PROGRAMME AND SCHEDULE

First part | Online

The online activity will be hosted on Virtuale (a Moodle-based platform) and will be mainly based on readings (secondary sources) carried out and commented on by students on a forum, where they will write down their comments and questions, followed by a lecture held by an instructor member of the BIP.

It will run from April to May 2026.

Tentative programme

Please note that some parts, including the schedule (days and times of the lectures), is still provisional and will be finalised shortly.

  • Week One - Poetry of Exile: Poetic Practices and Forms of Belonging in the Contemporary Arab World (lecture by Annamaria Bianco: 13 April, 17-19 CET)
  • Week Two - Voices That Bind: Oral Poetry, Performance, and Social Cohesion in Arabic Culture (lecture by Chiara Fontana: 23 April, 17-19 CET)
  • Week Three - Japan, social movements and social media after 3.11 (lecture by Anna Wiemann: 29 April, 17-19 CET)
  • Week Four - Japan: Net-Poetry after 3.11 (lecture by Veronica De Pieri: 13 May, 17-19 CET)
  • Week Five - Between the Literati and the Folk: Politics and Ideology in Chinese Poetry (lecture by Yang Zhiyi: 20 May, 17-19 CET)
  • Week Six - AI Poetry in China: A Boomsday Scenario (lecture by Joanna Krenz: 27 May, 17-19 CET).

As their final assignment for the first part, students will work in groups to draft the abstract of a case study they would like to investigate during the in-person workshop.

Second part | In-person workshop

This part will be based on methodology and primary sources, held on 15-19 June 2026. It will consist of several moments of interaction amongst the students, starting with the discussion of the abstracts drafted by groups as the final task for the online part, and the in-depth study of specific cross-cultural issues, through group activity and discussion roundtables.

The programme will be uploaded shortly. It will include a initial group presentations on the online part's assignment, a guest lecture, a lecture on methdology, a creative workshop and final group presentations.

The final task will be a presentation on the research findings for the case studies chosen by each group.