Events

International Museum Day

Festival «Languages Uniting a Divided World»

Presentation of the EUROTALES Museum Project — for the establishment of a new Museum Collection.

Festival brochure, first page Festival brochure, second page

Episode CCXXXVIII of Anima Latina with Professor Nadia Cannata (Sapienza University of Rome), who guides us in discovering the voices of Europe and describes how Latin continues to resonate in languages, in writing and in the cultural memory of the continent. And with Father Antonio Salvi (Office of Latin Letters), who explores the theological expression per visibilia ad invisibilia, a path that leads from tangible realities to the encounter with God.

Words, images and theatre to reflect on languages as bridges of peace and unity: the festival closed with the performance «Voci di fuoco e cenere» (Voices of Fire and Ash), from Euripides’ Trojan Women.

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Excerpt from the performance «Voci di fuoco e cenere», recorded on 21 May in the Aula Magna of the Rectorate, Sapienza University of Rome.
Poster of the Night of Museums, 23 May 2026
23 May 2026

The Night of Museums

Poster of the Museum Night, 15-16 September 2025
15–16 September 2025

The Night of Museums

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EUROTALES workshop poster
17 May 2025

European Night of Museums

EUROTALES Workshop — Museum of the Voices of Europe: playful, educational activities to present the museum collections. Recognising each person’s family tree of languages, the memories of languages in cities, interactive visits to the collections, and games.

Poster of the inauguration festival of CALLIOPE
5–8 July 2022

Inauguration Festival of CALLIOPE

Home of Languages and Literatures in performance and of the EUROTALES Museum Laboratory.

Presentations at seminars and conferences

National and international talks, most recent first.

  1. D. Kazandjiovska, Il Museo-Laboratorio Eurotales: Lingue come Voci d’Europa in un Esperimento Espositivo — University of Bucharest, Sobre la identidad / Despre identitate, 21–22 November 2025.
  2. N. Cannata, M. W. Gahtan, Collecting Language as Intangible Cultural Heritage — Dubai, 27th ICOM General Conference, 15 November 2025.
  3. M. J-M. Sönmez, Language as Intangible Culture and the Digital Museum Interacting Creatively — Batman University (Turkey), 11th Int. Conference on Language, Literature & Culture, 17–18 October 2025.
  4. N. Cannata, Language As It Really Is and Was: EUROTALES Digitally Representing the Actual Matter of Language — Batman University (Turkey), 17–18 October 2025.
  5. E. Gregorio, E. Puorto, Langues-sources et parlants-archives — Paris, École Nationale des Chartes, 25 June 2025.
  6. D. Kazandjiovska, Language museums and university museums: Eurotales — Society for the History of Collecting (online), 9–10 June 2025.
  7. M. J-M. Sönmez, N. Cannata, Representing Digitally the Matter of Language — Graz (Austria), 6–7 November 2024.
  8. M. W. Gahtan, The Matter of Language – Language as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Museums — ICEIM, Riyadh, 3 June 2024.
  9. Museums as Community Hubs — Roundtable with M. W. Gahtan, ICEIM, Riyadh, 2 June 2024.
  10. N. Cannata, Roma medievale – Tracce di presenze (e di lingue) a Roma — Istituto storico per il Medioevo, Rome, 3 June 2024.
  11. M. Gahtan, The Matter of Language — ICEIM, Riyadh, 1–3 June 2024.
  12. N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, The Writing is on the Wall. Language Traces and Cultural Heritage — SEAI, La Sapienza, Rome, 20 November 2023.
  13. N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, Tracing Languages in the Diffuseum — Memory Studies Association Conference, Newcastle, 3–7 July 2023.
  14. N. Cannata, Language as Memory, Language as Discourse — Nottingham Trent University, 5–6 June 2023.
  15. N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M. J-M. Sönmez, EUROTALES. Representing Languages in a Museum Space — ICOM Int. Network of Language Museums (online), 20 June 2023.
  16. N. Cannata, C. Miglio, Festival Tracce di storie, memorie di voci / Language traces, (m)other tongues — CALLIOPE, Sapienza University of Rome, 5–8 July 2022.
  17. N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M. J-M. Sönmez, Eurotales and the Diffuseum — 8th Garage Int. Conference, Moscow, 24–25 September 2021.
  18. N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M. J-M. Sönmez, The Diffuseum in Rome — Istituto Svizzero, Rome, 23 July 2021.
  19. M. Gahtan, M. J-M. Sönmez, Language in Museums — ICHoLS XV, Milan, 23–27 August 2021.
  20. N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M. J-M. Sönmez, Language and Museums: Past, Present, and Future — ACHS 5th Biennial Conference, University College London (virtual), 26–30 August 2020.
  21. N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, Eurotales museo della lingua alla Sapienza — Sapienza University of Rome, 6–7 December 2019.
  22. N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M. J-M. Sönmez, Museum and Language — Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence, 9–10 February 2017.
  23. N. Cannata, Languages as Cultural Heritage: The Eurotales Project and the Public — The Museum 2015, Tokyo, 12–15 January 2015.
  24. N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M. J-M. Sönmez, Linguistic Diversity and Cultural Identities in Europe — University of Reading / Museum of English Rural Life, Reading (UK), April 2014.
  25. N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, A Museum of the Italian Language: A Nationalistic Enterprise? — The Museum 2011, Taipei, November 2011.