On the opening of the 1st International Conference on the Research Field of Transcultural Studies in Italy dealing with the bilingual (English | Italian) topic 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, 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), the leading contemporary researcher of Transcultural Studies and German philosopher Prof. em. Dr. phil. Wolfgang Welsch was awarded the Academic Seal of the University of Macerata in recognition of his intellectual, publicistic and research achievements in the field of Transcultural Studies. Together with the Moroccan psychiatrist and anthropologist Rita el-Khayat, who was honored for her ongoing commitment to combating gender-based violence, both professors received this commendation on Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 in the Aula Magna of the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism Sciences at the Luigi Bertelli Educational Center of the University of Macerata, Italy, 9.4.2025.
Book preview of the title Le tante traduzioni dell'opera di Dacia Maraini: Studi, analisi e d approcci comparatistici con testi originali dell'autrice e con un laboratorio di traduzioni letterarie presented by Dagmar Reichardt, with a voice message and greeting by Dacia Maraini, co-organized by Peter Lang Publisher, 18.10.2024, 14:30-15:30 h, International Frankfurt Book Fair presenting Italy as the Guest of Honor 2024 ("Verwurzelt in der Zukunft" |"Radicati nel futuro" | "Roots in the Future"), Peter Lang Publisher, booth G48 in Hall 4.0.
Together with Peter Lang Group editor, Professor Dagmar Reichardt, the cosmopolitan author, poet and playwright from Italy Dacia Maraini gives a lecture (in German and Italian language) on the topic of "Land of Women"? - The "Translation" of Violence, Gender and Language in Literature ("Land der Frauen"? - Die "Übersetzung" von Gewalt, Geschlecht und Sprache in Literatur). - Meet one of Italy's most important voices and a feminist pioneer on Friday, October 18th, 2024, 2:30-3:30 p.m., at the International Frankfurt Book Fair presenting Italy as the Guest of Honor 2024 ("Verwurzelt in der Zukunft" |"Radicati nel futuro" | "Roots in the Future"), at booth G48 in Hall 4.0.
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https://www.peterlang.com/dacia-maraini-im-autorinnengespraech/
https://connect.buchmesse.de/newfront/sessions/4526
https://www.facebook.com/events/1057327236042677/?active_tab=discussion
https://www.infoaipi.org/news/dettaglio/?id=89
https://exilpen.org/dacia-maraini-autorinnengespraech-20241018/
"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.
In the frame of the symposium Vita e spettacolarizzazione della vita. Verso il centenario dei Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio di Luigi Pirandello, organized by Lia Fava Guzzetta, Giorgio Forni, Francesco Galatà and Maria Melania Vitale, special guest Prof. Pietro Frassica (University of Princeton) received the prize "Targa Antonello" granted by the Association Antonello da Messina in cooperation with the Rectorate of the Università di Messina, Accademia dei Pericolanti, Messina / Italy, 29.4.2024, 9:00 -18:00 h.
Narrazioni migranti di un mare transculturale. Riflessioni e pratiche per l'inclusione, co-teaching unit held together with Prof. em. Iain Chambers (Università L'Orientale Federico II di Napoli) coordinated by Professor Raffaele Tumino (Università di Macerata), online webinar at University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy, on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 for further preparing a prospective Transcultural Networking Program.
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.
First Meeting with Rector Prof. John McCourt (first foreign Rector of an Italian university) and Professor Raffaele Tumino, Co-Editor-in-chief of the Italo-English review Transculturale (Scientific periodical of ANVUR Area 10 - Class A) at the Rectorate of Macerata University, Italy, on Monday, November 20, 2023 preparing a prospective Transcultural Networking Program.
Opening endorsement by Dagmar Reichardt for the English version of the book by Carmine Abate, The Round Dance: A Novel, New Brunswick, Camden - Newark, New Jersey - London - Oxford, Rutgers University Press, 2023, with a foreword by Francesco Altimari, translated from Italian into English by Michelangelo La Luna (original title: Carmine Abate, Il ballo tondo, Milano, Mondadori, 1991).
„Giuseppe Bonaviri tra realtà e magia”, sub-section IV about the work of the poet, novelist and cultural mediator Giuseppe Bonaviri presented in the frame of Panel 3 Benvenuti al Nuovo Sud. Costellazioni, collaborazioni e trasformazioni transculturali at Università degli Studi di Palermo and directed by Dagmar Reichardt and Colbert Akieudji, 28.10.2022, 11.20 -13.20 h, in the presence of Bonaviri's daughter Giuseppina Bonaviri (author, psychiatrist and President of the Centro Studi Internazionale Giuseppe Bonaviri). The panel ended with a short concert (Il dialetto non è Sud) offered by Piero Carbone and Antonio Zarcone.
Presentation of Dagmar Reichardt as a new PEN club member in the association's own newsletter, "Neue Mitglieder: Dagmar Reichardt", in: PEN Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland, PEN Centre Germany, Newsletter 2/2022, edited by Helga Druxes and Hubert Dammer, pages 3, 7, 44, 46.
In July 2022, Dagmar Reichardt was elected member of PEN International, a worldwide non-governmental association of Poets, Essayist and Novelist including Playwrights, Editors and Writers of any form of literature, with over 140 autonomous International PEN Centers in Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North America. Originally founded in London in 1921, in formal consultative relations with UNESCO and Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, the PEN International emphasizes world culture, the freedom of intellectual expression, and engages for writers harassed, imprisoned or in exile for their views, regardless of nationality, race, color, or religion. Dagmar Reichardt was nominated member of the PEN Centre Germany (Exil PEN - PEN Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland), established in 1924 and based in Darmstadt, Hesse. The members of PEN International contribute good understanding and mutual respect between nations and people, doing their utmost to dispel all hatreds and to champion the ideal of one humanity living in peace and equality in one world. PEN members stand for the principle of unhampered transmission of thought within each nation and between all nations and are convinced that the patrimony of humanity at large, should be left untouched by national or political passion.
Read this news also in Italian language on the website of the International Association of Professors for Italian AIPI.
From November 3-4, 2022, the University of Messina held a two-day conference on the innovative writing techniques of the Sicilian veristic author Giovanni Verga (1840-1922), which ended with the presentation of the book Verga innovatore | Innovative Verga edited by Dagmar Reichardt and Lia Fava Guzzetta at the Cultural Center of the Feltrinelli bookshop on November 4th, 2022 at 19:30 h downtown Messina, Italy. The anthology had been published in 2016 as the inaugural volume of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies launched by Dagmar Reichardt (Peter Lang Publisher) in order to promote interdisciplinary networking and to contribute to the renewal of the research field of international Humanities. Several authors of the book, on the occasion of the centenary of Verga's death, now came from various countries to join the conference in Messina in order to discuss, deepen and advance the themes presented in the volume.
„Gli 'Spatriati' e il Sud”, interview with Mario Desiati (Strega Prize winner 2022) conducted by Dagmar Reichardt in the frame of the sub-section III about the transpositions of the south to the theatrical and cinematic stages in Italy presented in Panel 3 Benvenuti al Nuovo Sud. Costellazioni, collaborazioni e trasformazioni transculturali at Università degli Studi di Palermo directed by Domenica Elisa Cicala and Carmen Van den Bergh, the interview was conducted online connecting Berlin and Palermo, 28.10.2022, 9.00 -11.00 h.
"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. [for further details please visit the entry "Lectures 2022" on this website].
„La sagoma, nebulosa e rossastra, dell'Italia - Zum 100. Geburtsjahr Pier Paolo Pasolinis: Porno-Theo-Kolossal, sein letztes Offenes Kunstwerk”, short lecture in the frame of the book launch of Porno-Theo-Kolossal (German edition) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, together with Prof. Dr. Reinhold Zwick (Universität Münster, Germany) and Dr. Fabien Vitali (independent researcher), with a welcome greeting by the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Francesca Fazion and a public discussion with the audience, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Hamburg, Hansastr. 6, Hamburg, Germany, 22.11.2022, 19:00-22:00 h.
Prix Erica – European Media, Culture, and Science Award 2022, ceremony presented at the public theatre Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Kirchenallee 39, Hamburg, Germany ("Marmorsaal"), May 14, 2022 from 11.15 a.m. - 2 p.m., lifetime achievement award granted to Prof. Claus Friede, presented by the Director of the Hamburger Autorenvereinigung HAV Sabine Witt, with a laudatio by German actor Stephan Schad and a dedication by Dagmar Reichardt.
Piero Carbone - winner of the Prize Premio Nazionale Salva la tua lingua locale 2021 (section: Sicilian Dialect) together with his duetting band mate Antonio Zarcone - mentions Dagmar Reichardt's writings about the singer-songwriter Rosa Balistreri (1927-1990) and her revolutionary way of singing against ghettoization (thus tantamounting to a cry for sociocultural inclusion), on the occasion of the 5th edition of the Festival Salva la tua lingua locale - Pillole di dialetto, 5th edition 2022 (please click on minute 30' of the Youtube-video), S. Margherita di Belice, Palazzo Filangeri di Cutò, Italy, 26.8.2022, 21:30 h.
„Il dialetto non è sud”, concert by Piero Carbone (poet) and Antonio Zarcone (musician) in the frame of the Panel 3 Benvenuti al Nuovo Sud. Costellazioni, collaborazioni e trasformazioni transculturali at Università degli Studi di Palermo, directed by Dagmar Reichardt, Colbert Akieudji, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Laura Fournier, Michelangelo La Luna, and Carmen Van den Bergh, sub-section VII Circolazioni e “traduzioni” del Sud nelle arti e nei testi directed by Dagmar Reichardt and Carmen Van den Bergh, 29.10.2022, 9:00-12:30 h, presented to the public by Dagmar Reichardt.
