At the international seminar Die Katastrophe als Wendepunkt? Yoko Tawada lesen nach 2011, held at the Freie Universität in Berlin (Germany), Amelia Valtolina delivered a talk on the catastrophes of signs in Yoko Tawada's poetics, while Matteo Iacovella explored Tawada's nuclear poetry in the aftermath of Fukushima.