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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.

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Italian

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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.

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Lyrik und Medizin

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.

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Draft paper of the Section "Transcultural Life-Worlds"

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.

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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 80^esimo 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 80^th 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.

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The many translations of the work of Dacia Maraini

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"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.

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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.

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API Association of Professional Italianists in South Africa

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.

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English

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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.

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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Italian

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"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.

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The Many Languages of Italian Fashion

"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.

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Bonaviri e "Verga sulla luna"

"Bonaviri e Verga sulla luna", International Conference Scrittura fantastica in Bonaviri, organized by Istvan Puskás and Franco Zangrilli, University of Debrecen, Debrecen/Hungary, 9 -10 March 2017.

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Italian

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Discorsi poetici avveniristici

"Discorsi poetici avveniristici in Il dire celeste (1976), Il re bambino (1990) e I cavalli lunari (2004)", International Conference POETRY - Inside and Outside the Avant-Gardes / POESIA. Dentro e fuori le avanguardie, organized by Eny Di Iorio and Franco Zangrilli, Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici, Tuscania (Viterbo)/Italy, 12-13 January 2017.

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Italian

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2016

Postkolonialismus, Migration, Transkulturalität

"Postkolonialismus, Migration, Transkulturalität in literarischer Perspektive", Villa Vigoni encounters 2016. Open-minded relationships - The transcultural dialogue between Germany and Italy in literature, cinema and media / Villa Vigoni colloquio 2016. Relazioni franche e aperte - Il dialogo transculturale tra Germania e Italia nella letteratura, nel cinema e nei media / Villa Vigoni Gespräche 2016. Aufgeschlossene Beziehungen - Deutschland und Italien im transkulturellen Dialog. Literatur, Film, Medien, organized by Eva-Tabea Meineke, Anne-Rose Meyer-Eisenhut, Stephanie Neu-Wendel, Eugenio Spedicato, funded by the German National Fund for Research (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG) and Villa Vigoni, Villa Vigoni - German-Italian Center for European Excellence - Centro italo-tedesco per l'eccellenza europea - Deutsch-italienisches Zentrum für europäische Exzellenz, Loveno di Menaggio/Italy, 21.-25.11.2016, held on 23.11.2016.

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Dacia Maraini e lo scrivere meandrico

"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.

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Fernando Ortiz

"The work of Fernando Ortiz and his impact on Europe", Group Section “The Languages of Theory”, Main building HS 7, 23.7.2016, 16-18 h, XXI. Congress of the ICLA International Comparative Literature Association "The Many Languages of Comparative Literature", University of Vienna/Austria, Vienna, 21.-27.7.2016.

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Johann Friedrich Reichardt

"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.

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Transkulturelle Gewaltdiskurse

"Transkulturelle Gewaltdiskurse im italienischen Comic: Die postmoderne Repräsentation der afrikanischen Kolonialkriegserfahrung in Volto Nascosto (2007-2008) von Gianfranco Manfredi", Deutscher Italianistentag 2016, title of the conference: Serialität - Reihen, Fortsetzungen, Folgen/Serialità - collane, continuazioni, puntate, 3.-6.3.2016, Universität Halle-Wittenberg, organized by DIV - Deutscher Italianistenverband, panel: Cultural Studies, directed by Prof. Dr. Robert Fajen, 5.3.2016.

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2015

From an Educational "Kunstlied" to a Transcultural Vision

"Johann Friedrich Reichardt's Mignon: from an educational Kunstlied to a transcultural vision", "Rethinking Cultural Memory 1700-1850", conference organized by The Nordic Association of Romantic Studies NARS and the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen/Denmark, 4.-5.12.2015.

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Conference hosted by LLACS "Langues, Littératures, Arts et Cultures des Suds"

Jhumpa Lahiri: migrazione - discorsi minoritari - transculturalità

"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

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Tutto Pasolini

"Tutto Pasolini: il San Paolo (1977) come progetto di vita e progettazione di un modo di vivere", International Conference "Anni di piombo (Olomévek)", University of Debrecen/Hungary, 21.-22.10.2015.

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Enikő Tóth: "Parlare degli anni di piombo a Debrecen" [review of the conference at Debrecen, mentioning D.R.], in: Debrecen chiama Italia, Department of italian Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, 30.10.2015.

What is Transculturality?

"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

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Johann Friedrich Reichardt's "Mignon" and the Italian Connection

"Johann Friedrich Reichardt's Mignon and the Italian Connection", International Conference "Italy as an Inspiration for Writers and Painters/Sculptors from Northern Europe and the USA: North European Authors' and Painters' Letters from Italy", organized by Prof. Randi Langen-Moen, Università di Bologna (Dipartimento di lingue, letterature e culture moderne), Hotel National, Rimini/Italy, 11.-17.9.2015.

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The location at Fondation Hardt, Vandoeuvres

Parameters of Classical Antiquity

"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.

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Baldassarre, Marco: "Alla Fondazione Hardt di Ginevra un simposio dedicato allo scrittore siciliano Giuseppe Bonaviri", in: La Sicilia, 13.07.2015, p. 22.

Fondation Erica Sauter: "Internationales Symposium zu Ehren des Schriftstellers Giuseppe Bonaviri", in: Kultur-Port.de, 11.07.2015, http://www.kultur-port.de/index.php/kunst-kultur-news/11793-internationa....

Photos and title display, in: Dante Marianacci - Una vita per la cultura tra creatività e impegno professionale, edited by Angelo Piero Cappello, Simone Gambacorta and Franco Di Tizio (Ed.), vol. 5 of the book series Monografie e Saggi edited by Federica Di Pasquale, Silvi Marina (TE)/Italy: Ianieri Edizioni, 2020, pp. 771-774.

Dante Alighieri: zone di contatto e intersezionalità ibrida nella "Divina Commedia"

"Zone di contatto e intersezionalità ibrida nelle traduzioni germanofone e neerlandesi della Divina Commedia", International Conference "Il traduttore errante: figure, strumenti, orizzonti", organized by Anna Tylusinska, University of Warschau, Istituto di comunicazione specialistica e interculturale, in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute in Warschau, Warschau/Poland, 10.-11.4.2015.

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2014

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 congress Quo vadis, italiano? In Sprachen wiedergeboren. Autobiographien und transkulturelle Begegnungen, directed by Simona Bartoli-Kucher and Tommaso Meozzi, Universität Graz, Mehrzwecksaal 0.008, Merangasse 70, Graz, Austria, 26.4.2024, 17:30-17:50 h.

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Cultures in Motion

"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.

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Little Italies in Canada

"Littles Italies in Canada: Issues of Migration, Post-Migration and Transculturality", Worlds colliding. National & immigrant minority experience in documentary film & literature, 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), 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), Van Swinderen Huys, Oude Boteringestraat 19, Glazen Zaal, Groningen, The Netherlands, 09.12.2014.

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Worlds Colliding

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.

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Il fumetto europeo

"Discorsi di violenza nel Volto Nascosto (2008) di Gianfranco Manfredi. Da Tempo di uccidere (1947) alla rappresentazione della guerra coloniale nel fumetto europeo", international congress Italy: Violence, Cultural Memory and Transculturality (1990-2014) / Italien: Gewalt, Kulturelles Gedächtnis und Transkulturalität (1990-2014) / Il caso italiano: violenza, memoria culturale e transculturalità (1990-2014) / - this congress was initiated and directed by Dagmar Reichardt together with Nora Moll, Rotraud von Kulessa and Franca Sinopoli, Villa Vigoni-Gespräch in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften im Rahmen einer Vereinbarung mit der DFG, funded by the German National Fund for Research (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG) and Villa Vigoni, Villa Vigoni - German-Italian Center for European Excellence - Centro italo-tedesco per l'eccellenza europea - Deutsch-italienisches Zentrum für europäische Exzellenz, Loveno di Menaggio/Italy, 8.-10.10.2014.

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