About us
The Italian Association for the Study of English (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica [AIA]) was founded with the primary goal of promoting and fostering English studies in Italy. The AIA Association is dedicated to supporting and coordinating scientific research in this field, as well as facilitating connections between Italian scholars and those from English-speaking countries. Additionally, the AIA Association strives to enhance and expand publishing and research activities in the field of English studies through its various initiatives. As outlined in its statutes, the AIA Association has the specific institutional responsibility of organising a biennial conference in Italy, alternating with the European ESSE Association’s biennial conference.
Upcoming AIA events
About us
Upcoming AIA events
The Italian Association for the Study of English (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica [AIA]) was founded with the primary goal of promoting and fostering English studies in Italy. The AIA Association is dedicated to supporting and coordinating scientific research in this field, as well as facilitating connections between Italian scholars and those from English-speaking countries. Additionally, the AIA Association strives to enhance and expand publishing and research activities in the field of English studies through its various initiatives. As outlined in its statutes, the AIA Association has the specific institutional responsibility of organising a biennial conference in Italy, alternating with the European ESSE Association’s biennial conference.
Please note the calls for papers for the Literature and Cross-disciplinary issues of Textus 2027 are still open. Click here to see the Calls
The AIA Conference n. 33 will take place in Rome, Sapienza Università, from 9 to 11 September 2027.
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Embodied Understanding: Exploring Language, Translation, Literature and Culture through the Senses Over the past decades, the concept of embodiment has moved from a marginal corrective to a...
University of Naples Federico II, 3–4 December 2026 Conference registration is now available here...
The University of Pisa Language Centre (CLI), in collaboration with the Italian Association of University Language Centres (AICLU), invites proposals for the conference Culture – Languages –...
Submission deadline 15 October 2026 Read the complete CFP here...
In this video of the AIA Interviews series, Federica Campaiola sits down with Elena Mattei to discuss her latest book, “The Language of Persuasion on Instagram: A Systemic Functional Approach to...
English and Other Languages across Cultures, Classrooms and Beyond. Task-Based Language Teaching and Discipline-Informed Language Education in Contexts of Mltilingualism, Migration and Global Mobility...
In this video of the AIA Interviews series, Pasquale Pagano sits down with Stefania D’Avanzo to discuss her latest book, Narrative and Multimodal Approaches to Corporate Discourse: Promoting...
Lingue e Culture Straniere per l’Era Digitale (L-11) e Lingue e Culture Straniere per l’Era Digitale: scuola, società, professioni (LM-37)Roma, 25 settembre 2026 Registrazione e Accoglienza: ore...
EJES takes an interest in topics that investigate the borders and intersections between different research fields in English studies, including, but not limited to, literary analysis, linguistics...
IASEMS Tempera Seminar 2027 University of Padova, Department of Language and Literary Studies 7-9 June 2027 The University of Padova is pleased to announce that, on 7-9 June 2027, it will be hosting...
Special Issue of Victoriographies: A Journal of the Long Nineteenth Century Guest Edited by Paolo D’Indinosante and Federica Perazzini Games play a significant role in shaping contemporary...
5th PsyHuman International Summer School, which will take place at the University of Trento (Rovereto, Italy) from 8 to 23 September 2026. The Summer School brings together students from different...
The contemporary landscape of Legal English is increasingly defined by a shift from a monolithic entity to a diverse array of Legal Englishes, reflecting the role of English as a global lingua franca...
Organized by Francesca Bianchi (University of Salento), Valentin Werner (University of Bamberg) & Janina Wildfeuer (University of Groningen) The study of mass-media-distributed pop-cultural...
Registrations are open! Please check the programme and registration procedures here: AIA Summer School 2026 Programme Practical information: Hotels close to main station and centro storico Hotel 4...
We are very pleased to announce that the ESSE 2026 Book of Abstracts and provisional conference programme is now available on the conference website...
Rome Link Campus University, September 11-12, 2026 (deadline 1 June 2026) Eighteenth-century philology, as the science of editing and interpreting texts, while evolving in compartmentalised...
University of Catania, Department of Humanities (DISUM) – 14-15 May 2026, Coro di Notte “Giancarlo Magnano San Lio”...
CALL FOR PAPERS English and Other Languages across Cultures, Classrooms and beyond (deadline 30 May)
University of Siena, 15-16 October 2026 Contemporary language education operates within increasingly complex sociolinguistic environments shaped by migration, global mobility, multilingualism, large...
December 14th – 15th, 2026 – University of Naples L’Orientale The conference continues the tradition of previous events on linguistic (im)politeness hosted by the Argo Research Centre. Following...
By 2027, all nine volumes of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins will bepublished, including the much-anticipated final volume in the series, Poetry. The 2027international Hopkins conference...
Guest-editors: Federico Gaspari (Università Telematica San Raffaele di Roma, Italy) and Roxanne Holly Padley (Università Telematica Pegaso, Italy) Abstract proposals are sought for a special issue in...
Dear AIA members, We are glad to announce that we have just published the calls for abstracts/papers for all of the three issues of Textus for 2027 (Language, Literature, Cross-disciplinary...
Time and Temporalities. Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives We are pleased to announce that the 2026 AIA Seminar “Time and Temporalities: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives”...
Editors: Takako Kawabata tk70@soas.ac.uk Daniela Cesiri daniela.cesiri@unive.it Call for Abstracts Overview and scope Language and food both function as semiotic systems that rely on shared...
Tourism Communication Across Time and Space: Languages, Cultural Mediations, and Historical DevelopmentsMay 18–19, 2026 | Treviso, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Via Cornarotta, 7, 31100, Treviso...
Call for Seminar Papers: Seminar 21, “The Poetics and Ethics of Sexual Dissidence in Anglophone Postcolonial teratures” Dates: August 31–September 4, 2026 Place: Santiago de Compostela, Spain...
Tania Zulli and Kim Salmons deadline 31 January 2026...
Second Circular ICEHL-23: Milan, 15–18 June 2026 Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to share with you the Second Circular for the 23rd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics...
Gli studi shakespeariani sono in costante trasformazione. Metodologie di ricerca nuove, quali l’informatica umanistica, e la maggiore facilità di accesso a corpora testuali sempre più ampi hanno...
Convenors:Dominika Beneš Kováčová (University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)dominika.kovacova@osu.czMassimiliano Demata (University of Catania, Italy) massimiliano.demata@unict.itJiří Lukl (University of...
Aula Castoldi, Sede di S. Agostino – Bergamo Comitato scientifico-organizzativoCoordinamento: Roberta Grassi, Valentina Adami, Ilaria Borro Membri: Patrizia Anesa, Martina Bellinzona, Chiara...
Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish FictionUniversity of Naples “L’Orientale” (Conference Hall, Du Mesnil Palace)28-29 May...
Edited by Massimiliano Demata and Donatella Montini This issue of Status Quaestionis seeks to investigate contemporary political communication from a sociolinguistic perspective, with particular...
We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of ContactZone (ISSN: 2723-8881), titled “Unruly Bodies and Astral Corporealities in Science Fiction Cinema and...
LEA (Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente) is pleased to invite submissions for its forthcoming special issue: “Transimperial Encounters: Networks of Cultural and Literary Exchange...
Organizers: Lucio De Capitani & Alessandro Cabiati This conference aims to explore the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work, broadly understood as to intersect with several...
Treviso Campus of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 28-29 October 2025 The international conference on “Resilience and Adaptation in Intercultural and Educational Mediation: Rethinking Practices in the...
(Im)politeness plays a crucial role in the analysis of dramatic dialogue, revealing complex aspects of characterization, plot development, and the underlying structure of social harmony or discord...
Naples, 23–25 October 2025 Università di Napoli “L’Orientale” The international conference Echoes of Hate, Screens of Resistance marks the culmination of the PRIN 2022 project ECHOES – English Studies...
Segreteria AIA 13:51 (4 ore fa) CALL FOR PAPERS: COGNITION & THE MEDIA 30-31 October 2025 Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara” We are pleased to announce the...
Organizzato dai dottorandi e dalle dottorande dei cicli XXXVIII e XXXIX del dottorato in Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere dell’Università Roma Tre, il convegno propone di indagare le...
In this video of the AIA Interviews series, Asia Battiloro sits down with Richard Ambrosini to discuss his latest book, La poesia inglese. Proposte di lettura dall’età dei Tudor a oggi Link to...
Thinking Against the Grain: Australian Studies in Times of Constraint KEYNOTE SPEAKERSKate Rigby (Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities, University of Cologne)Jakelin Troy...
Care colleghe e cari colleghi, Sabato 3 ottobre, alle ore 10.00, l’AIA incontra il Prof. Mauro Tulli, rappresentante dell’Area 10 presso il CUN, per un momento di confronto dedicato ai cambiamenti che...