IULM Hosts the First Conference in Italy on True Crime
On 26–27 November 2025, IULM University will host the international conference “True Crime as a Serial and Transmedia Phenomenon.” The programme also includes a reading by journalist and podcaster Stefano Nazzi.
The true crime phenomenon—now deeply rooted in podcasts, TV series, social media, and theatre—enters the Italian academic landscape for the first time with a major conference. On 26 and 27 November 2025, IULM University in Milan will host the international conference “True Crime as a Serial and Transmedia Phenomenon: Local Perspectives and Global Contexts,” curated by Professor Daniela Cardini.
The event will offer an opportunity to reflect on true crime as a transmedial narrative genre, capable of weaving together local and global dimensions while crossing multiple media forms: from podcasts to cinema, from social networks to theatre.
The programme also features a special evening event on 26 November at 8:30 p.m. in the IULM Auditorium: Stefano Nazzi, journalist and author of the popular podcast Indagini and one of the most important voices in Italian true crime, will present a reading from his latest book Predatori (Mondadori, 2025). Nazzi is known for his rigorous and respectful approach to reporting crime stories, prioritising investigation and factual accuracy over sensationalism.
The conference will be held in Italian and English, with simultaneous translation, and will welcome scholars and industry professionals from several countries.
True Crime as a Serial and Transmedia Phenomenon.
Local Perspectives and Global Contexts
International Conference
Aula Seminari (IULM 1)
November 26-27, 2025 from 9:30 a.m.
The detailed program of the conference will be available soon here
Stefano Nazzi
"Serial Killers: the years of the epidemic"
Reading from the book Predators
Auditorium (IULM 6)
November 26, 2025 8:30 p.m.
To register for the reading fill out this form