Annamaria Poli
“The peace education through expressive languages: the art of movie animation” (English)
March 18, 2026 – 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Annamaria Poli, researcher and lecturer in cinema and visual arts at the University of Milan-Bicocca in the Department of Human Sciences for Education “Riccardo Massa”. Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the Politecnico di Milano, on the topic of colour visual impairments and overcoming visual-perceptual barriers. She conducts research in the field of inclusive cinema and media as interdisciplinary educational and teaching resources, together with the use of digital visual technologies, photography, and graphics, with a particular interest in expressive languages that mediate the rights of children and adolescents. Since 2019, she has been collaborating with the Gran Festival del Cinema Muto in Milan in the organisation of cine-concerts with the University Library of the University of Milan-Bicocca. Since 2014, she has been co-founder of the research group “Education, Play and Colour Teaching” at the “Riccardo Massa” Department of Human Sciences for Education at the University of Milan-Bicocca, dedicating herself to training activities and setting up workshops on Colour Light in educational contexts for 0-6 year olds. Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University (2000–2001), contributing to courses on Italian graphic culture and creativity. She works as a visual communication designer for national and international exhibitions. Numerous publications including: Cinema e disabilità visive (Cinema and Visual Disabilities) (2009), Il diritto di essere bambini (The Right to Be Children) (edited by, 2022), Il cinema a scuola alla scoperta dei diri (Cinema at School: Discovering Rights.
Lía de Luxán Hernández
“La Escuela de Artes Aplicadas de Hamburgo como ejemplo de didáctica innovadora ” (Spanish with English subtitles)
March 18, 2026 – 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Lía de Luxán Hernández holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting (2007, first in her class and with a national distinction) and a degree in Law (2010). She is currently a Professor at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, attached to the Department of Modern Philology, Translation and Interpreting. She has been a professional associate at the institution since 2008, when she was awarded a FPU scholarship from the Ministry of Education (AP 2007-02301) to train as a teaching and research staff member. She obtained her European doctorate cum laude (2012) and the extraordinary doctorate award for the Arts and Humanities branch (2014). Her teaching is part of the Master’s Degree in Teacher Training and the following Bachelor’s Degrees: Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Tourism, and Primary Education. She has earned a teaching excellence degree through the DOCENTIA program. His research group has won the award for best research group (G9-History, Economy and Society) from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, for the Arts and Humanities branch, in 2018. He has been on research stays at the following universities: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (May-November 2019), University of Leeds (September-November 2011), University of Limerick (September-December 2010).
Domingo Ortega Criado
“La formación actoral enfocada en la actividad física como componente fundamental del conflicto” (Spanish)
March 19, 2026 – 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Domingo Ortega Criado (Madrid, 1973) has a PhD in Humanities from the Carlos III University of Madrid and a degree from Resad, where he has been a professor since 2010 in the Department of Interpretation. In addition to acting or directing numerous productions or developing his dramaturgy, he has been a teacher at various Spanish and Latin American universities and public and private institutions, and was director of the UCIIIM Theater Classroom between 2002 and 2010. There he taught classes, directed the productions of the theater group and managed different activities, conferences, courses, meetings and festivals. It is worth highlighting his participation in four editions of The Traces of La Barraca (2006-2009), promoted by Acción Cultural Española of the Ministry of Culture. He belongs to the editorial board of Acotación and has published articles in other theater magazines, such as Primer Acto, CELCIT or Teatrae. He visited several Latin American countries while participating in the Transatlantic Theater Project, directed by Marco Antonio de la Parra. His thesis has been dedicated precisely to the figure of this Chilean playwright, so Latin American theater became one of his main lines of research. Others have been theatrical pedagogy or the technique of acting from verbal action.