INAUGURATION FESTIVAL OF CALLIOPE
(Casa Delle Lingue e Delle Letterature in Opera and of EUROTALES), at Sapienza, University of Rome, Marco Polo Building. (5-8 July 2022)
Tuesday, 5th of July
Monica Demuru. Rappresentare la parola a teatro (Theatrical voices)
Marialuisa Sales. CALLIDANZE – I linguaggi del corpo (Languages of the body)
Panel discussion. Claudia Carlucci (Director of Polo Museale, Sapienza), Nicoletta Maraschio (Mundi, Museo Nazionale dell’italiano), the Directors of the EUROTALES Museum Laboratory, the Curators of Polo Museale Sapienza, and Filippo Fineschi (Exhibition designer, AND Ambienti Narrativi Digitali, Firenze).
Moderator: Irene Baldriga
Riccardo Vannuccini, representing ArteStudio. Per un Teatro Attuale (Towards/For a Contemporary Theatre)
Participants: Riccardo Vannuccini with Maria Sandrelli, Gabriele Guerra, Alessandra Piscopo, Maria Chiara Pozzoni, Lars Rohm, Silvia Fasoli, Priscilla Muscat, Laura Garofoli, Armando Bagalà (on double bass).
Wednesday, 6th of July
Researchers at the Monaci Archive. Testi e Voci (Texts and Voices)
Participants: Arianna Punzi, Giovanna Santini, Margherita Bisceglia, Ilaria Lavorato, PhD and BA students working at the Laboratorio Monaci
Elena Sbrojavacca, Abdullahi Ahmed and Jana Karšaiová. Lingue madri, lingue acquisite, lingue perdute (Mother languages, acquired languages, lost languages). Elena Sbrojavacca presents the teaching activities within Progetto FAMI (Fondo Asilo Migrazioni e Integrazioni) and dialogues with Abdullahi Ahmed (author, cultural mediator, creator of the Festival of Europe and the Mediterranean) and Jana Karšaiová (actress and author);
Laura Pastor. Musiche e parole d’Europa (The Music and Words of Europe). Piano Recital.
Music by E. Granados, F. García Lorca, C. Debussy, P.I. Tchaikovsky, F. Liszt, F. Schubert, Inspired by F. Garcia Lorca, C.-M.-R. Leconte de Lisle, E. Brontë, G. Bononcini, L. Rellstab
Daria Corrias (journalist and radio documentary maker), Giordano Meacci (author and scriptwriter), and Ludovica Rampoldi (Scriptwriter, author and teacher). Lingue da guardare, leggere e ascoltare (Languages to watch, read, and listen to).
Moderator: Paolo Morawski
Francesca Ferri (composer, voice researcher and performer), Daniele Quadraccia (anthropologist and director of Musei demoantropologici), Massimo Lanzetta (creator and art director of Atlante delle Emozioni delle città, Matera). Storie, canti e convivialità: i musei si fanno memoria, le memorie si fanno museo (Stories, songs and conviviality: museums become memories, memories become museums).
Moderator: Nadia Cannata
Francesca Ferri and Cora Storie. Musical Event: canti dall’Europa (songs of Europe). With Antonella Devescovi, Antonella Prisco, Francesca Ferri, Francesca Miano, Laurea Perez, Mariacristina Picchio, Roberta Santacesaria, Susanna Ruffini, Vittoria Gallo, Maria Miceli (in memoriam)
Thursday, 7th of July
Roman Students’ Itinerary project-presentations @DIFFUSEUM Tracce di storie memorie di voci (Traces of stories, memories of voices). Rome, Museo Diffuso.
Roberto Nicolai. Armonie e Dissonanze. Roma antica graeca urbs. Le culture plurali di una città polifonica (Harmonies and Dissonances. Ancient Roman Greek urbs. The plural cultures of a polyphonic city).
Gerassimos Pagratis. Ioannis Capodistrias (1776-1831) e le lingue (Ioannis Capodistrias (1776-1831) and languages).
Carmen Gallo. Lingue e voci della tradizione in The Waste Land di T. S. Eliot (Languages and voices of tradition in The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot).
Moderator: Maia W. Gahtan
Helena Janeczek (author and editor) and Margherita Carbonaro (translator). Le lingue che ci abitano le lingue che abitiamo (The languages that inhabit us, the languages that we inhabit).
Moderator: Camilla Miglio
Letture (Readings) by Paesaggi di Voci. (Giulia Avalle, Luca Baruffa, Jessica Cerci, Leopold Griessler, Marta Nykytchuk, Sofia Pagliarella, Laura Ragone, Serena Sapienza)
PRESENTATIONS AT SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES (NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL)
- M. J-M Sonmez, N. Cannata, Representing Digitally the Matter of Language, Graz (Austria), European Cultural Memory in its Digitalization – Inventing Cultural Memory in the 21st Century 6-7 November 2024.
- M. W. Gahtan, The Matter of Language – Language as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Museums, International Conference on Education and Innovation in Museums (ICEIM), Riyadh, 3 June 2024.
- Museums as Community Hubs, Roundtable with M. W. Gahtan, International Conference on Education and Innovation in Museums (ICEIM), Riyadh, 2 June 2024.
- N. Cannata, Roma medievale – Tracce di presenze (e di lingue) a Roma, Istituto storico per il Medioevo, Roma, 3 June 2024.
- M. Gahtan, The Matter of Language – Language as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Museums, International Conference on Education and Innovation in Museums (ICEIM), Riyad, 1-3 June 2024.
- N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, The Writing is on the Wall. Language Traces and Cultural Heritage, Seminario per il dottorato, SEAI, La Sapienza, Roma, 20 November 2023.
- N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, Tracing Languages in the Diffuseum, EUROTALES – A Museum Lab of the Voices of Europe. Representing the Memory of Languages, Memory Studies Association Conference, Newcastle, 3-7 July 2023.
- N. Cannata, Language as Memory, language as Discourse: Representing the Matter of Language in a museum space, Language and Memory Conference, Nottingham Trent University, 5-6 June 2023.
- N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M.J-M. Sonmez, EUROTALES. Representing Languages in a Museum Space, ICOM International Network of Language Museums, online, 20 June 2023.
- N. Cannata, C. Miglio, Festival Tracce di storie, memorie di voci/Language traces, (m)other tongues, CALLIOPE – Casa delle Lingue e delle Letterature in opera, Sapienza Università di Roma, 5-8 July 2022.
- N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M.J-M Sonmez, Eurotales and the Diffuseum, Utopias of (Non)Knowledge: The Museum as a Research Hub, 8th Garage International Conference, Moscow, 24-25 September 2021.
- N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M.J-M. Sonmez, The Diffuseum in Rome, Promenandes dans Rome, Istituto Svizzero, Roma, 23 July 2021.
- M. Gahtan, M. J-M. Sonmez, Language in Museums, ICHoLS XV/Fifteenth International Conference on the History of Language Sciences, Milan, 23-27 August 2021.
- N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M.J-M.Sonmez, Language and Museums: Past, Present, and Future, panel at the ACHS (Association of Critical Heritage Studies) 5th Biennial Conference, University College London/Virtual, 26 – 30 August 2020.
- N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, Eurotales museo della lingua alla Sapienza Un’esplorazione della cultura museale alla Sapienza, Sapienza Università di Roma, 6-7 Dicember 2019.
- N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M. J-M. Sonmez, Museum and Language, Convegno Internazionale, 9-10 February 2017, Firenze, Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici.
- N. Cannata, Languages as Cultural Heritage: The Eurotales Project and the Public, The Museum 2015, Tokyo 12-15 January 2015.
- N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M. J-M. Sonmez, Linguistic Diversity and Cultural Identities in Europe: Oral Voices and Literary Languages. Eurotales: an Exhibiting and Museographical Experiment, University of Reading/Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, UK, April 2014.
- N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, A Museum of the Italian Language: A Nationalistic Enterprise?, The Museum 2011, Taipei, November 2011.
UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES – TEACHING COURSES
- Dottorato STEMMA – Laboratorio Eurotales 2023-24
- Storia della lingua italiana LM Filologia Moderna 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24
- Istituzioni di Storia della Lingua Italiana, corsi di Laurea in Lettere Moderne e Mediazione Linguistica e Interculturale a.a. 19-20, 20-21, 21-22, 22-23, 23-24
- Linguistica italiana, corso di Laurea in Lingue, Culture, Letterature, Traduzione (6 CFU), a.a. 2021-2022; 2022-2023, prof.ssa Gaia Tomazzoli
- Crediti per tirocinio – Laboratorio EUROTALES (la partecipazione vale 3 CFU), 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24
- Istituzioni di Storia della Lingua Italiana, corsi di Laurea in Lettere Moderne 2016-2017 in collaborazione con MA Museum Studies, Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici-Marist College, Florence and New York
CIVIS COURSES
- Blended Intensive Programme «Linguistic cultures and communities in Europe. Building the Eurotales Museum» (2024-2025), coordinated by Nadia Cannata (included the Universities of Aix-en-Provence, Athens, Bucharest, Casablanca, Glasgow, Madrid, Sapienza, Sfax, Stockholm).
- Blended Intensive Programme «Linguistic cultures and communities in Europe. Building the Eurotales Museum» (2023-2024), coordinated by Nadia Cannata (included the universities of Aix-en-Provence, Athens, Bucharest, Casablanca, Glasgow, Madrid, Sapienza, Sfax, Stockholm).
- Blended Intensive Programme «Linguistic cultures and communities in Europe. Building the Eurotales Museum» (2022-2023), coordinated by Nadia Cannata (included the universities of Aix-en-Provence, Madrid, Glasgow, Sapienza, Stockholm, Athens, Bucharest).
- CIVIS Course «Linguistic cultures and communities in Europe: fieldwork, workshops and exhibition» (2021-22), coordinated by Nadia Cannata (included the universities of Madrid, Glasgow, Bruxelles, Sapienza, Athens, Bucharest).