Dr Barbara Spadaro
Lecturer in Italian History and Culture Languages, Cultures and Film
- Work email B.Spadaro@liverpool.ac.uk
Professional Activities
Summary
"Italian Cultures in Multilingual Liverpool: Stories, Trajectories, People" (2018) - Research & Community Event funded by the AHRC OWRI "Language Acts and Worldmaking" project.
Beyond Borders, Transnational Italy...a Tunisi. TML Project Exhibition, Italian Cultural Institute of Tunis, Routes Agency (December 2017-March 2018).
Zoom on Dar Rayhana: a Multimedia Storytelling Workshop. With Mario Badagliacca, Dar Rayhana and COSPE Onlus, Jendouba (Tunisia), February 2018.
Il progetto TML: Invited talk for the Scuola & Territorio Project, CREFOC Tozeur, Tunisia (December 2017).
Beyond Borders, Transnational Italy: presenting the TML project exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute of Addis Ababa, the Circolo Juventus Addis Ababa, the University of Addis Ababa. With Charles Burdett, Mario Badagliacca, Routes Agency (October 2017).
Transnational Italies: Mobility, Subjectivities and Modern Italian Cultures - British School at Rome, BSR, TML Conference (26-28 October 2016).
Conference Roles
- Keynote at the PG conference Rethinking (Self)Translation in (Trans)national Contexts, by Invitation (University of Manchester , 2019)
- Gallery Talk: Una casa normale. Interdisciplinary Art exhibition "Retracing a Disappearing Landscape", by Invitation (P21 Gallery, London, 2018)
- Crossing Boundaries: Culture, Languages and Identities, by Invitation (University of Leicester, 2018)
- Postcolonial Seas Seminar (Inaugural): Italian Waves in Mediterranean Memory: Geographies and Geometries of Transculturality, by Invitation (Centre for Postcolonial Studies, University of London, 2016)
- Italians from Libya: Exploring Memories, Writing New Histories, by Invitation (British Academy-Society for Libyan Studies, 2015)
- International and Comparative Literary Studies Program, by Invitation (University of Sydney, 2014)
- From “Mapping Living Memories” to Investigating Postcolonial Histories: Narratives of the Jews from Libya in Historical Perspective , by Invitation (Primo Levi Center, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo'-New York University, NYU, 2014)
Editorships
- H-Italian Diaspora (Editor, 2021 - present)
- Translating Cultures - Special Issue of The Translator (Co-editor (with Charles Forsdick), 2017 - present)
- Translating Cultures: a Glossary (Co-editor (with Charles Forsdick), 2017 - present)
- Transcultural Italies: Memory, Mobility and Translation (Co-editor (with Charles Burdett and Loredana Polezzi), 2016 - present)
- Genre et colonisation/Gender and colonization (Editorial Board Member, 2011 - 2013)
Organisations I have been associated with
- Dante Alighieri Society Liverpool (2018 - present)
Other Administrative or Committee Roles
- Research Events Coordinator, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
- YA Coordinator for Italy
- Equality & Diversity Lead, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures