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 […]