| 25/05/2026 (Day One) | 09:00–09:40 | Greetings and Opening Ceremony | Moderated by Prof. Antonetta L. Bruno |
| | 09:40–10:25 | Keynote Speech | Eugenio Gaudio |
| | 10:25–10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| | 10:45–12:45 | Morning Session: Korean Language, Translation & Literary Mediation | Moderated by Prof. Olivier Baillé (Aix-Marseille University) |
| | 10:45–11:15 | History of Korean Speech Style: A Study of the Hao-che (하오체) Style | Lucie Levesque |
| | 11:15–11:45 | Translating Titles, Transforming Identity: The Paratextual Re-Creation of K-Dramas for French Audiences | Claire Pratabury-Tran-Quang |
| | 11:45–12:15 | Translation and Transcoding: Entering the Kingdom of Heaven in the First Korean Translation of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress | Clarissa Mioli |
| | 12:15–12:45 | On Translating Dialect Speech: Jeju-do Korean | Hannah Thea Norlander |
| | 12:45–14:15 | Lunch Break | |
| | 14:15–15:45 | Afternoon Session: Diplomacy, Soft Power & International Relations | Moderated by Prof. You Jae Lee (University of Tübingen) |
| | 14:15–14:45 | From Cultural Phenomenon to Institutional Strategy: Hallyu as a Tool for Soft Power in South Korea | Laura Muñoz Tarrío |
| | 14:45–15:15 | Mediating Before Democracy: German-Korean Intermediary Structures and the Early Practice of Soft Power, 1955–1972 | Johanna Emma Erika Lander |
| | 15:15–15:45 | From Humanitarian Aid to Diplomatic Recognition: Italy’s Early Postwar Relations with South Korea (1953–1961) | Maria Giulia Tarquini |
| | 15:45–16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| | 16:00–16:45 | Special K-Pop Performance | Blax Square Crew & Matteo Bobou |
| | 19:00 | Welcome Dinner | Pasquino San Lorenzo (Roman Restaurant) |
| 26/05/2026 (Day Two) | 09:00–09:15 | Morning Welcome | |
| | 09:15–10:15 | Morning Session I: Shamanism, Ritual & Sacred Performance | Moderated by Prof. Antonio José Doménech Del Río |
| | 09:15–09:45 | Reconfigurations of Korean Shamanism in Contemporary Society: Between Tradition and Modernity | Fiorella Adriana D’Amico |
| | 09:45–10:15 | Korean Shamanism and Its Ritual Garments | Sofia Salemme |
| | 10:15–10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| | 10:45–12:15 | Morning Session II: Gender, Labor & Women’s Historical Agency | Moderated by Dr. Kyung Mi Kim |
| | 10:45–11:15 | Protest Songs by Female Workers and Trade Unionists at YH South Korea, 1979 | Maria del Mar Blanco Mercado |
| | 11:15–11:45 | Letters as Expressions of Agency: Women in the Saemaul Undong from the Perspective of the History of Everyday Life | Susanne Henche |
| | 11:45–12:15 | “Jame Nobi (自賣奴婢)” Voluntary Slavery, Filial Piety and Funeral Expenses in Late Joseon Korea | Virginia Rueda González |
| | 12:15–13:45 | Lunch Break | |
| | 14:00–15:30 | Afternoon Session: Trauma, Memory & Contemporary Women’s Writing | Moderated by Dr. Somin Chung |
| | 14:00–14:30 | The Effects of Oppressive Care on Women’s Bodies Reflected in Contemporary Korean Literature | Diana Ioana Budeanu |
| | 14:30–15:00 | Remembering History, Identity, and Trauma through Contemporary Korean Literature: An Analysis of Shin Kyung-sook’s I Went to See My Father | Paraschiva-Ioana Bălea |
| | 15:00–15:30 | Reclaiming the Wound: Korean Women Writers and the Politics of Remembering – A Literary Analysis of Han Kang’s Human Acts and Shin Kyung-sook’s I’ll Be Right There | Cătălina Dragoteanu |
| | 15:30–15:45 | Coffee Break | |
| | 16:00–18:00 | Workshop 1 with Author Lee Geum-yi | Organized by Prof. Somin Chung & Ms. Antonella Gasdia |
| | 19:00 | Dinner | Saporito (Pizzeria) |
| 27/05/2026 (Day Three) | 08:40–18:50 | Field Trip to Tivoli (Meeting at Termini Station, travel by private bus, visit to Villa D’Este, lunch at Ristorante del Colle, visit to Villa Gregoriana, return to Rome) | |
| 28/05/2026 (Day Four) | 09:00–09:15 | Morning Welcome | |
| | 09:15–10:45 | Morning Session I: War, Conflict & Political Representation | Moderated by Dr. Thomas Eichert |
| | 09:15–09:45 | War Trauma and Possible Representations in Korean Context | Mihaela David |
| | 09:45–10:15 | The Trilateral Relationship Between Japan, South Korea, and the United States through the Lens of Neoclassical Realism and Agency Theory | Francisco Javier Rodera Herrero |
| | 10:15–10:45 | Inside North Korean Prison Camps Through the Lens of Escape from Camp 14 | Federica Candurro |
| | 10:45–11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| | 11:15–12:45 | Session II: Premodern & Classical Korea: Texts, Bodies & Social Order | Moderated by Prof. Camelia Diana Yuksel |
| | 11:15–11:45 | Distant Reading the References to the Gisaeng in the Vernable Records of the Joseon Dynasty | Cesar Augusto Ribas Ramirez |
| | 11:45–12:15 | Comparative Figures in Classical Literature: Female Characters in Cheonggu Yadam and Wolang Yadam | Alejandro Soto Trascastro |
| | 12:15–12:45 | Fan Labor as a Commodity: The Commodification of Fan Labor in South Korea’s Digital Music Industry | Emma Sophia Maria Kuppe |
| | 12:45–14:15 | Lunch Break | |
| | 14:15–15:15 | Afternoon Session I: Identity, Belonging & Marginality | Moderated by Dr. Su Young Joo |
| | 14:15–14:45 | Camptown Women in 1950s Korea: Everyday Practices, Agency, and Cinematic Representation in The Flower of Hell | Charlene Klingestein |
| | 14:45–15:15 | Everyday Multiculturalism: Being a Migrant Parent in South Korea | Levke Jürs |
| | 15:15–15:35 | Coffee Break | |
| | 15:50–17:50 | Workshop 2: Korean History and Political Science | Organized by Dr. Kyung Mi Kim & Ms. Maria Giulia Tarquini |
| | 19:00 | Dinner | Mamma Coreana (Korean Restaurant) |
| 29/05/2026 (Day Five) | 09:30–11:30 | Annual CIVIS-KF Consortium Meeting (Professors only) | |
| | 12:00–14:00 | Lunch | |
| | 14:15–16:45 | Final Session: Media, Pop Culture & Contemporary Korean Society | Moderated by Prof. Sonja Erika Häussler |
| | 14:15–14:45 | Mapping Intersectionality in Korean Television Narratives | Andreea Lazăr |
| | 14:45–15:15 | Communication, Blindness, and Touch in Han Kang’s Greek Lessons | Tintin Apelgren |
| | 15:15–15:45 | Coffee Break | |
| | 15:45–16:15 | Korean Court Dances: Late Choson Korea’s Multi-Faceted Artificial Expressions of Political and Ideological Propaganda | Federico Rozzi |
| | 16:15–16:45 | Kim Gwan-sun’s Haenyeo Song: Lyricism in Contemporary Island Literature | Jeanne Argemi |
| | 16:45–17:45 | Final Roundtable Discussion & Closing Ceremony | All participants |
