. Speaker at the XVI course“Archaeology Lessons”, organized by the Archeo Arci cultural association, piazza Vittorio Emanuele, 25 -08100 Nuoro,archeoarcinuoro.it. Lesson entitled: The church of Our Lady of the Kingdom and the main retable of Ardara [in collaboration with Mauro Salis].

• October 22, 2015. Speaker and co-organizer of the Study Day Experiences and interpretations of death in the late Middle Ages, promoted by the Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory and the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy; from the PhD in History, Cultural Heritage and International Studies and from the PhD of Philosophy, Epistemology and History of Culture of the University of Cagliari. Speech entitled: Aniconic censers in the northern Tyrrhenian area in the 13th century. New contributions.

• october 4, 2015. Speaker at the festival Landscapes, the imprint we leave (Uta, 1-4 October 2015), organized by the municipality of Uta and the Autonomous Region of Sardinia. Speech given at Piazzale Santa Maria: The imprint of architecture and religious art on the landscape [in collaboration with Simona Campus, Efisio Carbone, Paola Casu].

• September 25, 2015. Speaker and moderator of a session at the Study Conference The major retable of Ardara. 500 years of Art and Faith, held in the basilica of NS of the Kingdom of Ardara, organized by the Diocese of Ozieri and the municipality of Ardara (SS). Speech entitled: Architecture and sculptural decorations of the basilica of Santa Maria del Regno (11th-12th century).

• September 11, 2015. Speaker at the Across the Sea: island and coastal policies Workshop. The Making of Medieval Sardinia, held in Cagliari on 10-11 September 2015, organized by the Institute of Mediterranean European History (ISEM) of the CNR and Lancaster University (England). Speech entitled: Architecture in Sardinia between the 8th and 11th centuries.

• july 8, 2015. Speaker and co-organizer of the Session “Constructing Cultural Identities: Mendicant Houses, Power, and Renovatio Urbis, 13th-14th Centuries” at the International Medieval Congress 2005, 6-9 July (IMC) organized by the University of Leeds (England). Speech entitled: Political Power, Mendicant Art, and Architecture in Sardinia during the 13th and 14th Centuries.

• 8 May 2015. Speaker at the presentation of the book: The 900 years of the Basilica of the SS. Trinità di Saccargia, edited by Giovanni Strinna and Massimiliano Vidili, Edes 2014 (Quaderni di Sandalion 14), held in Sassari (Headquarters of the Banco di Sardegna Foundation, via Carlo Alberto, 7), organized by the University of Sassari, the Archdiocese of Sassari, by the Banco di Sardegna Foundation and by the Municipality of Codrongianos.

• april 17, 2015. Speaker at the International Workshop Auctoritas and Institutions (12th-15th century), held in Cagliari on 16-17 April 2015, organized by the Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe (ISEM) of the CNR and the Auctoritas group, Eglésia I Poder, s. XII-XV of the University of Lleida (Spain). Speech entitled: Artistic production in the kingdom of Arborea between judicial power and mendicant orders (13th-14th century).

• january 10, 2015. Speaker at the Day of Remembrance of Roberto Coroneo, Sarroch (CA) – Villa Siotto –organized by the Municipality of Sarroch (CA) and U.RE.KA. Speech entitled: Trip to Istanbul. Roberto Coroneo's studies between East and West.

• December 12, 2014. Speaker at the III SEMINARS D'ESTUDIS MEDIEVALS Els mons nòrdic I mediterrani. Relacions artístiques I culturals entre els segles XIV I XVI (12, 15 I 19 de desembre de 2014) Edifici Sa Riera – Sala d'actes, organized by the GRESMED Grup de recerca de la Universitat de les Illes Balears. Seminar entitled: The spread of the painful Gothic wooden crucifix in the western Mediterranean (sec. XIV-XV).

• 29 November 2014. speaker and curator of the Study Conference Romanesque cathedrals between Sardinia and the western Mediterranean. San Pietro di Sorres – Borutta (SS), 29-30 November 2014, organized by the Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory of the University of Cagliari and the Friends of the Romanesque Association. Speech entitled: The “memory” of the bishop in a medieval furnishings of the former cathedral of Ottana.

• November 20, 2014. Speaker at the Spatha, Spada, Épéé International Workshop. Ideology and practice (Cagliari, 20-21 November 2014) Aula Coroneo, Citadel of Museums, organized by the Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory of the University of Cagliari in collaboration with the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage and the CUS Cagliari (Section Fencing) and with the patronage of the Italian Fencing Federation. Lesson entitled: Iconography and symbolism in the representation of the sword between the late ancient and late Middle Ages (4th and 13th centuries).

• October 25, 2014. Speaker and scientific coordinator of the series of conferences Romanesque in Europe, art and architecture in the Middle Ages from the 10th to the 13th century (from 25 October 2014 to 15 May 2015, with alternating locations between Cagliari and Oristano), promoted by the Foreign Presidium of the Friends of Romanesque Association, with the patronage of the Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory of the University of Cagliari, of the BAPPSAE Superintendence for the provinces of CA and OR, of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, of the municipalities of Cagliari and Oristano. Lesson entitled: Romanesque: codification and diffusion of an artistic language in the Middle Ages.

• September 25, 2014. Speaker at the, Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sardinia, Sant'Antioco, Council Hall of the Municipality (– Speech entitled: On a sculptural fragment by Vico III Lanusei (Cagliari): models and circulation of heart-shaped branch and leaf decoration in the western Mediterranean.

• 9 May 2014. Speaker at the series of conferences Stories and events of disappeared places (4 April-30 May 2014), organized by the Khorakhané Association http://www.khorakhane.eu/. Speech entitled: The church of Santa Maria and the Portu Gruttis area in the Middle Ages. (Cagliari, Palazzo di città, piazza Palazzo, 6) [in collaboration with R. Martorelli].

• april 10, 2014. Speaker at the X Series of conferences on: Recent acquisitions of archaeological research in Sardinia. Middle Ages in Sardinia, Human settlements, architecture and society, organized by Italia Nostra, Cagliari headquarters, Via Ottone Bacaredda 11. Speech entitled: Religious architecture and the power of the Church.  (Cagliari, Search conference room, Largo Carlo Felice, 2)

• February 20, 2014. Speaker at the Study Conference “Frontiere Sonore. Silences, looks, gestures and words” (Cagliari, Cittadella dei Musei, Roberto Coroneo room 19-21 February 2014), organized by the Xenoi interdepartmental laboratory, practices, images, words of the University of Cagliari. Speech entitled: The silent transposition of the sound dimension into medieval sculpture of the 12th and 13th centuries.

• 10 May 2013. Speaker and curator of monastic Sardinia, Study Day on monasticism in Sardinia, between History, Art and Archeology (Cagliari, Fattoria Sa Illetta -10 May 2013), organized by the Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory of the University of Cagliari and by the Association Cultural Sa Illetta http://www.saillettacultura.it/. Speech entitled: Monastic architecture in the Late Middle Ages (11th-14th century), models and relationships of the island with the Mediterranean.

• March 17, 2013. Speaker and scientific coordinator of the Study Day: Traveling with Roberto Coroneo, from Asturias to Byzantium, organized by the st.ART Association. Speech entitled: Byzantine art, Constantinople and Sardinia. (Cagliari, National Art Gallery)

• april 04, 2013. Speaker at the Thursday meetings in the Pinacoteca, organized by the BAPPSAE Superintendence for the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano. Conference entitled: 12th century sculpture in Sardinia. Contributions “external” and local production (Cagliari, National Art Gallery).

• March 16, 2012. Speaker at the series of conferences (XXV edition) on Byzantine Sardinia, organized by the Neapolis Archaeological Group of Guspini. Lesson on Byzantine churches in Sardinia.

• February 22, 2013. Lecture: The painful Gothic crucifix in medieval wooden sculpture.(Cagliari, crypt of San Domenico).

• January 25, 2013. Lecture: The iconography of the holy four crowned from medieval times to the modern age.  (Cagliari, Santi Quattro Coronati Association).

• 30 October 2012. Speaker at the event Art Evenings, music and literature meetings in the basilica of San Saturnino, organized by the BAPPSAE Superintendence for the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano, on the occasion of the feast of the patron saint of the city of Cagliari. [Cagliari, basilica of San Saturnino]. Conference entitled: Saint Saturninus: written documents and materials for the reconstruction of liturgical furnishings.

• 10 May 2012. Speaker at Citadel Research. Study Days of Archaeology and Art History, organized by the Department of History, Cultural Heritage and Territory of the University of Cagliari. Title report: Methodology and practices in the study of medieval wooden sculpture (12th-15th century).

• March 29, 2012. Speaker at the series of conferences “Artistic experiences in Sardinia between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age”, held at the National Art Gallery of Cagliari and organized by the BAPPSAE Superintendence for the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano. Contribution entitled: The document of Saint Nicholas of Trullas (1113).

• 25-28 October 2011. Speaker at the III Symposia Internacional d'Ars Picta – Al ritual litúrgic I la seva “posada en scene”: espais, ornaments, I funcions de l'eglésia romànica, held in Barcelona – La Vall de Boí, organized by the Departement d'Historia de l' art (UB), Facultat de Geografia I Historia -ARS PICTA – Barcelona. www.arspicta.cat Lesson entitled: William's Pergamum in the cathedral of Cagliari: iconographic reading paths.

• 17-18 October 2011. Speaker at the conference Identité et mémoire: l'évêque, l'image et la mort, Troisième cycle romand de letters La figure de l'évêque défunt et le monde paléochrétien, organized by l'Université de Lausanne, Section d'histoire de l'art, Section d'histoire de l'art “L'Anthropole” UNIL CH-1018, Lausanne. Lesson entitled: The inscription of Bishop Peter, who commissioned a marble furniture in Sant'Antioco.

• July 6, 2011. Speaker within the Seminar of Studies Art at the time of James II, organized by the University of Cagliari, Department of Archaeological and Historical-Artistic Sciences, Piazza Arsenale , 1- 09100 Cagliari/Departement d'Historia de l'art (UB), Facultat de Geografia I Historia – (Aula Magna I room 304). Lesson entitled: The Sanctuary of the Madonna di Bonaria in Cagliari: architecture and furnishings.

• 20 May 2011. Speaker at the Karalis Christiana Study Conference, figures and moments of late ancient and Byzantine Sardinia (Cagliari-Palazzo Viceregio 19-20 May 2011), organized by FIDAPA Italian Federation of Women, Arts, Professions and Business – Cagliari Section - and by the University of Cagliari. Lesson entitled: The trace of a Byzantine icon in Cagliari at the time of Gregory the Great.

• 4 May 2011. Speaker at the conference L'art a l'època de Jaume II, organized by the Departement d'Historia de l'art (UB), Facultat de Geografia I Historia – (Aula Magna I room 304) Barcelona/University of Cagliari, Department of Archaeological Sciences and Artistic History, Piazza Arsenale 1-09100 Cagliari. Lesson entitled: The Sanctuary of the Madonna di Bonaria (1324-1325), the first Catalan Gothic architecture in Sardinia.

• 16 December 2010. Speaker at the series of conferences “The Middle Ages in Sardinia: architecture and figurative arts at a crossroads in the Mediterranean”, held at the National Art Gallery of Cagliari and organized by the BAPPSAE Superintendence for the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano.  Lesson entitled: Medieval wooden sculpture in Sardinia from the 12th to the 14th century. Written sources and material testimonies.

• 16 November 2010. Speaker at the XI course “Archaeology Lessons”, organized by the Archeo Arci cultural association, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, 25 -08100 Nuoro, www.archeoarcinuoro.it. Lesson entitled: The church of San Nicola di Trullas: commissions, frescoes and liturgical furnishings.

• 23 September 2010. Speaker at the XIII International Conference on Middle Ages Studies: clients, organized by AISAME (Italian Association of Historians of Medieval Art) and the University of Parma. Communication entitled: The donation document of the church of San Nicola di Trullas (Semestene).

• april 17, 2010. Speaker at the conference entitled: The Tuili retable, masterpiece by the Master of Castelsardo, held at the Villa Asquer in Tuili, organized by the Pro locoTuili, via Amsicora n. 3 – 09029 Tuili.

• april 16, 2010. Speaker at the conference: The image of Saint Antiochus in devotion and art, held at the basilica of Saint Antiochus, organized by the Pro Loco Sant'Antioco, via Nazionale, 175 – 09017, Sant'Antioco

• 17 February 2010.Speaker at the series of conferences Sardinia, the Mediterranean, Europe. Artistic experiences from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, held at the National Art Gallery of Cagliari and organized by the BAPPSAE Superintendence for the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano. Lesson entitled: The Holy Face of Lucca.

• 22 January 2010. Speaker at the VI International Study Conference The dark face of the divine, Bari-Foggia-Lucera January 2010, organized by the University of Bari – Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Department of European Cultural Languages and Traditions, Piazza Umberto I, -70121 Bari/Banca del Monte Domenico Siniscalco Ceci Foundation, via Arpi n. 172, – 71100 Foggia. Communication entitled: Sant'Antioco sulcitano: the cult, the sanctuary, images from late antiquity to Baroque.

• 28 May 2009. Speaker at the 12th Annual Mediterranean Studies Congress. Sardinia a Mediterranean crossroads (Cagliari 27-30 May 2009), organized by the MSA Mediterranean Studies Association/CNR ’Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe/University of Cagliari. Contribution entitled: “Flows of circulation of goods and Mediterranean culture, in light of the documentation on wooden sculpture in Sardinia”.

• 21 May 2009. Speaker at the Third International Conference of Iconographic Studies – Rijeka 21-22 May 2009, organized by the Faculty of Art an Scienze-University of Rijeka/Study of Theology in Rijeka-University of Zagreb/Franciscan monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Trsat. Filozofsky facultet Rijeka, Trg. I Klobucarica 1, 51 000 Rijeka, tel. 051-315232 pu@ffri.hr.Contributo entitled: The wooden crucifix of Nicodemus in Oristano, a model of Franciscan iconography in Sardinia.

• 27 December 2008. Speaker at the Archipelagos of Music and Culture event – Gavoi 19-28 December 2008 – an Island of festivals 2008, II edition, organized by the Municipality of Gavoi (NU), Fondazione Banco di Sardegna, Province of Nuoro. Contribution entitled: Iconography of Christmas in Sardinian art, held at the F.lli Satta municipal library, via don Bosco, Gavoi (NU).

• 28 April 2008. Speaker at the X Culture Week, organized by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities – BAPPSAE Superintendence for the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano, via Cesare Battisti n. 2, 09100 Cagliari. Conference entitled: “Research and restoration on the frescoes of the church of Santa Chiara in Oristano. A new acquisition within the history of medieval art in Sardinia” with a talk on The wall paintings: The historical artistic research project. [Convento del Carmine, headquarters of Consorzio UNO via Carmine n. 2, Oristano].

• 21 December 2007. Speaker at the study day: Cultural aperitifs, organized by the Itzokor cultural association, via Lamarmora n. 123, Cagliari Title of speech: The church and monastery of Santa Chiara in Oristano: from historical-artistic research to the restoration project.

13 December 2007. Speaker at the Study Seminar: Historiographical reflections on Sardinia– Cagliari 12-13 December 2007, organized by the Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe – CNR Cagliari, via GB. Tuveri No. 128. Lesson entitled: Archival data for the reconstruction of artistic production in Sardinia.

• 29 June 2007. Speaker at the conference: Meeting on the history and civilization of medieval Sardinia, organized by the Municipality of Sanluri/Pro loco Sanluri Participation in teaching section 2: From archons to kings: the origins of the judged held within the 6th anniversary re-enactment of the Battle of Sanluri of 1409 “Sa Battalla” 23 June – 1 July 2007.

• 19 May 2006. Speaker at the Study Day: Renovare sos santos de colores. The wooden group of the Bulzi Deposition, organized by BAPPSAE Superintendency for the provinces of Sassari and Nuoro, via Montegrappa, 07100 Sassari/University of Roma Tre, Department of Historical, Artistic, Archaeological and Conservation Studies/Municipality of Bulzi (SS). title of speech: The contribution of dendrological analysis. (Also curator of the guided tour of the church of San Sebastiano in Bulzi).

• 3 April 2006. Speaker at the VII Culture Week, organized by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities – BAPPSAE Superintendence for the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano, via Cesare Battisti n. 2, 09100 Cagliari.  Conference entitled: Open cards. Aristos, a new online archival investigation tool.

• 30 November 2005. Lesson on fifteenth-sixteenth century painting in Sardinia for the 6th° course of archeology lessons, organized by Archeo Arci, -08100 Nuoro.

• 25 February 2005. Speaker at the series of conferences: Research in the Citadel, organized by’ University of Cagliari, Department of Archaeological and Historical-Artistic Sciences, Piazza Arsenale n.1. title of speech: medieval wooden sculpture.

• 24 January 2004. Speaker at the series of days (10/24/31 January 2004): “Anglona in the High and Late Middle Ages”, organized by the municipality of Martis (SS). Title of speech: Bulzi's Wooden Deposition, new reading and dating proposals.