‘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 […]

Two-day workshop on: Using corpus & discourse methods to study nostalgia May 4-5 2023, Bertinoro, Italy The purpose of the workshop is to develop a systematic methodology for identifying nostalgic discourses. We aim to bring together expertise in nostalgia, (critical) discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to break new ground in this area. The residential programme […]

Hidden Histories / Recovered Stories Victorian Popular Fiction Association 15th Annual Conference 12–14 July 2023 Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK Keynote Speakers Professor Patricia Pulham (University of Surrey, UK) Dr Adrian S. Wisnicki (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US) Professor Nathalie Vanfasse (Aix-Marseille Université, FR) Call for Papers The Victorian Popular Fiction Association is dedicated to fostering […]

Alleghiamo il programma del convegno internazionale “LinC. I linguaggi della crisi tra virus e politica: forme del discorso e modello di comunicazione”, Università di Bari “Aldo Moro”, 1-2 dicembre 2022: brochure def web