Chair holder: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Tiller
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About the person
Professorin
NameProf. Dr. Elisabeth Tiller
Professur für Italienische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
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Visiting address:
W48, Raum 419 Wiener Straße 48
01219 Dresden
Office hours:
- Wednesday:
- 17:00 - 18:00
- Sommersemester 2023
vorlesungsfreie Zeit: Do., 04.04.24, 12-13 Uhr
Vita
- Studied Comparative Literature, French and Italian Philology at the LMU Munich.
- Doctorate in 1994 at the University of Tübingen.
- Five years working in architectural offices.
- Since 1998 scholarship holder, Research Associate and freelance lecturer at the TU Dresden/Institute of Romance Studies.
- Habilitation 2009 at the TU Dresden.
- WS 2009/2010 Deputy Head of Chair of Romance Literature and Media Studies at the University of Mannheim.
- WS 2011/12 and SS 2012 Visiting Professor at the University of Graz.
- 2010-2013 Deputy Head of Chair of Italian Cultural History at the TU Dresden.
- Chair of Italian Literatures and Cultural Studies at TU Dresden.
- Since 2019 Equal Opportunities Officer of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at TU Dresden.
- 2020-2022 Member of the board of the SFB 1285 "Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement", since summer 2021 as deputy spokesperson https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/sfb1285
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Since July 2023: Member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Italian Studies of the Faculty SLK Center for Italian Studies
- Sept./Oct. 2023 Visiting Scholar at the Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Core research areas
- Fictionality and factuality
- Migration in literature and film
- Contemporary literature
- Early modern research
- Gender Studies
- History of literature, culture and knowledge
- Spatial theory and urban discourses
Publications
Monographs
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CityBody. Discourse figures and space. Habilitation thesis TU Dresden, October 2008. Manuscript, 661 p.
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Frau im Spiegel: Die Selben und die Andere zwischen Welt und Text - von Herren, Fremden und Frauen, ein 16. Jahrhundert, 2 vols., Frankfurt/Main et al. 1996.
Publications
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Migration and Disparagement. Invective Dynamics in Italian Migration Narratives, Bielefeld: transcript 2023 ( with Gabriel Deinzer and Franziska Teckentrup).
- The Media Environment of Migration: Cultural Negotiations in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Bielefeld: transcript 2022 (together with Roswitha Böhm).
- Agency and Invectiveness in Contemporary Italian Migration Narratives: Cinema and literature. PhiN supplement 20 (2020), 235 pp. (together with Sabine Schrader)[http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft20/b20i.htm]
- Book worlds - spatial worlds. Circulation of Knowledge and Power in the Baroque Era, Vienna/Cologne/Weimar 2015.
- Pöppelmann 3D. Books - Plans - Spatial Worlds. Online catalog for the exhibition at the Book Museum of the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) from May 17 to September 1, 2013. Second, revised version, August 2013 (together with Maria Lieber). Pöppelmann catalog
- Spatial Explorations. Insights and outlooks, Heidelberg 2011 (together with Christoph Oliver Mayer).
- Aurora - Indicator of cultural transformations, Heidelberg 2007 (with Christoph Oliver Mayer). Review in: Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 126:4 (2010), pp. 683-690.
Essays
In publication:
- "Metainvektive Reflexivität", in: Ellerbrock, Dagmar/Greschke, Heike/Kruse, Jan-Philipp (eds.), Schlüsselkonzepte der Invektivität, Begriffe, Perspektiven, Potenziale. Frankfurt/New York: Campus 2024.
- "Letteratura della migrazione", in: Serena, Enrico et al. (eds.): Dizionario dell'italiano L2: insegnamento, apprendimento, ricerca.
In preparation:
- "Weltdeutung als Familiengeschichte. Contemporary Italian women writers and the unbroken pull towards the familial world pattern". In: Föcking, Marc/Schwarze, Michael (eds.): Genealogie, famiglie, parentele nella letteratura italiana. Heidelberg: Winter.
- "'E quanto più il contemplavamo, tanto più ci parevo bello'. Antonio Averlino's landscape invention as an aesthetic game". In: Doering, Pia/Full, Bettina/Westerwelle, Karin (eds.): Die Erfindung von Landschaft in Mittelalter und Renaissance. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
Published:
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"Literarische und filmische Migrationserzählungen durch die Brille der Invektivitätsforschung. Zur Einführung" (together with Franziska Teckentrup and Gabriel Deinzer), in: Deinzer, Gabriel/Teckentrup, Franziska/Tiller, Elisabeth (eds.), Migration und Herabsetzung. Invective Dynamics in Italian Migration Narratives, Bielefeld: transcript 2023, pp. 7-22.
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"Chinese Italy. Dystopian variations of migration-related invectiveness in T. Pincio's Cinacittà (2008) and A. Scurati's La seconda mezzanotte (2011)", in: Deinzer, Gabriel/Teckentrup, Franziska/Tiller, Elisabeth (eds.), Migration und Herabsetzung. Invective dynamics in Italian migration narratives, Bielefeld: transcript 2023,
S. 205-258. - The media environment of migration transdisciplinary. Introduction (together with Roswitha Böhm). In: Böhm, Roswitha/Tiller, Elisabeth (eds.): Die mediale Umwelt der Migration: Kulturelle Aushandlungen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Bielefeld: transcript 2022, pp. 9-31.
- "Italy from emigration to immigration country". In: Lobin, Antje/Meineke, Eva-Tabea (eds.): HANDBUCH Italienisch. Language - Literature - Culture, Berlin: Erich Schmidt 2021, pp. 556-561.
- "Explorations of hybridity. Migration and letteratura impegnata in Melania G. Mazzucco's Io sono con te. Storia di Brigitte (2016)". In: Kuhn, Barbara/Scholler, Dietrich (eds.): Italienische Literatur im Spannungsfeld von Norm und Hybridität. Transitions - Graduations - Negotiations. Berlin: Peter Lang 2021, pp. 281-314.
- "Humanist transfer of knowledge from foreign lands. Modes of cognitive perception of the world among Florentine travelers to America between 1490 and 1530". In: Neohelicon 47:2 (2020), 357-378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-020-00560-z
- "Migration to Italy: Action-taking capacity and dynamics of disparagement in literature and film. An introduction" (together with Sabine Schrader). In: Schrader, Sabine/Tiller, Elisabeth (eds.): Agency and Invectiveness in Contemporary Italian Migration Narratives: Cinema and Literature. PhiN supplement 20 (2020), pp. 1-15 [http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft20/b20t01.pdf].
- "Invectivity and Migration: Constellations in Gianfranco Rosi's Fuocoammare (2016)". In: Schrader, Sabine/Tiller, Elisabeth (eds.): Agency and Invectivity in Contemporary Italian Migration Narratives: Cinema and Literature. PhiN supplement 20 (2020), pp. 109-133[http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft20/b20t06.pdf].
- "Melania G. Mazzucco's migration narratives and the sharpening of counter-gendered (experiences) life", in: Zibaldone 64: Geschlechterinszenierungen [Fall 2017], pp. 137-151.
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"Poverty and emigration. Melania G. Mazzucco's Vita (2003)", in: Häusl, Maria/Horlacher, Stefan/Koch, Sonja/Loster-Schneider, Gudrun/Schötz, Susanne (eds.), Armut: Genderperspektiven ihrer Bewältigung in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Leipzig 2016, pp. 379-401.
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"Calvinos Città invisibili und die sprachliche Augmentation von Welt als Stadt", in: Brunetti, Simona et al. (eds.), Versprachlichung von Welt. Il mondo in parole, Tübingen 2016, pp. 555-566.
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"Baroque dynamics. Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann und die Dresdner Synthesen von Wissen und Raum", in: Tiller, Elisabeth (ed.), Bücherwelten / Raumwelten. Circulation of Knowledge and Power in the Baroque Era , Vienna/Cologne/Weimar 2015, pp. 7-26.
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"Die repräsentative Raumpolitik Augusts des Starken in Polen", in: Tiller, Elisabeth (ed.), Bücherwelten / Raumwelten. Circulation of Knowledge and Power in the Baroque Era , Vienna/Cologne/Weimar 2015, pp. 243-272.
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"Crisis and renewal. The factual offensive of the fictional", in: lettere aperte 1 [2014] online version
- "Futurist masculinities and the war", in: Zibaldone 57: The First World War: Culture and War in Italy [Spring 2014], pp. 77-89.
- "Pöppelmann 3D. Books - Plans - Spatial Worlds". A research project and a joint exhibition, in: BIS: Das Magazin der Bibliotheken in Sachsen 6:2 (2013), pp. 103-105.
- "Giovanni da Verrazzano's exploration of North America for François I (1524): Variations of the Distant Other', in Greilich, Susanne/Struve, Karen (eds.), 'Das Andere Schreiben. Discursivations of Alterity in Romanian Texts (16th-19th Century), Würzburg 2013, pp. 17-32.
- "Augustus the Strong's Polish Spaces of Representation", in: Polish Baroque, European Contexts, Warszawa 2012: pp. 95-125.
- "'L'uomo moltiplicato che si mescola col ferro, si nutre di elettricità': Zur futuristischen Männlichkeits-Rhetorik", in: Schrader, Sabine/Tasser, Barbara (eds.), Futurismo al 100%, 100% Futurismus, Innsbruck 2012, pp. 103-118.
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"'Peroché dal corpo umano ogni mesura con sue denominazioni deriva'. Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione (1509) and the mathematical appropriation of the body", in: kunsttexte.de 3 (2011), 21 pp. Online version.
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"Christine de Pizans Städtebau", in: Febel, Gisela/Struve, Karen (eds.), Dossier: Stadtkonstruktionen in der Literatur, in: lendemains 142/143 (Fall 2011), pp. 109-128.
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"Bagheria: Dacia Marainis 'Behausung' autobiographischer Reflexion und fiktionaler Genealogisierung", in: Ackermann, Kathrin/Neuhofer, Monika (eds.), Von Häusern und Menschen. Literary and cinematic discourses on the house in the 19th and 20th centuries, Würzburg 2011, pp. 53-68.
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"Vorbemerkung", in: Tiller, Elisabeth/Mayer, Christoph Oliver (eds.), RaumErkundungen. Insights and Outlooks, Heidelberg 2011, pp. 5-8.
- "RaumErkundungen. Zur Einführung", in: Tiller, Elisabeth/Mayer, Christoph Oliver (eds.), RaumErkundungen. Insights and Outlooks, Heidelberg 2011, pp. 9-24.
- "Raumproduktion und Narrativität in der frühen Neuzeit", in: Tiller, Elisabeth/Mayer, Christoph Oliver (eds.), RaumErkundungen. Insights and Outlooks, Heidelberg 2011, pp. 51-87.
- "Piranesi's Invention of Ancient Rome. Strategies of Cartographic Epistemization", in: Felfe, Robert/Wagner, Kirsten (eds.), Museum, Bibliothek, Stadtraum. Contingency and Control in Spatial Orders of Knowledge 1600-1800, Berlin 2010, pp. 287-321.
- "Leaps in time. Judith Butler and gender performance in Michel de Montaigne and Ambroise Paré", in: Horlacher, Stefan (ed.), "Wann ist die Frau eine Frau?" - "When is a man a man?". Constructions of gender from antiquity to the 21st century, Würzburg 2010, pp. 89-119.
- "'Non c'è niente di nuovo sotto il sole'. Politische Unruhe und Literatur zur Jahrtausendwende am Beispiel von Luther Blissetts Q (1999)", in: Behrens, Rudolf/Stillers, Rainer (eds.), Inquietudini. Gestalt, Funktion und Darstellung eines affektiven Musters in der italienischen Literatur, Heidelberg 2010, pp. 269-293.
- "Aurora's immortality. An Introduction", in: Tiller, Elisabeth/ Mayer, Christoph Oliver (eds.), Aurora - Indicator of Cultural Transformations, Heidelberg 2007, pp. 13-40.
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"Vorbemerkung", in: Tiller, Elisabeth/ Mayer, Christoph Oliver (eds.), Aurora - Indikator kultureller Transformationen, Heidelberg 2007, pp. 5-11 (together with Chr. Mayer).
- "Tugendfreunds Trattato. Antonio Averlino und die Hybridisierung der Register", in: Franceschini, Rita/Stillers, Rainer/Moog-Grünewald, Maria/Penzenstadler, Franz/Becker, Norbert/Martin, Hannelore (eds.), Retorica: Ordnungen und Brüche. Contributions to the Tübingen Italianist Conference, Tübingen 2006, pp. 311-324.
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"Marinetti's African male fiction Mafarka il futurista (1910)", in: Kühberger, Christoph/Reisinger, Roman (eds.), Mascolinità italiane. Italian Masculinities in the 20th Century, Berlin 2006, pp. 39-62.
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"Idealstadt und Stadtutopie in der frühen Neuzeit: Zur Interdependenz von Körper und Stadt", in: Galle, Roland/Klingen-Protti, Johannes (eds.), Städte der Literatur, Heidelberg 2005, pp. 99-128.
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"Räume, Raumordnungen und Repräsentation: Dresden und seine Kunstkammer als Exempel frühneuzeitlicher Fürstensammlungen (1560-1630)", in: Marx, Barbara (ed.), Kunst und Repräsentation am Dresdner Hof, Munich/Berlin 2005, pp. 40-71
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"Dresde", in: De l'Esprit des Villes. Nancy et l'Europe urbaine au siècle des Lumières 1720-1770, ed. by Alexandre Gady et Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, Versailles 2005, pp. 230-235.
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"Plan de la ville neuve de Dresde", in: De l'Esprit des Villes. Nancy et l'Europe urbaine au siècle des Lumières 1720-1770, ed. by Alexandre Gady et Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, Versailles 2005, p. 343.
- "The body as a matrix of spatial aesthetics. Die theoretische Grundlegung der rinascimentalen Architektur im 15. Jahrhundert", in: Gronemann, Claudia/Maaß, Christiane/Peters, Sabine A./Schrader, Sabine (eds.), Körper und Schrift. Beiträge zum 16. Nachwuchskolloquium der Romanistik, Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag 2001, pp. 78-95.
- "'Beau fruit de ma volonté': die afrikanische Frankenstein-Version Filippo Tommaso Marinettis", in: Kuhnle, Till/Strasser, Alfred (eds.), Science Fiction in den Romanischen Ländern, forthcoming ?
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"The structuring of urban space in the 18th century. Giovanni Battista Piranesi's experimental play with representation", in: Schmitz, Walter (ed.), Aufklärung und Urbanisierung. Urban centers of the cultural movement of the 18th century, editor.
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"Experimental Anthropology: Reflections on Artificial Humans from the Perspective of Gender Studies", in: Schmitz, Walter (ed.), Der 'neue Mensch' und die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, editor "Stadt-Raum und Stadt-Traum. Urbane Repräsentation und imaginäre Städte des 15. Jahrhunderts", in: Schmitz, Walter (ed.), Wendung zum Raum. Gestaltung und Erkenntnis des Räumlichen in interdisziplinärer Perspektive, editor.
Lectures
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Italian cuisine in the 19th and early 20th century. Cuisine and art
Lecture series History and Present of Culinary Aesthetics of the Institute of History of the TU Dresden, SLUB, 15.05.2024
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Science, art and politics: Italian cuisine as a vehicle
Giornata di Studi Cucine italiane - Traditions, crises and transformations
Marin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 16.04.2024
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Narrazioni di migrazione ed invettività: approfondamenti e prospettive
Online lecture in the seminar Donne invisibili. Una storia da raccontare
(Laurea magistrale in Letteratura moderne, comparate e postcoloniali + Laurea magistrale in Lingua e cultura italiane per stranieri), 20.03.2024, Università di Bologna
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Italian climate change fiction as a dystopian approach to the neglected future, FLiK lecture Master LiKWa, TU Dresden, 17.01.2024
- From metainvective reflexivity to gendered polarizations, Romance Studies Study Day, TU Dresden, 10.05.2023
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Chinese Italy. Dystopian variations of power and powerlessness in T. Pincio's Cinacittà (2008) and A. Scurati' s La seconda mezzanotte (2011)
FLiK-Staffelvorlesung Macht und Machtlosigkeit, MA LiKWa, TU Dresden, 25.01.2023
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(Post)Colonial Shaming. Practices and materiality of degradation. Introduction. International Conference (Post)Colonial Shaming: Practices an materiality of degradation / (Post)Coloniales shaming. Practices and materiality of degradation , Dresden and Leipzig, 16.06.2022
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Raccontare la denigrazione. Invettività e migrazione nella letteratura e nel cinema, Lezione di dottorato, Università degli Studi di Bologna, 25.05.2022
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The futurist revolt as a break with bourgeois passatism. FLiK lecture Ruptures and Discontinuities, MA LiKWa, TU Dresden, 26.01.2022
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"Migrant identities: Social positionings in Italy". FLiK lecture Identity(-es)/Identification(-es), MA LiKWa, TU Dresden, 02.12.2020
- "Raccontare la denigrazione. Introduzione". International conference Raccontare la denigrazione. Invettività e migrazione nella letteratura e nel cinema, TU Dresden, 17.-19.10.2019.
- "I 'romanzi' di migrazione di Melania G. Mazzucco e l'aspetto dell'invettività". Università degli Studi di Bologna, 04.06.2019.
- "Conflict mode invectivity. Italian migration films as a cultural paradigm". Workshop Italian Narratives of Migration between Invective and Agency, LFU Innsbruck, 07./08.11.2018.
- "Cultural translation". Research Workshop Cultural Difference and Invectivity of the TP L + TP R in the CRC 1285, TU Dresden, 20.07.2018.
- "The SFB 1285 Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement" (together with Dominik Schrage). Atelier Medialität - Médialités des Deutsch-Französischen Doktorandenkollegs Unterschiede denken, TU Dresden, 05.07.2018.
- "Raccontare le migrazioni. Letteratura ed invettività. Introduzione". International workshop Raccontare le migrazioni. Letteratura ed invettività, TU Dresden, 28/29.06.2018.
- "Denigrazioni, offese e umiliazioni nelle rappresentazioni di migrazione di Melania G. Mazzucco". Lezione di dottorato, Università degli Studi di Bologna, 30.05.2018.
- "Moving image invention and Italian migration film. Introduction". Workshop Moving Image Invectives. Techniques of Disparagement in Film and Television, TU Dresden, 16/17.05.2018.
- "Hybridity as an obligation. Migration literature and the principle of transgression using the example of Melania G. Mazzucco's Io sono con te. Storia di Brigitte (2016)". Italianists' Day 2018 Ibridità e norma - Norm and Hybridity, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 01.-03.03.2018.
- "Invectivity in migration narratives: Problems and prospects". International Workshop Invective Constellations and Dynamics in Italian Migration Narratives, TU Dresden, 07./08.12 2017.
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"Shifting boundaries in Italian colonial narratives: Vilification
und Erniedrigung als Ermächtigungsdynamiken", lecture series Gender3 intersectional: Grenzgänge, TU Dresden, 01.02.2017
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Opening of the colloquium for young researchers: On the topicality of gender studies, 3rd Dresden Colloquium for Young Researchers in Gender Studies, TU Dresden, 24.11.2016
- "Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven und Migration" (together with Roswitha Böhm), Conference Kulturwissenschaftliche Impulse in Theorie und Praxis: Integration-Evolution? Revolution?, Dresden, 04.-06.11.2016
- "Migration and media. Stich- und Eckpunkte" (together with Roswitha Böhm), International Conference Migration and Media (20.-22.10.2016), TU Dresden/SLUB, 20.10.2016
- "F.T. Marinetti e il gioco con la mascolinità futurista".
Lezione di dottorato, Università degli Studi di Bologna, 15.06.2016. - "Zu Nähe und Ferne der Gegenwart. Romance perspectives" Inaugural lecture (together with Roswitha Böhm), TU Dresden, 08.07.2015.
- "Violence and Identity. South Tyrol in Literature at the Turn of the Millennium" Workshop Borderlands/Edgelands in the framework of the Strategic Partnership TU Dresden - Uni Wrocław, TU Dresden, 25/26.06.2015.
- "Gender, emigration and literature: The late career of a precarious motif in Melania G. Mazzucco's Vita (2003)" Lecture series Gender-PartnerSCHAFT Bridges: Dresden - Trento - Wrocław, TU Dresden, 09.12.2014.
- "Noi vogliamo glorificare la guerra - sola igiene del mondo: Futurist word power and lust for war in Italy"
Lecture series August 1914: Medial Variations of the Beginning of the World War in Europe, TU Dresden, 02.07.2014. - "Interpretation of the world as family history(ies): Italian contemporary women writers and the unbroken pull towards the familial world pattern [Melania G. Mazzucco / Simonetta Agnello Hornby]"Italianists' Day 2014: Relazioni e relativi - Genealogie, famiglie, parentele, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, 20-22.03.2014.
- "Humanistic transfer of knowledge from abroad. Modes of cognitive understanding of the world by Italian travelers to America between 1490 and 1530 "Conference Materiality and Cultural Transfer. Epistemic entanglements in the production of global knowledge, TU Dresden, 24-25.01.2014.
- "Thinking the future and Italian literature: reflections on current developments"
Lecture series "Images of the Future in Italy", TU Dresden, 14.01.2014. - "Poverty and emigration. Melania G. Mazzucco's life (2003)
Conference "Poverty. Gender perspectives on coping with it in the past and present", TU Dresden, 28/29.11.2013. - "'E quanto più il contemplavamo, tanto più ci pareva bello'. Filarete's landscape invention as an aesthetic game"
XXXIII Romance Studies Conference, University of Würzburg, 22-25.09.2013. - "Augustan striving for power: The representative spatial policy of the Saxon kings in Poland"
TU Dresden, Saxon Regional History: VL Saxony, Germany, Europe after 1750 (Prof. Dr. Josef Matzerath), 19.06.2013. - "Fictional status and factuality. Narrated contemporary history in Loriano Macchiavelli and Patrick Fogli"
TU Dresden, Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, 19.02.2013. - "'E tu, Italia nobilissima, capo e arce di tutto l'universo mondo': On the construction of the 'nation' in the 15th century"
Romanesque Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 17.10.2012. - "Baroque Architects, Artists, Scholars, and Their Private Libraries: Some Dresden Examples"
European Networks in the Baroque Era. International Conference, Josephinum Vienna, 26-29.09.2012. - "Giovanni da Verrazzano's North American Exploration for François I (1524) and the Discursive Presence of Italian Travelogues in the Early 16th Century: Variations of the Distant Other"
XXXII Romance Studies Conference, Humboldt University of Berlin, September 25 - 28, 2011. - "Augustus the Strong's Polish Spaces of Representation"
International Seminar "Polish Baroque, European contexts" / 3rd ENBaCH Partnership Meeting University of Warsaw, 27-28.06.2011. - "Media Change: Internet, Literature, Politics. Examples from Italy"
Master's seminar "KulturTechnik(en): On the Integration of Technology and Culture", TU Dresden, 03.06.2011. - "Baroque Fantasies - Creating Exotic Spaces. The Case of Dresden
2nd ENBaCH Partnership Meeting, Universitat de Barcelona, 05./06.11.2010. - "Christine de Pizan's urban planning".
7th Francoromanist Conference, University of Duisburg-Essen, 29.09.-02.10.2010. - "The Dresden Palace - Spaces, Spatial Planning and Representation".
Workshop of the Commission for Art History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Hofburg, 22.01.2010. - "'L'uomo moltiplicato che si mescola col ferro, si nutre di elettricità': Zur futuristischen Männlichkeits-Rhetorik".
Lecture series "Futurismo al 100% Futurismus", Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, 16.12.2009. "Giorgio Agambens Politisierung der Kulturtheorie". - Lecture series "Theories of the Culture of Modernity", University of Mannheim, 19.10.2009.
- "100 Years of Futurism - The Birth of the Avant-Gardes".
Lecture series "Theories of the Culture of Modernity", University of Mannheim, 05.10.2009. - "Bagheria: Dacia Maraini's dwelling place of autobiographical reflection and fictional genealogization".
XXXI German Romance Writers' Conference, University of Bonn, 27.09.-01.10.2009. - "The contemporary Italian crime novel as a stage for coming to terms with fascism".
Rehearsal lecture, TU Dresden, 16.07.2009. - "André Breton's Nadja (1928) and the écriture automatique".
Habilitation lecture, TU Dresden, 25.06.2009. - "100 years of Futurism: a retrospective".
As part of the course "Avantgarde" (Prof. Dr. Barbara Marx/Italian Cultural History), TU Dresden, 26.05.2009. - "Giorgio Agamben's contribution to cultural theory".
In the context of the HS "Kulturtheorien" (Prof. Dr. Barbara Marx/Italian Cultural History)
TU Dresden, 25.05.2009. - "'Peroché dal corpo umano ogni mesura con sue denominazioni deriva'. Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione (1509) as mathematical adaption of architecture's metric body". "The Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America", Los Angeles, March 19-21, 2009.
- "Export of ideas: Giorgio Agamben".
Lecture series Italia - fabbrica delle idee. Italia domani, TU Dresden, 01.12.2008. - "'Non c'è niente di nuovo sotto il sole'. Political unrest and literature at the turn of the millennium".
Italianists' Day 2008, Philipps University Marburg, 28.02.-01.03.2008. - "'Noi siamo sul promontorio estremo dei secoli'! The futuristic departure into the 20th century".
Lecture series "Italia - fabbrica delle idee. Italia ieri", TU Dresden, 21.01.2008. - "Virtual spatial production and narrativity. Early modern projects".
Interdisciplinary conference "RaumErkundungen - Disziplinäre Zugänge", TU Dresden, 06.-08.12.2007. - "With Judith Butler into the 16th century: On the historical suitability of current gender concepts".
Lecture series "Männlichkeit, Weiblichkeit und die Frage nach dem in-between. Gender Studies/Geschlechterforschung von der Antike bis ins 21. Jahrhundert", TU Dresden, 14.11.2007. - "'You make me feel like a natural woman' - Vom gemachten Geschlecht".
together w. PD Dr. Kerstin Stüssel/Transdisziplinärer Studienschwerpunkt Gender Studies, TU Dresden, 06.12.2006. - "Cenni sul sistema universitario tedesco".
Programma Doppia Laurea Trento-Germania, Università degli Studi di Trento, 01.12.2005. - "Aurora - Indicator of cultural transformations. An introduction".
Colloquium "Aurora - Indicator of Cultural Transformations", TU Dresden, 03.06.2005. - "City-Space and City-Dream: Urban Representation and Imaginary Cities in 15th Century Italy"
Colloquium "'Wendung zum Raum'. Gestaltung und Erkenntnis des Räumlichen in interdisziplinärer Perspektive", TU Dresden, 20-24.01.2005. - "Tugendfreund's Trattato: Filarete and the hybridization of registers".
Italianists' Day 2004, University of Tübingen, 25-28.03.2004. - "Die Cyborg im Film: Zur Nachhaltigkeit narrativer Muster in der Inszenierung von Hybrid-Existenzen".
Conference "Engineering Gender: Configurations of cybernetic, virtual and biopolitical existences", University of Münster, 06.-08.11.2003. - "'Beau fruit de ma volonté': Marinetti's African version of Frankenstein".
XXVIII. Deutscher Romanistentag, University of Kiel, 28.09.-03.10.2003. - "Artificial humans and the work on gender".
Interdisciplinary lecture series "Technik, Geschlecht und Arbeit" WS 2002/2003, TU Dresden, 25.11.2002. - "Ideal city designs of the Renaissance: Filarete".
Colloquium "Space - City - Utopia", Dresden - Hellerau, 07.-09.06.2002. - "Perfection or Disaster: Utopias and Artificial Humans from the Perspective of Gender Studies".
Transdisciplinary study focus Gender Studies, TU Dresden, 21.01.2002. - "The monumentalization of urban space - the example of Piranesi".
Conference "Enlightenment and Urbanization in the 18th Century", Kamenz, 23-26.11.2000. - "The body as a matrix of spatial aesthetics. The theoretical foundation of rinascimental architecture in the 15th century".
XVI. colloquium for young scholars of Romance studies, Leipzig, 14-17.06.2000. - "Renaissance careers: the example of prostitution".
Lecture series "blick-wechsel. geschlechter verque(e)r", University of Würzburg, 09.02.1999. - "Ideal city and urban utopia in the early modern period".
Public lecture series "Die Städte der Literatur" of the FB 3 of the University GH Essen, University GH Essen, 08.12.1998. - "Power discourse, the female body and embodiment".
Colloquium "Machtdiskurs und Verkörperung in der frühen Neuzeit" of the project E "Schriftkanon und sozialer Kanon in Renaissance und Barock" in the SFB 537 Institutionalität und Geschichtlichkeit, TU Dresden, 10/11. 07.1998.
Conferences and workshops
- International conference
(Post)Colonial shaming: Practices and materiality of degradation / (Post)Koloniales shaming. Practices and materiality of degradation
in cooperation with GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) and Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)
Dresden and Leipzig, 16-18.06.2022 (together with Dagmar Ellerbrock, Sabine Küntzel, Felix Brahm and Torsten König)
- International conference
Raccontare la denigrazione. Invettività e migrazione nella letteratura e nel cinema
TP M of the SFB 1285 "Invectivity. Constellations and dynamics of disparagement", TU Dresden, 17-19.10.2019.
- Workshop
Raccontare le migrazioni. Letteratura ed invettività
TP M of the SFB 1285 "Invectivity. Constellations and dynamics of disparagement", TU Dresden, 28-29.06.2018.
- Workshop
Moving image invectives. Techniques of Disparagement in Film and Television
TP L and TP M of the SFB 1285 "Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement", TU Dresden, 16/17.05.2018.
- Workshop
Invective constellations and dynamics in Italian migration narratives
TP M of the SFB 1285 "Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement", TU Dresden, 07./08.12.2017. - Lecture series
Seeing, researching, knowing in Goethe's 'Italian Journey'
in cooperation with the Saxon Art Collections Dresden (SKD) and the Italy Center of the TU Dresden
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections), November 2016-June 2017 - International conference
Migration and Media
TU Dresden, 20-22.10.2016 (together with Prof. Dr. Roswitha Böhm). - International conference
Materiality and cultural transfer. Epistemische Verflechtungen in der Erzeugung globalen Wissens / Materiality and Cultural Transfer. Epistemic Entanglements in Global Knowledge Production,
TU Dresden, 24/25.01.2014 (together with Dr. Liliana Gómez-Popescu).