Events

The Festival Scritture della natura | Naturschreiben will take place in Rome for three evenings celebrating writing, landscape, and the living world, from 22 to 24 January 2026 (7:00–9:00 pm) at Teatro Palladium. The programme features readings and performances with Antonella Anedda, Franziska Füchsl, Durs Grünbein, Federico Italiano, Esther Kinsky, Pier Lorenzo Pisano, Laura Pugno, Christoph Ransmayr, and Jan Wagner, featuring unpublished or previously untranslated texts, alongside contributions from actors and performers.

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The Final Conference of the PRIN PNRR 2022 research project Ecolit will take place on January 23rd at Sapienza University, Rome. The event will present the main results of the project, including recently published books and collective volumes, alongside other key research outputs developed over the course of the project. In addition, the conference will highlight ongoing work and future developments building on the project’s findings, offering fresh perspectives on current research directions and collaborations. The conference will bring together project members and invited scholars to reflect on outcomes and next steps.

Amelia Valtolina, Raul Calzoni (org.), Research Seminar: Zu einer Geologie des Ich. Gottfried Benn im Lichte der Soil Studies, with Friederike Reents and Christian Schärf. January 26th, 2026, University of Bergamo.

A performative workshop exploring contemporary poetry and its material transformations and possible translations. Drawing on the multilingual texts published in the two issues of the poetry journal Semicerchio (2024), students and PhD candidates from the University of Rome "Sapienza" guide participants through choral reading, collaborative translation, and intermedial experimentation. Through chromatic panels, collage, objets trouvés, mirrors and reflections, poetry becomes gesture, matter, and trace. The workshop invites the public to explore the non-linearity of the text and its ability to hold concrete presences, memories, as well as traces of the post-apocalyptic landscape.

The workshop and dissemination event took place on December, 5th 2025 at the book fair Più libri più liberi in Rome and was kindly hosted by the CRIC (Coordinamento delle riviste italiane di cultura).

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La rilevanza semantica delle forme in una prospettiva ecocritica: Marion Poschmann. With Matteo Iacovella (University of Rome "Sapienza"). September 26th, 2025, University of Bari "Aldo Moro"

Francesco Fiorentino (org.), Conference: Rimini Protokoll and Ecological Theatre. With Stefan Kaegi. Introduction: Francesco Fiorentino.

Panel discussion with: Dalila D'Amico, Riccardo Fazi, Valentina Valentini. Chair: Gianluca Paolucci.
May 23rd, 2025, Roma Tre University.

Amelia Valtolina, Raul Calzoni (org.), Talk: In altre parole. Scrivere distanze. Un dialogo fra Esther Kinsky e Silvia Albesano
Amelia Valtolina, Raul Calzoni (org.), Lecture with Esther Kinsky: Störungen. Eine Poetikvorlesung
April 2nd-3rd, 2025, University of Bergamo.

Francesco Fiorentino (org.), Research Seminar: Teatro e ambiente. With Francesco Fiorentino, Ilenia Caleo, Valentina Valentini, Piersandra Di Matteo, Annalisa Sacchi, Riccardo Fazi, Teresa Masini, Emanuele Regi. March 17th-18th, 2024, Roma Tre University.

Talk and Seminar: Metrics and Poetry || Poetry and Nature. With Jan Wagner, Federico Italiano, Alessandro De Francesco. March, 6th, 2025, University of Rome La Sapienza.

Talk: Elegy and Poetry of Complexity. With Alessandro De Francesco. March, 5th, 2025, University of Rome La Sapienza.

Presentation: The Nature-Text. Poetics of Hyperobject and Post-Apocalyptic Poetry. With Andrea Cortellessa, Alessandro De Francesco, Anna Di Toro, Serenella Iovino, Federico Italiano, Camilla Miglio. March, 5th, 2025, University of Rome La Sapienza.

Poetry Reading. With Jan Wagner. March, 5th, 2025, Casa di Goethe, Rome.

Gabriele Guerra (org.), International Conference: Trans-formare tra antico e moderno. La metamorfosi nella letteratura, nell’arte, nelle scienze e nel pensiero europei. November 25-27, 2024, Roma Tre University, Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Istituto Svizzero.

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.

At the 3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: "Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century", hosted by the Cappadocia University (Turkey) on May 20-22, 2024, Luca Baruffa, Matteo Iacovella, Chiara Maciocci, and Serena Sapienza convened a panel on elemental ecocriticism, featuring four case studies drawn from German poetry.

Mariaenrica Giannuzzi (org.), Lecture Series: Forms of Nature, with Stefania Acciaioli, Mariaenrica Giannuzzi, Matteo Iacovella, Chiara Maciocci, Camilla Miglio, Serena Sapienza. April-May, 2024, University of Rome La Sapienza.

Francesco Fiorentino (org.), Research Seminar: Musica e scritture dell’ambiente, with Riccardo Fazi, Simone Caputo, and Luca Bacchini. April 23rd, 2024, Roma Tre University.

Amelia Valtolina (org.), Research Seminar: Vom Schauerort zum Schutzenwerten Raum – eine Exkursion in die literarische Moore, with Joana van der Löcht. March 6th, 2024, University of Bergamo.

Amelia Valtolina (org.), Research Seminar: Müll im Sumpf: Drei Perspektiven und eine Störung, with David Christopher Assmann. May 6th, 2024, University of Bergamo.

Amelia Valtolina (org.), Research Seminar: Kritisches Naturschreiben im Zeitalter des Anthropozän: Die Sumpfgebiete in der Flussprosa Esther Kinskys, with Christine Kanz. May 21st, 2024, University of Bergamo.

Amelia Valtolina (org.), International Seminar: Zwischen Störung und Resilienz. Moore und Sümpfe aus komparatistischer Sicht, with Heinrike Stahl and Ralph Müller. September 10th, 2024, University of Bergamo.

Roma Tre University (org.), Milestone Conference: Scritture della natura. letteratura, arte, filosofia. September 16-18th, 2024, Roma Tre University.

The conference Scritture della natura. letteratura, arte, filosofia, organised as part of the PRIN PNRR 2022 project “Eco-writings. Geography, Environment and Resilience in German Literature”, aims to foster reflection and interdisciplinary dialogue on the relationship between the subject and the environment, reconsidering it from a non-anthropocentric perspective. This exploration seeks to develop sophisticated methodological approaches for analyzing literary texts that, from cognitive, aesthetic, formal, or structural standpoints, present non-anthropocentric interpretations of the human-nature relationship.

Francesco Fiorentino (org.), Research Seminar: Teatro e scritture della natura. With Francesco Fiorentino, Sista Bramini, Filippo Andreatta, Daniela Sacco, and Mila di Giulio. October 17th, 2024, Roma Tre University.