HYBRID KEY NOTE Session: Prof. Anthony Tamburri and Opening Remarks
Lunedì/Monday, May 4, from 9 to 11 am (PDT)

1. Session 7a: online – Wednesday 8:00 – 9:30 am (PDT)
   Teaching Italian as a Second/Foreign Language in Plurilingual Contexts: Learner Diversity and Educational Challenges
   Organizer and Chair: Paolo Nitti, Carmela Scala, Giulio Facchetti
2. Session 8a: online – Wednesday 9:45 – 11:15 am (PDT)
   Scrittrici in movimento
   Chair: Elena Fumi (Independent Scholar)
3. Session 9a: online – Wednesday, 11:30 – 1:00 pm (PDT)
   Teaching Italian as a Second Language in Host-Community Contexts: Working with Vulnerable and Plurilingual Learners
   Organizer and Chair: Paolo Nitti
4. Session 10a: online – Wednesday 1:15 – 2:45 pm (PDT)
   Educational experiences and proposals promoting plurilingualism, multilingualism and multimodality.
   Organizer and Chair: Giuliana Salvato (University of Windsor)

5. Session 7b: online – Wednesday 8:00 – 9:30 am (PDT)
   Indagini e intersezioni linguistiche e pedagogiche
   Chair: Luisa Canuto (University of British Columbia)
6. Session 8b: online – Wednesday 9:45 – 11:15 am (PDT)
   Dalle ombre. L’influenza di Edgar Allan Poe e Guy de Maupassant nella letteratura italiana tra Otto e Novecento
   Organizers: Simone Pettine, Domenico Tenerelli (Università “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara)
   Chair: Simone Pettine (Università “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara)
7. Session 9b: online – Wednesday, 11:30 – 1:00 pm (PDT)
   Subversive Harmonies: The Oasis as Spatial and Symbolic Resistance in Contemporary Italian Ecological Narratives
   Organizer: Giulia Bernuzzi, Ylenia Costantino (University College Cork)
   Chair: Daniel Finch-Race (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna)
8. Session 10b: online –Wednesday 1:15 – 2:45 pm (PDT)
   Life in Venice- Interaction, Cultural Exchange, and the Every Day in Renaissance Venice
   Organizers: Patrizia Bettella (University of Alberta), Nicla Riverso (University of Washington)
   Chair: Patrizia Bettella (University of Alberta)

9. Session 7c: online – Wednesday 8:00 – 9:30 am (PDT)
   Echi del passato
   Chair: Eleonora Buonocore (University of Calgary)
10. Session 8c: online – Wednesday, 9:45 – 11:15 pm (PDT)
    Studi italiani tra progetti di ricerca e proposte di didattica
    Organizer and Chair: Pasquale Sabbatino (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
11. Session 10c: online Wednesday 1:15 – 2:45 pm (PDT)
    Conflicts, identity, memory
    Chair: Michela Valmori (University of British Columbia)

12. Session 11a: online – Thursday 8:00 – 9:30 am (PDT)
    Memories of genocide: cultural mediation and circulation in film, literature and media
    Organizers and Chairs: Giulia Gliozzi (University of Notre Dame), Carolina Caterina Minguzzi (Independent Scholar)
13. Session 12a: online – Thursday 9:45 – 11:15 am (PDT)
    Teaching Italian Beyond the Classroom
    ROUND TABLE
    Organizer and Chair of the Round Table: Gianmarco Bocchi (University of Toronto / St. Jerome’s, University of Waterloo)
14. Session 13a: online– Thursday 1:00-2:30 pm (PDT)
    La fortuna di Pinocchio in Asia: traduzioni, adattamenti e ricezione
    Organizer and Chair: Moonjung Park (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
    Xu Jinjing (Beijing Foreign Studies University), “Le Avventure di

15. Session 11b: online – Thursday 8:00 – 9:30 am (PDT)
    Teaching Italian as a Second/Foreign Language in Plurilingual Contexts: Learner Diversity and Educational Challenges
    Organizer and Chair: Paolo Nitti (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria), Carmela Scala (Rutgers University), Giulio Facchetti (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria)
16. Session 12b: online – Thursday 9:45 – 11:15 am (PDT)
    Italian Abroad: Between Language and Community / L’italiano all’estero: tra lingua e comunità
    Organizers and Chairs: Salvatore Bancheri (University of Toronto), Simone Casini (University of Tuscia)
17. Session 13b: online– Thursday 1:00-2:30 pm (PDT)
    Transnational Italian: Reframing Approaches to Language, Linguistics, and Literature from the Lens of Cultural Diplomacy
    Organizer and Chair: Valmori Michela (University of British Columbia)

ONLINE SESSIONS C, di giovedì 7 maggio, dalle 9:45 alle 14:30

https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68979987178?pwd=ga49MM41PPE6mWlSTOTHV9htxhOENz.1

18. Session 12c: online – Thursday 9:45 – 11:15 am (PDT)
    Biografie, ecfrasi e retoriche della costruzione dell’artista tra Cinquecento e Seicento
    Organizer and Chair: Marco Verde (Università di Zurigo)