*** AIA CONFERENCE *** Padova, 5-7 September 2019 Thinking out of the Box in Language, Literature, Cultural and Translation Studies: Questioning Assumptions, Debunking Myths, Trespassing Boundaries “Thinking out of the Box” is a powerful metaphor, one that challenges us to consider possibilities previously not even imagined, and to extend our vision – of the world […]
CONVEGNO: William Shakespeare e il senso del comico, Palazzo Du Mesnil, Via Partenope 10/A Via Chiatamone 61/62 9-10 gennaio 2019 organizzazione: Simonetta De Filippis Mercoledì 9 gennaio h. 9.30 Saluti delle Autorità 1. Il senso del comico Presiede: MARINA VITALE SIMONETTA DE FILIPPIS: “Shakespeare e il senso del comico” LAURA DI MICHELE: “Il comico shakespeariano […]
In linea con la politica di sostegno dell’attività scientifica dei giovani ricercatori che hanno aderito all’Associazione, il Consiglio Direttivo IASEMS è lieto di annunciare che anche quest’anno sono stati messi a disposizione dei soci junior (studenti magistrali, dottorandi, addottorati, assegnisti, contrattisti), in regola con la quota di iscrizione IASEMS: N. 8 borse dell’importo di 150 […]
“Of Bought Wit”: Plagiarism, Imitation and Borrowing in Early Modern England The Tenth IASEMS Conference Università degli Studi di Genova, 22-24 May 2019 Wit is never good till it be bought. Thy wit is dear bought, and yet stark nought. John Heywood, Epigrams upon Proverbs, xiv (1562) Early modern textuality seems directly to point at […]
2nd Pop@UBarcelona Symposium: Gender and the Graphic Novel 8 March 2019, Aula Magna, Universitat de Barcelona In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies at the Universitat de Barcelona invites proposals for panels and papers on any aspect of gender and the graphic novel or comics. This […]
Call for Papers “Enter the Crowd” Mass Communication in Early Modern England Florence, 12 April 2019 The 2019 IASEMS Graduate Conference at The British Institute in Florence is a one-day interdisciplinary and bilingual English-Italian forum open to PhD students and researchers who have obtained their doctorates within the past 5 years. This year’s conference will […]
AIA SEMINAR “Translation: Theory, Description, Applications” 4-6 April 2019 Centro Polifunzionale Studenti – Piazza Cesare Battisti 1 – Bari Call for Papers In his famous paper “The Name and Nature of Translation Studies,” presented at the 3rd World Congress of Applied Linguistics (Copenhagen, 21-26 August 1972), the Amsterdam-based American literary translator and theorist James Stretton […]
The South Asian literary scene, after the breakthrough of the Indian Anglophone novel, is now in its complex entirety a space of extremely lively and variegated narrative production. After the groundbreaking postcolonial sweep of the 80s and 90s with Rushdie, Roy, Seth, Mistry to set the model, in the third millennium a vast train of […]
Call for Papers: International Conference Translation as Political Act /La traduction comme acte politique/ La traduzione come atto politico Date: Thu, 9th May – Fri, 10th May 2019 Location: University of Perugia, Italy Organisers: Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche (Università di Perugia) in collaboration with the Genealogies of Knowledge Project (University of Manchester) Invited key note […]
Workshop proposal Title: “The concept of lightness: new perspectives and applications”. Venue: 52nd Meeting of the SLE (Societas Linguistica Europaea) – Leipzig (21-24 August 2019) Convenors: Roberta Mastrofini, Jodi L. Sandford, Marco Bagli (University of Perugia, Italy) The term lightness was first coined by Jespersen in relation to English verbal constructions formed by “an insignificant […]