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Ombretta Frau delivered a paper, “Dal Correr a Cividale: Alvise Piero Zorzi, un veneziano ribelle,” ADI (Associazione degli Italianisti) conference, Trento and Rovereto, University of Trento, September 2026.
Ombretta Frau delivered a paper, “Funeral as performance. Wagner’s death in Venice, from Jolanda to D’Annunzio,” Society for Italian Studies Conference, Trinity College and University College, Dublin, July 2026.
Ombretta Frau delivered a paper, “Funeral as performance. Wagner’s death in Venice in D’Annunzio and Jolanda,” at the American Association for Italian Studies, University of Sassari, Italy, June 2026.
Ombretta Frau wrote the text for an Ottocentismi (NIneteenth Century Association) podcast published in June 2026: “La difesa della Basilica di San Marco nelle Osservazioni di Alvise Piero Zorzi,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60TaBCWDGmo
Frau, O., Guzzetta, J. (2026). Female Sovereignty: Disorienting Feminist Rhetoric in the Italian Far Right. Public Humanities, 2:e53. doi:10.1017/pub.2026.10157
Frau, O. (2026) Maria Majocchi (Jolanda) encyclopedia entry for the Dizionario biografico e tematico delle donne in Italia 1730-2020, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, Rome 2026, 476-480.
On June 6-11, 2025, Ombretta Frau gave a presentation at a Round Table on "Italian Studies at a Crossroads: Overviewing Theory, Challenges, and Resistance," Canadian Association for Italian Studies conference, University of Bologna.
Frau, O. (2025) “La verità punge: so che non mi mancheranno nemici. Alvise Piero Zorzi’s Venice,” Canadian Association for Italian Studies conference, University of Bologna, 6-11 June, 2025
Frau, O. (2025) “Giorgia Meloni’s Contradictory Feminist Rhetoric” ALAC Symposium on the far right, Amherst College, 9 May 2025
Frau, O. (2025) “A Wonder Woman,” Wonder Women Festival, Domus Artist Residency, Galatina (Italy), 23-26 July 2025
