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The International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures (IASSL) are pleased to announce the launch of the annual Jack Prize, to be awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin). The prize is named in honour of Professor Ronald Dyce Sadler Jack D.Litt. FRSE (1941-2016), Professor of Scottish and Mediaeval Literature at the University of Edinburgh from 1987-2004 and director of the Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation. Professor Jack’s work on Scottish literature’s Continental and Italian dimensions was groundbreaking. From his The Italian Influence in Scottish Literature (1972) on, he championed a concept of Scottish literature open to the world and engaged in dialogue with it. This prize of £100 or equivalent is named in his memory and awarded in his honour annually. Submissions should be sent to Professor Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming: CMF@uwyo.edu), Convenor of IASSL, by St Andrew’s Day, 30 November 2018. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchcentresandnetworks/iassl/thejackprize/

Approaches to Multimodal Digital Environments: from theories to practices (A-MODE) Multimodal digital communication is the main theme of this conference meant to attract multidisciplinary research on a wide range of issues from teaching and learning to analysing multimodal digital data appearing in multiple communication arenas. Drawing on the work related to the European project EU-MADE4LL, European Multimodal and Digital Education for Language Learning, the conference intends to bring together international scholars belonging to various fields of research sharing an interest in exploring recent developments in multimodal digital communication. We wish to tackle the complex arenas of digitality by reflecting on a broad range of multimodal texts, social practices and communities: content management systems, corporate web pages, institutional web pages, blogs, corporate videos, mash up, fanvids, etc … We are keen to address this ever-increasing complexity of digital communication by adopting a broad range of multimodal, semiotic and educational perspectives. Keynote speakers: Marina Bondi, University of Modena, Italy Carey Jewitt, UCL – Institute of Education, London, UK Rodney Jones, University of Reading, UK Gunther Kress and Jeff Bezemer, UCL – Institute of Education, London, UK David Machin, Örebro University, Sweden Theo van Leeuwen, University of Technology, Sidney Detailed information about the conference can be found at http://a-mode.eumade4ll.eu. TITOLO DEL CONVEGNO Approaches to Multimodal Digital Environments: from theories to practices (A-MODE) ORGANIZZATORI Elisabetta Adami (University of Leeds) Ilaria Moschini (Università di Firenze) Sandra Petroni (UNiversità di Roma ‘Tor Vergata) Maria Grazia Sindoni (Università di Messina) DATA 20-22 June 2019 SEDE Rome, University of “Tor Vergata” LINK http://a-mode.eumade4ll.eu.