European Researchers’ Night · 27.09.2024
An interactive experience in Piazza Scaravilli built around audio from the KIParla corpus. Through games, quizzes and listening activities, participants explored regional and social variation in Italian and questioned stereotypes such as the idea of a single native-speaker norm.
With Eleonora Zucchini, Ludovica Pannitto and Claudia Borghetti.
Event pageParole in transito · 22.05.2026
What makes us feel that we belong to a place? Developed from the work of the LILEC workshop AttraVerso la mia città, this episode follows emotional maps, life stories and the everyday paths of migrant communities through Bologna, exploring the connections between language, emotions and urban space.
A podcast produced by the University of Bologna within the TransformAzioni public-engagement project.
Contributor to the LILEC public-engagement observatory on languages, literatures and cultures in transit, including the workshop AttraVerso la mia città: lingue, parole e voci a Bologna.
Official project websitePublic-facing work on how labels such as “Bolognese”, “Italian” and “foreigner” position speakers and circulate social stereotypes, presented within LILEC’s programme on rethinking and reshaping the world.
ProgrammeTwo sessions on perspectives on linguistic diversity for students at the Rolandino de’ Passaggeri lower-secondary school in Bologna, with Silvia Ballarè.
A public educational module developed for the LILEC MOOC on words, languages and interculturality.
Fifteen hours of teacher education within the TFA compulsory qualification programme for lower-secondary-school teachers (class A043), University of Pavia.
A 2-CFU, twelve-hour course within the PAS compulsory qualification programme for lower-secondary-school teachers (class A043), University of Pavia.
Linguisticamente · 2022
An accessible introduction to why spoken language passes so quickly, how a corpus makes it observable, and what variation reveals about speakers and interaction.
Read the articleDAMSLab · 2026
Participation in the public programme around Mistero buffo, bringing a linguistic perspective to Dario Fo’s communication beyond words and to the continuing public life of his theatre.
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