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Was invited to speak at an event to “Celebrate Dacia Maraini on International Women’s Day” at the University of Rhode Island on March 5, 2021.

Was invited to speak at a Career Panel at Harvard University’s Department of Romance languages on April 19, 2021.

Was invited to deliver a lecture at the University of Illinois Chicago titled "School as Family, and Magazines as Social Media: A Nineteenth Century Girl’s Education” on February 26, 2021.

Frau, O. (23 October 2020) Un rompicapo incompleto: il triangolo Antelling, De Gubernatis, Serao fra mentoring e documenti inediti [An Unfinished Puzzle: the Antelling, De Gubernatis, Serao Triangle between Mentoring and Unpublished Documents], Presented at the Ottocentismi: Inaugural Symposium of the Interdisciplinary Network for Nineteenth-Century Italian Studies (INNCIS), Seton Hall U. (delivered on Zoom)

Invited to deliver a lecture at the University of Rome La Sapienza on December 12, 2019, titled "Un 'Cuore' in esilio. Le memorie di Mantea” [An Exiled ‘Heart’. Mantea’s memoir”].

Ombretta Frau and Sabra Thorner led a gallery talk in the ŷ��AV Art Museum on “The Afterlives of Objects” on November 7, 2019.

Ombretta Frau and Morena Svaldi held a workshop for teachers at the NEMLA conference in Springfield on October 25, 2019. The title of the workshop was "Learn In-Context Around Campus.”

Inducted into the Boston University Athletic Hall of Fame on October 26, 2019.

Gabriel, S.  China Now (2003).

Just completed a series of film screenings in 22 African countries from October 19 – 25, 2020, with the goal of getting African stories back to Africans and summed up in the phrase: “Some say we are made of flesh and blood but we believe we are made of stories.”