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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.

„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.

Dagmar Reichardt held her lecture abou Glocal Parameters of Sustainability in an Interconnected World: New Transcultural Configurations from a European Perspective in the frame of the workshop about 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, Italy, and Université Paris Nanterre, France. The lecture was part of the Jean Monnet / Erasmus Project Transcultural Europe in the Global World (TransEU), moderated and presented by Franca Sinopoli (left) and Silvia Contarini (right), with the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and took place in the Aula Organi Collegiali (Aula del Rettorato), Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, on 27.5.2022. View Dagmar Reichardt's talk by following the YouTube link indicated below (minutes: 1:53:30'-2:28:00'). 

This lecture lead to Dagmar Reichardt's publication of her essay about European Paths to World Culture, Culture Mapping, and the VUCA Effect: Transcultural Reconfigurations of the Relations between Italy and Germany (in the volume: Transculturalità: un concetto operativo in Europa?, edited by Franca Sinopoli & Silvia Contarini, Studi Transnazionali / Transnational Studies, vol. 6, Roma, Lithos, 2023, pp.  37-61).

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.

„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.