"Land der Frauen"? - Die "Übersetzung" von Gewalt, Geschlecht und Sprache in Literatur, lecture and book presentation organized together with Peter Lang Publishing Group, International Frankfurt Book Fair presenting Italy as the Guest of Honor 2024 ("Verwurzelt in der Zukunft" |"Radicati nel futuro" | "Roots in the Future"), Frankfurter Buchmesse, Braubachstraße 16, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, hall 4.0, booth G48, 18.10.2024, 14:30-15:30 h.
2024
Maraini & the "Translation" of Violence, Gender and Language in Literature
Literary Evening with Dacia Maraini
"Serata letteraria con Dacia Maraini in conversazione con Dagmar Reichardt", interview with Dacia Maraini (online via Zoom), organized, coordinated and moderated by Prof. Anastasija Gjurcinova, University SS. Cirillo e Metodio of Skopje, Italian Department, and the Ambassy of Italy in Skopje, in the frame of the 24th Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo, Europe House Skopje, Skopje, North Macedonia, 16.10.2024, 19:00-22:00 h.
Life and the Spectacle of Life: Toward the Centenary of Luigi Pirandello's "Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio"
Vita e spettacolarizzazione della vita. Verso il centenario dei Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio di Luigi Pirandello, morning panel directed by Dagmar Reichardt presenting 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.
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Sergio Di Giacomo, „Pirandello e il Cinema, esperti a confronto a Messina: domani l’importante Giornata di Studi nella sala dell’Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti. Interverranno docenti di varie Università italiane e estere“, in: Gazzetta del Sud, Messina, 28.4.2024.
N.N., „Oggi al Rettorato: Pirandello e il Cinema. Giornata di Studi“, in: Gazzetta del Sud, Messina – Sicilia, 29.4.2024.
Sergio Di Giacomo, „Fu geniale animatore del dibattito sul Cinema: uno degli aspetti meno conosciuti del grande Luigi Pirandello. A Messina un’intensa Giornata di studi con tanti esperti e docenti di livello internazionale“, in: Gazzetta del Sud, Messina – Sicilia, 5.5.2024.
Transcultural Cinema and the Pedagogy of Discomfort
"Dinamiche di coesione e collisione nel contesto delle esperienze migratorie autobiografiche nel terzo millennio: il Cinema transculturale e la Pedagogia del disagio al servizio dell'apprendimento dell'Italiano LS/L2", held together with Ada Plazzo, in the frame of the international congress 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, 26.4.2024, 17:30-17:50 h.
Sicilian Vital Wine and Fragrant Pickled "Tsukemono": the Matriarchal HERstory of Maraini Women
"Vino vitale siciliano e profumato tsukemono sottaceto: la HERstory matriarcale delle donne Maraini dal Risorgimento al postmodernismo", in the frame of the congress Cibo è/e donna nel Risorgimento letterario: miti e archetipi del nutrimento, directed by Rossella Palmieri, Università di Foggia, Aula Magna del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Via Arpi 176, Foggia / Italy (3.4.2024) and Sala Congressi, Residence Il Porto, Mattinata nel Gargano / Italy, (4.4.2024), held on 3.4.2024 at Università di Foggia / Italy, 15:00-18:30 h.
Rosa Balistreri: To the one Whose Passion is Never Estinguished
"Rosa Balistreri: A colei la cui passione non si spegne mai", greetings from Dagmar Reichardt read by Sicilian poet Piero Carbone on the occasion of the opening of the new library in the Rosa Balistreri Museum ("La casa di Rosa"), Centro Studi Cultura siciliana e mediterranea, Via Martinez 42, Licata / Italy, 21.3.2024, 10:30 h.
XIIIth Congress of the German Association of Italian Studies
"Triangulation im Klassenraum: Die kategorielle Wirkung auf die Weltkultur der 'minoritären' Fremdsprache Italienisch", 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, Teaching Methodology Section (Sezione: Didattica delle lingue | Sektion: Fachdidaktik), directed by Domenica Elisa Cicala and Andrea Klinkner, Albert-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg, 7.-9.3.2024, Freiburg im Breisgau, Platz der Universität, Faculty of Romance Studies (Fakultät Romanistik), KG I, HS 1221, 8.3.2024, 16:00-16:30 h.
2023
The Absence of Food as a Symptom of Collective Trauma in Times of War: From Calvino to Dacia Maraini
"L’assenza del cibo come sintomo di un trauma collettivo in tempi di guerra: Da Calvino resistenziale e il vuoto postmoderno al controdiscorso conviviale contemporaneo in Dacia Maraini", XVII International Congress Cibo, letteratura e oltre: un viaggio tra Italia, País Vasco e le visioni di Italo Calvino (i.e.: Food, Literature and Beyond: A Journey between Italy, País Vasco and the Visions of Italo Calvino), organized by: Área de Italiano, Departamento de Filología e Historia, Facultad de Letras (Universidad del País Vasco, EHU-UPV, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain), in cooperation with: Center for Italian Studies GLOBALIT (Louvain Research Center for Global and Comparative Studies, Université Catholique de Louvain UCL, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium) and the Italian Ambassy in Spain (Ambasciata d'Italia Madrid), Universidad del País Vasco, 10., 16. and 17.11.2023, (10.11.2023: Salón de grados; 16. and 17.11.2023: Aula Magna), Universidad Vitoria-Gasteiz, Vitoria, Basque Region/Spain, Aula Magna, Faculty of Literatures and Languages, 17.11.2023, 10:30-11:00 h.
How to Cope Creatively With Crisis in Times of Collective Trauma
On the Wings of Life: Transgenerational Bonds, Politics, and Art Therapy in Italy
"On the Wings of Life: Transgenerational Bonds, Politics, and Art Therapy in Italy", Section 1 Methodological Introductions: from Trauma to the Politics of Doing (moderated by Julia Pröll), lecture held together with Dr. Giuseppina Bonaviri (National Psychiatry Health Service, Frosinone, Italy) in the frame of the panel and all day seminar Posttraumatic and Postcolonial Aspects in the Arts and Their Multifaceted Connections to Therapeutic Parameters 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 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, 9:30-10:30 h.
Transculturalism - Heading for a New Postmigration Era
Transculturalism - Heading for a New Postmigration Era, in the frame of Journée d'études. La littérature européenne de la postmigration: théorie et cartographie, international symposium organized in the frame of the spring seminar of the research cluster ARC NarraMuse by Prof. Dr. Hubert Roland, Prof. Dr. Costantino Maeder, Dr. Amaury Dehoux (all: Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Collège Jacques Leclercq, Place Montesquieu 2, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Campus, whole day symposium, 10:00-17.30 h, Auditorium: MORE 54, 23.5.2023, 11:45-13:00 h.
2022
"The silhouette, hazy and reddish, of Italy": Pasolini's Last "Open Work"
"La sagoma, nebulosa e rossastra, dell’Italia – Zum 100. Geburtsjahr Pier Paolo Pasolinis: Porno-Theo-Kolossal, sein letztes Offenes Kunstwerk", presentation of the first, recently released German edition of Pier Paolo Pasolini's latest film project "Porno-Theo-Kolossal", with reading, film and conversation on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's birth (on March 5, 2022), with Reinhold Zwick (Universität Münster, Germany) and Fabien Vitali (independent researcher in Venice, Italy), the event was also livestreamed via the Istituto's YouTube channel and Facebook page, Italian Cultural Institute of Hamburg | Istituto Italiano di Cultura Hamburg, Hansastraße 6, 20149 Hamburg, Germany, 22.11.2022, 19:00 h.
Antonello da Messina 2022 Award
Presentation of the book Verga innovatore | Innovative Verga. L’opera caleidoscopica di Giovanni Verga in chiave iconica, sinergica e transculturale / The Kaleidoscopic Work of Giovanni Verga in Iconic, Synergetic and Transcultural Terms, collection of essays in three languages edited and with an introduction by Dagmar Reichardt and Lia Fava Guzzetta, with a preface by Rita Venturelli (Istituto Italiano di Cultura Amsterdam), vol. 1 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL), Frankfurt a.M. et al.: Peter Lang, 2016, 382 pp., presentation and discussion of the book held together with Lia Fava Guzzetta, promoted by CentoSicilie and Associazione culturale Antonello da Messina, on the occasion of the award ceremony of Premio Antonello da Messina 2022 | Antonello da Messina 2022 Award, Feltrinelli Point, Messina, Italy, 4.11.2022, 19:30-21:00 h.
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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.
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Bonaviri - A Revolutionary of the South
"Bonaviri, rivoluzionario del Sud: Il libro di pietra come modello per una nuova convivenza transculturale", lecture held in occasion of the international panel 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, 27.10.2022.
Rosa Balistreri and her “Cry for Social Revolution”
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Nicola Scardina: "Licata, cultural laboratory inaugurated: Casa di Rosa", in: NewSicily [Italian-English web-portal], 24.3.2024.
Nicola Scardina: "Rosa Balistreri – Erinnerung an die sizilianische Protestsängerin", in: Kultur-Port.De [German web-portal], 27.3.2024
The Symptomatic Encounter Between Verga and Zola
"Il sintomatico incontro tra Verga e Zola: prospettive interculturali e transmediali di una letteratura mondo / littérature monde", conference held with Angelo Pagliardini (Universität Innsbruck, Austria) in the frame of the congress 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, 1.-5.8.2022, 3.8.2022, 9:15-10:00 h.
Glocal Parameters of Sustainability in an Interconnected World
"Glocal Parameters of Sustainability in an Interconnected World: New Transcultural Configurations from a European Perspective", lecture held for the 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, 27.5.2022, 9:30-18:30 h.
L'Opera mondo di Giuseppe Bonaviri
"La scrittura glocale di Bonaviri romanziere, poeta e saggista", lecture held in the frame of the congress L'Opera mondo di Giuseppe Bonaviri, organized by Centro Studi Internazionale Giuseppe Bonaviri, in the frame of the Anno Bonaviriano 2022/2023 -Verso il centenario della nascita, moderated and presented by Luigi Saitta, Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma, Via Padova 92, 00161 Roma, 21.3.2022, 9:00-13:30 h.
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Massimiliano Perrotta, "Bonaviri merita di essere riletto, ripensato, reinventato", in: Huffington Post, (Cultura), 20.3.2022, online: https://www.huffingtonpost.it/cultura/2022/03/20/news/bonaviri_merita_di....
Centro Studi Internazionale Giuseppe Bonaviri: "Verso il centenario della nascita: L'Opera mondo di Giuseppe Bonaviri", in: La Repubblica, (inserto "Focus Cultura"), 20.3.2022.
Transkulturalitätsparameter im Italienischunterrricht
"Zur Nutzung fremdsprachendidaktischer Transkulturalitätsparameter im Italienischuntericht als Zweit- und Fremdsprache", XII. Deutscher Italianistentag, Sektion Fachdidaktik, moderated and organized by Akad. Rätin PD Dr. Domenica Elisa Cicala (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) and Dr. Andrea Klinkner (Universität Trier), Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Institut für Italienische Philologie, Raum M 118, 10.-12.3.2022, 11.3.2022, 14-14:30.
International Women's Day 2022
"Maria Montessori's Transcultural Itinerary from Rome to the US, Spain and The Netherlands via India and Beyond", in the frame of the 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, USA, in collaboration with Dagmar Reichardt, Latvian Academy of Culture, 9.3.2022, 12:00-2:00pm EST (18:00-20:00pm Italy time).
2021
Maria Montessori: Scientific Pedagogy, Cosmic Education and Transcultural Language Teaching
"Maria Montessori: Dalla pedagogia scientifica ed educazione cosmica alla glottodidattica transculturale", held togehter with Ada Plazzo (Universidad del País Vasco), 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), 28.6.2021.
International Women's Day 2021
"Preview: The Many Translations of the Work of Dacia Maraini", 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., Zoom-meeting, 5.3.2021, 12:15-2:15 pm ET (18:15-20:15 Italy time), for the contribution of Dagmar Reichardt and Dacia Maraini's answer view minutes: 3:11:53' - 3:20:23'.
View the video with Dacia Maraini, video directed and event organized by Professor Michelangelo La Luna:
https://uri-edu.zoom.us/rec/share/CzjILeEIviwfJZebCaL2qKPyQBTjiNtapj_12e...
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2020
Giuseppe Bonaviri's "Book of Stone": A Blueprint for Literary Glocalization
"Giuseppe Bonaviri's Book of Stone (1984-2009): A Blueprint for Literary Glocalization", 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, Zürich, Switzerland, 19.-20.11.2020, 23.4.2021, via Zoom, 20.11.2020, 9:30-13:00 h.
Pasolini's Latest King
"Pasolinis letzter König", reading from the filmscript Porno-Theo-Kolossal (text by Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated from Italian into German by Dagmar Reichardt) by German actress Hannelore Hoger, Round Table with Reinhold Zwick (Universität Münster, Germany), Katholische Akademie (Catholic Academy Hamburg), Herrengraben 4 (St. Michaelis-Hof), 20459 Hamburg, Germany, 24.9.2020, 19 h. [postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic; originally announced for the 25.3.2020].
The Application of Transculturality in Foreign Language Teaching
"Zur Nutzung fremdsprachendidaktischer Transkulturalitätsparameter im Italienischunterricht als Zweit- und Fremdsprache", XII. Deutscher Italianistentag Movimenti – Bewegungen (Movements), Panel Foreign Language Instruction (Sektion Fachdidaktik) directed by Prof. Donatella Troncarelli (Università per Stranieri di Siena) and PD Dr. Domenica Elisa Cicala (Katholische Universität Eichstätt), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Italienische Philologie, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München, Germany, 5.-7.3.2020, 6.3.2020 [postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic; new date t.b.a.]..
2019
Invective Discourses in Conflicts with Migrants
Discorsi di invettività nella letteratura, nel fumetto e nel cinema: Le dinamiche narratologiche e socialmente regolative nei conflitti di migrazione, International Conference Tagung TP-M: "Raccontare la denigrazione", organized by Technische Universität (TU) Dresden (Sonderforschungsbereich 1285: „Invektivität. Konstellationen und Dynamiken der Herabsetzung“), organized by Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Tiller, Dr. Antje Junghanß and Bernhard Kaiser M.A. (all: TU Dresden), 17.-19.10.2019, Festsaal im Rektorat, Mommsenstraße 11 / Wiener Straße 48, Dresden, Germany, 18.10.2019, 11:15-12:00 h.
Transcultural Parameters for Italian Language Teaching (LS/L2)
Parametri transculturali per la didattica dell'italiano LS/L2, 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, Panel Glottodidattica, Room "Sala 3", Skopje, Macedonia, 27.9.2019, 16:15-17:45 h.
Modalità euristiche e "modus vivendi" transculturale
Modalità euristiche e "modus vivendi" transculturale. Espressioni socioculturali violente attraverso l'ignoto ridicolizzato e l'"invisibile nascosto", XXIII Congresso ADI - Associazione degli Italianisti, Università di Pisa (Letteratura e scienze), in cooperation with Scuola Normale Superiore (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, Panel 11, 13.9.2019, 9:00-13:15 h.
The Nonverbal Language of Italian Fashion
"The Nonverbal Language of Italian Fashion", 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), Ming Chuan University, No. 1, Section 4, 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, Conference Room J317, 15.-17.8.2019, 16.8.2019, 15:30-15:45 h.
Transdisciplinary Communication and Culture
"Transdisciplinary Communication and Culture", meeting with the Senior Advisor to the Minister of Culture Fawaz A. Farooqui, Ministry of Culture KSA, King Faisal Road, Al Diriyah, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 24.7.2019, 14:00-15:30 h.
The Pro-Minorities and Post-Materialist Movement in Italy
"Maraini and Pasolini – Transcultural Gender Roles in the Heterotopian Vision of the Pro-Minorities and Post-Materialist Movement in Italy", Biennial Conference 2019 of the Society for Italian Studies (SIS), lead organisers: Davide Messina and Federica G. Pedriali, 26.-28.6.2019, Panel 61 + Panel 71 directed by Maurizio Rebaudengo and Dagmar Reichardt, 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), University of Edinburgh, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Department of European Languages & Cultures, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LH, United Kingdom, 28.6.2019, 11:30 h-13:00 h.
Postcolonial Laughter in Italian Comics
"Le risate postcoloniali su invettive storiche: I racconti di lotta nel fumetto italiano", international conference about "Racconti di lotta / Relatos de lucha y de violencia", 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.
Verga Today: Round Table Discussion
Round table discussion about Les études sur Giovanni Verga en Europe aujourd'hui, conversation with Angelo Pagliardini (Universität Innsbruck), Alessandro Monachello (Université Paris 8/LER), Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro (Université Paris 8/LER), directed by Xavier Tabet (Université Paris 8/ LER), organized by Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro, in cooperation with Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Maison de l'Italie - Cité Internationale Universitaire, 7A boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris 14e, France, 27.3.2019, 18:00-20.00 h.
Dacia Maraini presents her latest novel "Corpo felice"
Dacia Maraini: Buchvorstellung und Gespräch. "Corpo felice. Storie di donne, rivoluzioni e un figlio che se ne va" (Dacia Maraini presents her latest novel "Corpo felice. Storie di donne, rivoluzioni e un figlio che se ne va"), a book presentation and conversation introduced and directed by Dagmar Reichardt, organized by and in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Rotraud von Kulessa, Universität Augsburg, Faculty of History and Philology, venue at the public library Stadtbücherei Augsburg, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1, S-Forum, Augsburg, Germany, 28.1.2019, 18:00 h.
Read more (reviews, notices)
1) Dacia Maraini - Buchvorstellung und Gespräch, in: www.kultur-port.de, online: on 25.1.2019.
2) Read the announcement of this event on the homepage of the Latvian Academy of Culture,, online on 25.1.2019.
2018
Contingenza polifonica e "Transcultural Switching". Il duo lirico "Cavalleria rusticana" e "Pagliacci"
"Contingenza polifonica e Transcultural Switching. Il 'duo' lirico Cavalleria rusticana (1890) di Pietro Mascagni e Pagliacci (1892) di Ruggero Leoncavallo nella ricezione musicale globale dall’Ottocento al Terzo Millennio", Panel 2: Polifonia musicale – Le vie delle melodie italiane in un mondo transculturale, 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, Siena, Italy, Auditorium 8 (1st floor), 5.9.2018.
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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.
Little Italies in The Americas
“Little Italies in The Americas: Heterotopia Near and Far", International Conference AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian), Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Facoltà di Studi Umanistici, 20.-25.6.2018, panel 42 "Ovunque nel mondo: l'Italia, l'italiano e il sentirsi italiani (2)", organized by Colleen Ryan and Cinzia Marongiu (Indiana University), chair: Maurizio Rebaudengo (Convitto Nazionale "Umberto I", Torino) and Dagmar Reichardt (Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga), Facoltà di Studi Umanistici, Via San Giorgio 12, Campus Aresu, Cagliari, Italy, Aula 9, 22.6.2018, 15:00-16:40 h.
The Unbounded Destiny of Giovanni Verga's Heritage
“Il destino (s)confinante dell’opera verghiana nell’Italia post-1918 oltre le sponde, i confini e le frontiere di spazio e tempo", 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), chair: Pietro Trifone (University Tor Vergata Roma), University of Iceland, Brynjólfsgata 1, 107 Reykjavík, Veröld, Vigdís’ House, Iceland, 8.6.2018, 10:30-10:50 h.
Tutto Pasolini
“Tutto Pasolini: la sceneggiatura del San Paolo (1977)", Northeast Modern Language Association NeMLA, 49th Annual Convention "Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds", Local Host: University of Pittsburgh, Administrative Sponsor: University of Buffalo SUNY, 12.-15.4.2018, panel 9.22 "Il teatro e il cinema di Pier Paolo Pasolini: interpretazioni e analisi" (Italian and Comparative Literature), chair: Ugo Perolini (Università degli Studi G. D'Annunzio, Pescara) and Marco Marino (Sant'Anna Institute, Sorrento), Omni William Penn Hotel Pittsburgh, room Sternwheeler, Pittsburgh PA/Pennsylvania, USA, 13.4.2018, 13:15-14:45 h.
Poetry and Medicine
"Migration und das Pennebaker Paradigma. Trauma und therapeutische Aspekte in der Lyrik des Dichters und Arztes Giuseppe Bonaviri", Medical Humanities-Tagung. Lyrik und Medizin, international workshop, organized by Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Universität Ulm, directed by Prof. Dr. Florian Steger, Gewölbesaal im Haus der Stadtgeschichte - Schwörhaus, Weinhof 12, Ulm/Germany, 20.-22.3.2018.
2017
The Transcultural Language of Fashion
"The Transcultural Language of Fashion: The Italian Habitus and Today's Nomadic Lifestyle", section "Transkulturelle Lebenswelten / Transcultural Life-Worlds", panel 20 "Diversity and Otherness in Corporealities" organized by Lisa Gaupp and Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer, International Conference Bewegende Körper / Bodies in Motion, 3. Jahrestagung der kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (KGW) / Third Annual Conference of the German Society for Cultural Studies, 200 Years Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, Ghent/Belgium, room 160.015, 18.11.2017, 11:30-13:00 h.
Tradizioni e traduzioni nomadi: Jhumpa Lahiri
"Tradizioni e traduzioni nomadi: Jhumpa Lahiri", international congress In limine. Frontiere e integrazioni, organized by Diego Poli, section about "Spazi liminali e la scrittura al femminile" within panel 5 ("Le frontiere linguistiche e i processi di integrazione"), co-organized by Carla Carotenuto, Università di Macerata, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - lingue, mediazione, storia, lettere, filosofia, Auditorium UNIMC, Via Padre Matteo Ricci 2, Macerata/Italy, 10.11.2017, 15 h.
Maraini: Le traduzioni e strategie editoriali in area germanofona
"Le traduzioni e strategie editoriali in area germanofona", 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 and Maria Belén Hernández Gonzalez, Forum Austriaco di Cultura, Viale Bruno Buozzi, 113, Rome/Italy, 15.10.2017, 12.15-13.00 h.
Read more (reviews, notices)
"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.
Il mito "terra madre" nella letteratura della migrazione afro-italofona
"Discorsi di maternità e il mito 'terra madre' nella letteratura della migrazione afro-italofona contemporanea", International congress Dynamik, Begegnung, Migration, organized by 35. Romanistentag des Deutschen Romanistenverbandes, panel 2 "Unerhörte Stimmen aus der Afro-Romania: Genderdiskurse im Kontext von Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung 'nach' der Migration" organized by Julia Borst, Stephanie Neu-Wendel, Juliane Tauchnitz, and Maria Zannini, Universität Zürich UZH, Zürich/Switzerland, 8.-12.10.2017.
The Anxiety of the Migrant
"The Anxiety of the Migrant in the Work of Giuseppe Bonaviri and its Transcultural Therapy", 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, in partnership with the Kone Foundation, the Finnish Literary Association (KTS) and the Dystopian project, Panel Framing New Identities through Fear, Insecurity and Anxiety in Contemporary European Literatures: Provocative Case Studies / Délimiter de nouvelles identités à travers la peur, l'insécurité et l'anxiété dans la littérature européenne: étude de cas provocateurs directed by Franca Sinopoli, University of Helsinki, Building Porthania, room P673, Helsinki/Finland, 23.8.2017, 11.30-13.30 h.
Pirandello & The Pennebaker Paradigm
"Pirandello and The Pennebaker Paradigm. Cultural trauma and postcolonial therapies", 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, Panel "Sessione Speciale Pirandello", in the frame of the lecture-series "Pirandello International 2017. Pirandello in un mondo globalizzato. Nuovi approcci nel contesto dei cultural turns" on the occasion of the 150 Anniversary of Pirandello's year of birth organized by Europäisches Pirandello Zentrum e.V., University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Club Olives and Plates, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa, 11.8.2017, 13:00-16:20 h.
Rooted in Rome: Jhumpa Lahiri
"Rooted in Rome: the transcultural switch in the nomadic Italophone writing of Jhumpa Lahiri", 9th Biennial ACIS Conference "Scontri e incontri": The dynamics of Italian transcultural exchanges, Monash Prato Centre, 4-7 July 2017, sponsored and organized by the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS), Monash University and La Trobe University, Panel Crossing points and subversion, Prato/Italy, 5.7.2017, 16-17.30 h.
Collaborative Translation and Research
"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.
Verism - Neorealism - New Realism: Giovanni Verga
"Verismo - Neorealismo - Nuovo Realismo. Transcultural Aspects in the Work of Giovanni Verga", A.A.T.I. American Association of Teachers of Italian - International Conference Abroad, 28.6.-2.7.2017, Panel n. 74: In Search of a "Sicilian" Identity - From Verga to the Present, Università di Palermo, Polo didattico dell'Università, Aula 8, Palermo/Italy, 1.7.2017, 15.00-16.40 h.
"Le Silhouette": 100 Years of Magda Szabó
"Moda - Arte - Gender. Amicizie 'all’italiana': la moda come ponte transculturale tra l’Italia e il mondo", 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.
Read more (reviews, notices)
"100 Jahre Magda Szabó: Weibliche Silhouetten in Mode, Kunst und Literatur", Lettische Kulturakademie, section "News" ("Forschung + News"), 25.5.2017, http://kulturmedien-riga.de/news/forschung/91-100-jahre-magda-szab%C3%B3-weibliche-silhouetten-in-mode,-kunst-und-literatur.html.
Canzoni nomadi: Etta Scollo
"Canzoni nomadi tra i generi e le culture: le migrazioni musicali della cantautrice Etta Scollo", 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.