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On March 14, 2025, Ombretta Frau gave a talk on “Stationery Shopping on the Way to Autonomy and Emancipation” at the American Association for Italian Studies conference at the University of Pennsylvania.


On March 6, 2025, Ombretta Frau delivered a lecture at the America Italy Society of Philadelphia: "Venice’s San Michele. A Cosmopolitan Memoryscape."


On February 24, 2025, the Georgetown University Department of Italian Studies invited Ombretta Frau to deliver a lecture on “Giorgia Meloni and the Rebranding of Italian Fascism”.


Ombretta Frau. Keynote Lecture, “In limine. Women and the City / Women in the City” University of Toronto GSAIS conference, 2 November 2024


Ombretta Frau. Keynote Lecture, GSAIS Conference, University of Toronto, 1-3 November 2024


Ombretta Frau. Organizer, curator and moderator for the inaugural American Association for Italian Studies' Giornata di Studio on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's conservative feminism, January 27, 2023


Ombretta Frau. First-Generation Cording Ceremony Speaker, 챬, April 30, 2023.


Ombretta Frau. Lecture on XVIII century Venice and Carlo Goldoni’s Theatre for Professor Monika Schmitter, U. of Massachusetts Amherst, April 21, 2023.


Ombretta Frau. Rembrandt’s suggestions in Grazia Deledda’s early fiction. Ottocentismi Conference, Seton Hall University, March 30-31, 2023.


Ombretta Frau. “Trauma and Resilience in Pirandello’s L’altro figlio,” NEMLA Conference, March 23-26, 2023.