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Seminar: Back to the future: English from past to present FACOLTÀ DI SCIENZE LINGUISTICHE E LETTERATURE STRANIERE, CENTRO DI LINGUISTICA UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA (C.L.U.C.) Monday 4th March 2019 Aula Magna “Tovini”, 9.30am Via Trieste 17 – Brescia Programme 9.30 Opening remarks Sara CIGADA, Direttore Centro di Linguistica Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (C.L.U.C) Chair: Maria Luisa MAGGIONI 9.45 La storia della lingua come storia della società e della cultura Giovanni GOBBER, Preside Facoltà di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 10.15 The English language: a living creature. Crosscurrents of change in the morphology and syntax of English Paola TORNAGHI, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca 10.45 Coffee break Chair: Sonia PIOTTI 11:30 The importance of Italian in the making of English Laura PINNAVAIA, Università degli Studi di Milano 11.45 Legal English: comparing the language of British laws and European Union laws from a diachronic perspective Francesca SERACINI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 12.15-14.30 Pause Chair: Amanda MURPHY 14.30 “We the People of the United States” and our Linguistic Heritage Pierfranca FORCHINI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 15.00 English Lingua Franca and the rise of the lyric video Olivia MAIR CACCIARI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 15.30 Coffee break Chair: Costanza CUCCHI 16.00 Surfing the net for the History of English Maria Luisa MAGGIONI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 16.30 Thr-ough the Ages: a diachronic approach to English spelling-to-sound correspondences Sonia PIOTTI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 17.00 Conclusion Scientific Committee: Maria Luisa Maggioni; Amanda Murphy; Sonia Piotti The event is free of charge. Participants are invited to register by 25th February 2019 at the following link: https://goo.gl/ezTeru Note per i docenti – Il seminario rientra nelle iniziative di formazione e aggiornamento dei docenti realizzato dalle Università automaticamente riconosciute dall’Amministrazione scolastica, secondo la normativa vigente, e dà luogo – per gli insegnanti di ordine e grado – agli effetti giuridici ed economici della partecipazione alle iniziative di formazione. Note per gli studenti – Il convegno rientra nelle tipologie di esperienze che danno luogo ai crediti formativi riconoscibili per l’esame di Stato (conclusivo del II ciclo di studi) come recita il D.M. 49 del 25.02.2000, nonché ad eventuali crediti formativi universitari.

Call For Papers: Humour and Satire in British Romanticism Durham University, 13-14 September 2019 ‘Humour, in its sense of “a natural or accidental disposition of the temperament of the mind”, or whatever way in which Lexicographers care to define it, is a word as changeable and iridescent as the thing it signifies.’ With this line Mario Praz opens the Introduction to his 1924 Italian translation of the Essays of Elia, capturing the difficulty of attempting to pin down a word and a feeling so mercurial and ambivalent. Samuel Johnson gives eleven definitions in total for the term, and a further three for ‘humorous’ (which range from ‘pleasant; jocular’ to ‘full of grotesque or odd images’). This conference will explore how Romantic writers navigated these various and often contradictory understandings, focusing both on their perceptions, and their uses, of humour. A reappraisal of satire, ‘a mode with which we do not as a rule associate the Romantic period’ (as Marilyn Butler has put it), runs parallel to this aim. The conference intends not only to consider comparatively neglected satirists like the ‘obscene beastly Peter Pindar’ (as Lamb called him), but also to contemplate satirical strands in better-known Romantic writers. In this regard we are particularly, but not solely, interested in satirical pieces relating to the 1819-2019 bicentennial. Papers on everything from P. B. Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy to William Hone’s The Political House that Jack Built are very much encouraged. We welcome the submission of 250-word abstracts for 20-minute papers from academics at all levels, as well as Romanticists and humour specialists outside academia, which explore a wide interpretation of the theme. Topics may include (but are by no means limited to) the following: • Humour in translation and across cultures • The politics of humour: seditious jokes and political satire • Gender and humour/satire • Romantic readings of classical satire • Romantic readings of Augustan satire • Puns and linguistic ambiguity: Romantic conceptions of language • Notions of formality and sociability: the appropriacy of humour • Scientific understandings of laughter and humour • Humour, comedy, and the theatre • Topical humour/satire relating to the bicentennial of 1819 Please email proposals to romantichumourandsatire@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is Monday, 20 May 2019.

RHESIS: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS, PHILOLOGY AND LITERATURE https://rhesis.it/ journal@rhesis.it . ISSN 2037-4569 CALL FOR ARTICLES Rhesis is a double-blind peer-reviewed open access journal which is divided into two streams. Linguistics and Philology aims at publishing outstanding contributions in all subfields of functional linguistics which show a methodological orientation to the empirical verification of theories. It welcomes contributions in all empirically-oriented language studies with application to both classical and modern languages, and it devotes particular attention to theoretically-grounded studies in historical linguistics. It also welcomes philological studies focussing on either textual or cultural issues. Literature welcomes contributions on both classical and modern works of literature of the world, with particular attention to critical innovation and interdisciplinary research. It features contributions on the diverse cultural manifestations of literature studies and related disciplines, with a specific focus on hybridisation and on the problematization of genres. Important dates Both issues of Rhesis are published on a yearly basis. Rhesis – Linguistics and Philology Submission date: 31st March (please fill in the form at https://rhesis.it/submit-manuscript/) Publication: 30th June Rhesis – Literature Submission date: 30th September (please fill in the form at https://rhesis.it/submit-manuscript/) Publication: 31st December Editors Gabriella Mazzon, Ignazio Putzu (editor-in-chief), Maurizio Virdis Authors For further information and details about the submission of manuscripts, please see the Notes for Contributors webpage. Contributions in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian are considered, but an abstract in English should always be included. Readers Rhesis is an open access journal. Thus, a subscription fee is not required.

CLAVIER 2019 – Call for Papers Knowledge Dissemination and Multimodal Literacy: Research Perspectives on ESP in a Digital Age University of Pisa, Italy, November 28-29, 2019 Ongoing developments in digital technologies offer an ever-increasing array of new media forms that we now leverage to communicate and interact with others in all walks of life. This trend also clearly emerges in educational settings, where traditional approaches to learning have undergone profound changes that make use of new media resources, such as websites, blogs/forums, social networking sites, OpenCourseWare lectures, TED Talks, as well as digitally available films/TV series, documentaries, and docu-tours. To effectively engage with these resources, learners need to acquire specific competences related to the ability to construct meanings from the multiple semiotic modes (e.g., verbal, visual, aural, spatial, and gestural) that are highly characteristic of texts accessed on digital platforms. In language teaching, the multimodal approach means helping students become aware of and learn to exploit semiotic modes beyond verbal language in order to cope more effectively with the linguistic, discursive, pragmatic, culture-related, and ideological challenges of the target language, while also acquiring specialized knowledge about a given topic. Linguists working with multimodal and multimedia texts for use in ESP instructional settings are called upon to explore strategies that take into account how multiple semiotic resources contribute to meanings, which can then be implemented to enhance linguistic competence and promote knowledge dissemination among ESP learners. The selection and preparation of materials to be used for these purposes can thus benefit from research that highlights their multimodal/multimedia dimension from various theoretical and analytical perspectives, including multimodal social semiotics, multimodal discourse analysis, multimodal critical discourse analysis, multimodal interaction analysis, as well as the challenges of compiling and analyzing multimodal/multimedia corpora. The conference intends to provide a platform for research that incorporates innovative approaches and methods for analyzing and applying multimodal and multimedia texts in the context of ESP in higher education settings. Themes We welcome proposals related to the following themes: • Fostering multimodal literacy in ESP • Research-informed analyses of multimodal/multimedia genres for ESP • Corpus-assisted approaches to multimodal discourse analysis for ESP • Multimodal corpora for ESP: design, methods, applications • Multimodal critical discourse analysis for ESP • Innovative multimodal ESP materials/methodologies for professional and linguistic development • Multimodality and task authenticity in ESP teaching • Perceptions/attitudes towards multimodal/multimedia resources Keynote Speakers John Bateman, Universität Bremen (Germany) Dawn Knight, Cardiff University (UK) Kay O’Halloran, Curtin University (Perth, Western Australia) Scientific committee Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence), Paola Catenaccio (University of Milan), Belinda Crawford (University of Pisa), Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo), Giuliana Garzone (IULM University of Languages and Media, Milan), Denise Milizia (University of Bari), Giuseppe Palumbo (University of Trieste), Rita Salvi (“La Sapienza” University of Rome), Silvia Bruti (University of Pisa), Gloria Cappelli (University of Pisa), Silvia Masi (University of Pisa) Organizing committee Veronica Bonsignori, Silvia Bruti, Gloria Cappelli, Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli, Silvia Masi, Elisa Mattiello, Nicoletta Simi, Gianmarco Vignozzi Guidelines for Proposals Individual papers: Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words + max 5 references. Presentation format is 20 minutes followed by 5 minutes for discussion. Panels: Panels should feature 3-5 speakers. Panel proposals must include 200-250 words of general presentation, followed by individual abstracts (no longer than 250 words + max 5 references). Presentation format is 20 minutes per individual paper, with 10 minutes for discussion at the conclusion of the panel. Abstracts should be submitted to http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/clavier2019 in .docx or .rtf format, specifying the relevant conference theme(s). Please download and use the template provided on the conference website. All abstracts will be submitted to a double-blind review process. Important: do not indicate author name(s) and affiliation(s) on the abstract file. The proposed abstracts will be evaluated according to the following criteria: • Original topic of relevance to conference theme(s) • Appropriate theoretical background and references • Clearly articulated aim(s) and methodological approach • Presentation of findings (or preliminary findings) • Well-structured, coherent, and clearly written Dates to remember • May 31, 2019: deadline for submitting abstracts • June 30, 2019: notification of abstract acceptance Contact information For information, please write to clavier2019@fileli.unipi.it

CALL FOR PAPERS AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Ca’ Foscari University « A great community »: John Ruskin’s Europe Venice 7-9 October 2019 One of the last of John Ruskin’s books, a collection of articles written between 1834 and 1885, is entitled On the Old Road. From Calais, where the Ruskin family disembarked for the first time in 1833, at the start of their first contintental tour, the road leads south across France and Switzerland and into Italy, coming to its end in Venice where, in 1888, Ruskin wrote the last words in his diary. The route is marked by many milestones in the life of Ruskin, in his thinking and in his work, and crosses numerous frontiers – frontiers that are often barely noticed. In traversing this vast continent, Ruskin puts behind him the narrow confines of Victorian Britain; his work shapes one of the most important founding moments in the constitution of a distinctively European culture and spirit. This theme is a core concern of a series of recent historical and aesthetic studies which recognise the crucial importance of place, of myth, and of image in the construction of a common European fabric (see Carlo Ossola, Europa ritrovata. Geografie e miti del vecchio continente, Milan 2017; published in French as Fables d’identité. Pour retrouver l’Europe, Paris 2018; and L’Europe. Encyclopédie historique edited by Christophe Charle and Daniel Roche, Paris 2018), and of studies such as Salvatore Settis’s, Architettura e democrazia. Paesaggio, città, diritti civili (Turin 2017) which deal with key questions of cultural heritage in an interdisciplinary perspective and are driven by strong civic ethos. On the occasion of the bicenternary of the birth of John Ruskin we invite scholars from across the disciplines to re-read his works, from the Poetry of Architecture to the Stones of Venice, the Bible of Amiens, the Oxford Lectures, St Mark’s Rest and Fors Clavigera, works which refer repeatedly to the concept of a «a great European community» (A Joy For Ever, 1857). The conference will thus build on and develop a theme to which the conference John Ruskin and 19th Century Cultural Travel held in Venice in 2008 was dedicated. In carrying forward the work begun there, this new occasion will also offer an opportunity to explore more recent readings and critical editions which have thrown light on little known aspects of Ruskin’s work, focussing new attention on mobility, both intellectual and stylistic as well a geographic. It will we believe prove fruitful to take a view from outside the confines of the nation and time into which he was born, and look at his ideas in this broader, more modern context. This conference thus invites scholars to discover or rediscover a self-consciously European John Ruskin, and explore the multiple facets and levels – geographical, historical, critical, aesthetic, socio-political, and cultural – of an oeuvre which both deliberately challenges disciplinary boundaries and breaks through national frontiers. TOPICS MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT CONFINED TO THE FOLLOWING: HISTORY – Ruskin’s European inheritance – Ways in which his works contribute to the construction of cultural identities both national (English, French, Italian etc) and European – Ruskin’s view of the roles of religions and Churches in the construction of cultural identity – Modes of circulation within Europe as evoked and described in his works – The idea of Europe as object of nostalgia, as utopia, as long-term project – Ruskin’s symbolic representations of European disgregation. – GEOGRAPHY AND LANDSCAPE – Travel diaries and sketchbooks – Maps – Europe in its extra-European relations – Physical geography: seas, rivers, mountain ranges and valley, forests, palins – Political geography – Migrations – Cultural geography (see Denis Cosgrove’s « John Ruskin’s European Visions », 2010). ARTS – The representation of pan-European movements (i.e. Gothic, Renaissance) and styles (Byzantine, Romanesque, Etruscan) – Re-reading medieval and renaissance painting – Ruskin’s reception of European literature, of the Bible, of Greek and Latin classics – Ruskin and his network of friends and contacts in Europe – Translation of Ruskin’s works, Ruskin and translation – The European debate on architectural restoration – The crafts as a model of economic development – Teaching as a means of transmitting common values. Organizers : Emma Sdegno, Martina Frank (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Pierre-Henry Frangne (Université Rennes 2), Myriam Pilutti Namer (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Website : https://sites.google.com/a/unive.it/ruskin2019venezia/ Abstracts of 300-500 words are to be sent to ruskin2019venezia@unive.it They can be submitted either in English, French, German, or Italian Deadline for submission: 31 January 2019; Acceptance to be notified by 31 March 2019 For any questions, please contact the organizers at: ruskin2019venezia@unive.it. Scientific Committee Dinah Birch (University of Liverpool) Irene Favaretto (Università degli studi di Padova; Scuola Grande di San Rocco) Sandro G. Franchini (Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti) Pierre-Henry Frangne (Université Rennes 2) Martina Frank (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) André Hélard (Classes préparatoires Rennes) Howard Hull (Brantwood Estate) Cédric Michon ((Université Rennes 2) Anna Ottani Cavina (Università di Bologna) Myriam Pilutti Namer (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Claude Reichler (Université de Lausanne) Emma Sdegno (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Salvatore Settis (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Paul Tucker (Università degli studi di Firenze) Stephen Wildman (Lancaster University)

Call for Applications: Up to 5 Grants (Travel and Accommodation) for Ph.D. students or post-docs for Participation in the Villa Vigoni Symposium: “Citizenship, Law and Literature,” Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio (CO), Italy, 25-28 March, 2019 Coordinators: Prof. Annalisa Oboe (Padua) and Prof. Klaus Stierstorfer (Muenster) Deadline: 8th February, 2019 Vigoni Talks, sponsored in cooperation with the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG), is a unique scholarly format promoting international, and especially Italian-German, collaboration in research, education and culture in a European spirit. Young scholars (doctoral or post-doctoral level) are invited to apply for participation in the upcoming Vigoni Talks on “Citizen-ship, Law and Literature,” which will explore current formations of European citizenship from an interdisciplinary law-and-literature perspective. The grants cover travel to and accommodation at Villa Vigoni for the duration of the workshop. Successful applicants are invited to present a paper draft (circa 2,000 words) during the Talks, and may be invited to submit a revised paper, based on the draft and the discussions at the workshop, later in summer 2019 for publication in an edited collection. Situated at the intersection of legal studies and literary studies, the “Citizenship, Law and Literature” Talks postulate that contemporary developments like globalization, mass migration and the rise of new social media have triggered radical reconfigurations of classic notions of citizenship. For a long time, modern citizenship denoted national belonging, legal equality and a set of rights and duties to be bestowed by a state on individual members of a society. Yet in recent decades, new forms of global mobility and transnational political participation have exposed the limits of such a paradigm. In Europe, this shift has become particularly evident in the new millennium under the impact of massive migration and refugee movements into the European South, and more recently into North-western countries like Austria and Germany. Following these developments, interdisciplinary scholarly investigations of citizenship are now called upon to explore a variety of interdependent issues ranging from (top-down) juridical prescriptions regarding political citizenship to the (bottom-up) cultural and literary performance of citizenship in local and global contexts. To apply for participation in the event and a travel and accommodation grant, please send a 300-word proposal in line with this scholarly and thematic outline as well as a short CV to Dr. Elisa Bordin (University of Padua) by 8th February, 2019: eli.bordin@unipd.it

6th International Symposium on History of English Lexicography and Lexicology (HEL-LEX.6) CALL FOR PAPERS The sixth International Symposium on History of English Lexicography and Lexicology will take place on 26-29 June 2019 in the Palazzo Feltrinelli, the University of Milan’s conference centre in Gargnano on Lake Garda, Italy. Organized by the Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere of the University of Milan in association with the Helsinki Society for Historical Lexicography, the Symposium will focus, as its monograph strand, on the history of English specialized lexicography (i.e., scientific and technical glossaries and dictionaries, pronouncing dictionaries, dictionary of phraseology, slang and cant dictionaries, etc.), but it will also deal with any topic related to the history of English lexicography, historical semantics and lexicology. A number of first-class experts in the field – among them, Michael Adams, John Considine, Sarah Ogilvie, and Rod McConchie – will contribute to the Symposium programme. A collection of selected papers will be published: please note that a call for submission will allow only about four months after the Symposium to revise and complete papers for publication. The programme committee invites submissions of one-page abstracts that should be emailed as an attachment (docx or rtf formats) to giovanni.iamartino@unimi.it and hel-lex.6@unimi.it by 17 February 2019. Please, be sure to include your professional affiliation, address, phone number, and email address. Information on registration, local arrangements and conference activities will soon be available at https://blogs.helsinki.fi/hellex-society.

*** REMINDER *** Deadline approaching – 15th February 2019 6th Annual Conference of the International Crime Fiction Association Captivating Criminality 6: Metamorphoses of Crime: Facts and Fictions 12-15 June 2019 G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Call for Papers The Captivating Criminality Network is delighted to announce its sixth conference, which will be held in Italy. Building upon and developing ideas and themes from the previous five successful conferences, Metamorphoses of Crime: Facts and Fictions will examine the ways in which Crime Fiction as a genre incorporates elements of real-life cases and, in turn, influences society by conveying thought-provoking ideas of deviance, criminal activity, investigation and punishment. Since its inception, the genre has drawn inspiration from sensational crime reports. In early nineteenth-century Britain, for example, Newgate novels largely drew on the biographies of famous bandits, while penny dreadfuls popularized the exploits of criminals and detectives to appeal the taste for horror and transgression of their target audience. In similar ways, notorious cases widely reported in the mid-Victorian press, such as the Road Murder (1860) or the Madeleine Smith trial (1857), exerted a significant influence on the imagination of mid- to late-Victorian novelists, including early practitioners of the sensation genre who laid the premises for the creation of detective fiction. In other cases, criminal actions were triggered by literary texts or turned into appealing fictions by journalists. Suffice it to consider the sensation created by Jack the Ripper’s murders in late-Victorian Britain or the twentieth-century recent cases of murders committed by imitators of criminals and serial killers featured in novels like A ClockWork Orange (1962), The Collector (1963), Rage (1977), and American Psycho (1991). In more recent times, the interaction between reality and other media (TV series, films, computer games, websites, chats, etc.) has raised the question of how crime continues to glamorize perturbing, blood-chilling stories of law-breaking and law-enforcement. In addition to exploring these complex relations between facts and fictions, the conference will focus on the metamorphoses of crime across media, as well as cultural and critical boundaries. Speakers are invited to explore the crossing of forms and themes, and to ascertain the extent to which canonized definitions suit the extreme volatility of a genre that challenges categorization. From an ideological viewpoint, moreover, crime fiction has proved to be highly metamorphic, as it has been variously used to challenge, reinforce or simply interrogate ideas of ‘law and order’. The enduring appeal of the genre is also due to its openness to historical and cultural movements – such as feminism, gender studies, queer politics, postmodernism – as well as to concepts drawn from specific fields of knowledge, such as sociology and psychology. Similarly relevant to the ‘metamorphoses of crime’ are cultural exchanges among remote areas of the world, which add new perspectives to the genre’s representation of customs and ethnical issues. Scholars, practitioners and fans of crime writing are invited to participate in this conference that will address these key elements of crime fiction and real crime, from the early modern to the present day. Topics may include, but are not restricted to: • True Crime, Fictional Crime • Crime Reports and the Press • Real and Imagined Deviance • Adaptation and Interpretation • Crime Fiction and Form • Generic Crossings • Crime and Gothic • The Detective, Then and Now • The Anti-Hero • Geographies of Crime • Real and Symbolic Boundaries • Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity • The Ideology of Law and Order: Tradition and Innovation • Gender and Crime • Women and Crime: Victims and Perpetrators • Crime and Queer Theory • Film Adaptations • TV series • Technology • The Media and Detection • Sociology of Crime • The Psychological • Early Forms of Crime Writing • Eighteenth-Century Crime • Victorian Crime Fiction • The Golden Age • Hardboiled Fiction • Contemporary Crime Fiction • Postcolonial Crime and Detection Plenary speakers will be Eric Peter Sandberg (City University of Hong Kong) and Maurizio Ascari (University of Bologna). Please send 200 word proposals to Professor Mariaconcetta Costantini and Dr Fiona Peters to the following email account: captivatingcriminality6@unich.it by 15th February 2019. The abstract should include your name, email address, and affiliation, as well as the title of your paper. Please feel free to submit abstracts presenting work in progress as well as completed projects. Postgraduate students are welcome. Papers will be a maximum of 20 minutes in length. Proposals for suggested panels are also welcome. . TRAVEL AND CONFERENCE VENUE INFORMATION G. d’ Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara is located in Abruzzo, Central Italy. One part of the campus is in Chieti on the Abruzzo hills. The other part, which will be the main venue of the conference, is in Pescara. The Pescara campus, which is near the city center, is very close to the Adriatic coast and the pinewood celebrated by poet Gabriele D’Annunzio in his verse. Pescara is the biggest city in the region of Abruzzo, and it boasts a vibrant cultural life, with an important jazz festival (Pescara Jazz Festival), a national literary festival (Festival delle Letterature dell’Adriatico), and an international film festival and competition (Flaiano Film Festival and International Awards). The city has a small airport with direct connections to London Stansted, which might be a useful option for those of you travelling from the UK (Ryanair flight). There are also some Ryanair flights from other European cities). Anyone planning to travel from British and Continental cities can consider taking a flight to Rome and then take a bus to Pescara (we advise against travelling by train, since the connections are complicated and it takes longer than the bus). You can check timetables and prices on the following website (for connections from either Fiumicino or Ciampino airports): https://booking.prontobusitalia.it/public/ricerca.jsf?lang=en https://www.flixbus.co.uk/ or on the website http://www.dicarlobus.it/ (only for buses departing from Fiumicino) CONFERENCE FEES € 110 (euro) € 80 (euro): students Fees include: 6 coffee breaks, 2 light buffet lunches, 1 conference dinner. A second optional dinner will be organized (costs: about € 25). Delegates will