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Was elected President of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science for the year 2022-2023, and will give the Presidential Keynote Address at the society's 2023 conference.


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.


Delivered the following 2 talks:

• “Catabasi e anabasi in Una fra tante di Emma,” American Association for Italian Studies Conference Bologna, May 29-1June 2022

• “Lo sguardo di Anna. La vacanza di Dacia Maraini sessant’anni dopo,” Molestias textuales. Escritoras contra la violencia conference, Universidad de Sevilla, 19-21 May, 2022