2026
Triangulation in the Classroom: The 'Categorical' Impact of Italian on World Culture
"Triangulation im Klassenraum: Die 'kategorielle' Wirkung der 'minoritären' Fremdsprache Italienisch auf die Weltkultur", in: Domenica Elisa Cicala & Andrea Klinkner (eds.), Categorie: formazione, trasformazione, interazione - Kategorien: Bildung, Wandel, Wechselwirkung II. Akten der Fachdidaktischen Sektion des Deutschen Italianistiktags 2024, volume 5 of the book series Italianistica - Testi e strutture - Strukturen und Texte edited by Domenica Elisa Cicala, Sarah Dessi Schmid, Marc Föcking, and Barbara Kuhn, Tübingen, Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, pp. 217-295.
Black and Italian Cultures in the Making of Multiethnic America
Cinzia Marongiu: Black and Italian Cultures in the Making of Multiethnic America: The Literary Relationships Between Italian Americans and African Americans in the Works of Kym Ragusa, Mary Bucci Bush, and Louisa Calio, volume 19 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2026, 208 pp.
Dacia Maraini "Translated" Through the Lens of Dagmar Reichardt
Luigi Saitta: "Dacia Maraini, eine der prägendsten Intellektuellen unserer Zeit", online publication on www.kultur-port.de, 8.1.2026.
In-Between of Easter Celebrations, the Eucharist, and the Eco-Trend: "Custonaci" Bread from Sicily
"Zwischen Osterfeierlichkeiten, Eucharistie und Öko-Trend: Custonaci-Brot aus Sizilien", authored by Dagmar Reichardt and Laura Spinelli, online publication on KulturPort.De, 3.4.2026.
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Nicola Scardina: "Il pane siciliano molto apprezzato in Germania", [news], 4.4.2026, online publication on: Ciurifood.it, https://www.ciurifood.it/pane-siciliano-molto-apprezzato-in-germania/.
Sicilian Bread Much Appreciated in Germany
Nicola Scardina: "Pane siciliano molto apprezzato in Germania", [online Italian commentary about Dagmar Reichardt's article, written in German: "Zwischen Osterfeierlichkeiten, Eucharistie und Öko-Trend: Custonaci-Brot aus Sizilien", KulturPort.De, 3.4.2026; cf. on this website under "Publications" < "Essays"], online publication on: CiuriFood [digital portal dedicated to Sicilian Culture and Lifestyle], 4.4.2026.
The Symptomatic Meeting Between Verga, a Sicilian Islander, and Zola, a Citizen of the World
"Il sintomatico incontro tra Verga, isolano siciliano, e Zola, cittadino del mondo: prospettive glocali di una letteratura mondo ovvero littérature monde", authored by Dagmar Reichardt and Angelo Pagliardini, in: Grazia Dolores Folliero-Metz, Maria Teresa Girardi & Christoph Oliver Mayer (eds.), Interazioni letterarie e artistische tra Italia e Francia. Per una nuova prospettiva sulla storia culturale italiana - Interactions littérarires et artistiques entre l'Italie et la France. Une nouvelle approche à la culture italienne - Literarische und künstlerische Interaktionen zwischen Italien und Frankreich. Ein neuer Zugang zur italienischen Kultur, volume 17 of the book series Mittelalter und Renaissance in der Romania edited by Lidia Becker, Elmar Eggert, Susanne Gramatzki and Christoph Oliver Mayer, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, pp. 187-219.
The Transcultural Paradigm Shift in Publishing History
"Da un neologismo all'inversione del canone. Il cambio di paradigma transculturale nella storia editoriale da Fernando Ortiz ad Armando Gnisci e Wolfgang Welsch", in: Editori. Agenti nascosti della canonizzazione, edited by Peter Kuon & Marina Pagano, Firenze, Cesati, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, vol. 64), 2026, pp. 37-46.
Wolfgang Welsch’s Masterstroke about the Transdisciplinarity of the Arts
"Transculturality as the 'Very Elixir of Human Existence': Wolfgang Welsch’s Masterstroke about the Transdisciplinarity of the Arts, the Mixed Character of All Cultures, and the Ambivalence of Human Civilization", in: Contemporary Aesthetics, [an international, interdisciplinary, peer- and blind-reviewed open-access online journal
of contemporary theory, research, and application in aesthetics], SYMPOSIUM, 24 (2026), 14.1.2026, pp. 141-152.
2025
"Corriere della Sera" Quotes Reichardt's Motivation for the Prix Erica Award to Dacia Maraini
N.N.: "Roma: Consegnato ieri il Prix Erica a Dacia Maraini", in: Corriere della Sera, 11.10.2025.
1st International Conference on the Research Field of Transcultural Studies in Italy
"Internationale Konferenz zu Transkulturellen Studien in Italien", online publication on www.kultur-port.de, 28.4.2025.
An Evening with Dacia Maraini and the Associazione Antonello da Messina
Dagmar Reichardt: "Ein Abend mit Dacia Maraini und der Associazione Antonello da Messina" [short news], online publication on KulturPort.De, 21.9.2025.
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- Second publication on the website of the Latvian Academy of Culture (Riga), 21.9.2025, Department of German Literature and Language: https://www.kulturmedien-riga.de/news/forschung/251-ein-abend-mit-dacia-maraini-und-der-associazione-antonello-da-messina.html.
Atmospheric Poems by Antonia Giacobbe
"Antonia Giacobbe: Gedichte Bis ins Herz des letzten Samens", [poems authored by Antonia Giacobbe presented and translated from the Italian into German by Dagmar Reichardt ], online publication on KulturPort.De, 13.6.2025.
Autobiographical Experiences of Migrants
"Dinamiche di coesione e collisione nel contesto delle esperienze migratorie autobiografiche del terzo millennio: il cinema transculturale e la pedagogia del disagio al servizio dell'apprendimento dell'italiano", in: Simona Bartoli Kucher, Nicola Locatelli and Tommaso Meozzi (eds.), Linguaggi per rinascere: autobiografie e incontri transculturali. Atti del convegno "Quo vadis, italiano 2024?". Università di Graz, 24-27 aprile 2024, Italiano LinguaDue, vol. 17, n. 1, OpenAccess publication, DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2037-3597/29079, 2025, pp. 265-283.
Award For Sicilian Excellence to Dacia Maraini in Rome
N.N.: "Antonello da Messina: A Roma il Premio alle eccellenze siciliane. Riconoscimento speciale a Dacia Maraini", online publication on: Scomunicando, 2.11.2025.
Dāvis Sīmanis – Film Director and Academy Rector in Riga
Dāvis Sīmanis – Regisseur und Rektor in Riga, [interview with the Latvian film director and Rector of the Latvian Academy of Culture Dāvis Sīmanis], online publication on KulturPort.De, www.kultur-port.de, 15.09.2025.
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Dāvis Sīmanis – Regisseur und Rektor in Riga - Lettische Kulturakademie Riga, News, on: Website of Kulturmedien-Riga.De, 15.9.2025.
Francesco Rosi: Cinema as a Life Experience – and a South Made of Celluloid
"Francesco Rosi: Das Kino als Leben – und ein Süden aus Celluloid", [translation from the Italian into German by Dagmar Reichardt of an interview with Gaetana Marrone conducted by Gloria Lauri-Lucente about the cinema of Italian film director Francesco Rosi], online publication on KulturPort.De, 21.5.2025.
Iain Chambers on the Painful Splinters of European Modernity
"Iain Chambers über die schmerzhaften Splitter der europäischen Moderne", book review authored by Gennaro Avallone (University of Salerno, Italy), translated and introduced by Dagmar Reichardt, online publication on www.kultur-port.de, 9.9.2025.
Networks of the Present
"Netzwerke der Gegenwart'", [column], op-ed article authored by Iain Chambers, translated from Italian into German by Dagmar Reichardt, online publication on www.kultur-port.de, 18.4.2025.
Olga Meerson - Blueprint of a "Visibly Invisible" Female Artist
"Olga Meerson: Blaupause einer 'sichtbar unsichtbaren' Künstlerin", online publication on: KulturPort.De, 17.7.2025.
Presentation of Reichardt's Volume About Dacia Maraini in Rome
Sergio di Giacomo: "A Roma il Premio Antonello alle eccellenze siciliane", in: Gazzetta del Sud, 5.10.2025.
Reichardt's Book on the "Indice dei libri del mese ottobre 2025"
Peter Lang (Press office release): "Presentazione del libro e premiazione di Dacia Maraini, 10 Ottobre 2025, ore 15:00", advertising banner on Indice dei libri del mese ottobre 2025 [Italy's monthly leading trade magazine for literature, announcing the Award Ceremony of the Prix Erica to Dacia Maraini in Rome on October 10th, 2025, initiated and co-directed by Dagmar Reichardt], October 2025.
Revisiting "The Hero's Journey"
"Revisiting The Hero's Journey against the Backdrop of a Timeless Vision Quest, a Postmodern Metaphor of the Unconscious and a New Concept of Purity", afterword in: Sarit Zeltzer, The Art of Feeling at Home: A Practical Mindfulness and Creativity Framework for Resilience and Growth after Trauma, volume 18 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface and an Afterword by Dagmar Reichardt, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2025, pp. 121-154.
Storytelling as Therapeutic Work with Psychiatric Patients
"E il verde ramo oscillò. Fiabe di folli (19999) di Giuseppina e Giuseppe Bonaviri: Lo storytelling come lavoro terapeutico con pazienti psichiatrici", in: Stefano Calabrese and Paola Villani (eds.), Narrazione e malattia, (Eterotopie n. 1061), Milano – Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, 2025, pp. 141-152.
The Art of Feeling at Home: A Practical Mindfulness and Creativity Framework after Trauma
Sarit Zeltzer: The Art of Feeling at Home: A Practical Mindfulness and Creativity Framework for Resilience and Growth after Trauma, volume 18 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface and an Afterword by Dagmar Reichardt, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2025, 158 pp.
The Birth of "Italophony"
"Die Geburtsstunde der Italophonie: Zur Nutzung fremdsprachendidaktischer Transkulturalitätsparameter im Italienischunterricht als Zweit-, Dritt- und Fremdsprache", book chapter in: Movimenti - Bewegungen I. Akten der Fachdidaktischen Sektion des Deutschen Italianistentags 2022, edited by Domenica Elisa Cicala, Andrea Klinkner, Tübingen, Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, (Italianistica 1. Testi e Strutture - Strukturen und Texte), 2025, pp. 215-251.
Transcultural Rites as the Base for Effective Healing Methods
"Transcultural Rites as the Base for Effective Healing Methods", preface in: Sarit Zeltzer, The Art of Feeling at Home: A Practical Mindfulness and Creativity Framework for Resilience and Growth after Trauma, volume 18 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface and an Afterword by Dagmar Reichardt, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2025, pp. 7-8.
Wolfgang Welsch: "Wir sind schon immer transkulturell gewesen"
"Wolfgang Welsch: 'Wir sind schon immer transkulturell gewesen'", [book review], online publication on www.kultur-port.de, 7.1.2025.
2024
Translations and Editorial Strategies of Dacia Maraini's Work in German-speaking Countries and Japan
"La traduzione è un meraviglioso ponte - Le traduzioni e strategie editoriali in area germanofona e in Giappone: l'Altro (la Germania), l'esotismo traumatico (il Giappone) e la riscrittura meandrica di Dacia Maraini", in: Dagmar Reichardt (ed.): Le tante traduzioni dell’opera di Dacia Maraini: Studi, analisi ed approcci comparatistici con testi originali dell’autrice e con un laboratorio di traduzioni letterarie, [proceedings of the International Symposium held on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of life and work in the fields of Italian literature, theater, culture and politics of Dacia Maraini at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura in Rome / Italy, 14th-15th October 2017, and completed in the year 2023 on the occasion of the 60th year after the publication of her second novel, The Age of Malaise - i.e. L’età del malessere (1963) - awarded the Formentor de las Letras Prize in Spain in 1962 for its publication in Italian and translation in 13 languages], featuring 30 illustrations and 3 registers summarizing the literary production of translation in tabular form, with editorial assistance from María Belén Hernández González, Giuseppe Barbaro, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Claus Friede, Anastasija Gjurčinova, Michelangelo La Luna, Monica Martinelli, Ada Plazzo, Maurizio Rebaudengo and Daria Rizzello, volume 16 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface by Dacia Maraini, with a Greeting by Igiaba Scego, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 157-263.
"Maria Stuart" by Dacia Maraini in its Literary Translation in German
"L'effetto Maraini e le SHeroes da lei create: premessa alla Maria Stuart di Dacia Maraini nella sua versione letteraria in lingua tedesca", in: Dagmar Reichardt (ed.): Le tante traduzioni dell’opera di Dacia Maraini: Studi, analisi ed approcci comparatistici con testi originali dell’autrice e con un laboratorio di traduzioni letterarie, [proceedings of the International Symposium held on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of life and work in the fields of Italian literature, theater, culture and politics of Dacia Maraini at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura in Rome / Italy, 14th-15th October 2017, and completed in the year 2023 on the occasion of the 60th year after the publication of her second novel, The Age of Malaise - i.e. L’età del malessere (1963) - awarded the Formentor de las Letras Prize in Spain in 1962 for its publication in Italian and translation in 13 languages], featuring 30 illustrations and 3 registers summarizing the literary production of translation in tabular form, with editorial assistance from María Belén Hernández González, Giuseppe Barbaro, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Claus Friede, Anastasija Gjurčinova, Michelangelo La Luna, Monica Martinelli, Ada Plazzo, Maurizio Rebaudengo and Daria Rizzello, volume 16 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface by Dacia Maraini, with a Greeting by Igiaba Scego, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 521-546.
"The Dialect is not Southern"
"Il dialetto non è Sud", introduction and footnotes by Dagmar Reichardt to a presentation of poems (texts by Piero Carbone, music by Antonio Zarcone), in: Benvenuti al Nuovo Sud. Costellazioni, collaborazioni e trasformazioni transculturali. Con interviste a Maria Attanasio e Mario Desiati. Con un saggio critico di Carmine Abate, edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro, Michelangelo La Luna, Colbert Akieudji, Carmen Van den Bergh, Firenze, Cesati, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, vol. 62), 2024, pp. 333-344.
Dacia Maraini: "Maria Stuart based on Friedrich Schiller - Two Acts"
"Maria Stuart" frei nach "Maria Stuart" von Friedrich Schiller - Zwei Akte, authored by Dacia Maraini, translated by Dagmar Reichardt, in: Dagmar Reichardt (ed.): Le tante traduzioni dell’opera di Dacia Maraini: Studi, analisi ed approcci comparatistici con testi originali dell’autrice e con un laboratorio di traduzioni letterarie, [proceedings of the International Symposium held on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of life and work in the fields of Italian literature, theater, culture and politics of Dacia Maraini at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura in Rome / Italy, 14th-15th October 2017, and completed in the year 2023 on the occasion of the 60th year after the publication of her second novel, The Age of Malaise - i.e. L’età del malessere (1963) - awarded the Formentor de las Letras Prize in Spain in 1962 for its publication in Italian and translation in 13 languages], featuring 30 illustrations and 3 registers summarizing the literary production of translation in tabular form, with editorial assistance from María Belén Hernández González, Giuseppe Barbaro, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Claus Friede, Anastasija Gjurčinova, Michelangelo La Luna, Monica Martinelli, Ada Plazzo, Maurizio Rebaudengo and Daria Rizzello, volume 16 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface by Dacia Maraini, with a Greeting by Igiaba Scego, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 547-579.
Elvira Mujčić About "The Language of Ana"
"Elvira Mujčić: 'Die Sprache von Ana'", [pre-translation from Italian into German of some fragments of the novel La lingua di Ana by author Elvira Mujčić], online publication on www.kultur-port.de, 11.5.2024.
Elvira Mujčić: "I Condense Times, Themes, Views"
"Elvira Mujčić: 'Ich verdichte Zeiten, Themen, Blicke'", [collaborative interview with author Elvira Mujčić and the organizers of the international congress Quo vadis, italiano 2024? at the University of Graz / Austria], online publication on www.kultur-port.de, 10.5.2024.
Giuseppe Bonaviri, a Revolutionist of the South
"Bonaviri, rivoluzionario del Sud: la scultura transsociale del 'Libro di pietra' (1984-2009) come modello di una nuova convivenza postmoderna, glocale e transculturale", book chapter in: Benvenuti al Nuovo Sud. Costellazioni, collaborazioni e trasformazioni transculturali. Con interviste a Maria Attanasio e Mario Desiati. Con un saggio critico di Carmine Abate, edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro, Michelangelo La Luna, Colbert Akieudji, Carmen Van den Bergh, Firenze, Cesati, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, vol. 62), 2024, pp. 149-161.
Interview with Iain Chambers
“'Il Sud è un significante mutevole' - Il messaggio ibrido della cultura mediterranea", interview with Iain Chambers conducted and edited by Dagmar Reichardt, in: TransCulturale. Passaggi tra scienze e pratiche di trasformazione, vol. 5, n. 5 (2024), pp. 77-98.Introduction to "The New South"
"Introduzione. Il Nuovo Sud", introduction to the book: Benvenuti al Nuovo Sud. Costellazioni, collaborazioni e trasformazioni transculturali. Con interviste a Maria Attanasio e Mario Desiati. Con un saggio critico di Carmine Abate, edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro, Michelangelo La Luna, Colbert Akieudji, Carmen Van den Bergh, Firenze, Cesati, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, vol. 62), 2024, pp. 11-36.
Land of Women? The "Translation" of Violence, Gender and Language into Literature
"Land der Frauen? Die 'Übersetzung' von Gewalt, Geschlecht und Sprache in Literatur", (announcement of the content regarding a conversation of Dagmar Reichardt with Dacia Maraini at the International Frankfurt Book Fair), online publication on the website of Peter Lang Publisher, 20.9.2024.
Meeting Dacia Maraini, Cosmopolitan Author, Poet and Playwright from Italy
"Land der Frauen? Die Übersetzung von Gewalt, Geschlecht und Sprache in Literatur", News announced on the website of Lettische Kulturakademie - Internationales Medien- und Kulturmanagement, reviewing the book presentation directed by Dagmar Reichardt at the stand of Peter Lang Publisher, launching the book Le tante traduzioni dell'opera di Dacia Maraini on the occasion of the 76th Frankfurter Buchmesse (16-20 October 2024) hosting the Guest of Honour Italy, 17.10.2024.
The Expats or "Spatriati": Interview with the Writer Mario Desiati
"Die 'Spatriati': Interview mit Autor Mario Desiati", [interview with the Italian author Mario Desiati, Strega prize winner 2022], online publication on www.kultur-port.de, 29.09.2024.
The Italophone Literature in the Light of Paradigm Shifts within a Collective Glocal Identity
"La letteratura italofona transculturale dal XII al XXI secolo alla luce dei cambi di paradigma di una identità glocale collettiva", in: Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh / Franca Sinopoli (eds.), Studi transnazionali. Casi e strumenti interdisciplinari, Roma, Lithos, 2024, pp. 81-112.
The Many Translations of the Work of Dacia Maraini
Dagmar Reichardt (ed.): Le tante traduzioni dell’opera di Dacia Maraini: Studi, analisi ed approcci comparatistici con testi originali dell’autrice e con un laboratorio di traduzioni letterarie, [proceedings of the International Symposium held on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of life and work in the fields of Italian literature, theater, culture and politics of Dacia Maraini at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura in Rome / Italy, 14th-15th October 2017, and completed in the year 2023 on the occasion of the 60th year after the publication of her second novel, The Age of Malaise - i.e. L’età del malessere (1963) - awarded the Formentor de las Letras Prize in Spain in 1962 for its publication in Italian and translation in 13 languages], featuring 30 illustrations and 3 registers summarizing the literary production of translation in tabular form, with editorial assistance from María Belén Hernández González, Giuseppe Barbaro, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Claus Friede, Anastasija Gjurčinova, Michelangelo La Luna, Monica Martinelli, Ada Plazzo, Maurizio Rebaudengo and Daria Rizzello, volume 16 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface by Dacia Maraini, with a Greeting by Igiaba Scego, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2024, 682 pp.
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NOTICE:
This book has been pre-discussed and presented in the frame of the following international congresses and has been included in the program of the following institutes (for further details click on the section "Lectures" in the menue of this personal website):
1) 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 Embassy 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.
2) Land der Frauen"? - Die "Übersetzung" von Gewalt, Geschlecht und Sprache in Literatur, lecture and book presentation organized together with Peter Lang Publishing Group and the 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.
3) International conference I contesti dell’italiano: variabilità in lingua, didattica, letteratura e cultura (2nd edition), organized by the Institute of Roman Languages and Literatures of the University Adam Mickiewicz of Poznań and the Institute of Specialized and Intercultural Communication of the University of Warsaw, University Adam Mickiewicz of Poznań, Collegium Novum, Al. Niepodległości 4, 61-713 Poznań, Poland, 3.-4.4.2025.
4) International MDRN Congress Family Fictions: Generations and Genealogies in European Culture, organized by the Literary Studies Department and Dr. Fatima Borrmann for the MDRN Research Lab of the University of Leuven, (Panel 5: Matriarchy), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Justus Lipsiuszaal, Erasmushuis, Blijde Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven, Belgium, 15.-17.5.2025.
5) 23rd International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities Oceanic Journeys: Multicultural Approaches in the Humanities, (Panel: Literary Humanities), University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, United States of America, 25 .-27.6.2025.
6) An evening with Dacia Maraini and the Associazione Antonello da Messina, [Award Ceremony for Dacia Maraini], Forum Austriaco di Cultura, Rome, Italy, 10.10.2025.
7) International congress XIV Italianistiktag 2026: Verflechtungen - Dynamilen, Strukturen, Motive | Intrecci - dinamiche, strutture, motivi, Tagung des Deutschen Italianistikverbands (Fachverband Italienisch in Wissenschaft und Unterricht e.V.) und der Italianistik der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Sektion Fachdidaktik/Didattica, coordinated by Domenica Elisa Cicala and Andrea Klinkner, Universität Graz, RESOWI-Gebäude, Universitätsstr. 15, Graz, Austria, 26.-28.2.2026.
REVIEWS:
1) Luigi Saitta: "Dacia Maraini, eine der prägendsten Intellektuellen unserer Zeit", online publication on www.kultur-port.de, 8.1.2026.
2) Find further reviews on the attached PDF listening the press review regarding the book's award Antonello da Messina & Prix Erica
The South as a "Territory of the Soul"
"Gli Spatriati e il Sud come territorio dell’anima. Intervista a Mario Desiati", interview with the Italian author and Strega-Prize winner 2022 Mario Desiati conducted by Dagmar Reichardt, in: Benvenuti al Nuovo Sud. Costellazioni, collaborazioni e trasformazioni transculturali. Con interviste a Maria Attanasio e Mario Desiati. Con un saggio critico di Carmine Abate, edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro, Michelangelo La Luna, Colbert Akieudji, Carmen Van den Bergh, Firenze, Cesati, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, vol. 62), 2024, pp. 285-292.
Translation Studies and the Art of Translating: Travelling Around the World, Cultures and Words
"Introduzione - Dacia Maraini, la Scienza traslatoria e l'arte di tradurre: viaggi attorno al mondo, alle culture e alla parola" (introduction authored by Dagmar Reicardt & María Belén Hernández González), in: Dagmar Reichardt (ed.): Le tante traduzioni dell’opera di Dacia Maraini: Studi, analisi ed approcci comparatistici con testi originali dell’autrice e con un laboratorio di traduzioni letterarie, [proceedings of the International Symposium held on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of life and work in the fields of Italian literature, theater, culture and politics of Dacia Maraini at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura in Rome / Italy, 14th-15th October 2017, and completed in the year 2023 on the occasion of the 60th year after the publication of her second novel, The Age of Malaise - i.e. L’età del malessere (1963) - awarded the Formentor de las Letras Prize in Spain in 1962 for its publication in Italian and translation in 13 languages], featuring 30 illustrations and 3 registers summarizing the literary production of translation in tabular form, with editorial assistance from María Belén Hernández González, Giuseppe Barbaro, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Claus Friede, Anastasija Gjurčinova, Michelangelo La Luna, Monica Martinelli, Ada Plazzo, Maurizio Rebaudengo and Daria Rizzello, volume 16 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface by Dacia Maraini, with a Greeting by Igiaba Scego, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 29-95.
War & Peace in the Italian Cinema of Migration
Il leitmotiv transculturale di "Guerra e Pace" nel Cinema di migrazione italofono, co-authored with Ada Plazzo, in: Comparatismi, n. 9 (2024), "The Private Dimension of Dwelling – La dimensione privata dell'abitare", ISSN 2531-7547, https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/comparatismi/article/view/2697, pp. 386-408.
Welcome to the New South - Transcultural Transformations in Italy
Benvenuti al Nuovo Sud. Costellazioni, collaborazioni e trasformazioni transculturali. Con interviste a Maria Attanasio e Mario Desiati. Con un saggio critico di Carmine Abate, edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro, Michelangelo La Luna, Colbert Akieudji, Carmen Van den Bergh, with an interview with the Italian authors Maria Attanasio and Mario Desiati, with a critical essay by author Carmine Abate, Firenze, Cesati, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, vol. 62), 2024, 360 pp.
2023
The Transcultural Leitmotiv of War and Peace in the Italian Cinema
Il leitmotiv transculturale di Guerra e Pace nel cinema di migrazione italofono, co-authored with Ada Plazzo, in: Mosaico italiano - Interviste sulla storia e la cultura letteraria, online magazine under the auspices of the Italian Cultural Institute Rio de Janeiro and the Italian departments of public universities in Brazil, edited by Comunità Rio de Janeiro - Brasil, Anno XXI / n. 229, December 2023, pp. 8-15.
European Paths to World Culture, Culture Mapping, and the VUCA Effect
"European Paths to World Culture, Culture Mapping, and the VUCA Effect: Transcultural Reconfigurations of the Relations between Italy and Germany", in: Franca Sinopoli & Silvia Contarini (eds.), Transculturalità: un concetto operativo in Europa?, (Studi Transnazionali / Transnational Studies, vol. 6), Roma, Lithos, 2023, pp. 37-61.
Read more (reviews, notices)
Silvia Contarini, Ugo Fracassa, Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh, and Franca Sinopoli: Transcultural Europe in the Global World - A Jean Monnet Project/Erasmus+ Programme (project and book presentations), Sapienza Università di Roma, MOWE, Palazzina Tumminelli Viale dell'Università, 36, 00185 Roma, 19.5.2023, 10:00-12.00 h.
"Growing*Together": Art Therapists Meet in Riga at Midsummer 2023
"Growing*Together": Europäische Kunsttherapeuten tagen in Riga, [collaborative report of the EFAT congress about art therapy], authored by Dagmar Reichardt and 12 students from the Latvian Academy of Culture, online publication on www.kultur-port.de, 4.6.2023.
Mario Desiati about "The Expatriates" and the South as a "Bridging Territory of the Soul"
"The Expatriates – Spatriati – and the South as a Bridging Territory of the Soul. Interview with Mario Desiati conducted by Dagmar Reichardt", in: Alfredo Ancora & Raffaele Tumino (eds.), Transculturale: Passaggi tra scienze, pratiche di trasformazione, (Conversazioni impossibili), (vol. II / n. 3), Milano - Udine, Mimesis, 2023, pp. 91-99.
Neuro-Narratology
Stefano Calabrese: Neuro-Narratology: The Neural Secrets of Narration, volume 15 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2023, 124 pp.