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.

Programme

  • 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 - Memory Politics and Post-Disaster Recovery in Tohoku, Japan (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 - Technological Transformation and Avant-garde Classicism in the Sinophone Cyberspace (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 final task will be a presentation on the research findings for the case studies chosen by each group.

Programme

Monday, 15 June

Morning

Registration and opening remarks by Paola Scrolavezza (Director, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures) and Federico Picerni, Veronica De Pieri and Chiara Fontana (co-directors, summer school)

Guest lecture by Elena Lamberti (University of Bologna): Exploring World Poetry: from Theory to Practice

Afternoon

Group presentations

Tuesday, 16 June

Morning

Guest lecture and activity by Franca Mancinelli (poet): Like a Flock Flying Onwards: Poetry as a Voice from a Community on a Journey

Afternoon

Group work

Wednesday, 17 June

Morning

Guest lecture by Mariadonata Villa (poet)

Group work

Afternoon

Group work

Roundtable

Thursday, 18 June

Morning

Group work

Afternoon

Creative workshop conducted by the Centre for Contemporary Poetry

Friday, 19 June

Morning

Final group presentations