SIS Alumni Meeting 2025
15:15-16:00 - registration
16:00 - event starts
Programme
The Alumni Meeting of the School of International Studies is a unique opportunity to reconnect with fellow graduates, strengthen professional and personal ties, and expand the alumni network. The gathering will provide a space to share experiences, exchange perspectives on post-graduation paths, and celebrate the sense of belonging to the SIS community.
Welcome address by Stefano Schiavo (Director School of International Studies) and Massimiliano Bampi (Director Department of Humanities)
Keynote address by Catherine E. Riley’s "Talking Rubbish: Why is nobody listening?"
While not often a headline winner, waste is winning out. Whether from fast fashion in landfills, plastics in oceans or municipal waste incinerators, or from industrial and agricultural waste, food and e-waste, harmful microparticles leech into the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat.
Waste is suffocating wildlife, destroying ecosystems and devastating biodiversity. It’s a (if not the) major climate change accelerant. And as with most global issues, the detrimental impact of waste affects the most vulnerable in society, both nationally and globally.
The economic as well as planetary costs of dealing with waste are as high as the mountains and deep as the oceans it is degrading. So why is waste, in particular the prevention of it, absent from mainstream climate discourse? And why for decades has the framing of waste discourse failed to translate into decisive action at any level?
This talk will ask whether reframing the waste discourse, not least its communication channels, could finally shift economic, political and individual will toward real solutions at all levels, from global to individual.
The talk will conclude with a very easy but extremely impactful origami activity!
Following the keynote, several alumni of the School of International Studies will take the floor to share their professional journeys and reflections:
Lidia Fedorova (MEIS 2014) UEFA
Ginevra Fontana (MISS 2019) University of Trento
Federica Megalizzi (MISS 2018) Megalizzi Foundation; Autonomous Province of Trento
Davit Mgeladze (MEIS 2021) TIC Council
Emma Mitrotta (MEIS 2009 and PhD 2019) Autonomous Province of Trento
Serena Natile (MEIS 2010) Warwick University
Giulia Notaristefano (MEIS 2020) Friuli Venezia Giulia Region
Pablo José Pérez Cañavate (IMSISS 2025) African Center for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS)- online
Maddalena Dali (MEIS 2007) European Commission - online
Matteo Falagiarda (MEIS 2009) European Central Bank - online
Ingrid Heinrich (MEIS 2012) Shiseido group - online
Stefano Scuratti (MEIS) Far East Statistics Office in Singapore - online
After the opening presentations, all alumni will join an open discussion, offering students a chance to engage and exchange ideas. The following SIS alumni will be participating:
Pinar Arabaci (MEIS 2022) Deloitte GmbH
Federico Barbieri (MEIS 2019) Ceramiche Refin S.p.A.
Rodrigo Bergantin De Oliveira (MEIS 2023) Bergantin Law
Francesca Bordogna (MEIS 2014) Arcobaleno coop
Arianna Campolongo (MEIS 2024) Court of appeal L'Aquila
Alexandra Chupina (MEIS 2014) REEEP
Fulvia Dellavedova (MEIS 2021) University of Napoli “Federico II”
Camilla Dotti (MEIS 2021) Wonderflow
Valeria Fappani (PhD 2025) University of Bologna
Boglarka Fenyvesi-Kiss (MEIS 2006) Europe Direct Trentino
Mattia Frizzera (MEIS 2008) EURES and Digitradio
Mamyan Lusine (MEIS 2013) Arxax
Marina Martano (MEIS 2014) Progetto Itaca Lecce
Erika Marzano (MEIS 2017) Deutsche Welle
Michele Mazzetti (PhD 2023) EURICSE
Maren Meyer (MEIS 2015) Agenzia per l'Energia Alto Adige
Giovanni Migotto (MEIS 2025) MUSE
Anita Mancini (MEIS 2021) Tour Leader
Marco Nicolò (MEIS 2020) University of Trento
Silvia Parolari (MEIS 2014) Terme di Comano
Francesco Perini (MEIS 2024) Consorzio Associazioni con il Mozambico (CAM)
Andrea Perotti (MEIS 2023) Reusch International SpA
Martina Seppi (MEIS 2018) Cassa Centrale Raiffeisen dell'Alto Adige SpA
Līva Trektere (MEIS 2023) freelance translator
Vanessa Ugolini (PhD 2023) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Eleonora Zomer (MEIS 2025) EU Liaison Office of the Autonomous Province of Trento