Founding Mother. Ricordi di Lina Unali
Mercoledì 5 novembre 2025, ore 9:00-17:00 Edificio B, aula Moscati Via Columbia 1 Università di Roma Tor Vergata
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23rd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-23), Milan, 15-18 June 2026 Call for Panels
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 (ICEHL-23), which will take place at the University of Milan from 15 to 18 June 2026. Call for Panels We are now inviting proposals for: – Panels (thematic sessions with several papers) Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (excluding references) and should clearly outline the research question, methodology, and main findings. Panel proposals should be sent to the Conference email address: icehl.23@unimi.it. – Deadline for panel proposals: 30 November 2025 – Notification of acceptance: 10 December 2025 A Third Circular “Call for papers” will follow after 10 December with a call for individual papers and posters. – Deadline for individual papers and posters: 31 January 2026 – Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2026 Registration – Early-bird registration: €280 – Opens: 15 February 2026 – Closes: 31 March 2026 – Standard registration: €380 – Closes: 10 June 2026 The conference fee includes admission to all sessions, conference materials, coffee breaks, and lunches. Details on optional events (conference dinner, excursions) will be made available on the website. Programme The academic programme will commence on the afternoon of 15 June and will conclude at lunchtime on 18 June. Confirmed plenary speakers: – John Considine (University of Alberta) – Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo) – Simon Horobin (University of Oxford) – Carol Percy (University of Toronto) The conference will also feature a number of themed sessions and open panels on all aspects of English historical linguistics. Social Programme – 15 June (evening): Welcome Reception – 16 June (afternoon): Guided tour of Milan – 17 June (evening): Conference Dinner Accommodation Information about recommended hotels and booking details will be available on the conference website (https://slin.unimi.it/icehl-23/). Contact For enquiries, please contact the Organising Committee at: icehl.23@unimi.it We look forward to welcoming you to Milan in June 2026! With best wishes, The ICEHL-23 Organising Committee Organising Committee: Giovanni Iamartino (Chair) Angela Andreani Laura Pinnavaia Massimo Sturiale Scientific Committee: Angela Andreani (Milan) Anita Auer (Lausanne) Joan Beal (Sheffield) Nicholas Brownlees (Florence) Don Chapman (Brigham) Julia Fernández Cuesta (Sevilla) Raymond Hickey (Duisburg-Essen) Giovanni Iamartino (Milan) Elisabetta Lonati (Eastern Piedmont) Gabriella Mazzon (Innsbruck) Donatella Montini (Rome “Sapienza”) Päivi Pahta (Tampere) Laura Pinnavaia (Milan) Javier Ruano García (Salamanca) Jeremy Smith (Glasgow) Erik Smitterberg (Uppsala) Massimo Sturiale (Milan) Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Leiden) Alessandra Vicentini (Insubria) Laura Wright (Cambridge) Nuria Yáñez-Bouza (Vigo)
I Venerdì di Argo – Autunno 2025 “Metodi e modelli: la ricerca nel 2025” prossimi incontri
I Venerdì di Argo – Autunno 2025 “Metodi e modelli: la ricerca nel 2025”Microsoft Teams, 17 Ottobre 2025-5 Dicembre 2025, ore 16:00 14 novembre 16:00Marina LambrouMetalepsis, counterfactuality and narrative form in The French Lieutenant’s Woman 21 novembre 16:00Gruppo IRGORDAspetti pratici e teorici della traduzione collaborativa: il caso de Gli amanti spensierati 05 dicembre 16:00Giuseppe BaliranoStylistics landscape of crime: language and style across two cities Gli incontri si terranno tramite Microsoft Teams.
Media Discourse in Times of Crisis 6-7 November 2025 University of Catania
Department of Humanities, Department of Law, Department of Political and Social Sciences Auditorium “E. Zappalà”, Via Santa Maddalena 39, Catania Final programme
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Michele Stanco, Shakespeare: uomo di teatro, uomo di lettere, Roma, Carocci, 2025, 194 pp.
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 profondamente ridisegnato la nostra conoscenza dell’autore. Di qui la necessità di fornire uno strumento di studio aggiornato, che tenga conto delle più recenti acquisizioni relative alla ricostruzione dei testi, alla formazione del canone (con l’annessa questione dei collaborative plays), alla cronologia delle opere. Nel proporre una guida generale, il volume non rinuncia, tuttavia, a confrontarsi con una serie di problemi di carattere più specialistico. Un’ampia sezione ridiscute la vexata quaestio dei generi drammatici, analizzando il “comico” e il “tragico” alla luce delle diverse visioni del mondo ivi sottese. La sezione sulla poesia, a sua volta, rivisita le questioni relative alla cronologia dei Sonnets, e ai legami tra l’opera drammatica e l’opera poetica. Ad arricchire il quadro, il capitolo finale (attraverso un caso di studio su Edward III) riesamina il rapporto dell’autore con la pagina scritta, suggerendo che, oltre che per gli spettatori dell’epoca, Shakespeare scriveva anche per un pubblico di lettori sia presenti che futuri, rivelandosi, al contempo, uomo di teatro e uomo di lettere. Il risultato è un volume completo, di agile consultazione, che non si limita a fornire il necessario materiale informativo, ma offre altresì gli strumenti metodologici utili a cogliere, dall’interno, i fenomeni di volta in volta esplorati. Michele Stanco, Shakespeare: uomo di teatro, uomo di lettere, Roma, Carocci, 2025, 194 pp. 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 profondamente ridisegnato la nostra conoscenza dell’autore. Di qui la necessità di fornire uno strumento di studio aggiornato, che tenga conto delle più recenti acquisizioni relative alla ricostruzione dei testi, alla formazione del canone (con l’annessa questione dei collaborative plays), alla cronologia delle opere. Nel proporre una guida generale, il volume non rinuncia, tuttavia, a confrontarsi con una serie di problemi di carattere più specialistico. Un’ampia sezione ridiscute la vexata quaestio dei generi drammatici, analizzando il “comico” e il “tragico” alla luce delle diverse visioni del mondo ivi sottese. La sezione sulla poesia, a sua volta, rivisita le questioni relative alla cronologia dei Sonnets, e ai legami tra l’opera drammatica e l’opera poetica. Ad arricchire il quadro, il capitolo finale (attraverso un caso di studio su Edward III) riesamina il rapporto dell’autore con la pagina scritta, suggerendo che, oltre che per gli spettatori dell’epoca, Shakespeare scriveva anche per un pubblico di lettori sia presenti che futuri, rivelandosi, al contempo, uomo di teatro e uomo di lettere. Il risultato è un volume completo, di agile consultazione, che non si limita a fornire il necessario materiale informativo, ma offre altresì gli strumenti metodologici utili a cogliere, dall’interno, i fenomeni di volta in volta esplorati.
AIA BOOK and PHD Prize 2025 – Premi e Commissioni
AIA BOOK PRIZE 2025: Camilla Caporicci, The Song of Songs and Its Tradition in Renaissance Love Lyric, Oxford University Press, 2024 AIA JUNIOR BOOK PRIZE 2025: Marta Fossati, The South African Short Story in English, 1920–2010, When Aesthetics Meets Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2024 AIA PHD PRIZE 2025: Lellida Vittoria Marinelli, Being a Contemporary Woman Writer. Il saggio sulla scrittura: Deborah Levy, Jeanette Winterson e Zadie Smith, Università di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, 2025 (relatrice: Anna Maria Cimitile) Commissione AIA BOOK e AIA JUNIOR BOOK PRIZE 2025 Diego Saglia (Università di Parma) Presidente Emma Sdegno (Università di Venezia) Serenella Zanotti (Università di Roma Tre) Supplente: Pietro Luigi Iaia (Università del Salento) Commissione AIA PHD PRIZE 2025 Maddalena Pennacchia (Università di Roma Tre) Presidente Mirko Casagranda (Università della Calabria) Fernando Cioni (Università di Firenze) Supplente: Patrizia Anesa (Università di Bergamo)
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Call for Seminar Papers Disinformation in and out: Qualitative Linguistic Analyses of Digital Disinformation Texts 18th ESSE Conference 31st August-4th September 2026 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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 Ostrava, Czech Republic) jiri.lukl@osu.cz With the challenges and crises of recent years, digital disinformation texts (in popular – though not always precise – usage also referred to as ‘fake news’) have become increasingly popular and seem to have gained ground among various groups of internet users. Defined as “false information [that] is knowingly shared to cause harm” (Wardle & Derakhshan, 2017), disinformation is essentially the result of one’s text production – shaped by the author’s intentions that manifest themselves in the text’s intentionality (cf. Haugh & Jaszczolt, 2012) – and its spread is contingent on the readers’perception and further interaction with it. While previous (primarily quantitative) studies of disinformation texts have mainly focused on disinformation detection by identifying recurrent grammatical patterns and stylistic features (e.g., Grieve & Woodfield, 2023), this seminar seeks to bring together contributions that expand this research and underline the relevance and potential of qualitative analyses of disinformation discourse currently on the rise (e.g., Maci et al., 2024). Acknowledging the methodological and ethical challenges this kind of research faces, the seminar takes into account the diversity of the topics disinformation texts are devoted to (e.g., immigration, conflicts, climate change, conspiracy theories) as well as the variety of their discursive structures and formats (e.g., anti-establishment websites, social media posts, online broadcasts). Given the impact disinformation texts are likely to exert both online and outside the digital environment, the seminar also aims to emphasize that adding a critical dimension to the analysis may be necessary in certain contexts. Considering the above, we invite contributions exploring disinformation texts from a qualitative linguistic perspective that address (but are not restricted to) the following areas: – recurrent linguistic and multimodal strategies– adopted argumentative strategies– linguistic differences between mainstream news and disinformation texts (e.g., information-structural, lexical and other features)– uptake and audience reactions to disinformation texts– cross-linguistic differences between disinformation texts References:Grieve, J., & Woodfield, H. (2023). The Language of Fake News. Cambridge University Press.Haugh, M., & Jaszczolt, K. M. (2012). Speaker Intentions and Intentionality. In K. Allan and K. M. Jaszczolt (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (pp. 87-122). Cambridge University Press.Maci, S. M., Demata, M., McGlashan, M., & Seargeant, P. (Eds.). (2024). The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003224495Wardle, C., & Derakhshan, H. (2017). Information Disorder: Toward an Interdisciplinary Framework for Research and Policy Making. Council of Europe. https://edoc.coe.int/en/media/7495-information-disorder-toward-an-interdisciplinary-framework-for-research-and-policy-making.html Deadline for the submission of proposals for seminar papers (300 words excl.bibliographical references) to seminar convenors: 31 January 2026For further information, see the conference website: www.esse2026.com
Giornata di studi interdipartimentale – 7 novembre 2025 Dalla Didattica dell’inglese all’Educazione Plurilingue: ricerca, innovazione e formazione per il primo ciclo di istruzione Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture straniere – Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali – Università di Bergamo
Aula Castoldi, Sede di S. Agostino – Bergamo Comitato scientifico-organizzativoCoordinamento: Roberta Grassi, Valentina Adami, Ilaria Borro Membri: Patrizia Anesa, Martina Bellinzona, Chiara Brambilla, Paola Gandolfi, Silvia Minardi, Michele Sala Presentazione La Giornata intende riunire prospettive innovative sulla didattica e la formazione dei docenti di Inglese. In dialogo con le istanze di equità, diversità e inclusione del dibattito internazionale, viene proposta una declinazione plurilingue della didattica dell’inglese, che trasformi quella che è di solito la prima lingua straniera incontrata in una porta per lo sviluppo della Competenza Plurilingue e Interculturale (QCER, 2001). I contributi uniranno ricerca accademica e condivisione di esperienze didattiche e laboratoriali con futuri insegnanti, per favorire lo scambio di dati, riflessioni ed esempi di innovazione metodologica, in linea con i principi del Consiglio d’Europa (Recommendation CM/Rec(2022)1 on The importance of Plurilingual and Intercultural Education, Council of Europe). La Tavola Rotonda finale, con docenti universitari, insegnanti in formazione e in servizio, offrirà un’occasione di dialogo tra ricerca e pratica didattica, promuovendo collaborazione e arricchimento reciproco. La Giornata adotta una politica linguistica inclusiva e plurilingue: le lingue principali saranno italiano e inglese, con aperture a lingue romanze e dialetti d’Italia, valorizzando pratiche discorsive e testuali fluide e multimodali.
CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Conference Hall, Du Mesnil Palace) 28-29 May 2026
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 2026 Since the turn of the millennium, the European Anglophone literary scene has seen a growing prominence of Scottish and Irish fiction. This is evidenced by the numerous awards given to writers of Scottish and Irish origin and/or residence over the last two decades. What is particularly remarkable about this productivity is the ability of these writers to combine an interest in identities that can be significantly characterised as local/regional or migrant, with the ability to represent, on the global stage of the West, all the thematic and genre trends closely connected to the most pressing current events and the urgencies of contemporaneity. Climate change and eco-anxieties, the disintegration of democracy and civil coexistence, the culture of hate and apocalyptic imaginings of the future, identity politics and, in particular, the question of identities and gender relations are promptly and appropriately articulated in a stylistic-expressive variety that ranges from particularly effective and original forms of realism to speculative and dystopian tendencies intertwined with all possible narrative subgenres. Authors such as Ali Smith or Paul Lynch, to name just a couple among many others, have shown the ability to renew contemporary literary canons by combining stylistic innovation and formal experimentation with a firm grasp on contemporary reality, problematising its observation and narration. Both from the perspective of the stories and themes they address and from the formal perspective of linguistic and expressive research, these two literary scenes are therefore extremely interesting and capable of intersecting critical perspectives informed by the most recent theories in the fields of the post-humanities and metamodernism. Call for SubmissionsThe Conference organisers invite scholars and researchers interested in this area and its latest trends in fiction, poetry, drama, cinema, TV series, digital media, and critical theory to submitproposals for 20-minute presentations.Possible topics include but are not limited to:● Identity and Place: The dynamics of cultural identity. Local, traditional, diasporic, global, and ‘glocal’.● Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene: Ecological and environmental affect in eco-gothic, eco-catastrophic, and narratives of the climate crisis.● Politics and Speculation: Dystopian and speculative fiction as responses to contemporary socio-political scenarios, neoliberalism, and late capitalism.● Intersectionality and Embodiment: Representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality; queer identities and feminist perspectives.● The Post-Human Condition: Perspectives on transhumanism, post-humanism, affect theory, and embodiment.● Theories of the Contemporary: Post-postmodernism, metamodernism, off-modernism, and deep realism.● Form and Genre: Narrative techniques, genre hybridisation, autofiction, and autotheory.● Linguistic Experimentation: The aesthetics and politics of dialect, multilingualism, and experimental language.● Myth and Memory: Folklore-inspired narratives and mythic retellings within or beyond the Celtic sphere.● Media Convergence: Critical approaches to adaptations, TV series, films, and digital storytelling.● The Literary Marketplace: The impact of literary prizes on circulation, canonisation, and promotion; Translation and reception studies. Please submit the following documents in a single Word (.docx) or PDF file:– An abstract of 250-300 words.– A short, selective bibliography.– A brief biographical note (maximum 150 words), including affiliation and contact information. Proposals should be submitted to: IRSConference2026@gmail.com. Key DatesSubmission Deadline: 10 January 2026Notifications of acceptance and further details, including information about the conference fee, will be communicated by the end of January 2026. Internet sitehttps://sites.google.com/view/irsconference/home-pageShort URLhttps://shorturl.at/gGrsX Scientific/Organising CommitteeRossella Ciocca, Marta Cariello, Giuseppe De Riso, Daniela Vitolo, Luca Sarti, Gaia Zaccaro. 1 (2)(1) 2 (2)(1) 3 (2)(1)