CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES
| 1980 | Nestroys Weltanschauung und Lebensphilosophie |
| International Conference on “Der politische Nestroy”, Vienna | |
| 1982 | Andreas Gryphius und das politische Drama der Schlesischen Schule |
| Lecture at the University of Wroclaw | |
| 1984 | Nestroy und die Wiener Gesellschaft, 1830-1860 |
| International Conference on “Viennese Popular Theatre”, London | |
| 1984 | Dada Theatre as Anti-bourgeois Performance Art |
| Conference on “1916: A Watershed in German Art and Politics?”, Goethe Institut London | |
| 1984 | Girlkultur |
| Conference on “The Body: Physical Culture in Weimar Germany”, Goethe Institut London | |
| 1985 | Fine Artists Working for the Theatre: Futurism, Dadaism, Bauhaus |
| Study Seminar on “Modernism and Postmodernism in the Theatre”, Birkbeck College, University of London | |
| 1986 | Popular Images and Social Reality of Female Workers in the Weimar Republic |
| Study seminar on “Feminism and the Arts in Weimar Germany”, Goethe Institut London | |
| 1986 | Perspectives on Critical Humour |
| Conference on “Cabaret, Caricature and Satire in Wilhelmine Germany”, Goethe Institut London | |
| 1986 | Über Synästhesie und die Idee eines Gesamtkunstwerkes |
| Lecture at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt | |
| 1987 | Theatre Performances in Internment Camps |
| International Conference on “German Exile Theatre in Great Britain, 1933-45”, Architectural Association, London | |
| 1987 | Feminism, Americanism and Popular Entertainment in Weimar Germany |
| Lecture at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University | |
| 1988 | Theater als Gesamtkunstwerk: Über das Verhältnis von Wort, Musik und Szenerie in der Bühnenkunst der Renaissance- und Barockzeit |
| Lecture at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München | |
| 1989 | German-Jewish Refugees in Britain and Their Contribution to Theatre and Music |
| International Conference on “The History of German-speaking Jews in Great Britain”, Cambridge | |
| 1989 | Zur Theorie und Praxis des Gesamtkunstwerks zwischen Romantik und Moderne |
| Habilitationsvortrag at the Freie Universität Berlin | |
| 1990 | Theatre Performances at Renaissance Theatre Festivals: Multi-media Spectacles or Gesamtkunstwerke? |
| International Conference on “Italian Renaissance Theatre Festivals”, University of Warwick | |
| 1990 | World Harmony and Union of the Arts in Renaissance Dance |
| Study seminar on “Early Renaissance Dance”, Salisbury Arts Centre | |
| 1991 | From France to France: An International Itinerary of the Avant-garde (1895-1925) |
| International Conference on “Turning Points in Modern French Drama”, University of Bristol | |
| 1992 | Unanimism as a Source of Influence for Marinetti’s Futurism |
| Symposium on “The City and the Wilderness in Modern Art”, University of Bristol | |
| 1993 | The Ritual Core of Fascist Theatre: An Anthropological Perspective |
| International Symposium on “Teatro y Fascismo”, University of Granada | |
| 1993 | Stagecraft in the Service of Statecraft: Political Aspects of Early Renaissance Performances |
| International conference on “Scenery, Set and Staging in the Renaissance”, University of Aberystwyth | |
| 1993 | Überlegungen zu einer zukünftigen Theaterwissenschaft |
| Lecture at Universität Leipzig | |
| 1994 | The Renaissance Banquet as a Total Work of Art |
| International Conference on “Food and Theatre” at the Centre for Performance Research in Cardiff | |
| 1995 | The Dance Theatre of Rudolf Laban |
| Lecture at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | |
| 1995 | Expressionist Acting and Stage Design |
| Lecture at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | |
| 1995 | Theatre Studies and the Integration of Theory and Praxis |
| Lecture at Theatre Academy, Salvador / Bahia | |
| 1995 | Fascism and Theatre |
| Lecture at Federal University of Bahia | |
| 1995 | Teaching and Research in Performance Studies: Some Methodological Considerations and Reflections |
| Lecture at National Convention of Theatre Pedagogues in São Paulo | |
| 1995 | Zur Rekonstruktion historischer Theateraufführungen |
| InternationalConference on “Aktuelle Tendenzen der Theatergeschichtsforschung”, Erlangen | |
| 1996 | Georg Greflinger as Poet, Journalist and Publisher |
| British Baroque Symposium, University of Bristol | |
| 1996 | Artaud’s “Jet de Sang” |
| International Centenary Conference “Antonin Artaud” at the Centre for Performance Research, Cardiff | |
| 1996 | The Renaissance Banquet as a Total Work of Art |
| Congress of Society for Theatre Studies, “Grenzgänge: Theater und die anderen Künste”, Universität Giessen | |
| 1997 | Die Futuristischen Abende: Theater, Kino, Performance Art |
| Public Lecture at Johann-Gutenberg Universität, Mainz | |
| 1997 | Ritual and Theatre |
| International Congress of Ethnoscenoloy, “Sobre Perfórmaticos, performance e sociedade”, Salvador/Bahia | |
| 1997 | Das Festbankett der Barockzeit |
| International Conference Baroque Congress “Künste und Natur in Diskursen der frühen Neuzeit”, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel | |
| 1998 | Überlegungen zu einer Methodologie und Didaktik der Angewandten Theaterwissenschaft |
| Public Lecture at Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen | |
| 1998 | Die Filmästhetik des italienischen Futurismus |
| Guest Lecture at Freie Universität Berlin | |
| 1998 | Transitions from a Renaissance to a Baroque Concept of Theatre |
| Conference on “Early Modern Europe in an Inter-disciplinary Perspective” at Duke University, Durham/SC | |
| 1998 | Theatre Anthropology and Ethnoscenology: A Comparison of Methodologies |
| Symposium on “Ethnoscénologie: Percevoir au-delà de soi”, Maison de la Culture du Monde, Paris | |
| 1998 | The Futurist “serate” and Marinetti’s Strategy of “arte-azione” |
| International Symposium on “Rethinking the Avant-garde”, University of Leicester | |
| 1999 | Theater und Aktionsästhetik des primo futurismo |
| Guest Lecture at Ruhr-Universität Bochum | |
| 1999 | Tendenzen experimentellen Theaters in der Nachkriegszeit |
| Guest Lecture at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | |
| 2000 | The Futurist Body on Stage |
| International Colloquium on “Homo Orthopedicus: The Modernist Body”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp | |
| 2000 | Paradigm Shifts in Science and Art: The New Astronomy and the Transition from Renaissance to Baroque Theatre |
| International Baroque Congress on “Artes et Scientiae”, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel | |
| 2000 | Severini and Dance |
| Conference on “Severini, Futurism and After”, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | |
| 2000 | The Mechanized Body on Stage: From Futurism to Stelarc |
| Guest Lecture at Brown University, Providence | |
| 2000 | Futurist Influences on the Bauhaus |
| Guest lecture at Saint-Martin’s School of Art, London | |
| 2000 | Theatre Festivals of the Medici |
| Study Day on Renaissance Festivals, University of Warwick | |
| 2001 | Theater des Dadaismus |
| Guest lecture at University of Hamburg | |
| 2001 | Dada und die Darstellenden Künste |
| Guest lecture at University of Leipzig | |
| 2002 | Die Integration von Theorie und Praxis in der Angewandten Theaterwissenschaft |
| Guest lecture at Academy of Arts, Berlin | |
| 2004 | Militant Politics and Avant-garde Performance Art |
| International Symposium on “The Poetics and Politics of the Historical Avant-Garde”, University of Ghent, Belgium | |
| 2004 | From Video Art to Video Performance |
| International Conference on “Avant-garde Cinema”, University of Edinburgh | |
| 2005 | Neo-Dada Performance Art |
| International Conference on “Mapping the Neo-Avant-Garde: Theorising Art, Literature, Music and Film in the 1950s and 60s”, University of Edinburgh | |
| 2006 | F.T. Marinetti’s Concept of a Theatre Enhanced by Audio-Visual MediaInternational Conference on “Theatre & the Media”. VIII. |
| International Congress of the Society for Theatre Studies, Erlangen/Germany | |
| 2007 | Artaud’s Jet de Sang: An Unperformable Surrealist Play? |
| Conference on Antonin Artaud, University of Antwerp | |
| 2008 | Italian Futurism: From Visual Poetry to Electronic Media Art |
| International Conference on “Breaking the Rules: European Avant Garde, 1900-1937”, British Library, London | |
| 2008 | Osmosis and Cross-fertilizations between Historical Avant-garde Movements |
| International Conference on EUROPA! EUROPA? First Bi-annual Conference of the European Network for Avant-garde and Modernism Studies (EAM), Ghent University, Belgium | |
| 2008 | Innovation on the Futurist Stage: From Mechanical to Electronic Theatre |
| International workshop on “Futurism and the Technological Imagination” at 11th International Conference of International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Helsinki | |
| 2008 | Futurist Tactile Theatre |
| International Conference on “Futurist Dramaturgy and Performance”, University of Toronto | |
| 2008 | Art in Action: Performative Practices in Futurist Soirées |
| International Colloquium “De l’avant-garde, des avant-gardes: Frontières, mouvements”, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis | |
| 2009 | Variety, Music-hall and Futurist Theatre Aesthetics |
| Centenary Symposium “Una bellezza nuova: Futurismo 1909-2009”, Biblioteca Angelica, Rome | |
| 2009 | From the Avant-garde into the Mainstream: Futurist Theatre in the 1920s and 30s |
| Symposium on “Theatrical Avant-gardes of the Twenties in Europe” at the Belgian Centre of the International Theatre Institute (Unesco) in collaboration with the Free University of Brussels | |
| 2009 | From Mechanical Futurism to Neo-futurist Cyber-theatre |
| International Conference on “1909-2009: 100 Jahre italienischer Futurismus”, Internationales Zentrum für Kultur- und Technikforschung (IZKT), Stuttgart | |
| 2009 | Futurist Performance |
| Centenary Conference on “Back to the Futurists: Avant-gardes 1909-2009”, Queen Mary College, University of London and the Estorick Collection, London | |
| 2009 | Marinetti’s Volte-Face of 1920 |
| International conference on “Beyond Futurism: F.T. Marinetti, Writer”, Columbia University and Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America | |
| 2009 | Marinetti’s Total Theatre and the Futurist Concept of Gesamtkunstwerk |
| International conference on “Futurismo / Futurizm: The Futurist Avant-garde in Italy and Russia”, Yale University, New Haven/CT | |
| 2009 | Past, Present and Future of Futurism |
| International conference on “Futurisms: Precursors, Protagonists, Legacies”, University of Utrecht | |
| 2010 | Futurism and the Genesis of Dada: Contacts, Continuities and Conflicts |
| International conference on “Il Futurismo nelle avanguardie storiche”, Milan: Palazzo Reale | |
| 2010 | Militant Politics and Avant-garde Performance Art in the Early Futurist Movement |
| Public Lecture, University of Copenhagen | |
| 2010 | Dada Performance Art at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich |
| Public Lecture, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen | |
| 2010 | New Research on Futurism in East and Central Europe |
| Conference at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan | |
| 2010 | Practical Theatre Studies in an Academic Environment |
| Guest lecture at University of Copenhagen | |
| 2010 | Expressionistisches Theater heute |
| International conference on “Der Aufbruch in die Moderne: Herwarth Walden und die europäische Avantgarde”, Internationales Zentrum für Kultur- und Technikforschung (IZKT), Stuttgart | |
| 2011 | Futurism and Politics, 1898-1944 |
| Keynote address at Second International Comparative Literature Conference on “Modernism and the Avant-garde – Heritage and Present Day”, Ilia State University, Tbilisi (Georgia) | |
| 2011 | The International Impact of Futurism: Absorptions, Assimilations, Adaptations |
| International Conference on “L’Europa futurista: Simultaneità, Costruttivismo, Montaggio”, La Sapienza University, Rome | |
| 2012 | International Repercussions of Futurism |
| Public Lecture at Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw | |
| 2012 | The International Impact of Futurism: Absorptions, Assimilations, Adaptations |
| Colloquium at the Kunsthistorisches Institut – Max-Planck-Institut, Florence | |
| 2012 | Concepts of “Importation” and “Influence” in the Study of Historical Avant-gardes |
| International conference on “Futurism in Asia”, Tokyo Met Museum of Contemporary Art and Ohara Museum of Art | |
| 2013 | The Futurist Fusion of Art, Life and Politics |
| International conference on “Tracing Futurist Ideologies”, Central Library, Pärnu (Estonia) | |
| 2013 | Le Futurisme mondial: Reception and Adaptation in International Futurism |
| International conference on “100 Years Almada Negreiros”, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon | |
| 2014 | The International Impact of Futurism: Absorptions, Assimilations, Adaptations |
| Public Lecture at New York University | |
| 2014 | Depero and Futurist Theatre |
| International conference on “Fortunato Depero”, Center for Italian Modern Art, New York | |
| 2014 | Futurism in the International Sphere |
| Public Lecture at Leuven: Katholieke Universiteit | |
| 2014 | Il teatro futurista |
| Public Lecture at Study Day “L’avanguardia difficile: Il futurismo tra Italia, Napoli, Europa”, Naples: Nola | |
| 2014 | Futurism and War |
| International conference on “Prvi svjetski rat i avangardna umjetnost” (World War I and Avant-garde Art”, Zagreb: Museum of Contemporary Art | |
| 2014 | The Historiography of Futurism |
| Roundtable, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | |
| 2015 | Futurist Tactile Theatre |
| Public Lecture at Typhlological Museum, Zagreb | |
| 2015 | Futurist Tactile Panels |
| Lecture and Workshop at Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb | |
| 2015 | Bauhaus Theatre: Oskar Schlemmer, His Students and Successors |
| Public Lecture at Museum of Contemporary Arts, Zagreb | |
| 2015 | The Futurist Contribution to the Modernization of Italian Theatre |
| Postgrad seminar at Leuven University | |
| 2015 | Futurism’s First Battles in the Italian Theatre |
| Postgrad seminar at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London | |
| 2016 | Marinetti’s Quest for an Art Inspired by Science |
| Keynote address at Biannual Conference of European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies at Université de Haute Bretagne Rennes 2, France | |
| 2016 | The Genesis of Dada: Futurist Influences in Romania, Germany and at the Cabaret Voltaire |
| Keynote address at Conference on “Dada in East and Central Europe”. Budapest: Kassák Múzeum | |
| 2016 | Futurist Roots in Zurich Dada |
| Conference on “100 Times DaDa”. Moscow: Mayakovsky Museum | |
| 2017 | Noise as a Compositional Resource in Futurist Musical Aesthetics |
| Lecture and seminar at University of Edinburgh. Department of Italian Studies, 28 March 2017 | |
| 2017 | Futurist Theatre as a Synaesthetic Experience |
| Conference on “Prospettive culturali fra intersezioni e sviluppi disciplinari in Italia e in Ungheria”, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, at Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Budapest, 4 May 2017 | |
| 2017 | Reflections on the Historiography of Futurism |
| Lecture at Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum, Budapest, as an event organized by the Kassák Museum, 5 May 2017 | |
| 2017 | Research on Italian Futurism after WWII: Ostracism or Recuperation? |
| Lecture and seminar at Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, 19 May 2017 | |
| 2017 | The Futurist “Serata” at the Teatro República (14 April 1917) |
| Keynote speech at a conference on “Futurismo-futurismos: 100 anos da Portugal futurista”, National Library, Lisbon, 7 November 2017 | |
| 2017 | The Fusion of Art and Politics: A Futurist Misunderstanding |
| Keynote speech at a conference on “Poetics of (Mis)understanding: Culture-Making Potential of Interference in Artistic Communication.” Institute of Literary Research, Warsaw, 8 December 2017 | |
| 2018 | Futurist Anthropology: From the Machine-Man to the Proletariat of Geniuses |
| Conference on “The New Man in the Historical Avant-garde”, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 24-25 May 2018 | |
| 2018 | The Poetics of Noise |
| Public lecture at Akademije umetnosti Novi Sad (Academy of Arts Novi Sad), 6 November 2018 | |
| 2018 | Current and Past Research into International Futurism |
| Public lecture at Univerzitet u Novom Sadu (University of Novi Sad), 7 November 2018 | |
| 2018 | The Poetics of Noise |
| Public lecture at Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu (University of Arts) Department of Art History, 8 November 2018 | |
| 2018 | Current Research into International Futurism |
| Public lecture at Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu (University of Arts) Department of Art History, 9 November 2018 | |
| 2018 | The Futurist Revolution in Fiume, 1919-1921 |
| Conference on “100 Jahre nach Rijeka: Gespräche über D’Annunzio”. Villa Vigoni: Centro Italo-Tedesco per l’eccellenza europea, Menaggio / Como, 19-22 November 2018 | |
| 2018 | Current Research into International Futurism |
| Public lecture at Eötvös Collegium (Hungarian Academy, Institute of Literary Studies), Budapest, 27 November 2018 | |
| 2018 | Traces of Futurism in East-Central Europe |
| Public lecture at Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Italian Language and Literature, 29 November 2018 | |
| 2019 | Futurist Banquets as Performance Art |
| Conference on The Gastro-bomb of Futurist Cuisine. The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, 13 March 2019 | |
| 2019 | Marinetti’s “Futurisme mondial”: Propaganda and Reality |
| International conference on European Avant-gardes around 1900: Contacts – Transfers – Transformations. RGGU Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 14-16 March 2019/td> | |
| 2019 | Kokoschka’s “Murderer, Hope of Women” |
| Lecture and screening of a DVD recording of my stage production in Rio de Janeiro. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art at Rikhter Art Centre, Moscow, 17 March 2019 |
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| 2019 | Science, Technology and the Futurist Fusion of Art and Life |
| Keynote speech at Rencontres Arts et Sciences, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice: Musée National Marc Chagall, 30 November 2019 | |
| 2020 | Morpurgo and Italian Futurism in the Archive of the Avant-gardes in Dresden |
| Paper at conference on Futurismo tra Egitto e Italia: L’Archivio Nelson Morpurgo, Rovereto, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, 20 Feb 2020 | |
| 2020 | Oskar Kokoschka – Murderer Hope of Women |
| Screening and lecture at Oskar Kokoschka — Neue Einblicke und Perspektiven, Wien, Universität für angewandte Kunst , 27 February 2020 | |
| 2020 | Permeabilities in Futurisms and Cross-fertilizations amongst the Historical Avant-gardes |
| Paper at Symposium Paradoxien des Fortschritts: Globale Durchlässigkeiten und Wandlungen avantgardistischer Ideen und Praktiken, Stuttgart, Akademie Schloss Solitude, 7 March 2020 | |
| 2020 | Marinetti’s Concept of “Futurisme mondial”: Ideology and Reality |
| Lecture and seminar at Pisa University, 16 October 2020 | |
| 2022 | The Futurist Gesamtkunstwerk and its Renaissance Precursors: Spectacles of Food Expressed through the Language of Theatre |
| Paper at Conference on Revisiting the Avant-Garde Total Work of Art. University of Leuven, 23-24 May 2022 | |
| 2023 | Futurism and the Book |
| Lecture presented at “The Art of Collecting and the Futurist Avant-garde”, London: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 21 April 2023 | |
| 2023 | Research Issues in International and Regional Futurism |
| Public Lecture. Venice: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Palazzo Vendramin dei Carmini, 9 May 2023 |
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