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- 15th February 2023. Scuola Superiore of the University of Udine. Lecture by Martina Mengoni entitled Primo Levi europeo for the course in La traduzione: teorie e metodi (prof. Silvia Contarini).
- 28th September 2023. Reserchers’ Night at the University of Ferrara, Piazza Castello. Open-access workshop on letters and typewritten documents for Ferrarese citizenship. Title:“È la lettera che stavo aspettando”. Primo Levi scrive ai lettori tedeschi. https://www.unife.it/it/notte-ricercatori
- 5th December 2023. Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici, Napoli. Presentation of Levi’s correspondences within Martina Mengoni’s lecture Genesi di un concetto: I sommersi e i salvati. https://www.iisf.it/istituto/archivio-storico/no-non-fa-per-me-primo-levi-e-la-filosofia.html
- 6th-7th February 2024. UniFe orienta, Ferrara Fiere. Workshop on letters and typewritten documents for Ferrarese high-school students. Title:“È la lettera che stavo aspettando”. Primo Levi scrive ai lettori tedeschi.
- 4th-5th April 2024. Conference Italianistica digitale: la ricerca dei giovani studiosi, Macerata. Paper by Alice Gardoncini Lettere di tedeschi nell’era digitale. Primo Levi e il progetto LeviNeT. https://www.unimc.it/it/unimc-comunica/events/2024/italianistica-digitale-la-ricerca-dei-giovani-studiosi/italianistica_digitale_unimc_programma.pdf
- 9th-11th May 2024. Conference Genesis Bologna 2024. Costants and Variants in Genetic Criticism, Bologna and Ferrara. Papers by Martina Mengoni (From the German correspondence to Vanadio: genesis and epistolary antecedents of a story by Primo Levi) and Alice Gardoncini (Tre rifrazioni di Se questo è un uomo in Germania).
- 26th September 2024. Conference Primo Levi scrittore di lettere. Il progetto LeviNeT, Ferrara. Presentation of the Project and papers by Martina Mengoni, Alice Gardoncini and Flavia Palma. https://www.youtube.com/@LeviNeT-TV/videos
- 27th September 2024. European Night of Researchers at the University of Ferrara, Piazza Castello. Open-access laboratory on correspondence and typing intended for the public citizen entitled “E’ la lettera che stavo aspettando“. Primo Levi writes to German readers. https://www.unife.it/it/notte-ricercatori
- 24th–25th October 2024. Speech by Martina Mengoni at the conference Translation as dialogue, Université de Genève. Title of the speech: Primo Levi e Heinz Riedt. Dialoghi sulla traduzione tedesca di “Se questo è un uomo” e “Storie naturali”, https://www.unige.ch/lettres/roman/application/files/9217/2655/8493/Programme_Traduzione_V.pdf
- 14th November 2024. Speech by Martina Mengoni at the University of San Gallo (Switzerland) during the seminar Primo Levi traduttore. Tradurre Primo Levi by Federico Luisetti and Marco Menicacci. https://www.ladante.ch/ldwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Flyer_PrimoLevi_HS24.pdf
- 5th December 2024. Meeting with the fifth classes of the Istituto Superiore Luigi Einaudi in Ferrara. An in-depth look at Primo Levi and a presentation of the LeviNeT project.
- 23th January 2025. Inauguration of the dissemination exhibition of the Giro di posta project. Primo Levi, le Germanie, l’Europa, organized by the Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi, curated by Domenico Scarpa; interventions by Dario Disegni, Fabio Levi, Martina Mengoni and Domenico Scarpa. See the exhibition section of our website: https://www.levinet.eu/la-mostra/
- 27th January 2025. To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025, the Teatro Storchi in Modena staged the production L’ora del colloquio: a play based on German correspondence, directed by Valter Malosti. https://modena.emiliaromagnateatro.com/lora-del-colloquio/
- 29th-31th January 2025. Speech by Martina Mengoni at the conference Epistolari dal Settecento al nuovo millennio. Tipologie testuali, esplorazione e perimetrazione dei corpora, raggio e consistenza degli scambi, Université de Fribourg, 29-31 January 2025. Title of the intervention: “La rete epistolare tedesca e germanofona di Primo Levi. Il caso LeviNeT” https://www.unifr.ch/ital/it/news/news/32346/epistolari-dal-settecento-al-nuovo-millennio?
- 12th February 2025. Presentation of the LeviNeT project by Martina Mengoni at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice. https://www.comune.venezia.it/it/content/primo-levi-scrittore-lettere
- 20th February 2025. The presentation of Il carteggio con Heinz Riedt (Einaudi, 2024), edited by Martina Mengoni, was held at the “Galileo Galilei” scientific high school in Trento. https://r.unitn.it/en/node/533
- 24th February 2025. Presentation of the LeviNeT project by Martina Mengoni, Alice Gardoncini, Camilla Veneziani, and Riccardo Curcurù at Palazzo Madama in Turin, as part of the program of events for the exhibition Giro di posta. Primo Levi, le Germanie, l’Europa. https://www.primolevi.it/it/progetto-levinet-carteggi-tedeschi-primo-levi
- 5th March 2025. the presentation of Il carteggio con Heinz Riedt (Einaudi, 2024), edited by Martina Mengoni, was held at the University of Padua. https://www.disll.unipd.it/sites/disll.unipd.it/files/Unter%20Palmen_2025_Calendario%20II%20semestre_%202024-25.pdf
- 25th April 2025. Martina Mengoni was awarded the 37th edition of the “Procida–Isola di Arturo–Elsa Morante” Prize in the “La Storia” (History) category, for her scholarly work in collecting, studying, and analyzing the correspondence between Primo Levi and his first German translator, Heinz Riedt. https://azzurrotime.com/il-comune-di-procida-e-lieto-di-assegnare-il-premio-procida-isola-di-arturo-elsa-morante-ed-xxxvii-sez-la-storia-a-martina-mengoni/
- 30th April 2025. Presentation of the LeviNeT project by Martina Mengoni at the 20th Annual Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, held at the Université de Tours, titled: The ERC Project LeviNeT: Primo Levi’s correspondence with German readers and intellectuals, within a joint panel with Claudia Rosenzweig and Mariarosa Bricchi. https://cesr-ests2025.sciencesconf.org/program/graphic/date/2025-04-30
- 20th May 2025. Camilla Veneziani participated in the doctoral conference Lo studio Filologico e Letterario di un testo oggi: Metodologie e casi di studio (held at the University of Cagliari on May 19–20, 2025) with a paper titled: La mappatura della presenza di Primo Levi in Germania attraverso il progetto di edizione digitale dei suoi carteggi tedeschi. https://sifr.it/sifr_new/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Cagliari-19-20-maggio-2025_COMPRESSED.pdf
- 22th May 2025. The presentation of Il carteggio con Heinz Riedt (Einaudi, 2024), edited by Martina Mengoni, was held at the Museum of Chemistry in Turin. https://www.facebook.com/festivalinnovazionescienza/posts/-questa-sera-il-mu-ch-museo-della-chimica-di-settimo-torinese-ha-ospitato-un-nuo/1264643135662446/
- 13th June 2025. Lecture by Riccardo Curcurù entitled L’archivio di Primo Levi, l’archivio per Primo Levi: prime riflessioni a partire dal progetto LeviNeT, delivered at the annual conference MOD 2025, “Una Mole di carta. Archivi, biblioteche e documenti della modernità letteraria”, University of Turin, Turin, 12–14 June 2025.
- 06th September 2025. Martina Mengoni participated in the Fuoriluogo Festival, held in Biella from September 2–10, 2025, with a talk titled: Un volume per il primo carteggio di Levi. https://www.fuoriluogobiella.it/wordpress/wpcontent/uploads/2025/07/FUORILUOGO_PROGRAMMA_WEB.pdf
- 13th September 2025. Martina Mengoni, Alice Gardoncini, and Riccardo Curcurù participated in the XXVIII National Congress of the Association of Italianists (ADI), held in Genoa from September 11–13, 2025, titled Egemonie e Margini nella Letteratura italiana, serving as coordinators for the panel Diari, Lettere, Quaderni nel secondo Novecento: quali marginalità?.https://www.italianisti.it/associazione/congressiadi/egemonieemargini/programma/PROGRAMMA%20PARALLELE%20ADI%202025.pdf
- 24th September 2025. Presentation of the LeviNeT project by Martina Mengoni at the Aspettando la Notte e oltre event, organized by the University of Ferrara, titled: “È la lettera che stavo aspettando”. Il progetto ERC LeviNeT e i carteggi tedeschi di Primo Levi. https://www.unife.it/it/eventi/2025/settembre/unife-si-racconta
- 10th October 2025. Camilla Veneziani participated in the doctoral conference Il concetto di tecnica nella ricerca accademica, held at the University of Ferrara on October 9–10, 2025, with a paper titled: Tecnologie del sé: immaginari e immagini tra il Versificatore di Primo Levi e l’IA generativa, co-presented with Benedetto Bramante. https://www.unife.it/it/eventi/2025/ottobre/convegno-dottorale-tecnica-ricerca-accademica
- 07th November 2025. First meeting of the school project “È la lettera che stavo aspettando”: Le corrispondenze tedesche di Primo Levi e il progetto LeviNeT, held for the fifth-year classes of the “C. Lorenzini” State High School in Pescia, with a talk titled: Il carteggio con Heinz Riedt, traduttore tedesco di Se questo è un uomo. Speakers: Martina Mengoni and Camilla Veneziani.
- 18th November 2025. Participation in the Winter School organized by the Polo del ‘900 in Turin, titled Caos. Gli sguardi della storia sul disordine globale, with a paper titled: Un dibattito epistolare sulla costruzione dell’Europa: i carteggi tedeschi di Primo Levi. Speakers: Martina Mengoni, Camilla Veneziani, and Riccardo Curcurù. https://polodel900.it/eventi/caos-gli-sguardi-della-storia-sul-disordine-globale-i-giornata/
- 03th December 2025. Second meeting of the school project “È la lettera che stavo aspettando”: Le corrispondenze tedesche di Primo Levi e il progetto LeviNeT, held for the fifth-year classes of the “C. Lorenzini” State High School in Pescia, with a talk titled: Le lettere dei lettori e delle lettrici tedesche. Speakers: Martina Mengoni, Simone Ghelli, Camilla Veneziani, and Riccardo Curcurù.
- 14th January 2026. Heike Wells, a retired journalist and correspondent of Primo Levi, published an article on the LeviNeT project and its history in the German newspaper Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag. https://www.shz.de/deutschland-welt/schleswig-holstein/artikel/entdeckt-primo-levis-antwort-nach-45-jahren-gefunden-49473156
- 16th January 2026. Third meeting of the school project “È la lettera che stavo aspettando”: Le corrispondenze tedesche di Primo Levi e il progetto LeviNeT, held for the fifth-year classes of the “C. Lorenzini” State High School in Pescia, with a talk titled: Il giro di posta con Ferdinand Meyer, capolaboratorio di Levi ad Auschwitz. Speakers: Martina Mengoni and Simone Ghelli.
- 26th January 2026. To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026, Stefano Bartezzaghi and Elena Loewenthal gave a talk at the Ridotto of the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, titled Primo Levi e il dialogo epistolare con i lettori tedeschi. The event was coordinated by Martina Mengoni. https://www.unife.it/it/notizie/2026/vitauniversitaria/giorno-memoria-levinet-levi-lettere-tedeschi
- 05th March 2026. Martina Mengoni gave a talk as part of the five-lecture series on the world of Primo Levi organized by the University of Geneva. Title of the talk: I rischi della memoria, la zona grigia e i tedeschi. Viaggio ne I sommersi e i salvati di Primo Levi. https://www.unige.ch/lettres/roman/application/files/9617/7201/0798/nuovo_A5_CyclePrimoLevi_050326.pdf and https://www.unige.ch/lettres/roman/unites/italien/actualites/arcipelago-levi
- 20th March 2026. Presentation of the LeviNeT project by Martina Mengoni as part of UniStem Day 2026, held at the Chemical-Biomedical Campus (Mammuth) of the University of Ferrara, with the title: I tedeschi scrivono. Primo Levi risponde. Indagine su un’intricata rete epistolare (The Germans write. Primo Levi responds. Investigation into an intricate epistolary network). https://www.unife.it/it/notizie/2026/scienza-cultura-e-ricerca/unistem-day-2026
- 24th Mach 2026. Online Presentation of the LeviNeT project by Simone Ghelli within the Phd seminar Primo Levi in Interesting Times (Prof. Serenella Iovino) at the Department of Romance Studies of the University of North Carolina.