CALL FOR PAPERS Figurative Thought and Language (FTL 7) Cognitive, bodily, and cultural processes in Figurative Thought and Language University of Genova, Dipartimento di Lingue e Culture Moderne 20-22 September 2023 https://sites.google.com/view/ftl7symposium/home-page The 7th International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL 7) will be organised by the Department of Modern Languages at the University […]

CLAVIER 2023 Framing nature: discourses past and present of nature and the environment A sustainability perspective 23-24 November 2023 Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Languages, literatures, cultures and mediations Piazza Indro Montanelli 1 Sesto San Giovanni, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy Among the problems troubling the 21st century, particularly salient are those concerning […]

L2APR: L2 accent and pronunciation research: acquisition, teaching, attitudes Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Venice, Italy, November 15-16, 2023 The Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice is pleased to announce the international conference “L2 accent and pronunciation research: acquisition, teaching, attitudes” which will be held on November 15-16, […]

‘Negative solidarities’. The age of anger and hate speech in the Anglophone globalized public sphere  International Conference, November 9-10, palazzo Du Mesnil, University of Naples L’Orientale  When in 2017 Pankaj Mishra published Age of Anger: A History of the Present, he devised an iconic title for a shared contemporary condition. In articulating a widespread sense […]

Prospero. A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures University of Trieste, Italy VOL XXVIII (2023) “Revolutions. Changes of paradigm in British and German literatures and cultures between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” The forthcoming number of Prospero (XXVIII 2023) invites contributions that will focus on paradigm shifts in the literary and cultural fields of English […]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 8th edition of the Languaging Diversity Conference (LD2023), which will be held on 14th-16th December 2023 both at Università di Torino (ITALY) and online, incl. live streams of plenary sessions and online panels. The theme of this year’s conference is “Languaging identities in changing times: Challenges and […]