04-10-2019, 01:22 PM
I’ve never met Alain Touwaide, but he’s well known for being proficient in several languages and he has published in Italian before so I would not be surprised if he is presenting in Italian. The talk itself may not become a publication, but academics often use events like this one to present aspects of a research topic they are currently working on, so he may be planning to write something on the VMS in the future.
There are two main ways that talks like this happen: 1) a department has a lecture series - sometimes each academic year will have a theme or a period as a method of curation - and so members of the dept invite suitable speakers to come to the dept specifically to give a talk or, 2) the researcher will be doing research in a city away from his/her home and will email a friend to say “hi, I’m going to be visiting in June, do you want to have coffee together and catch up on news?” and the friend will reply “sure, but while you’re in town do you have time to give a lecture to my dept?”. In either case, it’s more common for lectures such as this not to be published unfortunately.
There are two main ways that talks like this happen: 1) a department has a lecture series - sometimes each academic year will have a theme or a period as a method of curation - and so members of the dept invite suitable speakers to come to the dept specifically to give a talk or, 2) the researcher will be doing research in a city away from his/her home and will email a friend to say “hi, I’m going to be visiting in June, do you want to have coffee together and catch up on news?” and the friend will reply “sure, but while you’re in town do you have time to give a lecture to my dept?”. In either case, it’s more common for lectures such as this not to be published unfortunately.