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Ombretta Frau. Organizer, curator and moderator for the inaugural American Association for Italian Studies' Giornata di Studio on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's conservative feminism, January 27, 2023


Ombretta Frau. First-Generation Cording Ceremony Speaker, 含羞草研究所, April 30, 2023.


Ombretta Frau. Lecture on XVIII century Venice and Carlo Goldoni鈥檚 Theatre for Professor Monika Schmitter, U. of Massachusetts Amherst, April 21, 2023.


Ombretta Frau. Rembrandt鈥檚 suggestions in Grazia Deledda鈥檚 early fiction. Ottocentismi Conference, Seton Hall University, March 30-31, 2023.


Ombretta Frau. 鈥淭rauma and Resilience in Pirandello鈥檚 L鈥檃ltro figlio,鈥 NEMLA Conference, March 23-26, 2023.


Delivered the following 2 talks:

鈥 鈥淐atabasi e anabasi in Una fra tante di Emma,鈥 American Association for Italian Studies Conference Bologna, May 29-1June 2022

鈥 鈥淟o sguardo di Anna. La vacanza di Dacia Maraini sessant鈥檃nni dopo,鈥 Molestias textuales. Escritoras contra la violencia conference, Universidad de Sevilla, 19-21 May, 2022


Discussed her work on material culture and literature at a round table on Lettrici italiane tra arte e letteratura dall'Ottocento al modernismo at the Society for Italian Studies conference, Warwick University, UK, 20-22 April, 2022.


Gave a talk at the NEMLA conference: 鈥淎 鈥榙ouble鈥 class conflict in Tanino e Tanotto鈥 NEMLA Conference, March, 10, 2022.


Invited to lecture on 鈥淩egulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Italy: the Cavour Law,鈥 University of Rhode Island鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Day Celebration with author Dacia Maraini, March 9, 2022


Invited to lecture on 鈥淩egulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Italy: the Cavour Law,鈥 University of Rhode Island鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Day Celebration with author Dacia Maraini, March 9, 2022