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Svaldi, M. (2026) Beyond Words: The Profound Impact of Reading the Dizionarietto Quotidiano di Dacia Maraini on Mind and Society, CAIS and University of Bologna, Classical Philology and Italian Studies Department, June 6-7 & 9-10
Svaldi, M. (2026) Organizer and Chair of a panel Page by Page: Mastering Italian Language and Culture Through Reading, CAIS and University of Bologna, Classical Philology and Italian Studies Department, June 6-7 & 9-10
Svaldi, M. (2026) The Art and Creativity of the Italian Food: Local Roots, Global Impact, NECTFL-North East Council Teaching Foreign Languages, 26-28 February, New York
Svaldi, M. (2025) Presented Creating Connections through the Reading of Dizionarietto Quotidiano by Dacia Maraini, AATI [American Association Teachers of Italian] Princeton University, April 25-27, 2025
Svaldi, M. (2024) Presented: A Small Cup of Coffee with a Big Impact: the Interconnection between Creativity, Sociality, Sustainability, and Art in the Coffee Industry, MAFLA-Massachusetts Foreign Language Association, October 24-26, 2024
Svaldi, M. (2023) Presenting at the MAFLA (Massachusetts Association Foreign Languages) a paper "L’incanto della cultura italiana: Teaching Italian Language and Culture through Food, Design, Sustainability and Urban Planning", October 26-28, 2023
Svaldi, M. (2021) Presented "Immersive Teaching of Italian: Transforming a Challenge Into a Resource" at the virtual ACTFL Convention– American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 19-21 November 2021.
Ombretta Frau and Morena Svaldi held a workshop for teachers at the NEMLA conference in Springfield on October 25, 2019. The title of the workshop was "Learn In-Context Around Campus.”
Presented her research on Teaching Italian in Higher Education: Assessment, Planning & Retention at the ACTFL Convention–American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Washington, DC, November 22-24, 2019.
Tawa, J., LoPresti, A., & Lynch, D. (2020). Deconstructing racial essentialism in the classroom: The impact of social constructionist curricula on student diversity interactions. The Journal for Multicultural Education, 35(2), 101 – 115.
