Laura Ferri
PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
“Reading Literary Texts in Italian High Schools” - Teachers of English Seminars in Centennial
College of Applied Arts and Technology, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, 8-9 December 1994.
“Floods in Alice Munro’s Rural Ontario” - XI Biennial Conference of Italian Association for
Canadian Studies, Siena, Italy, 6-11 November 1996.
“The ‘Beauteous Forms’ of Nature in Alice Munro’s Landscapes” - 22nd BACS Annual
Conference, University of Wales, Swansea, 24-27 March, 1997.
“The Beggar Maid, Stories of Flo and Rose”, Seminar at Dipartimento di Filologia e Critica della
Letteratura, Università di Siena, 1997.
“Journeys of Rebellion in Alice Munro’s Fiction”, IACS Biennial Conference, University of Cork,
Ireland, 1998.
“The Teaching of Canadian Literature in reference to EFL curricula,”
Symposium, Toronto 1998.
Centennial College
“Quests and Re-visitations at the End of the Millennium,” BACS International Conference,
University of London, 1999.
“Themes and Translations of ‘Fugitive Pieces,’” seminar at Dipartimento di Studi Americani,
Università di Roma 3, April 1999.
“Across the North: between Texts and Contexts," International Conference of the Italian
Association for Canadian Studies, Bologna, September 1999.
"Representations: Italy the Malevolent, Italy the Beautiful," Convegno Internazionale, Università di
Udine, Udine, May 2000.
“Odysseys: Quests of the Self and Returns to the Other,” BACS International Conference,
University of York, April 2001.
Examples of Literary Translation, as part of Corso sulla Traduzione at the Università per Stranieri,
Siena, May 2001.
Living in Hyphenated Situations: The Immigrant Experience in Choy's and Fiorito's Memoirs,
lecture at OISE, University of Toronto, Novembre 2001.
Mothers and Other Secrets, Alice Munro Conference: Writing Secrets, Université des Lettres,
Orléans, May 2003 Canadians in London: Jean McNeil's "Private View'' and Catherine Bush's "The Rules of
Engagement," XIIth Biennial International Conference of the Association of Canadian Studies in
Ireland, University College, Cork, May 2004.
Crossing Borders in Alice Munro’s Short Stories, Short Story International Conference,
Universidad de Alcalà de Henares, Madrid, October 2004.
Canada at Home. The Places of Home, Irish Association for Canadian Studies, Galway, Ireland,
April 2006.
English-speaking Writers in and around Siena: from the Grand Tour to the Post-modern Traveller,
(Key Lecture) Association of Italian Canadian Writers, Vancouver, May 2006.
Homecoming and “Child’s Play”. Alice Munro – The Art of the Short Story / L’arte del racconto,
Centro Siena-Toronto, Università di Siena, Siena 4-5 May 2007.
Pittura e paesaggi italiani nell’immaginazione degli scrittori canadesi. Dipartimento di Lingue e
Letterature Straniere Moderne (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna) in collaborazione
con Fondazione Flaminia, Ravenna, 15-16 Maggio 2007.
How some Canadian Writers Travel to Siena, ACSUS Conference, Toronto, 14-18 November 2007.
An Introduction to Italian Culture for University of Alberta Alumni, University of Alberta School in
Cortona, 23 October 2007.
Discussant’s Comment in Transcultural Pedagogy, Cultural Crossings: the Case Studies of Canada
and Italy Pisa, 2008
Sogno, Storia, Memoria nella Letteratura Canadese: The Stone Carvers /Klara in Spazi Canadesi
della Memoria, organized by Carla Comellini, Ravenna, U of Bologna, Nov. 2009
Jane Urquhart’s Visiting Italy, AISC Conference, Atri, 2010
A Memoir by Rosemary Sullivan in Memory and Forgetting, organized by Carla Comellini,
Ravenna, U of Bologna, Nov. 2010
Memory On The Guthrie Road ACSUS Conference, Ottawa November 16-20, 2011
Presentation of Mary Melfi and her memoir at Ravenna, Fondazione Flamini, invited by Prof. Carla
Comellini (Centro di Studi Canadesi “Alfredo Rizzardi” U of Bologna), 5 Nov. 2012