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Call for Papers Food and/in Children’s Culture. National, International and Transnational Perspectives Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy – Department of Linguistic and Cultural Comparative Studies, Palazzo Cosulich –Zattere Dorsoduro, 1405, 30123 Venezia –Italy 6-9 April 2021 Food is a prominent element in children’s literature and culture. As Carolyn Daniel puts it, by reading about food children learn “what to eat and what not to eat or who eats whom” (2006, 4). In children’s narratives food can be, simultaneously, a mark of national identity, and a bridge between cultures, through which children can both learn about their own national culture and encounter other cultural identities and experiences. It can be a mark of kinship, but also a mark of difference and monstrosity, a symbol of desire, but also a vehicle of danger and death. Food scenes at times represent moments of intense pleasure for characters in movies, books, and different kinds of performances and, therefore, vicariously, for the reader/spectator, who becomes involved in what Gitanjali Shahani has called “food ekphrasis” (2018, 3) and consumes fictional banquets through vivid descriptions. At other times, these vivid descriptions may place before the reader/spectator/listener foods that are decidedly unappealing, at times monstrously so; and in some cases they may represent, equally vividly, scenes of hunger, poverty, and longing for unreachable food. There are indeed few elements so multifaceted, counterintuitive, and contradictory as food, and its role in children’s literature and culture usually bears heavy ideological, political, and/or cultural connotations. This conference invites broad, interdisciplinary interpretations of this theme encompassing, but not limited to: • Children as eaters and/or food • Medicine and science: diets, “clean vs un-clean” eating, nutrition • Food and gender • Picturebooks: picturing food and food fantasies/nightmares • Period-specific perspectives (Early Modern, Eighteenth Century, Victorian and Neo-Victorian, post-War, contemporary …) • Food and the child body: normalized, codified, modified, rejected/accepted • Trans/national perspectives • Images of food and intercultural dialogues/issues • The press (childcare, cooking and house management magazines, children’s periodicals) • Eating at home and abroad (in institutions [hospital, workhouse, school …], in different countries, picnics, the family meal, feasts and special occasions …) • Magical food • Food fantasies/nightmares • Children, food, and the environment: climate change, ecocriticism, access to food based on class/nationality … • Expressing concern about food: alcoholism and temperance, food disorders, poverty and hunger Confirmed keynote speakers include: Emeritus Professor Peter Hunt, Cardiff University (UK) Professor Nicola Humble, University of Roehampton (UK) Professor Björn Sundmark, Malmö University (Sweden) Dr Zoe Jaques, University of Cambridge (UK) Please send abstracts of 300-500 words for 20-minute papers and a 100-word biography to the Conference Organizers, Dr Anna Gasperini and Professor Laura Tosi, at foodchildrenculture2021@gmail.com by 30 November 2020. For further information, please visit the website FED – Feeding, Educating, Dieting (https://www.unive.it/pag/39059/) Note: the conference is envisaged as an in-person event; should this not be possible, an on-line version will be organized. We will provide updates about this in due course. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840686 FED conference 2021 CFP

Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Dottorato di ricerca in Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati  GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2020 La città che cambia: rappresentazioni, metafore, memoria Napoli, 21, 22 e 23 ottobre 2020  Palazzo Du Mesnil, Via Chiatamone 61/62 Call for Papers “Una città non è disegnata, semplicemente si fa da sola. Basta ascoltarla, perché la città è il riflesso di tante storie.” (Renzo Piano, 2000) Le città, nelle parole dell’architetto Renzo Piano, sono un luogo in eterno divenire, un contenitore mutevole di storie. Raccontano di tempi passati, angoli di storia, tradizioni e memorie che convivono accanto alle più impellenti urgenze espressive della modernità; e, allo stesso tempo, si proiettano verso il futuro. Sullo sfondo delle città, oggi come allora, si scrivono romanzi, opere cinematografiche e teatrali, si profilano personaggi, si immagina l’inimmaginabile, si generano discorsi che stabiliscono pratiche identitarie inclusive ed esclusive. Come testimonia Charles Baudelaire nella dedica dell’opera Lo spleen di Parigi (1869), è soprattutto la frequentazione di “città enormi” a far nascere il desiderio di nuove forme di scrittura. Caratterizzate da una profonda disomogeneità spaziale e politica, che regola l’entropia su cui l’immenso sistema si regge, le città si offrono inoltre come spazi aperti alla traduzione e alla contaminazione, dove i significati linguistici, culturali e sociali vengono di volta in volta rimediati, negoziati e ridefiniti. Ascoltare la città significa comprenderne le sue innumerevoli lingue, in quello spazio pubblico che è paesaggio calpestabile e, al contempo, leggibile e analizzabile, definito da Rodrigue Landry e Richard Y. Bourhis come Linguistic Landscape (1997). A partire dalle considerazioni esposte, nell’ambito della sesta edizione della Graduate Conference dell’Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, invitiamo a proporre contributi che, tenendo presente lo spazio urbano come categoria critica, gravitino attorno alla rappresentazione dell’esperienza caleidoscopica della città.  I temi che si intersecano sono molteplici, e, mirando ad un confronto interdisciplinare, tra le varie possibili, si propongono le seguenti linee: La città multilingue La città tradotta La città narrata La città mediata La città immaginata La città digitale La città sostenibile La città intelligente La città abitata La città identitaria La città accessibile La città valorizzata La città mappata La città antica La città sepolta La città futura La città riscoperta  Le tematiche potranno essere esplorate tramite gli approcci di seguito proposti: Analisi Linguistica, Linguistica Diacronica/Sincronica, Sociolinguistica, Dialettologia, Linguistica Applicata, Linguistica Comparata, Linguistica dei Corpora, Analisi del Discorso, Indagini Lessicali Critica Letteraria, Letterature Comparate, Ecdotica e Filologia Studi Antropologici, Studi Etnografici, Studi Culturali, Studi Postcoloniali e di Genere Traduzione Letteraria, Traduzione Audiovisiva, Traduzione Specialistica, Machine Translation Arte, Teatro e Cinema NLP, Data Visualisation, Digital Storytelling, Distant and Close Reading, Image Recognition, Social Media Analysis Le metodologie consigliate non costituiscono un vincolo ai fini della proposta di contributo. Gli abstract, la cui lunghezza non dovrà superare le 300 parole (esclusi titolo e bibliografia essenziale), dovranno pervenire entro il giorno 31/05/2020 in formato .pdf, accompagnati da una breve biografia (max 100 parole), attraverso la piattaforma EasyChair. Il programma definitivo della conferenza (durante la quale saranno previsti momenti seminariali) verrà pubblicato a seguito della comunicazione dell’accettazione delle proposte, che avverrà entro il giorno  15/07/2020. Si precisa che gli interventi, in lingua italiana o inglese, avranno una durata massima di 15 minuti, e che è inoltre prevista una sessione poster. Successivamente, i relatori saranno invitati a sottoporre il loro contributo per la pubblicazione degli atti, a cura del Comitato organizzativo e del Comitato scientifico del Collegio dei docenti del Dottorato. Per ulteriori informazioni, rivolgersi al Comitato organizzativo all’indirizzo e-mail gclorientale2020@gmail.com o consultare il sito Unior e le pagine ufficiali dell’evento: Unior Facebook Twitter Il Comitato organizzativo *** University of Naples “L’Orientale” Doctor of Philosophy Programme in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2020 The Changing City: Representations, Metaphors and Memory Naples, 21-23 October 2020 Palazzo Du Mesnil, Via Chiatamone 61/62 Call for Papers “Una città non è disegnata, semplicemente si fa da sola. Basta ascoltarla, perché la città è il riflesso di tante storie.” [A city is not designed, it simply creates itself. It is enough to listen to it, because it is the reflection of many stories.] (Renzo Piano, 2000)   Cities, according to the architect Renzo Piano, are places that are continually being created, they are ever-shifting repositories of stories. They tell of times past, giving glimpses of history, traditions and memories which live alongside the most compelling expressive needs of modernity; and at the same time they thrust themselves towards the future. Against the backdrop of cities, novels, plays and films are written, characters are sketched, the impossible is imagined, discourses are generated which establish inclusive and exclusive identity practices. As Charles Baudelaire outlines in the dedication of Le Spleen de Paris (1869), the inhabitation of “enormous cities” gives rise to new written forms. Characterised by a profound spatial and political inhomogeneity, which governs the entropy on which the immense system is balanced, cities offer themselves as spaces open to translation and contamination, where linguistic, cultural and social meanings are continually remediated, negotiated and redefined. Listening to the city means understanding its innumerable languages, in a public space which can be both read and tread on, defined by Rodrigue Landry and Richard Y. Bouthis as Linguistic Landscape (1997). Starting from these considerations, the sixth edition of the Graduate Conference of the University of Naples “L’Orientale” invites contributions which, addressing the critical categories of urban space, gravitate around the representation of the kaleidoscopic experience of the city.  Multiple intersecting themes are present, so, with the aim of promoting an interdisciplinary debate, the proposed lines of research are as follows: The multilingual city The translated city The narrated city The mediated city The digital city The smart city  The ancient city  The buried city The city of the future Imagining the city Inhabiting the city Rediscovering the city Mapping the city  Enhancing the city Identity and the city Accessibility and the city Sustainability and the city The themes  above can be explored through the following critical approaches: Linguistic Analysis, Synchronic/Diachronic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Applied Linguistics,Comparative Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics,

The Organizing Committee of the Workshop on ‘Law, Language, and Gender: the way forward’ (7-8 July 2020 IALS, London) has decided to extend the deadline for the submission of paper proposals until 31 May 2020. Due to the emergency reasons related to COVID-19, in order to safeguard participants, students and staff, and align to the new policies concerning travels and events, the School of Advanced Study has decided to postpone events in June/July of this year. The rescheduled date will be announced by the Organizing Committee of the Workshop as soon as it is confirmed.

Dear all, In addition to the communication published in the AIA Newsletter, please find attached the link to the 5th International Edition of the Translation Symposium entitled “AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION AND COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION: FOSTERING ACCESS TO MEDIASCAPES”, which will be held in the Department of Humanities at the University of Palermo on 15-16 October 2020. The organisers: University of Palermo, University of Bergamo, University College London https://www.unipa.it/dipartimenti/scienzeumanistiche/.content/documenti/sinossiPalermoEN_postponed.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3DZ52PjUP37CECHSkClb6PRvMYPY8_TxjjTs6eGMCKFOUcqUw5LY-3Jwo

The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo Diciottesimo Seventh International Joint Conference The Travelling Self: Tourism and Life-Writing in Eighteenth-Century Europe All Souls College, Oxford, 2-3 July 2020 Call for papers The eighteenth century saw the invention of modern tourism and a startling proliferation of new kinds of life-writing. This conference will explore how travellers wrote about themselves while they were away from home, and how our historical understanding of the phenomenon of travel – including domestic travel, but focusing on the Grand Tour – has relied on, but also been restricted by, travellers’ own accounts, whether they seek to project a specific image of themselves (public or private, true or self-censored) or are unaware of how much they are giving up. Letters, diaries, journals, travelogues and any kind of personal reminiscences – either real or fictional – may provide textual evidence of the ‘travelling self’. Biotourism, the selves on tour, absent selves and the life-writing of travel are some of the approaches which colleagues might like to envisage. Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers. Abstracts in Italian, English or French (c. 200 words) should be sent by April 15th to Catriona.Seth@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk    and     giovanni.iamartino@unimi.it ********* The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo Diciottesimo Seventh International Joint Conference The Travelling Self: Tourism and Life-Writing in Eighteenth-Century Europe All Souls College, Oxford, 2-3 July 2020 Avviso Risale al secolo XVIII la nascita del turismo moderno e la sorprendente proliferazione di nuovi tipi di narrativa (auto)biografica. Il convegno intende analizzare come i viaggiatori scrivevano di sé mentre erano lontani da casa, e come la nostra comprensione storica del fenomeno del viaggio – compresi i viaggi all’interno dei confini nazionali, ma con interesse prioritario per il Grand Tour – ha avuto il suo fondamento, ma forse anche il suo limite, nei resoconti degli stessi viaggiatori, ora desiderosi di proiettare una particolare immagine di sé (pubblica o privata, genuina o censurata), ora inconsapevoli di quanto rivelano. Lettere, diari, resoconti, libri di viaggio e ricordi personali di ogni tipo – reali o di fantasia che siano – possono fornire documentazione testuale dell’ “io viaggiante”. Il bioturismo, l’io in viaggio, l’io assente, e la narrazione biografica del viaggio rappresentano alcuni degli approcci che potrebbero essere considerati. Si sollecitano proposte per comunicazioni di 20 minuti. Un abstract di circa 200 parole in lingua italiana, inglese o francese va inviato entro il 15 aprile 2020 a Catriona.Seth@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk    e     giovanni.iamartino@unimi.it

SHAKESPEARE’S ROME INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL (SRISS) Roma Tre University 30 June – 5 July 2020 The Shakespeare’s Rome International Summer School, an international intensive programme, aims at exploring in depth the themes and motifs of Shakespeare’s Roman corpus, while the city of Rome, with its theatres, archaeological sites and artistic resources will offer participants a unique opportunity to complement their study outdoor. For the fourth edition two curricula are available: one for undergraduate students (BA) and one for postgraduate students (MA, PhDs, Postdocs, ESL teachers).  The course is taught in English and the programme includes morning lectures, workshops, walking lectures and an acting workshop at the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre.  Teachers 2020 Victoria Bladen, Maria Del Sapio Garbero, Michael Dobson, Massimo Giuseppetti, Coen Heijes, J.P.M. Jansen, Consuelo Lollobrigida, Domenico Lovascio, Luca Marcozzi, Robert Miola, Maddalena Pennacchia, Loredana Scaramella, Ramie Targoff, Maria Wyke. Deadline for registration: 15 April 2020 Visit: https://bacheca.uniroma3.it/sriss/  Info: sriss@uniroma3.it  

The reception of Shakespeare’s plays reflects the history of the interpretation of his dramatic language. Playwriting implies cohesive textual and physical structures through which words resonate, that is why a play can never be taken as a definitive text; on the contrary, it stands for the precarious nature of the theatrical word which changes as it is voiced in performance or as it becomes the voice of linguistic, cultural, historical or political stances. For these reasons, the conference will take into consideration material aspects related to performance: much as the Shakespearean text is peppered with words that are now archaic and with familiar words whose original meanings have changed, so too the means of stage representation also undergo constant change, change inflected by the shifting behaviours animating the social world outside the theatre. This admission is hardly shocking: all participants in a production (translator, actors, directors, scholars?) are trying to make it speak, which means that they must speak for it, by it, and that it will speak in their present voices. The role and functions of oral/aural aspects of Shakespeare’s dramatic language will -also and necessarily- be part of our investigation: linguistic perspectives have recently taken a fresh look at ‘speech-related’ written genres, and have offered important clues as to the historical use of language as face-to-face interaction. Possible issues to be tackled include: the discovery of dialect in the early modern period as a question of cultural authority conveying both the perception of the ‘Other’, and the definition of a national ‘Self’; the idea of alternative Englishes, defined by their value or status relative to other English dialects (including the King’s English); material traces of orality in objects of writing on stage; the performative representation of different accents and their cultural and ideological impact; the question of original pronunciation; linguistic, literary and performative multilingual interaction between the native tongue and its dialectal variants, or with foreign languages.