Panel Organizer and Chair. “@Zanzotto.100.” American Association of Italian Studies, Annual Conference, Bologna, Italy, May 29-June 1st, 2022.
Paper, “Zanzotto 101: Poetry and the Language of Plants.” American Association of Italian Studies, Annual Conference, Bologna, Italy, May 29-June 1st, 2022.
Organizer and Respondent, Special Screening of the documentary, “Logos Zanzotto,” by Dennis Brotto. American Association of Italian Studies, Annual Conference, Bologna, Italy, May 31, 2022.
Invited Lecture, “Zanzotto, Fellini, Intermediality: A Dialogue with John P. Welle and Federico Pacchioni (Chapman University). Trinity College Dublin, Online Event in the Series, “Weaving Media in Modern and Contemporary Italian Poetry.” February 16, 2022.
Key Note Address, “’Trip dentro trip’: Andrea Zanzotto’s Meditations on English,” at the conference, “Conglomerati: Andrea Zanzotto’s Poetic Clusters,” Oxford University, November 18th, and 19th, 2021. I also participated in a round table discussion, with Professor Peter Hainsworth of Oxford, on translating Andrea Zanzotto. The full conference program is available here.
Invited On-line Webinar, “The Centennial of Andrea Zanzotto’s Birth: the Legacy of a Great Poet and the Presence of Dante in His Verses.” With Prof. Armando Maggi of the University of Chicago. Istituto italiano di cultura of Chicago, October 20th, 2021.
Invited Commentary on the Film, “Dante’s Inferno of 1911,” Istituto italiano di cultura of Washington, D.C., October 18th, 2021.
Invited Commentary on the Film, “Ma l’amore mio non muore (Love Everlasting),” National Gallery of Art, and Istituto italiano di cultura of Washington, D.C., April 21, 2021.