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Programme

THURSDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2026

WELCOME DESK 13.30-14.30

Academy of Italian-German Studies, Innerhofer Street 1

Coffee and Registration

GREETINGS & INTRODUCTION 14.30

Institutional Greetings

Sabina Langer, Nazario Zambaldi – Framing PEA conference

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 15-16

Marijana Grandits (Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights). Human Rights and Arts in Praxis: Creative Practices for Dignity, Agency and Social Transformation 

PARALLEL SESSIONS 16.30-18.30

 

PANEL A (in English)

Academy of Italian-German Studies, Innerhofer Street 1

Chair: Angelika Wiehl 

•    Mita Drius (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) & Luana Silveri (University of Groningen). From Theory to Praxis: building together a bird-inspired pedagogy of sustainability. The experience of the CREA+BIRD Project
•    Wilfried Swoboda (University College of Teacher Education Vienna). Mapping the In-Between: Ecologies of Participation in Inclusive STEAM Learning
•    Davide Palma (University of Siena). Radicality as a Practice of Situated Learning in Extinction Rebellion Italy: The 7-Day Primavera Democrazia Actions

 

PANEL B (in Italian) 

Centre for Culture, Cavour Street 1

Chair: Lavinia Bianchi

•    Alessandro D’Antone (University of Modena & Reggio Emilia). Pedagogical Supervision as Praxis: Plural Lines for Critical Reflection in Educational Work
•    Aurora Bulgarelli (Link Campus University). Word, Discursive Power, and Marginality: Resistance Through Non-Formal Educational Practices in Roma Communities
•    Stefano Codeluppi & Luca Censi (Papa Giovanni XXIII Cooperative, Reggio Emilia). Pedagogy of Proximity as Epistemic Praxis: Constructing Situated Knowledge on Marginality through Research, Community, and Creative Practices
•    Donatella Barp, Mauro Bellei, Elisabetta Ferretti & Giovanna Fontana (ITIS L. da Vinci, Carpi-MO). Teaching Outside the Box: Erasmus+ KA2, a Case Study for Meaningful Learning

 

PANEL C (in Italian) 

Centre for culture, Cavour Street 1

Chair: Sabina Langer

•    Fernando Battista (Università Link Campus di Roma). Pedagogy of the Border as Ecological Praxis: Arts, Embodiment and Intercultural Communities
•    Mattea Caccamo (Socialis Mantova). Situated Educational Praxis between logics of care and justice in child welfare
•    Maria Lorusso (University of Bari). Beyond Amplification: Digital Environments, Situated Praxis, and the Intersubjective Production of Knowledge

GUIDED TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION 18.30 

90 Years of Silence

Reconstructing, Returning, Reactivating

a Sound Archive of the Horn of Africa

Centre for culture, Cavour Street 1

18.30 Guided Tour of the Exhibition with Gianpaolo Chiriacò (University of Innsbruck) English

 

LIGHT BUFFET ON THE TERRACE 19.30

Academy of Italian-German Studies, Innerhofer Street 1

 

20.30 Roberto Paci Dalò (Giardini Pensili, University of San Marino). 1915 The Armenian Files

​Concert 

FRIDAY, 11 SEPTEMBER 2026

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 9-10

Academy of Italian-German Studies, Innerhofer Street 1

Thomas Emmenegger (psychiatrist, President of Olinda, Milan). Today, more than ever, we need open institutions!

 

Coffee break

Academy of Italian-German Studies, Innerhofer Street 1

 

FOCUS "MIND" (in Italian) 10-12

Academy of Italian-German Studies, Innerhofer Street 1

A space for shared inquiry, dialogue, exchange, and the development of practices across different fields of knowledge and experience.

Mental Health as Praxis: Care, Community, Resistance and Transformation
Convener: Nazario Zambaldi
Invited speakers: Thomas Emmenegger (Olinda Milan), Antonio Luchetti, Psychiatric Service, Merano Health District, Alice Longhino, Order of Psychologists of the Province of Bolzano, Alessandro Penta, Olinda and Asnada, Milan, Albe, Ravenna, Luigi Giannuzzi, Società Trentino Altoatesina di Psicoanalisi (STAP)

PARALLEL SESSIONS 10.30-12

PANEL D (in German)

Centre for Culture, Cavour Street 1

Chair: Karla Louisa Stolle

•    Magdalena Denk & Sonja Wodnek (Private University College of Teacher Education of Christian Churches Austria, Vienna). Shared Decision Making as Praxis: Shaping Micro‑Interactions in Classroom Talk with Children
•    Angelika Wiehl (Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences - Institute for Waldorf Education, Inclusion and Interculturalism). Wonder or Phenomenology as a ‘curious practice’ in education 
•    Petra Wlasak (independent researcher). Multilingualism and Citizen Science as Praxis: exploring resources and barriers in a new urban neighborhood

 

PANEL E (in English)

Centre for Culture, Cavour Street 1

Chair: Brigitta Pia Alioto

•    Simone Baumann (Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol, Innsbruck). Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves: Meta-Reflexive Integral Prudence for Educational Praxis
•    Andrea Mariuzzo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). Praxis of Assessment in Italian Democratic Educational Tradition from Guido Calogero to Aldo Visalberghi
•    Gabriela Pinto (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). An “Ecological Culture of Relationships”: Family-professional Relationships in Reggio Emilia and their Resonance in Portuguese ECEC Services

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 12.15-13.15

Academy of Italian-German Studies, Innerhofer Street 1

Michele Nicoletti (University of Trento). Rethinking ‘Praxis’ and Its Philosophical Traditions in the Age of Self-Dispossession

CONVIVIAL LUNCH & "CHATTING"

In the garden, Academy of Italian-German Studies, Villa San Marco Innerhofer Street 1

PARALLEL SESSIONS 15-17.30

 

FOCUS "ART" (in Italian) 15-17

Academy of Italian-German Studies, Innerhofer Street 1

A space for shared inquiry, dialogue, exchange, and the development of practices across different fields of knowledge and experience.

Artistic Practice as Praxis: From Ideas to Forms, Spaces and Communities

Thematic Focus Convener: Nazario Zambaldi
Invited speakers: Roberto Farneti, Free University of Bolzano Bozen, Sandro Sproccati, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna e di Venezia, Carla Cardinaletti, artist, Free University of Bolzano Bozen, Roberto Paci Dalò, artist, Università di San Marino, Giardini Pensili, Usmaradio, Hannes Götsch, Basis Vinschgau Venosta, Daniele Bordoni, artist, teacher, Hannes Egger, artist, LanaLive, Barbara Gamper, artist, art, ecology and politicised somatics.

PANEL F (in Italian)

Academy of Italian-German Studies, Innerhofer Street 1

Chair: Alessandro D’Antone

•    Lavinia Bianchi, Marco Catarci & Veronica Riccardi (Universtità Roma Tre). Education, consciousness-raising and decoloniality: Educational practices for social transformation in the work of Freire and Boal
•    Davide Romandini (pedagogist). Grief Education as Educational Praxis: Between Vulnerability, Transformation, and Meaning-Making
•    Anna Cozzi (Roma TorVergata University). Praxis and Count
•    Sara Meggiolaro (museum educator and independent researcher) & Maria Cristina Fortunati (teacher). Transformative Aesthetic Praxis and Systemic Alliances: a Neuroaesthetic Museum Intervention for Adolescent Well-being
•    Martina Tirelli (special education teacher). Food Connects: From Educational Observation to Digital Praxis for Wellbeing and Sustainable Food Practices

 

PANEL G (in Italian)

Academy of Italian-German Studies, Innerhofer Street 1

Chair: Antonina Eugenia Ferruzza Marchetta

•    Isabella Pescarmona & Giulia Gozzelino (University of Turin). Plural Narratives and New Cartographies of Knowledge: Art as a Process of Speaking Out
•    Roberta Di Marco (Telematic University “Leonardo da Vinci”). Educational Practice and Children’s Literature: Pedagogical Perspectives from Raffaele Laporta
•    Rosamaria Nicassio & Rosa Gallelli (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro). Phenomenology of Bodies on Stage: The Digital Theatre- Laboratory as a Pedagogical Proposal in the Age of Technics
•    Susanna Stagnini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Fondazione Reggio Children-Centro Loris Malaguzzi). The Epistemology of Taste as Educational Praxis: Embodied Cognition and Aesthetic Experience in Reggio Emilia
•    Francesca Audino (Università degli Studi di Roma “Sapienza”). Poetics of Space. Art, Participation and the Construction of Spaces of Possibility with Unaccompanied Migrant Minors
 

PANEL H (in English)

Centre for Culture, Cavour Street 1
Chair: Sonja Wodnek

•    Karla Louisa Stolle (mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna). Tuning for Resonance: The Praxis of Sensitivity and Reflection in Designing a 31-Country Questionnaire Study in Music Education
•    Maria Livia Alga (Università di Verona) & Meghna Bhardwaj (Casa di Ramia, centro interculturale delle donne del Comune di Verona). Chaotic praxis: Practicing the Arts in an Intercultural Women’s Center
•    Rolf Laven, Elena Revyakina (University College of Teacher Education Vienna), Theresa Hauser (Stadtteilschule 6, STS 6 Wien) & Gernot Deutschmann (artist). ART-ECO: Weaving Ecological Awareness Through Arts-Based Educational Praxis
•    Elisabetta Biffi (University of Milano-Bicocca). The Ephemeral Practice in Education: Artistic Languages for Pedagogical Documentation
•    Marc Herbst (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano). We All Know Something. Embodied Knowledge as a Core Aspect of Performance

KEYNOTE SPEAKER 18-19

Center for Culture, Cavour Street 1

Samah Jabr (psychiatrist, Ministry of Health of Palestine, George Washington University). Therapy and the Uncontainable Pain of Palestine

 

SOCIAL DINNER 20

Forsterbräu Meran-o Corso della Libertà, 90

SATURDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 2026

 

PARALLEL SESSIONS

FOCUS “AUTHOETNOGRAFY & SUPERVISION” (in Italian) 9:00–11:00

Academy of Italian-German Studies, Innerhofer Street 1

A space for shared inquiry, dialogue, exchange, and the development of practices across different fields of knowledge and experience. 

The Personal Is Political. Critical Autoethnography and Pedagogical. Supervision as Transformative Practices in the Third Sector 

Conveners: Lavinia Bianchi & Alessandro D’Antone

PANEL I (in English) 9-11

Centre for Culture, Cavour Street 1

Chair: Karla Louisa Stolle

•    Brigitta Pia Alioto & Alessandra Cecilia Jacomuzzi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice). The Museum of Error as Pedagogical-Artistic Praxis: Failure, Feedback and Reflection in University Learning Contexts

•    Francesco Ciociola (University of Siegen), Vincenza Albano (University of Bari), Stefania Massaro (University of Bari) & Stefanie Roos (University of Siegen). From Theory to Praxis: Towards a Model of Translational Pedagogical Design
•    Valerio Ferrero (University of Turin). Equity at School: Organisational Praxis and Social Justice in the Italian Education System
•    Maria Antonietta Maggio (Università di Parma). Designing the “Piano Educativo Individualizzato”: Building Professional Skills in the Specialization Course for Support Teachers at the University of Parma

 

WORKSHOP A (in English/Italian) 9-10

Centre for Culture, Cavour Street 1
Chair: Adele Zambaldi

Rita Casadei (Università di Bologna). Well-being as Being Well: Training pathways through TaijiQuan 

 

WORKSHOP B (in Italian) 9–10
Centre for Culture, Cavour Street 1
Chair: Sabina Langer
Simonetta Lucchi (Liceo Artistico "Cademia" Ortisei St.Ulrich, I). Artistic Practice as a Tool for Understanding Conflicts and Wars: An Experiential Workshop for Young Generations
 

WORKSHOP C (in English) 10-11
Centre for Culture, Cavour Street 1
Chair: Adele Zambaldi

Miriam Obleitner (Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft). From Practice to Praxis: Creative Writing for Educators to facilitate Professional and Personal Development


WORKSHOP D (in Italian) 10-11
Centre for Culture, Cavour Street 1
Chair: Sabina Langer
Antonina Eugenia Ferruzza Marchetta (University of Palermo). The Moving Ecosystem: Embodied Praxis and Somatic Dialogue Through Dance Movement Therapy

 

Coffee break 10.30-11.30

Academy of Italian-German Studies, Innerhofer Street 1

 

REFRAMING PRAXIS. A SYNTHESIS 11–13

Plenary Synthesis and Discussion: From Praxis to a Community of Practice

The closing plenary gathers and reactivates the ideas, questions, and connections that emerged throughout the three days. Looking ahead, it explores the possible “praxis” publication and the development of PEA as a community of practice, research, dialogue, experimentation, and collaboration.

 

CONVIVIAL APERITIF & “LET’S STAY IN TOUCH”

 

EXHIBITIONS BY PEA & BEYOND

90 Years of Silence
Reconstructing, Returning, Reactivating

a Sound Archive of the Horn of Africa

The exhibition has been reconstructed from the archives of Sicilian anarchists from the province of Ragusa. The archive was acquired by the Danilo Dolci Committee of Trieste and donated to Tiziana Morgante, author of the book Educate and Disobey: In Dialogue with Danilo Dolci (2024).

PEA Meran-o

Animacies 

The group exhibition Animacies explores how relationships between Europe and Asia can be re-imagined and narrated from new perspectives.

Kunsthaus Meran-o

The Environments of Franco Vaccari 

Museion is pleased to present a major exhibition dedicated to Franco Vaccari (Modena, 1936–2025), one of the most distinctive voices of postwar and conceptual Italian art. 

Museion Bolzano Bozen

 

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