Activities

EVENTS

90Sapienza – Museum night, 15-16 September 2025 

European Night of Museums, 17 May 2025

Inauguration Festival of Calliope

 

PRESENTATIONS AT SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES (NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL)

1.D. Kazandjiovska, Il Museo-Laboratorio Eurotales: Lingue come Voci d’Europa in un Esperimento Espositivo, 21-22 Novembre 2025, Università di Bucharest, Sobre la identidad, Despre identitate. International Conference.

2.N. Cannata, Maia W. Gahtan, Collecting Language as Intangible Cultural Heritage, 15 Novembre 2025, Dubai, 27th ICOM General Conference – The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities.

3.M. J-M. Sönmez, Language as Intangible Culture and the Digital Museum Interacting Creatively: An Experimental Museum of Language Expanding the Horizons of Research and Knowledge, 17-18 Ottobre 2025, Batman Universitesi, Turchia, 11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture: Humanities in the Digital Age.

4.N. Cannata, Language As It Really Is and Was: EUROTALES Digitally Representing the Actual Matter of Language, 17-18 Ottobre 2025, Batman Universitesi, Turchia, 11th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture: Humanities in the Digital Age.

5.E. Gregorio-E. Puorto, Langues-sources et parlants-archives: cartographier les langues d’Europe dans les musée-laboratoire Eurotales, Parigi, École Nationale des Chartres Langue comme source , 25 giugno 2025.

6.D. Kazandjiovska, Language museums and university museums: Eurotales a Museum of the Voices of Europe at Sapienza, Rome, Unveiling Hidden Histories, Creating New Narratives: the Collections of Teaching Institutions, (online) Society for the History of Collecting, 9-10 June 2025.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Museums as Community Hubs, Roundtable with M. W. Gahtan, International Conference on Education and Innovation in Museums (ICEIM), Riyadh, 2 June 2024.
  4. N. Cannata, Roma medievale – Tracce di presenze (e di lingue) a Roma, Istituto storico per il Medioevo, Roma, 3 June 2024.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M.J-M. Sonmez, The Diffuseum in Rome, Promenandes dans Rome, Istituto Svizzero, Roma, 23 July 2021.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. N. Cannata, M. Gahtan, M. J-M. Sonmez, Museum and Language, Convegno Internazionale, 9-10 February 2017, Firenze, Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici.
  17. N. Cannata, Languages as Cultural Heritage: The Eurotales Project and the Public, The Museum 2015, Tokyo 12-15 January 2015.
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  • 1.Blended Intensive Programme «Linguistic cultures and communities in Europe. Building the Eurotales Museum» (2025-2026), coordinated by Nadia Cannata (participating universities – Aix-en-Provence, Atene, Bucarest, Casablanca, Glasgow, Madrid, Sapienza, Sfax, Stoccolma).
  • 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).

WORKSHOPS

Laboratorio AAF  EUROTALES Museo delle Voci d’ Europa 2025 Laboratorio – tirocinio (3 / 6 CFU) Aimed at building museum collections by students of  Laurea triennale/magistrale of Facoltà di Lettere e filosofia – Sapienza Università di Roma, coordinated by Nadia Cannata
CIVIS Open Lab – FARO SAPIENZA 2026
Project: EUROTALES – A Museum Laboratory of the Voices of Europe aimed at leveraging Sapienza’s established expertise in the areas of the active promotion of cultural heritage, giving these initiatives an European dimension – coordinated by  Nadia Cannata (with the participation of the universities of  Madrid, Sfax, Casablanca, Stockholm, Athens, Bucarest).