Lectures

“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.

"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. 

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

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

"Dacia Maraini e lo scrivere meandrico", IX Congreso Internacional AUDEM Mujeres de letras: pioneras en el arte, ensayismo y la educación, Sección A - Ensayistas y literatas: Escritoras de ensayo y otros géneros que han aportado obras relevantes a la historia de la literatura, coordinated by Elena Meseguer and Isabel Guardiola, Facultad de Letras - Universidad de Murcia, Murcia/Spain, 20.-21.10.2016, 21.10.2016, 9.30-10.40 h.

"Johann Friedrich Reichardt’s Mignon: from an educational Kunstlied to a transcultural vision", First International Conference of the Oregon University School of Music and Dance Musicking: Performance, Politics & Personalities, Opening Panel "Romanticism and Historical Performance Practice", 12.-16.4.2016, Eugene/Oregon, Collier House – University of Oregon/USA, 13.4.2016.

"Migrazione - discorsi minoritari - transculturalità: il caso di Jhumpa Lahiri e le relazioni italo-indiane nella cultura e nella letteratura contemporanea italofona", International Conference "Écrire entre les langues - Scrivere tra le lingue", Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier III, Montpellier/France, 19.-20.11.2015

"What is Transculturality?", public lecture held during the workshop "Intercultural Encounters" of the "Masterclass Interculturality: Traveling Concepts and Moving Cultures", co-taught with 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

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

"Cultures in Motion: Transculturality", U4 Workshop Concepts and Tools in Cultural Transfer Research. Case: World Literature and Small Literatures. About territories, interfaces and images, in collaboration with the Universities of Ghent, Göttingen and Uppsala, 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. 

"Moda è arte: Fashion Made in Italy", initiated, introduced and 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.

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

„Dal Gattopardo a Benvenuti al sud. Costanti e particolarità cinematografiche del meridione”, panel „Cinema e letteratura” (Alberto Bianchi, Wheaton College), International congress XX Congresso A.I.P.I. L’Italia e le arti: lingua e letteratura a dialogo con arte, musica e spettacolo, University of Salzburg, Salzburg/Austria, 05.-08.09.2012.

„The doctor as poet – The poet as doctor. Trauma, therapeutic autobiography and the power of literature”, Ars et Medicina Symposium, 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, published as a podcast and on I-tunes on the website of the Ars et Medicina symposium.

„Bonaviri terapeuta. Letteratura di migrazione e scrittura empatica”, international and interdisciplinary congress Le metamorfosi dell’humanitas nell’Europa della migrazione fra letteratura, medicina e società, 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.-21.09.2010.