Ecco il programma del convegno Afterlives of Empire, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, 21-22 settembre 2023 (solo in presenza) Thursday, 21 September 2023 9.00 Registration 10.00 Opening remarks (room 105) Camilla Miglio (Head of SEAI, Sapienza Università di Roma) and Riccardo Capoferro (Sapienza Università di Roma) 10.15 – 11.15 Keynote lecture I – Room 105 […]
Metamorphoses and Fluidity: Ever-Changing Shapes in the Stream of Time Tor Vergata University of Rome 7-8 May, 2024 “Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. Everything changes, nothing perishes” (Ovid, Metamorphoses) “For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, even though he […]
Guest editors: Sofía Sánchez-Mompeán, University of Murcia, Spain; Serenella Zanotti, Università Roma Tre, Italy Streaming platforms have marked a watershed in today’s film industry, revolutionising mainstream TV distribution systems and reshaping viewers’ consumption habits (Jenner, 2018; Pedersen, 2018). Users are now holding the reins of their own entertainment experience and enjoy relatively more freedom in deciding when, […]
Information The French University Sorbonne Paris Nord in collaboration with the Italian University of Bologna, is organising a one-day International Conference on the 25th of October devoted to postgraduate students and early researchers on the topos of return in African literatures. Context After years spent in the USA as a migrant, Ifemelu, the protagonist […]
On 25th May Prof. Sonia Massai (King’s College, London) will deliver the first “Alessandro Serpieri Lecture”, entitled: The Operation of Individual Judgement: In Praise of Critical Editing The event will take place at 11 a.m. at the University of Verona (Polo Santa Marta – STC). The Lectures intend to render homage to the memory of Prof. Alessandro Serpieri, eminent […]
Spring Seminars on Romanticism 2023 – Università degli Studi di Bari, 18-19 maggio 2023 Gli “Spring Seminars on Romanticism 2023” sono organizzati dal Centro Interuniversitario per lo Studio del Romanticismo, sede di Bari, con il patrocinio e dell’Associazione Italiana di Anglistica e del Centro Interdipartimentale Ricerche sulla Pace “Giuseppe Nardulli” (UniBa). Le giornate rinnovano […]
Call For Papers Im/politeness on the Big Screen Friday 1st December 2023, University of Naples L’Orientale Im/politeness is an integral part of the language, aesthetic value and cultural significance of cinema. The conference seeks to analyse the languages of im/politeness in a variety of cinematic texts (shorts, featurettes and feature films). Pragmatics, stylistics, multimodal analysis, […]
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 […]