2026

Give and Take: Transdisciplinary Spaces of “Cohesive Netting” From Glocal History to Digitalization, Augmented Realities, and AI-Techniques, 1st International Congress of Transcultural Studies [formally the very first international conference on the research field of Transcultural Studies ever held in Latvian academia], initiated, co-organized and presented by Dagmar Reichardt (Latvian Academy of Culture, Latvia), Raffaele Tumino (University of Macerata, Italy), and Costantino Maeder (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Latvian Academy of Culture, opening (on 30.6.2026): Latvian Academy of Culture’s Theatre House “Zirgu Pasts”, Dzirnavu iela 46, Riga, Latvia, following two congress days (1.-2.7.2026): Radisson Blu Latvija Conference Hotel, Sigma room, Elizabetes iela 55, Riga, Latvia, 30.6.-2.7.2026, 9:00-17:00 h.

Announcements and reviews:

  1. Original Latvian-language link, website of the official Latvian Ministry of Culture, Riga, Latvia, 10.6.2026, online: https://www.km.gov.lv/lv/jaunums/riga-notiks-2-starptautiskais-transkulturalo-studiju-kongress-dot-un-nemt-kohezijas-tiklu-starpdisciplinara-telpa.
  2. Official English-language link, website of the Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga, Latvia, 15.6.2026, online: 2nd International Congress of Transcultural Studies in Riga - Latvian Academy of Culture.
  3. Official Latvian-language link, website of the Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga, Latvia, 15.6.2026, online: Rīgā notiks 2. starptautiskais transkulturālo studiju kongress “Dot un ņemt: “Kohēzijas tīklu” starpdisciplinārā telpa” - Latvijas Kultūras Akadēmija.
  4. Official announcement for the German speaking area in English, website of Romanistik.De, Germany, department "Aktuelles", 15.6.2026: https://romanistik.de/aktuelles/9148. 
  5. Official announcement for the German speaking area in German, website of the Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga, Latvia, Faculty of Intercultural Communication and Foreign Languages, 15.6.2026:  https://www.kulturmedien-riga.de/news/forschung/257-2-internationaler-kongress-%C3%BCber-transkulturelle-studien-in-riga.html.
  6. Official announcement for the Italian speaking academic community on the website of AIPI Associazione Internazionale dei Professori di Italiano in Italian language, department "Bandi - Convegni: Italianistica nel mondo", 18.6.2026: https://www.infoaipi.org/italianistica-nel-mondo/bandi-convegni/.
  7. Facebook event, published by the Latvian Academy of Culture: https://fb.me/e/7gi2Ol9cS.
  8. LinkedIn post and event announcement, published by the Latvian Academy of Culture: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kulturasakademija_the-2nd-international-congress-on-transcultural-activity-7470399777206312962-cOlx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAEdilKcBbygt_nTt3-xxqc-JO1Eq8W_dfjg.

2025

"Strategie sovversive nei language memoirs", (Panel C - Italian language, part 1 + 2),  half day panel co-directed by Dagmar Reichardt and Simona Bartoli-Kucher (Universität Graz, Austria), presented by Ada Plazzo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Tiziana de Rogatis (Università per Stranieri di Siena), in the frame of the International Congress From Experiences to Storytelling of Postmigration: Reinventing the Narratives of the Self and the World in Pluralistic European Societies organized by NarraMuse and Université Catholique de Louvain, 17-19.9.2025, Université Catholique de Louvain, Collège Jacques Leclercq, Place Montesquieu 1, Bte L2.08.01, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Room "La Faîtière", 18.9.2025, 14.00-17:30 h.

"Discourses of Homing, Belonging, and Dwelling after Traumatic Experiences: Application Examples of Art Therapy in the EFAT Congress Volume Growing Together", Roundtable Discussion about Clinical and Social Responsabilities of Art Therapists directed by Dagmar Reichardt, Julia Pröll and Sarit Zeltzer, in the frame of the 3rd International EFAT Congress Between & Beyond Creativity and Destruction – The Role of Art Therapy in Affecting Personal and Social Transformation, Brunel University London, London, Uxbridge, 2.–4.7.2025, Kingston Ln, London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom (GB), ESGW Auditorium, 3.7.2025, 11:00–12:30 h.

View the website of EFAT
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Borderlands, Mobility, and Rights in the Age of Glocalization: Transculturality as a (Re-) Constructive Method | Terre di frontiera, mobilità e diritti nell’era della glocalizzazione. La transculturalità come metodo (ri-) costruttivo, 1st International Congress of Transcultural Studies [formally the very first international conference on the research field of Transcultural Studies ever held in Italian academia], initiated, co-organized and presented by Dagmar Reichardt (Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga), Raffaele Tumino (University of Macerata), and Simone Betti (Dean of the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism Sciences, University of Macerata), Università di Macerata, Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, dei Beni Culturali e del Turismo, Polo Didattico Luigi Bertelli, Aula Magna, Via Luigi Bertelli 1, Macerata, Italy, 9.-10.4.2025, 9:30-19 h.

  1. "Internationale Konferenz zum Forschungsgebiet der Transkulturellen Studien", Lettische Kulturakademie Riga / Internationales Medien- und Kulturmanagement (website: kulturmedien-riga.de), 1.4.2025, online: https://www.kulturmedien-riga.de/news/forschung/246-internationale-konferenz-zum-forschungsgebiet-der-transkulturellen-studien.html.
  2. "Events: Internationale Konferenz zum Forschungsgebiet der Transkulturellen Studien in Italien", KulturPort.De - Follow Arts, 2.4.2025, online: https://www.kultur-port.de/live/78-events/19617-internationale-konferenz-zum-forschungsgebiet-der-transkulturellen-studien-in-italien.html.
  3. "Primo convegno internazionale sul campo di ricerca degli Studi Transculturali in Italia", AIPI - Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano, 5.4.2025, online: https://www.infoaipi.org/news/dettaglio/?id=113.
  4. "1st International Conference on the Research Field of Transcultural Studies in Italy", AATI - American Association of Teachers of Italian, Newsletter announcement, 8.4.2025.
  5. "Transculturazione e diritti globali, il primo convegno a Unimc", Cronache Maceratesi, 7.4.2025, online: https://www.cronachemaceratesi.it/2025/04/07/transculturazione-e-diritti-globali-il-primo-convegno-a-unimc/1947750/.

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.

 

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).

2021

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.

2020

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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 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.

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.

"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.

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.

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].

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.

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

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

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].

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

2004

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.

2003

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).

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.