Conferences, talks, and workshops
Conferences
2024 “Le geografie dell’italiano: diversità oltre l’italocentrismo”, University of Nottingham, 24th May.
2020 “Beyond Italy’s political (b)order: why we should incorporate the diversity of San Marino, Switzerland, Slovenia, and Croatia in Italian teaching and assessment”. “Teaching Diversity in the Italian Classroom” conference, King’s College London, 30th June.
2019 “Crossing the boundaries of the (Italian) nation state in ULP teaching and assessment”, NLC Conference 2019, Nottingham Trent University, 14th June.
2015 Paper about modern Istrian literature at CFP workshop: Memory-Nostalgia-Melancholy: Re-imagining Home in a Time of Mobility, Rovinj/Rovigno (Croatia), 6th – 7th September.
2014 “Indigenous ‘Italian’ cultures beyond Italy’s state border in the literary work of the Swiss writers Massimo Lardi (Il Barone de Bassus) and Gerry Mottis (Oltre il confine e altri racconti)”. AAIS annual conference, University of Zurich, 23rd – 26th May.
2012 Paper about the Swiss writer Massimo Lardi (Dal Bernina al Naviglio) at the “Oltre i confini. Aspetti transregionali e interculturali dell’italiano” conference, University of Belgrade, 25th – 26th May.
2005 Paper about lexical interference in the Italian written by English speakers. “LSP2005 New Trends in Specialized Discourse” conference, Università di Bergamo, 29th August – 2nd September.
University talks and workshops
2025 What does it mean to be ‘Italian’ in Istria in the 21st century?, Nottingham Trent University, 18th October.
2025 Introduction to Edmund Weiner’s lecture about the making of the digital Oxford English Dictionary, Nottingham Trent University, 17th September.
2024 Do humanities matter? Humanities, sustainability, and business, 5th November.
2024 Does ‘Italian’ food exist outside of Italy? Food cultures in the Swiss Alps and the Eastern Adriatic, Nottingham Trent University, 19th October.
2024 Promoting language awareness through sustainability practices across industries to humanities students. Nottingham Trent University, 13th June.
2024 Italianità ‘ai margini’. Viaggio nelle culture ‘italiane’ di Istria, Dalmazia, Bocche di Cattaro e Grigioni italiano. University of Leiden, 1st May.
2023 Sustainability, languages, and employability in the Valposchiavo (energy, tourism, wine). Nottingham Trent University, 12th December.
2023 A wish sandwich: authenticity in language and food culture teaching. Nottingham Trent University, 14 th June.
2023 Food cultures & language teaching. Myths and similarities between native speakerist ideologies and national food narratives. Nottingham Trent University, 25th January.
2020 Webinars with the writers Massimo Lardi, Aljoša Curavić, Gerry Mottis, and Roberta Dubac. University of Lausanne, 2nd and 9th June; 2nd and 9th December.
2020 Italianità ai margini dell’Italia. Uno sguardo etnografico, University of Lausanne, 12th May.
2019 AlterItà: la cultura appartiene agli stati? Università Milano Bicocca, 17th December.
2019 AlterItà: la cultura appartiene agli stati? University of Oxford, 25th November.
2018 Indigenous ‘Italian’ Cultures of Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, and Switzerland’s Italian Grisons: Fragility, Vitality, and Connectedness, University of Liverpool, 25th November.
Public talks
2025 Talk about La cucina non ha confini, Palazzo Andres, Chiuro, 26th May.
2024 Talk about La cucina ai margini dell’italianità, Festa Artusiana, Forlimpopoli, 22nd June.
2024 Talk about Italianness on the margins, Società Dante Alighieri, Nottingham, 20th January.
2023 “Exposing Corporate Nativespeakerism: Preply, Microsoft, Memrise”, YouTube, 23rd October.
2023 Giuseppe Ragazzini, L’uomo oltre il dizionario, Modigliana, 23rd September.
2020 Talk about border and language defence in Switzerland in conversation with head of programming at RSI, Sergio Savoia, Istituto di Cultura Italiano, London, 26th November.
2020 Talk about AlterItà in conversation with Marco Varvello, chief correspondent for Italian state TV RAI in London. Italian Cultural Institute, London, 29th June.
2017 Talks organized by Pro Grigioni Italiano: “AlterItà: culture ‘italiane’ indigene al di fuori dei confini dell’Italia”, Bellinzona (CH) and Brusio (CH), 14th and 15th September.