2024

"Vita e spettacolarizzazione della vita. Verso il centenario dei Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio di Luigi Pirandello", with special guest Prof. Pietro Frassica (University of Princeton), symposium organized by Lia Fava Guzzetta, Giorgio Forni, Francesco Galatà and Maria Melania Vitale, Università di Messina, Accademia dei Pericolanti, Messina / Italy, 29.4.2024, 9:00 -18:00 h.

Quo vadis, italiano 2024? In Sprachen wiedergeboren. Autobiographien und transkulturelle Begegnungen | Linguaggi per rinascere: autobiografie e incontri transculturali, directed by Simona Bartoli-Kucher and Tommaso Meozzi (Universität Graz), organized in cooperation with Nicola Locatelli (Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Vienna), Universität Graz, Mehrzwecksaal 0.008, Merangasse 70, Graz / Austria, 25.-27.4.2024.

International congress Cibo è/e donna nel Risorgimento letterario: miti e archetipi del nutrimento, directed by Rossella Palmieri, University of Foggia, Università di Foggia, Aula Magna del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Via Arpi 176, Foggia (3.4.2024) e Sala Congressi, Residence Il Porto, Mattinata nel Gargano (4.4.2024), 3.-4.4.2024.

XIII. Deutscher Italianistiktag 2024 Categorie: formazione, trasformazione, (inter-) azione | Kategorien: Bidung, Wandel, (Wechsel-) Wirkung, organized by Deutscher Italianistikverband DIV, Fachverband Italienisch in Wissenschaft und Unterricht e.V., hosted by Albert-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg, Albert-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Platz der Universität, Faculty of Romance Studies (Fakultät Romanistik), KG I, HS 1221, 7.-9.3.2024.

2023

Posttraumatic and Postcolonial Aspects in the Arts and Their Multifaceted Connections to Therapeutic Parameters, in the frame of the 2nd European Art Therapy congress Growing Together, organized by the European Federation of Art Therapy (EFAT) together with the Art Academy of Latvia and Rīga Stradiņš University (Medical School), panel and all day seminar directed by Dagmar Reichardt, Katharina Fürholzer (Universität Rostock, Germany) and Julia Pröll (Universität Innsbruck, Austria), Art Academy of Lativa, O. Kalpaka bulvāris 13, Centra rajons, LV-1050 Rīga, Latvia, Room 10, 16.6.2023, 9:30-17:30 h.

2022

"L'occhio 'nuovo' del Verga", panel directed by Dagmar Reichardt in the frame of the international conference Le "miniature" di Verga: Narrativa breve e scena del mondo, organized on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Verga (1840-1922), Università degli Studi di Messina by Antonino Antonazzo, Giorgio Forni, Francesco Galatà, Mauro Geraci, Fabio Ruggiano, Melania Vitale, Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, Palazzo Università, Piazza Salvatore Pugliatti 1, Messina, Italy, 3.-4.11.2022, 9:00-14:00 h.

Sergio Di Giacomo: "Messina, ecco Verga innovatore", in: Avvenire, section "Agorà", 3.11.2022, p. 19.

N.N.: "Si apre oggi: convegno internazionale su Giovanni Verga", in: Gazzetta del Sud, section "Messina", 3.11.2022, p. 20.

Serdig: "Il convegno per il Centenario di Giovanni Verga: 'Le miniature di Verga: narrativa breve e scena del mondo'", in: Moleskine. Notes mensile di informazione, attualità, cultura, arte e spettacolo, monthly magazine directed by Geri Villaroel, edited by Moleskine Associazione Culturale, Messina, October 2022, p. 50. 

Anna M. Crisafulli Sartori: "Verga come anticipatore di tecniche della scrittura: Il convegno internazionale organizzato dalla nostra Università sul grande scrittore siciliano", in: Gazzetta del Sud, 10.11.2022.

Benvenuti al Nuovo Sud. Costellazioni, collaborazioni e trasformazioni transculturali, panel co-directed by Dagmar Reichardt together with Colbert Akieudji, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Laura Fournier, Michelangelo La Luna, and Carmen Van den Bergh, in the frame of the international congress XXV Congresso AIPI: Raccontare la realtà - Italia ieri e oggi, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Polo didattico, edificio 19, aula 11, Viale delle Scienze, Palermo, Italy, 27.-29.10.2022.

Nicola Scardina: "XXV Congresso dell’Associazione Internazionale dei Professori di Italiano. A Palermo l’evento: Raccontare la realtà – Italia ieri e oggi”, in: NewSicily, (section: Arte, Cultura e Società, Musica), 27.10.2022.

 

A New Approach to Italian Cultural History / Studi bilaterali sulla letteratura italiana e francese / Bilateral Studies on Italian and French Literature, organized by Grazia Dolores Folliero-Metz (Universität Siegen, Germany), Maria Teresa Girardi (Università Cattolica di Milano, Italy), and Christoph Oliver Mayer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Villa Vigoni, Centro italo-tedesco per il dialogo europeo / Villa Vigoni, Deutsch-Italienisches Zentrum für den Europäischen Dialog, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy, 1.-5.8.2022.

Workshop Transculturalità: un concetto operativo in Europa? - Transculturality: an Operational Concept in Europe? - Transculturalité: un concept opérationnel en Europe?, organized by La Sapienza Università di Roma and Université Paris Nanterre, in the frame of the Jean Monnet Project Transcultural Europe in the Global World (TransEU), moderated and presented by Prof. Silvia Contarini and Prof. Franca Sinopoli, with the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, Aula Organi Collegiali (Aula del Rettorato), Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy, 27.5.2022, 9:30-18:30 h.

50 anni Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani | 50 Jahre Deutsches Studnienzentrum Venedig, bilingual ceremonial act with a commemorative speech by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Welsch ("Transdisziplinarität - über den Tellerrand hinaus!"), in cooperation with Università Ca' Foscari, Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice, Italy, 6.5.2022, 4 p.m.

International Women's Day 2022: Featuring Author and Scholar Dacia Maraini, [Symposium in honor of Dacia Maraini's lifework and celebration of the International Women's Day on March 8, 2022], public online round table with 14 guest speakers, moderated and organized by Michelangelo La Luna, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, USA, in collaboration with Dagmar Reichardt, Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga, Latvia, 9.3.2022, 12:00-2:00pm EST (18:00-20:00pm Italy time).

Europe 2022: Space - Sovereignty - iIentity | Europa-Konferenz Hamburg 2022: Souveränität und Identität, The Hamburg-Vigoni-Forum [kick-off event], planned in cooperation with the State President of the Republic of Latvia and Alumnus of the University of Hamburg Egils Levits to hold the first "Hamburg Speech about Europe | Hamburger Rede zu Europa" about the future of Europe as a community of rights and values [due to the outbreak of the war in the Ukraine unfortunately the President had to leave Hamburg again in the morning of Thursday, 24.2.2022 and could not deliver the speech], 24.-25.2.2022, University of Hamburg (Audimax), Hamburg, Germany, 17-19 h.

2021

Statt "Development" nun "Transformation"? Paradigmenwechsel in der Kulturpolitik [Inauguration Lecture by Prof. Dr. Julius Heinicke followed by a round table discussion] and the one day symposium Cultural Policy Inside-Out: Competition of Narratives, Post-Colonial Debates and Questions of Transformation | Kulturpolitik "Inside-Out": Wettstreit der Narrative, postkoloniale Debatten und Fragen der Transformation, organized by the Institute for Cultural Policy [with a parallel livestream connection], Universität Hildesheim, Universitätsplatz 1, Hildesheim, Germany, 27.10.2021 (Audimax), 11:30-13:30 (CET + 1/German time) and 28.1.2021 (Domäne Marienburg), 9:30-17:00.

Panel 5: Alfieri illustri della transculturalità – Per una didattica della cultura italiana nel terzo millennio, organized by Dagmar Reichardt (Latvian Academy of Culture LAC, Riga/Latvia), Domenica Elisa Cicala (Catholic University of Eichstätt – Ingolstadt/Germany), Maurizio Rebaudengo (Convitto Nazionale Umberto I, Torino), XXIV Convegno della Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano AIPI, Scienza, arte e letteratura - Lingue, culture, narrazioni che si incrociano, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, online webinar (on zoom through the platform of Université de Genève), Geneva, Switzerland, 28.-30.6.2021.

International Women's Day. Featuring Nobel Prize in Literature Nominee Dacia Maraini, moderated and organized by Prof. Michelangelo La Luna, University of Rhode Island (URI), welcoming remarks: URI President David M. Dooley and URI Associated Dean (College of Arts and Sciences) Nedra Reynolds, the meeting included Short presentations, Questions and Answers, Breakout Rooms on some of the major themes covered in Dacia Maraini's writings as diversity and inclusion, feminism, gender, LGBTQIA+, prostitution, violence against women, women's rights, etc., Rhode Island, USA, Zoom-meeting, 5.3.2021, 12:15-2:15 pm ET (18:15-20:15 Italy time). 

2020

Shifting Perspectives. Streaming Festival zum Werk von Franz Erhard Walther / Streaming Festival on the Work of Franz Erhard Walther organized by Haus der Kunst (Museum HDK, Munich, Germany) and Franz Erhard Walther Foundation, on the occasion of the homonymus exhibition of Franz Erhard Walther (5.3.-29.11.2020), video conference with the partecipation of the artist, [Panel Discussion 1: "Image as Action: Transforming Life Processes into the Visual"; Panel Discussion 2: "Generative Praxis: Medial Entanglements as Artistic Expansion"; with an introductive interview and a concluding Q&A-block with Franz Erhard Walther], directed by the curator of the exhibition Dr. Jana Baumann, public streaming offered by Haus der Kunst, Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 München, Germany, 28.11.2020, 10:00-17:00 h, [online conference via the institutional channel of the Museum: HDK live].

2020 Annual Meeting of the Swiss Association of Comparative Literature Literarische Glokalisierung. Glocalisation littéraire. Literary Glocalization organized by DGAVL/ASLGC, directed by Phlippe P. Haensler, Stephanie Heine, and Sandro Zanetti, Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, 19.-20.11.2020, 23.4.2021 [via Zoom].

Dacia Maraini and her Literary Journey, a book presentation [book edited by Michelangelo La Luna (University of Rhode Island) and Angela Pitassi (University of Connecticut)] and Q&A with Dacia Maraini, special guest: Dacia Maraini, moderated by the Graduate Students from the University of Connecticut (Italian Section: Italian Literary and Cultural Studies), Rhode Island, USA, 19.11.2020, via Cisco Webex, 13:00 h (North American East Coast Time - ET)/19:00 h (Central European Standard Time).

Guestlecture by Prof. Dr. Elke Sturm-Trigonakis (University of Thessaloniki, Greece): Von der Neuen Weltliteratur zu einer Weltliteratur des (Post-) Kolonialen – Etappen eines Forschungswegs, in the frame of the International Culture and Media Management Program, coordinated by Dagmar Reichardt, Latvian Academy of Culture, Ludzas iela 24, Riga, Latvia, Room 25, main building, 2nd floor, 25.09.2020, 16:30-21:30 h.

Europa, quando la storia è scomoda - "Black lives matter", tracce coloniali e processi di risignificazione, online conference, special guests: Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University, USA), Mia Fuller (University of Berkeley, USA), Leila El Houssi (University of Florence, Italy), Igiaba Scego (Writer and indipendent University Scholar, Rome, Italy), Massimiliano Smeriglio (Deputee of the European Parliament, S&D), organized and presented by Isciaba Scego and Massimiliano Smeriglio, [realized in a full online webinar format due to the COVID-19 pandemic], Forma Spazi, Via Cavour 181, Rome, Italy, 20.07.2020, 18:30-20:00 h (Central European Time - CET: Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna).

Struktureller Rassismus: Italienische und Deutsche Perspektiven im Austausch | Razzismo strutturale: Scambi di prospettive tra Italia e Germania, online conference, special guests: Antonella Bundu (Deputee of the City Council of Firenze, Italy), Sarah-Lee Heinrich (Member of the National Board of the party "Grüne Jugend", Germany), Igiaba Scego (Writer and indipendent University Scholar, Rome, Italy), Alexandra Geese (Deputee of the European Parliament), Leila El Houssi (Professor for the History of the Near East, University of Padua, Italy), Franziska Brantner (Deputee of the German Bundestag/German Lower House of Parliament and spokesperson for European politics), organized by Franziska Brantner, Alexandra Geese and Sven Giegold (Deputee of the European Parliament), [realized in a full online webinar format due to the COVID-19 pandemic], Berlin, Germany, 14.07.2020, 20:00-22:00 h (Central European Time - CET: Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna).

Beloved Writing: A Conversation with Dacia Maraini, international conference organized by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Washington DC, special guest: Dacia Maraini in a conversation with Michelangelo La Luna (University of Rhode Island), [about women's rights regarding love, freedom and solidarity, as well as about Maraini's new release of her novel Trio], University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, USA, [realized in a full online webinar format due to the COVID-19 pandemic], 9.7.2020, 16:00 (North American East Coast Time - ET).

International Conference Places, Spaces and Time - Shaping the European Art Therapy Landscape, originally scheduled to take place in Riga/Latvia, 30.4.-2.5.2020, temporarily replaced by a webinar series starting with EFAT Professor Ephrat Huss: “Art therapy in times of community crises: Theories and methods for contributing to our communities in times of crises”, organized by the European Federation of Art Therapy EFAT, Luxembourg, [realized in a full online webinar format due to the COVID 19 pandemia], 3.5.2020, 13:00-14:15 h (London summer time - UTC).

2019

Panel Letteratura, Convegno internazionale L'italianistica nel terzo millennio: Le nuove sfide nelle ricerche linguistiche, letterarie e culturali. 60 anni di Studi Italiani all'Università "SS. Cirillo e Metodio" di Skopje, organized by the Università "SS. Cirillo e Metodio" in Skopje, Faculty of Philology "Blaze Koneski", 27.-28.9.2019, Room "Sala 2", Skopje, Macedonia, 27.9.2019, 14:30-16:00 h.

Guestlecture by Prof. Dr. Maria-Paola Scialdone (Università di Macerata, Italy): "Grand Tour": Die Reisen der Familie Goethe nach Italien - Johann Caspar Goethe (Vater), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe und August Goethe (Sohn), in the frame of the International Culture and Media Management Program, coordinated by Dagmar Reichardt, Latvian Academy of Culture, Ludzas iela 24, Riga, Latvia, Room 25, main building, 2nd floor, 23.09.2019, 16:30-21:30 h.

XXIII Congresso ADI - Associazione degli Italianisti, Università di Pisa (Letteratura e scienze), in cooperation with SNS, under the patronage of Comune di Pisa, 12.-14.9.2019, Panel 11 La capacità euristica della letteratura italiana nei confronti della "violenza", directed by Costantino Maeder (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium) and Loreta De Stasio (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Vitoria, Spain), Università̀ di Pisa, in collaboration with SNS, under the auspices of the Comune di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, 12.-14.9.2019.

 

Section 4 Linguistics and Culture, 5th International Conference on Culture, Languages and Literature 2019 (ICCLL 2019) / 3rd International Conference on E-Society, E-Education and E-Technology 2019 (ICSET 2019), directed by Dagmar Reichardt, Ming Chuan University, No. 1, Zhongshan North Road, Zhongshan District, Taipeh, 10461, Taiwan / 中山北路四段1號, 中山區, (台北市, 10461), Taipei, Taiwan, 15.-17.8.2019, Section 4, 16.8.2019, room J317, 15:30-18:30.

Creativity, Sustainability, Development, Vigoni Forum 2019, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Fulvio Longato (Università degli Studi di Trieste), Prof. Dr. Hans Vorländer (Technische Universität Dresden, Director of the Mercator Forum Migration and Democracy), and Villa Vigoni (Dr. Christiane Liermann Traniello), Villa Vigoni - German-Italian Center for European Excellence - Centro italo-tedesco per l'eccellenza europea - Deutsch-italienisches Zentrum für europäische Exzellenz, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy, 4.-6.7.2019.

Biennial Conference 2019 of the Society for Italian Studies (SIS), lead organisers: Davide Messina and Federica G. Pedriali, University of Edinburgh, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Department of European Languages & Cultures, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LH, United Kingdom, 26.-28.6.2019.

The Winter of Italy’s Discontent: L’identità italiana utopica e distopica negli anni ’70, part I. Tra politica e cultura (Room G.02, 11:30-13:00 h), part II. Letterature (Room G.04, 15:30-17:00 h), Panel 61 and Panel 71 directed by Maurizio Rebaudengo and Dagmar Reichardt within the frame of the Biennial Conference 2019 of the Society for Italian Studies (SIS), lead organisers: Davide Messina and Federica G. Pedriali, University of Edinburgh, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Department of European Languages & Cultures, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LH, United Kingdom, 26.-28.6.2019.

Guestlecture by Prof. Dr. Reinhold Utri (University of Warsaw, Poland): Interkulturelles Lernen auf der Basis der Anthropozentrischen Linguistik: Beispiele aus dem Filmbereich und der Migrantenliteratur, in the frame of the International Culture and Media Management Program, coordinated by Dagmar Reichardt, Latvian Academy of Culture, Room 25, main building, 2nd floor, Ludzas iela 24, Riga, Latvia, 25.05.2019, 10:00-11:00 h.

Guestlecture by Prof. Dr. Agneszka Dickel (University of Warsaw, Poland): Interkulturelle Kompetenz - Interkulturelles Training, in the frame of the International Culture and Media Management Program, coordinated by Dagmar Reichardt, Latvian Academy of Culture, Room 25, main building, 2nd floor, Ludzas iela 24, Riga, Latvia, 24.05.2019, 16:30-21:30 h.

Racconti di lotta / Relatos de lucha y de violencia, international conference directed by Professor Loreta de Stasio (University of the Basque Country/Universidad del Pais Vasco), organized by Loreta de Stasio and Paola Populin (University of the Basque Country/Universidad del Pais Vasco), University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Humanities / Facoltà di Lettere EHU-UPV, Aula Magna, Vitoria-Gasteiz/Bilbao, Spain, 9.-10.5.2019.

2018

Open guestlecture by Jan-Erik Burkard M.A. (Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga and Bonn/Germany): Nachweis eines internationalen „Genossenschaftscodes“: Analyse der kommunikativen Entwicklung europäischer Genossenschaften in Deutschland, der Schweiz, Österreich sowie der (postsowjetischen Entwicklung) in Lettland im Zeitraum von 1995 bis 2017, [Engl.: Proof of an International "Cooperative Code": Analysis of the Communicative Development of European Cooperatives in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, as well as in Latvia (during the Post-Soviet Development) in the Period 1995-2017], organized by the Latvian Academy of Culture, coordinated by Dagmar Reichardt, Latvian Academy of Culture, Room 25, main building, 2nd floor, Ludzas iela 24, Riga, Latvia, 8.10.2018, 10:00-16:00 h.

 

Guestlecture by Dr. Katharina Fürholzer (Universität Ulm, Germany): Medical Humanities als Mittel der Ethikaufklärung, in the frame of the International Culture and Media Management Program, coordinated by Dagmar Reichardt, Latvian Academy of Culture, main building, Room 25, 2nd floor, Ludzas iela 24, Riga, Latvia, 04.10.2018, 16:30-21:30 h.

XXIII Convegno della Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano AIPI,  Le vie dell'italiano: mercanti, viaggiatori, migranti, cibernauti (e altro). Percorsi e incroci possibili tra letteratura, lingua, cultura e civiltà, Università per Stranieri di Siena, Siena, Italy, 5.-9.9.2018.

Valeria Strambi: "Musica, arte, scienza e cucina - ma quanto italiano c'è nel sapere. In settembre a Siena 350 studiosi della nostra lingua si riuniranno per fare il punto sui tanti modi per insegnarla", in: La Repubblica (Firenze), 10.7.2018, p. VII. Online: http://unistrasi.waypress.eu/RassegnaStampa/LeggiArticolo.aspx?codice=OPF2114.TIF&subcod=20180710&numPag=2&tipo=GIF

N.N.: "Anche Benigni a Siena con i prof di italiano. Dal 5 all'8 settembre in programma un convegno dedicato alla nostra lingua con 350 studiosi", in: Trova Firenze, 26.7.2018, p. 45. Online: http://unistrasi.waypress.eu/RassegnaStampa/LeggiArticolo.aspx?codice=LL35032.TIF&subcod=20180727&numPag=1&tipo=GIF.

Paola Tomassoni: "A tutto Benigni. Unistra: l'Oscar con 500 docenti di italiano", in: La Stampa (Siena), 2.8.2018, p. 3.

Polifonia musicale – Le vie delle melodie italiane in un mondo transculturale, Panel 2 organized by Dagmar Reichardt (Latvian Academy of Culture LAC, Riga/Latvia), Donatella Brioschi (Italian Institute of Culture Hamburg/Germany), Domenica Elisa Cicala (Catholic University of Eichstätt – Ingolstadt/Germany), Mariella Martini-Merschmann (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg/Germany), tutor: Valentina Carbonara, XXIII Convegno della Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano AIPI, Le vie dell'italiano: mercanti, viaggiatori, migranti, cibernauti (e altro). Percorsi e incroci possibili tra letteratura, lingua, cultura e civiltà, Università per Stranieri di Siena, Auditorium 8, (1st floor), Siena, Italy, 5.-7.9.2018.

Valeria Strambi: "Musica, arte, scienza e cucina - ma quanto italiano c'è nel sapere. In settembre a Siena 350 studiosi della nostra lingua si riuniranno per fare il punto sui tanti modi per insegnarla", in: La Repubblica (Firenze), 10.7.2018, p. VII. Online: http://unistrasi.waypress.eu/RassegnaStampa/LeggiArticolo.aspx?codice=OPF2114.TIF&subcod=20180710&numPag=2&tipo=GIF

N.N.: "Anche Benigni a Siena con i prof di italiano. Dal 5 all'8 settembre in programma un convegno dedicato alla nostra lingua con 350 studiosi", in: Trova Firenze, 26.7.2018, p. 45. Online: http://unistrasi.waypress.eu/RassegnaStampa/LeggiArticolo.aspx?codice=LL35032.TIF&subcod=20180727&numPag=1&tipo=GIF.

Paola Tomassoni: "A tutto Benigni. Unistra: l'Oscar con 500 docenti di italiano", in: La Stampa (Siena), 2.8.2018, p. 3.

Villa Vigoni Forum 2018, "Cultural policies during the age of migration and globalisation / Kulturpolitik im Zeitalter der Migrationen und der Globalisierung / Politiche culturali nell'epoca delle migrazioni e della globalizzazione", with a final concert "Concerto Vigoni" by Domo Emigrantes, Villa Vigoni - Deutsch-Italienisches Zentrum für Europäische Exzellenz / Centro Italo-Tedesco per l'Ecellenza Europea, Loveno di Menaggio (Como), Italy, 6.-7.7.2018.

"Ovunque nel mondo: l'Italia, l'italiano e il sentirsi italiani (part 1 + 2)", co-chaired Panel 41 and 42 (with Maurizio Rebaudengo, Convitto Nazionale "Umberto I", Torino/Italy), organized by Colleen Ryan and Cinzia Marongiu (Indiana University/USA), International Conference AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian), Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 20.-25.6.2018, Facoltà di Studi Umanistici, Auditorium 9, Via San Giorgio 12, Campus Aresu, Cagliari, Italy, 22.6.2018, 12:00-13:15 h (Panel 41) and 15:00-16:40 h (Panel 42).

Directed the historical-linguistic panel "Sezione storico-linguistica" of the International Conference "Sponde, confini, trincee: l’Italia nell’Europa post-1918", University of Iceland, 7.-8.6.2018, organized by Stefano Rosatti (University of Iceland), University of Iceland, Veröld, Vigdís’ House, Brynjólfsgata 1, 107 Reykjavík, Iceland, 7.6.2018, 11:45-12:25 h.

Guestlecture by Donatella Brioschi (Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Hamburg, Germany) and Mariella Martini-Merschmeyer (University of Music and Theatre Hamburg): "L'italiano in aria": Musik and Italienisch als Universalsprache, in the frame of the International Culture and Media Management Program, coordinated by Dagmar Reichardt, Latvian Academy of Culture, Room 25, main building, 2nd floor, Ludzas iela 24, Riga, Latvia, 19.04.2018, 16:30-21:30 h.

 

2017

International Conference Bewegende Körper / Bodies in Motion, Third Annual Conference of the German Society for Cultural Studies / 3. Jahrestagung der kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (KGW), 200 Years Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, Ghent, Belgium, 16.-18.11.2017. 

International congress In limine. Frontiere e integrazioni, organized by Diego Poli, Università di Macerata, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - lingue, mediazione, storia, lettere, filosofia, Auditorium UNIMC, Via Padre Matteo Ricci 2, Macerata, Italy, 9.-10.11.2017.

International conference Le tante traduzioni dell’opera di Dacia Maraini. Simposio in occasione del suo 80esimo anniversario di vita e lavoro nei campi della letteratura, del teatro e della cultura e politica italiana - The Many Translations of the Work of Dacia Maraini. Symposium on the Occasion of the Writer’s 80th Birthday and Many Years of Work in the Fields of Italian Literature, Theatre, Culture and Politics, initiated and organized by Dagmar Reichardt (Latvian Academy of Culture LAC, Riga/Latvia) and Maria Belén Hernández Gonzalez (Universidad de Murcia/Spain), in the presence of Dacia Maraini, Forum Austriaco di Cultura, Viale Bruno Buozzi, 113, Rome, Italy, 14.-15.10.2017.

 

"Cultura: simposio internazionale sulle traduzioni dell'opera di Dacia Maraini", in: Il confronto. Periodico di informazione, cultura, arte e politica, 6.10.2017, online: http://ilconfronto.wixsite.com/ilconfronto/single-post/2017/10/06/Cultura-simposio-internazionale-sulle-traduzioni-dell%E2%80%99opera-di-Dacia-Maraini.

International Congress Dynamik, Begegnung, Migration, organized by 35. Romanistentag des Deutschen Romanistenverbandes, Universität Zürich UZH, Zürich, Switzerland, 8.-12.10.2017.
 

Guestlecture by Agnese Kumpina M.A. (Latvian Academy of Culture): Personal Student's Expriences within the Erasmus Exchange Program at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg, in the frame of the International Culture and Media Management Program, coordinated by Dagmar Reichardt, Latvian Academy of Culture, Room 25, main building, 2nd floor, Ludzas iela 24, Riga, Latvia, 28.09.2017, 16:30-21:30 h.

7th Biennial Congress Fear & Safety, ENCLS / REELC European Network for Comparative Literary Studies / Réseau Européen d'Études Littéraires Comparées, in partnership with the Kone Foundation, the Finnish Literary Association (KTS) and the Dystopian project Darkening visions: Dystopian fictions in contemporary Finnish litterature, University of Helsinki, Building Porthania, Helsinki, Finland, 23.-26.8.2017.

XIV. A.P.I. International Conference Italian Postcolonialisms: Past and Present, A.P.I. Association of Professional Italianists in South Africa / Associazione Professori d'Italiano in Sudafrica 2017, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Club Olives and Plates, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa, 10.-12.8.2017.

9th Biennial ACIS Conference "Scontri e incontri": The dynamics of Italian transcultural exchanges, Monash Prato Centre, sponsored and organized by the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS), Monash University and La Trobe University, Prato, Italy, 4.-7.7.2017.

TransCollaborate. A Symposium on Collaborative Translation, a research-project funded by the Monash-Warwick-Alliance, 3.-4.7.2017, Monash Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, 3.-4.7.2017.

"Collaborative Translation and Research", Symposium Session 1 chaired by Dagmar Reichardt (3 slots: 1. "The Translation Encounter: using Translation Studies and Linguistics to reconstruct the "Violence of Translation" during the Dakota-US war (1862-1878). A cross-disciplinary study", 2. "Fin again: a collaborative translation project as a work in progress", 3. "Challenging Monolingualism: On-site Multilingualism and Lingua Francas in a Global Workplace"), in the frame of TransCollaborate. A Symposium on Collaborative Translation, a research-project funded by the Monash-Warwick-Alliance, 3.-4.7.2017, Monash Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, Sala Giochi, 3.7.2017, 13-15 h.

Palermo International Conference 2017, A.A.T.I. American Association of Teachers of Italian - International Conference Abroad, Università di Palermo, Polo didattico dell'Università, Palermo, Italy, 28.6.-2.7.2017.

Le Silhouette. Dialoghi sull'identità femminile in occasione del centenario della nascita della scrittrice ungherese Magda Szabó, presentation and round table with the writers Dacia Maraini and Antonella Cilento, Accademia d'Ungheria, Via Giulia 1, Rome, Italy, 30-31 May 2017.

Guestlecture by Dott. Luigi Saitta (RAI, Rome, Italy): The History of Film and Cineastic Production in Italy, the UK and the USA, in the frame of the International Culture and Media Management Program, coordinated by Dagmar Reichardt, Latvian Academy of Culture, Room 25, main building, 2nd floor, Ludzas iela 24, Riga, Latvia, 13.05.2017, 11:00-17:00 h.

Dal monologo al polilogo: l'Italia nel mondo. Lingue, letterature e culture in contatto, International Conference on the occasion of the 5th year of Italian Studies at the Department of Specialized and Intercultural Comunication Studies (Faculty of Applied Linguistics) at the University of Warsaw, organized by Anna Tylusinska-Kowalska and Elzbieta Jamrozik, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 7-8 April 2017.

International Conference Popular Music et migration / e migrazione / y migración: 1990-2015, organized by Gerhild Fuchs, Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner, Ursula Mathis-Moser, Institute of Romance Studies, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, 5 -7 April 2017.

International Conference Scrittura fantastica in Bonaviri, organized by Istvan Puskás and Franco Zangrilli, University of Debrecen, Debrecen/Hungary, 9 -10 March 2017.

International Conference POETRY - Inside and Outside the Avant-Gardes / POESIA - Dentro e fuori le avanguardie, organized by Eny Di Iorio and Franco Zangrilli, Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici, Tuscania (Viterbo)/Italy, 12-13 January 2017.

2016

Villa Vigoni encounters 2016. Open-minded relationships - The transcultural dialogue between Germany and Italy in literature, cinema and media /  Villa Vigoni colloquio 2016. Relazioni franche e aperte - Il dialogo transculturale tra Germania e Italia nella letteratura, nel cinema e nei media / Villa Vigoni Gespräche 2016. Aufgeschlossene Beziehungen - Deutschland und Italien im transkulturellen Dialog. Literatur, Film, Medien, organized by Eva-Tabea Meineke, Anne-Rose Meyer-Eisenhut, Stephanie Neu-Wendel, Eugenio Spedicato, funded by the German National Fund for Research (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG) and Villa Vigoni, Villa Vigoni - German-Italian Center for European Excellence - Centro italo-tedesco per l'eccellenza europea - Deutsch-italienisches Zentrum für europäische Exzellenz, Loveno di Menaggio/Italy, 21.-25.11.2016.

Mujeres de letras: pioneras en el arte, ensayismo y la educación, IX Congreso Internacional AUDEM, Facultad de Letras - Universidad de Murcia, Murcia/Spain, 20.-21.10.2016.

XXII Congresso AIPI La stessa goccia nel fiume - Il futuro del passato, University of Budapest, Budapest/Hungary,  31.8.-3.9.2016.

Panel 8 "Italia transculturale. Il sincretismo come modello universale italofono", directed by Dagmar Reichardt (Latvian Academy of Culture LAC, Riga/Latvia) and Nora Moll (Università Telematica Uninettuno, Rome/Italy), XXII Congresso AIPI La stessa goccia nel fiume - Il futuro del passato, University of Budapest, Budapest/Hungary,  31.8.-3.9.2016.

Bonaviri Pending Between Reality and Magic

Angela Marina Strano: Sospeso tra realtà e magia: Bonaviri, chi è il siciliano che sfiorò il Nobel per la letteratura. Impressionante la mole delle sue opere, dai romanzi alle poesie, alla saggistica, al teatro. Costantemente fuori dal coro e forse per questo apprezzato più all'estero, in: Balarm, 30.10.2021 [mentioning Dagmar Reichardt's activities promoting the work of Giuseppe Bonaviri with three congresses held in Geneva, Vienna and Budapest].

Directed the panel "The South as Metaphor. Comparative Approaches to a Transcultural Study of Literature", Group Section n. 17354, directed by Dagmar Reichardt (Latvian Academy of Culture LAC, Riga/Latvia) and Costantino Maeder (Université Catholique de Louvain/Belgium), Main building HS 50, 25.-27.7.2016, hosted by the XXI. Congress of the ICLA International Comparative Literature Association The Many Languages of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna, Vienna/Austria, 21.-27.7.2016.

Bonaviri Pending Between Reality and Magic

Angela Marina Strano: Sospeso tra realtà e magia: Bonaviri, chi è il siciliano che sfiorò il Nobel per la letteratura. Impressionante la mole delle sue opere, dai romanzi alle poesie, alla saggistica, al teatro. Costantemente fuori dal coro e forse per questo apprezzato più all'estero, in: Balarm, 30.10.2021 [mentioning Dagmar Reichardt's activities promoting the work of Giuseppe Bonaviri with three congresses held in Geneva, Vienna and Budapest].

The Many Languages of Comparative Literature, XXI. Congress of the ICLA International Comparative Literature Association, University of Vienna, Vienna/Austria, 21.-27.7.2016.

Guestlecture by Prof. Dr. Rotraud von Kulessa (Universität Augsburg, Germany): EUFORA - Europe in the Foreign Gaze of Contemporary Transcultural Arts and Literature. Vision and Perspectives for a Transcultural Europe, project presentation in the frame of the EU-program of the "Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation EU Framework Programme" ("CULT-COOP-04-2017: Contemporary histories of Europe in artistic and creative practices"), proposal meeting for a common project of Prof. Dr. R. von Kulessa and Prof. Dr. D. Reichardt for the European Commission, with the participation of Rector Prof. Dr. Rūta Muktupāvela, Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Pēteris Krilovs, and the Responsible for creative projects at the Research Centre Prof. Zane Kreicberga, organized by the Latvian Academy of Culture, coordinated by Dagmar Reichardt, Latvian Academy of Culture, Ludzas iela 24, Riga, Latvia, Room 28, main building, 2nd floor, 25.04.2016, 10:30-11:30 h.

Musicking: Performance, Politics & Personalities, First International Conference of the Oregon University School of Music and Dance, Eugene/Oregon, Collier House – University of Oregon/USA, 12.-16.4.2016, 

Deutscher Italianistentag 2016, title of the conference: Serialität - Reihen, Fortsetzungen, Folgen/Serialità - collane, continuazioni, puntate, Universität Halle-Wittenberg, organized by DIV - Deutscher Italianistenverband, 3.-6.3.2016.

2015

Rethinking Cultural Memory 1700-1850, international conference organized by The Nordic Association of Romantic Studies NARS and the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen/Denmark, 4.-5.12.2015.

Directed the panel "Uso letterario delle lingue e del dialetto", International Conference Écrire entre les langues - Scrivere tra le lingues, Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier III, Montpellier/France, 19.-20.11.2015

Anni di piombo (Olomévek), International Conference at the University of Debrecen/Hungary, 21.10.2015.

Intercultural Encounters, public workshop in occasion of the "Masterclass Interculturality: Traveling Concepts and Moving Cultures", co-organized by Dagmar Reichardt, Mieke Bal and Einar Petterson, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR), in cooperation with University of Amsterdam, University of Oslo, and Fondation Erica Sauter Genève, Rome/Italy, 8.10.2015

Directed the panel on "Pier Paolo Pasolini", International Conference Anni di Piombo, University of Debrecen, Debrecen/Hungary, 21.10.2015.

International Conference Italy as an Inspiration for Writers and Painters/Sculptors from Northern Europe and the USA: North European Authors' and Painters' Letters from Italy, organized by Prof. Randi Langen-Moen, Università di Bologna (Dipartimento di lingue, letterature e culture moderne), Hotel National, Rimini/Italy, 11.-17.9.2015.

Aspects of Classical Antiquity in the Work of Giuseppe Bonaviri (1924-2009) - Aspetti di classicità antica nell'opera di Giuseppe Bonaviri (1924-2009), International Symposium initiated, directed and organized by Dagmar Reichardt, co-organized by Université de Genève (Faculté des Lettres), Fondation Hardt (Vandoeuvres) and Fondation Erica Sauter (Vésenaz/Genève), Vandoeuvres/ Switzerland, 2.-3.7.2015.

Baldassarre, Marco: "Alla Fondazione Hardt di Ginevra un simposio dedicato allo scrittore siciliano Giuseppe Bonaviri", in: La Sicilia, 13.07.2015, p. 22.

Fondation Erica Sauter: "Internationales Symposium zu Ehren des Schriftstellers Giuseppe Bonaviri", in: Kultur-Port.de, 11.07.2015, http://www.kultur-port.de/index.php/kunst-kultur-news/11793-internationa....

Photos and title display, in: Dante Marianacci - Una vita per la cultura tra creatività e impegno professionale, edited by Angelo Piero Cappello, Simone Gambacorta and Franco Di Tizio (Ed.), vol. 5 of the book series Monografie e Saggi edited by Federica Di Pasquale, Silvi Marina (TE)/Italy: Ianieri Edizioni, 2020, pp. 771-774. 

Angela Marina Strano: Sospeso tra realtà e magia: Bonaviri, chi è il siciliano che sfiorò il Nobel per la letteratura. Impressionante la mole delle sue opere, dai romanzi alle poesie, alla saggistica, al teatro. Costantemente fuori dal coro e forse per questo apprezzato più all'estero, in: Balarm, 30.10.2021 [mentioning Dagmar Reichardt's activities promoting the work of Giuseppe Bonaviri with three congresses held in Geneva, Vienna and Budapest].

International Conference Il traduttore errante: figure, strumenti, orizzonti, organized by Anna Tylusinska, University of Warschau, Istituto di comunicazione specialistica e interculturale, in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute in Warschau, Warschau/Poland, 10.-11.4.2015.

2014

U4 Workshop Concepts and Tools in Cultural Transfer Research. Case: World Literature and Small Literatures. About territories, interfaces and images, organized by Petra Broomans (University of Groningen), University Hotel, Groningen, The Netherlands, 11.-12.12.2014.

Worlds colliding. National & immigrant minority experience in documentary film & literature, featuring guest speakers Tasha Hubbard (filmmaker, University of Saskatchewan), Vamba Sherif (author of The land of the fathers and The witness), Petra Broomans (University of Groningen), organized and introduced by Jeanette den Toonder (Center for Canadian Studies, University of Groningen) and Dagmar Reichardt (Department of European Languages and Cultures, University of Groningen), Van Swinderen Huys, Oude Boteringestraat 19, Glazen Zaal, Groningen, The Netherlands, 09.12.2014. 

Digital Humanities Day 2014, workshop Using Social Media Data in Research, Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Groningen, multimedia room 1313.0257, The Netherlands, 31.10.2014.

Il caso italiano: violenza, memoria culturale e transculturalità (1990-2014), international congress organized by Dagmar Reichardt, Nora Moll, Rotraud von Kulessa and Franca Sinopoli, Villa Vigoni-Gespräch in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften im Rahmen einer Vereinbarung mit der DFG, Villa Vigoni Centro Italo-Tedesco per l'Eccellenza Europea/Deutsch-Italienisches Zentrum für Europäische Exzellenz, Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio/Italy, 8.-10.10.2014.

Directed the panel "Sezione 4: Il linguaggio della moda e del costume italiano", panel organized by Dagmar Reichardt and Carmela D'Angelo, XXI Congress of the Association AIPI - Associazione Internazionale dei Professori di Italiano, Est-Ovest/Nord-Sud. Frontiere, passaggi, incontri culturali, University of Bari/Italy, 27.-30.08.2014.

XXI Congress of the Association AIPI - Associazione Internazionale dei Professori di Italiano, Est-Ovest/Nord-Sud. Frontiere, passaggi, incontri culturali, University of Bari/Italy, 27.-30.08.2014.

Eurocall 2014. CALL Design: Principles and Practice, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 20.-23.8.2014.

The Medieval Self-Commentary: A Transnational Perspective, Fondation Hardt, Faculté des Lettres/University of Geneva, Vandoeuvres/Genève, Switzerland, 22.-23.07.2014.

Ars et Scientia (Animalia) Symposium, organized by Prof. Einar Petterson from the Faculty of Art History at the University of Oslo, The Norwegian Institute in Rome, Villa Sciarra, Viale XXX Aprile, Rome/Italy, 3.-4.6.2014.

2013

Character and Subjectivity in Film and Literature: A Transmedial Perspective, Symposium at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, Groningen/The Netherlands, 22.11.2013.

Sustainable Citizenship II. Citizens' Resilience in Times of Crisis, seminar organized by Sabrina Corbellini, Raingard Esser and Ruurd Nauta, University of Groningen, Academiegebouw, Van der Leeuwzaal, Groningen/The Netherlands, 20.-21.06.2013.

Mediterranean America. Interdisciplinary and plurilinguistic visions, international conference at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), co-organized with the University of Nantes (France) and the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre-Brasil), University of Groningen, Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5, Aula LE A7, Groningen/The Netherlands, 11.-12.06.2013.

Temptation Symposium, organized by Prof. Einar Petterson from the Faculty of Art History at the University of Oslo, The Norwegian Institute in Rome, Villa Sciarra, Viale XXX Aprile, Rome/Italy, 27.-28.5.2013.

2012

Directed the panel Cinema e letteratura (together with Alberto Bianchi, Wheaton College) on the occasion of the XX Congress of A.I.P.I. 2012 L’Italia e le arti: lingua e letteratura a dialogo con arte, musica e spettacolo, international congress of the Associazione Internazionale dei Professori d’Italiano (AIPI), Universität Salzburg, Salzburg/Austria, 05.-08.09.2012.

Directed panel Art and medical pedagogy and therapy of  the Ars et Medicina Symposium (Dana Gage: "The Use of the Play as a Model for Training Medical Students"), together with Knut Kvernebo, The Norwegian Institute in Rome, Villa Sciarra, Viale XXX. Aprile 33, Rome/Italy, organized by the Institute of Art History of the University of Oslo/Norway (Einar Petterson), 7.-.8.5.2012 and published as a podcast and on I-tunes on the website of the Ars et Medicina Symposium.

2010

Directed panel 1 of the International Symposium Dynamic Translations in the European Renaissance – La traduzione del moderno nel Cinquecento europeo, directed and organized by Philiep Bossier in cooperation with the Universities of Utrecht and Groningen, University of Groningen, USVA, Munnekeholm 10, Groningen/Netherlands, 21.10.2010, 9-12.30 a.m.

Settimana della lingua italiana (L’italiano degli altri), presentation: Dr. Dante A. Marianacci, organized by Istituto Italiano di Cultura Vienna, Vienna/Austria, 21.10.2010.

Le metamorfosi dell’humanitas nell’Europa della migrazione fra letteratura, medicina e società, international and interdisciplinary congress organized by: University of Bucharest, Universität Innsbruck, Regione Lazio, KIK – Culture in Contact, and the National Institute for Health, Migration and Poverty (NIHMP)/Istituto Nazionale per la promozione della salute delle popolazioni Migranti e il contrasto delle malattie della Povertà (INMP), Ospedale San Valicano, Trastevere, Rome/Italy, 20.-21.9.2010.

Directed the panel Traduzione e ricezione della letteratura e della cultura on the occasion of the XIX Congress of A.I.P.I. 2010 Insularità e cultura mediterranea nella lingua e nella letteratura italiane, international congress of the Associazione Internazionale dei Professori d’Italiano (AIPI), Università di Cagliari/Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Sala B, Cagliari/Italy, 28.08.2010, 9-11 a.m.

Directed the panel Insularità e letteratura on the occasion of the XIX Congress of A.I.P.I. 2010 Insularità e cultura mediterranea nella lingua e nella letteratura italiane, international congress of the Associazione Internazionale dei Professori d’Italiano (AIPI), Università di Cagliari/Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Sala B, Cagliari/Italy, 27.08.2010, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

XIX Congresso A.I.P.I. Insularità e cultura mediterranea nella lingua e nella letteratura italiane, University of Cagliari/Italy, 25.-28.8.2010.

Finzioni & finzioni: Illusione e affabulazione in Pirandello e nel modernismo internazionale. Fictions & Fictions: Illusion and storytelling in Pirandello and in international modernism, Universities of Louvain and Antwerp, Louvain and Antwerp/Belgium, 20.-22.05.2010.

Floss orde, Discussion Evening about liberal arts, Theaterzaal Blokhuispoort Leeuwarden, funded by the Province of Friesland, Leeuwarden/The Netherlands, 10.4.2010.

Film- en videokunstfestival RGB: Neighbors – Norway vs. Sweden, Theaterzaal Blokhuispoort Leeuwarden, funded by the Province of Friesland and the city of  Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden/ The Netherlands, 27.3.2010.

2009

L’italiano tra arte, scienza e tecnologia, presentation: Dr. Dante A. Marianacci, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Vienna, Vienna/Austria, 19.10.2009.

Leonardo Sciascia a commemorazione dei 20 anni dalla morte, Universiteit van  Amsterdam (Italiaanse Letterkunde), in cooperation with the foundation Fondazione Leonardo Sciascia, Amsterdam/The Netherlands, 11.06.2009.

XXIX Certamen Ciceronianum Arpinas, under the patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, funded by the Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca, the Ministero degli Affari Esteri, the region of Lazio, the province of Frosinone, the city of Arpino and the foundation Fondazione Umberto Mastroianni in Arpino/Italy, 15.-17.05.2009.

American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) Annual Conference 2009, St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus, New York/USA, 7.-10.5.2009.

Claudio Magris e la memoria dei luoghi, conference organized by the Dutch and Flemish Association of Italian Studies Werkgroep Italië Studies in occasion of Claudio Magris’ Writer-in-residence in Utrecht/The Netherlands, University of Utrecht/The Netherlands, 4.-5.2.2009.

Italia e Italie: identità di un paese al plurale, two-terms-lecture-cycle at Universität Innsbruck/Austria, (organized by Italien-Zentrum/Centro Italia), presentation: Prof. Wolfgang Pöckl, round-table concluding an international lecture-cycle on 28.1.2009.

2008

Giornata del lettore, in cooperation with the Ministero degli Affari Esteri/Italy, organized by Dr. Maria Carmela D’Angelo, University of Groningen, Offerhauszaal (Academiegebouw), Groningen/The Netherlands, 30.10.2008.

La lingua e la piazza nella letteratura italiana del Novecento, international conference in occasion of Settimana della lingua italiana, presentation: Dr. PhD Dante A. Marianacci, organized by Istituto Italiano di Cultura Vienna, Vienna/Austria, 20.10.2008.

Directed the panel Intersezioni nella storia della cultura europea on the occasion of the XVIII Congresso A.I.P.I. 2008 La penisola iberica e l’Italia: rapporti storico-culturali, linguistici e letterari, international congress of the Associazione Internazionale dei Professori d’Italiano (AIPI), Universidad de Oviedo/Facultad de Filologia, Sala C, Oviedo/Spain, 05.09.2008, 4-6 p.m.

Ugo Betti Today – L’attualità di Ugo Betti, international conference at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow/Great Britain, 24.-25.4.2008.

2007

6th European Meeting of University Professors on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaties of Rome (1957-2007): A new humanism for Europe. The role of Universities, International congress/part 2, organized by: Comitato Europeo dei Cappellani Universitari, Vicariato di Roma, Ufficio Pastorale Universitaria, under the patronage of: Presidente della Repubblica Italiana, coordination: Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae (CCEE), in collaboration with: Congregazione per l’Educazione Cattolica, Pontificio Consiglio per la Cultura, Commissione delle Conferenze Episcopali della Comunità Europea (COMECE), Commissione Europea, Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca, Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane (CRUI), Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta LUMSA, Rome/Italy, 21.-24.06.2007.

Reviewed in: „Letteratura, voce della storia europea. L’iniziativa della Pastorale Universitaria alla LUMSA“ (Laura Alfano), in: LUMSA News, year: VIII, no. 24, 20.06.2007, p. 5 [in Italian].

E vi arriva il... critico, conference at the Catholic University of Louvain (K.U. Leuven)/Belgium, Institute for Italian Language and Literature, organized by: Franco Musarra, with active participation of Roberto Benigni, Promotiezaal of the University of Leuven/Belgium, 03.02.2007.

2006

5th European Symposium of University Professors in preparation to the European Meeting of University Professors of 2007 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Rome Treaty: Europe, where are you going? Culture, peoples, institutions, International congress/part 1 (part 2 in June 2007), organized by: Vicariato di Roma, Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria, under the patronage of: Presidenza della Repubblica Italiana, in collaboration with: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca, Rappresentanza Italiana della Commissione Europea, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR, Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane CRUI,  Libera Università Maria Santissima Assunta LUMSA, Rome/Italy, 28.09.-01.10.2006.

XVII Congresso A.I.P.I. 2006 Tempo e memoria nella lingua e letteratura italiana, International Congress of the Associazione Internazionale dei Professori d’Italiano (AIPI), in collaboration with the Istituto di Ricerca su Letteratura e Società nelle Marche presso l’Università di Ascoli Piceno, University of Ascoli Piceno/Italy, 23.-27.08.2006.

Hamburger Vietnam-Tage, organized by the Institute for Asian and African Studies of the University of Hamburg (Institute for Vietnamese Studies), by the Hamburger Gesellschaft für Vietnamistik HGV and the Museum of Ethnology in Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut and Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg, 20.-21.05.2006, always 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

XXVI Certamen Ciceronianum Arpinas, under the patronage of the Republic of Italy and European Parliament, as part of the European poetry project Il libro di pietra directed by Dr. Giuseppe Bonaviri, supported by the 1st mayor of the city of Arpino/Italy On. Sindaco Fabio Forte, president of the Centro Studi Umanistici „M. Tullio Cicerone” Filippo Materiale and the president of the Fondazione Umberto Mastroianni in Arpino/Italy On. Massimo Struffi, 05.-07.05.2006.

2005

Psyche im Film: Film und Psychoanalyse, series of events in collaboration with Prof. Dr. med. et phil. Hinderk M. Emrich (University of Hannover), with the APH (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für integrative Psychoanalyse, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik Hamburg e.V.) and with its teaching professor Dr. Theo Piegler, Metropolis-Kino, Hamburg, 25.11.2005; 27.01.2006.

3. Transdisziplinäres Forum Magdeburg (Transforma # 3) Zeit, Raum, Agency – Time, Space, Agency, international conference of Magdeburg University Otto-von-Guericke, 15.-17.07.2005.

XXV Certamen Ciceronianum Arpinas, under the patronage of the Republic of Italy and European Parliament, as part of the European poetry project Il libro di pietra 2005 directed by Dr. Giuseppe Bonaviri, supported by the 1st mayor of the city of Arpino/Italy On. Sindaco Fabio Forte, president of the Centro Studi Umanistici „M. Tullio Cicerone” Filippo Materiale and the president of the Fondazione Umberto Mastroianni in Arpino/Italy On. Massimo Struffi, 07.-08.05.2005.

Michigan Academy 2005. French and Italian Language and Literature Panel, chair: Matthew Hilton-Watson, Annual Meeting, Eastern Michigan University, Ann Arbor/USA, 04.-05.03.2005.

2004

Transkulturalität in der Diaspora. Räume – Kulturen – Identitäten / Transculturality in the Diaspora. Spaces – Cultures – Identities, 2nd conference of INPUTS Bremen (Bremen University Institute of post-colonial and transcultural studies), Institut Français/Bremen, 25.-28.11.2004.

Italiens Literaturen und Kulturen, lecture series by the ZWB (Zentrum für Weiterbildung) in collaboration with the Italian Department of the University of Bremen, Teerhof, Bremen, 20.10., 27.10., 03.11.,10.11., 17.11., 24.11.2004, always 7:30-9 p.m.

Directed the 3rd panel Literarisierte Geschichtserfahrung in französischsprachigen Texten des 20. Jahrhunderts (with Elisabeth Arend and Elke Richter) at the Franco-Romance-Day on the general theme of Démocratie, littérature, langue – Demokratie, Literatur, Sprache, Freiburg University Albert-Ludwig, 29.9.-1.10.2004.

XVI Convegno A.I.P.I. 2004 Italia e Europa: dalla cultura nazionale all’interculturalismo, International Congress of the Associazione Internazionale dei Professori d’Italiano (AIPI), Jagiellonian University BOIN Kraków, Kraków/Poland, 25.-29.08.2004.

Congress of studies Traduzioni e traduttori di Bonaviri: omaggio a Bonaviri nell’ottantesimo compleanno, organized by the Dipartimento di Filologia Moderna dell’Università di Catania, patronage: Fondazione Giuseppe Bonaviri and the Comune di Mineo, Mineo/Italy, conference hall Casa Capuana, 11.-12.07.2004.

2. Transdisziplinäres Forum Magdeburg (Transforma # 2) Discourses of Violence – Violence of Discourses. Diskurse der Gewalt – Gewalt der Diskurse, international conference at Magdeburg University Otto-von-Guericke, 02.-04.07.2004.

Deutscher Italianistentag 2004 Retorica: Ordnungen und Brüche, Institute of Romance Studies of the University of Tübingen, 25.-27.03.2004.

2003

Mensch. Macht. Globalisierung. Globale Zukunftsfragen – Die politische und soziale Dimension, a weekly events series by the University of Hamburg, main building/Westflügel, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 30.10.2003-05.02.2004, daily 6-8 p.m.

XXVIII. Deutscher Romanistentag Kontinuität, Konkurrenz und Kompetenz. Was will die deutsche Romanistik?, Institute of Romance Studies of Kiel University Christian-Albrecht, 28.09.-03.10.2003.

Theatre of Cyborgs against the Empire. Dreitägiges Symposium in englischer Sprache im Rahmen von LAOKOON – Das Kampnagel-Sommerfestival, Theater Kampnagel Hamburg, 30.08. and 06.-07.09.2003, daily 2-6 p.m.

XVIII Congresso internazionale AISLLI (Cinquantenario dell’AISLLI, Consorzio di Università Belghe, Istituto Italiano di Cultura) Identità e diversità nella lingua e nella letteratura italiana, Universités de Louvain – Louvain-la-Neuve – Antwerpen – Bruxelles/Belgium, 15.-19.07.2003.

Transkulturelle Begegnungen, Bremen Colloquium for young academics, directed by Cecile Sandten and Öcal Cetin (later: Cecile Sandten, Kathleen Starck, Martina Schrader-Kniffki), University of Bremen in collaboration with the International University of Bremen IUB, 21.05.2003; 18.10.2003; 10.01.2004; 24.04.2004; 16.10.2004; daily 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Frederick II – Sicilian architecture and art at the time of the Hohenstaufens. Federico II – Architettura ed arti della Sicilia in età sveva. Friedrich II. – Architektur und Kunst Siziliens zur Zeit der Hohenstaufen, conference direction and presentation of the lecture series at the Württembergischen Landesmuseum Stuttgart, 14.05.2003 (organized by: Regione Siciliana in collaboration with the Consolato Generale d’Italia, the Istituto di Cultura Stuttgart, and the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart).

Frederick II – Sicilian architecture and art at the time of the Hohenstaufens. Federico II – Architettura ed arti della Sicilia in età sveva, photographic exhibition and lecture series, Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart, 14.05.2003.

Writing Europe – Europa schreibt. Was ist das Europäische an den Literaturen Europas?, European Symposium, Literaturhaus Hamburg, 26.-31.01.2003.

2002

Denkplatz Bremen. Literaturwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft?, University of Bremen, Gästehaus der Universität Bremen, 06.12.2002.

Zwischen Kontakt und Konflikt. Stand und Perspektiven der Postkolonialismus-Forschung, 1. Congress by INPUTS Bremen (Institut für postkoloniale und transkulturelle Studien der University of Bremen), Institut Français/Bremen, 15.-16.11.2002.

Empiriebegriffe und Forschungsmethoden in den Neueren Philologien, 14-day 4-term ring event by the department 10 (Department of linguistic and literary studies) of the University of Bremen, on tuesdays at 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m., (University of Bremen, GW 2, B2760), 21.10.2002-06.07.2004.

3. Franko-Romanisten-Kongress – 3e Congrès des Franco-romanistes allemands Sur les frontières... – Auf der Grenze..., RWTH Aachen, 25.-29.09.2002.

XV Congresso A.I.P.I. Lingue e letterature in contatto, Associazione Internazionale di Professori d’Italiano, Brunico/Italy, Casa Michael Pacher, 24.-27.08.2002.

Frederick II – Sicilian architecture and art at the time of the Hohenstaufens. Federico II – Architettura ed arti della Sicilia in età sveva, photographic exhibition and lecture series, Curio-Haus Hamburg, 27.-28.05.2002.

Frederick II – Sicilian architecture and art at the time of the Hohenstaufens. Federico II – Architettura ed arti della Sicilia in età sveva, congress direction and presentation of the lecture series, (organized by: Regione Siciliana in collaboration with the Consolato Generale d’Italia and the Istituto di Cultura of Hamburg as well as with the Curio-Haus Hamburg), Curio-Haus Hamburg, 27.-28.05.2002.

1. International Colloquium of Narratology Research, Was ist Narratologie?, Narratology Research Group, University of Hamburg, Warburg Haus, 23.-25.05.2002.

2001

2nd Day of Francophone Research organized by the Universities of Leipzig and Frankfurt a.M. on Zusammenhänge in der Frankophonie, Frankfurt University Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 16.11.2001.

Deutscher Italianistentag Metamorphosen, Institute of Romance Studies, Technische Universität Dresden, 08.-10.11.2001.

XXVII. Deutscher Romanistentag Die Einheit der Vernunft in der Vielzahl ihrer Stimmen, Institute of Romance Studies, München University, 07.-10.10.2001.

Conference at the 28th Edition of Premi Internazionali Flaiano La cultura italiana nel mondo. Condizione attuale e prospettive, under the patronage of the President of the Italian Republic and in collaboration with the Italian Department of the Exterior, Pescara/Italy, Fondazione Caripe, 12.-13.07.2001.

XVII. Young Romance Language and Literature Colloquium Konzepte der Nation: Eingrenzung, Ausgrenzung, Entgrenzung, Institute of Romance Studies, Frankfurt University Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 20.-23.06.2001.

Internet Event: Hamburger Urbino Chat Reply, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg and Institute of Romance Studies of the University of Hamburg, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Hamburg, 15.06., 22.06. and 06.07.2001.

2000

Maritim Musikwoche 2000, series of events and competion of music organized by the music festival Schleswig-Holsteinischen Musikfestival, in collaboration with the Academies for Music and Theatre in Lübeck, Hamburg and Rostock, funded by the Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung in Hamburg and the Maritim Hotel, Maritim Seehotel, Timmendorfer Strand, 10.-11.12.2000.

Stigma. Körperinschriften, Institute of Romance Studies, University of Hamburg, Warburg Haus, 06.-08.12.2000.

XVI. Young Romance Language and Literature Colloquium Körper und Schrift, Institute of Romance Studies, University of Leipzig, 14.-17.06.2000.

Paul Willems (1912-1997). Auteur de Théâtre – à découvrir, RWTH Aachen, Belgian library of the Institute of Romance Studies, 15.-19.05.2000.

1999

XXVII. Deutscher Romanistentag Romanistik: Geschichte und Auftrag, Institute of Romance Studies, University of Osnabrück, 26.-29.09.1999.

1997

bolisch. ana- amphi- dia- hyper- kata- meta- para- sym-, exhibition event by and with Michael Dörner, Hamburg, Kunstraum Elbschloß, 6.2.-16.3.1997.

1993

Conference and working group for a new edition of the title Manuale Italo-Tedesco. Deutsch-Italienisches Handbuch, round-table discussions at the Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio/Italy, 11.-14.04.1993.

1990

Bilancio e prospettive dei rapporti italo-tedeschi nei campi della politica, economia, giornalismo, educazione, scienza e cultura – Bilanz und Perspektiven der deutsch-italienischen Beziehungen in Politik, Wirtschaft, Journalismus, Bildung, Wissenschaften und Kultur, Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio/Italy, 16.-20.10.1990.

1989

Arbeiter und technischer Wandel in der Hafenstadt Hamburg, Institute of History and Institute for Political Science of the University of Hamburg, Hamburger Speicherstadt, 07.-08.07.1989.

1988

International conference on the occasion of the 125th foundation day of the Allgemeinen Deutschen Arbeitervereins ADAV Hamburg und die europäische Arbeiterbewegung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert – Erfolge und Grenzen im historischen Rückblick, Institute of History and Institute for Political Science of the University of Hamburg, Hamburger Speicherstadt, 25.-28.05.1988.