Events
The project carried out an extensive set of dissemination activities at both national and international levels, including the organization of 4 major international scientific events and the presentation of research results in 8 international conferences, ensuring a high level of visibility and impact.
Organized events
27–28 May 2024
International Conference “Sguardi geo-letterari sul paesaggio: dal racconto del paesaggio al paesaggio come racconto”, University of Genoa, organized by the research groups AGeI (“Geografia e letteratura” and “Landscape Studies”).
Paper presented (Simona Gallo and Giacomo Zanolin): “I paesaggi europei negli scrittori sinofoni contemporanei: i confini di una ricerca”.
19 June 2025
“Re-Visualizing ‘the West’: Genoa Workshop”, University of Genoa.
International workshop organized within the PRIN 2022 project, involving scholars from leading institutions such as Cornell University, Duke University, UCLA, Penn State University, the University of Toronto, the University of Frankfurt, and Cambridge University.
20–21 June 2025
“Re-Visualizing ‘the West’: Milan Workshop”, University of Milan.
Two-day international conference organized within the PRIN 2022 project, featuring multiple thematic panels on Sinophone representations of Europe, involving scholars from six countries and fifteen institutions.
30 September 2025
“Empires of the Sinophone”, seminar and conversation with Shumei Shih (UCLA), University of Milan. International keynote event organized within the PRIN 2022 project.
1 October 2025
“Re-Visualizing ‘the West’: Final Workshop”, University of Milan.
Concluding international workshop of the project, structured around key thematic axes (reframing, re-placing, re-mapping), featuring scholars from five countries.
Participation in conferences
29 May – 1 June 2025
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting (online). Paper presented (Simona Gallo): “The liminality of poetry, the centrality of the subject, the dislocation of the Sinophone.”
20-21 June 2025
“Re-visualizing ‘the West’: Milan workshop, organized within the PRIN 2022 project, University of Milan. Paper presented (Giacomo Zanolin, Carlo Giunchi, Epifania Grippo): “Geoliterary and Cartographic Perspectives on Sinophone Views of Europe”.
29–30 June 2025
Journées d’Études de l’AIGF (Association Internationale de Géographie Française), “Géographies culturelles : les voix d’ici et d’ailleurs”, Milan.
Paper presented (Giacomo Zanolin, Epifania Grippo): “Perspectives géolittéraires et cartographiques autour des regards sinophones sur l’Europe”.
8–11 September 2025
10th EUGEO Congress “Geographies of a Changing Europe”, Vienna. Session organized (Giacomo Zanolin, Lorenzo Lopez): “Which Literary Geographies for a Changing Europe?”
11–13 September 2025
20th Biennial Conference of the Italian Association of Chinese Studies (AISC), University of Bologna. Paper presented (Simona Gallo): “Radici e rotte: l’acqua come liminalità nella poesia sinofona contemporanea”.
1 October 2025
Final Workshop “Re-Visualizing ‘the West’”, University of Milan. Paper presented (Simona Gallo): “Counter-Mapping Paris: Hsia Yü’s First Person and the Geopoetics of Dislocation”.
24–26 October 2025
67th Annual Conference of the American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS), Adelphi University (New York). Paper presented (Simona Gallo): “Creative paradigms of ‘European’ Sinophonicity.”
Third mission and public engagement activities
In addition to academic dissemination, the project has also contributed to the third mission and public engagement activities, aimed at reaching a broader audience beyond the academic community and promoting the societal impact of research.
These activities include participation in outreach conferences and events addressed to non-specialist audiences, such as the Festival delle Geografie di Levanto (April 2024)ì