2026 PROGRAM AND ACTIVITIES
This intensive four-day program is an immersive experience that offers a blend of lectures, scholarly conversations with an international faculty, meetings with the professionals of the cultural industry, and visits to local institutions; the full schedule, which includes details about the various locations where the school will take place, can be downloaded from this page.
To find out more about our teaching staff, please refer to the 2026 Faculty sub-page.
Lectures and seminars
- Course Presentation: How to Study the Mediations of Italy
Luca Barra, Elisa Farinacci (Università di Bologna)
- What Do Men See When They Watch Men? Representation and Reception in Maschi veri
Nicoletta Marini Maio (Dickinson College) and Romana Andò (Sapienza Università di Roma)
- People of the Miracle: Dario Fo, Franca Rame and Italian Television
Matteo Marinello (Università di Bologna)
- Italian Silent Films Go West: “dal vero”, Cowgirls, and the Italian American Movie Theater
Paola Bonifazio (University of Texas - Austin)
- Localising Representational Justice:Netflix’s Zero (2021) and Audience Responses
Alessio Baldini (University of Leeds)
- Streaming the Seventies: Italian Prestige Drama and the Platformed Past
Giancarlo Lombardi (City University of New York)
- Film Diplomacy: A Conceptual Framework for Cold War Governance
Jülide Etem (University of Virginia)
- How to build a Global Film Festival: Il cinema ritrovato
Guy Borlée (Cineteca di Bologna)
- “IT’s Your Vibe”: Celebrating Italianness in the 2026 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony
Emiliano Rossi (Università degli studi di Padova)
- Remaking The Leopard as a Global Television series
Dana Renga (Ohio State University) and Luca Barra (Università di Bologna)
Guided tours, special events, and social activities
- Opening aperitivo and goodbye coffee break
- Contemporary Italian Youth Television (Palgrave) and Giallo! Going through the History of Italian Television Crime Drama (Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, Intellect)
- Viva Varda! Il cinema è donna
- Guided tour of the exhibition at Cineteca/Modernissimo
- La regle du jeu
Film Screening at Cinema Modernissimo
Student presentations
A full schedule of the poster presentations planned for the 2026 edition is available as a downloadable document.
