Breaking Barriers: Empowering Interactions in Language, Literature, and Culture
Aldo Moro University of Bari. 14-15 May, 2025
The 2025 AIA Seminar “Breaking Barriers: Empowering Interactions in Language, Literature, and Culture” will take place at the Aldo Moro University of Bari on 14 and 15 May, 2025.
We invite contributions on a variety of discursive areas, from across different and / or cross-disciplinary research fields, welcoming diversity in theoretical and methodological approaches. Our elective focus, Breaking Barriers, offers itself to multiple inflections, showcasing the need for change and empowerment as a key quality that underlies recent developments in contemporary discourses, in the fields of – amongst others – (critical) discourse analysis, literary studies, cultural studies, (critical) disability studies, environmental studies, museum studies (‘New Museology’).
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Maria Grazia Guido, Professoressa Ordinaria di Lingua e Traduzione Inglese, Università del Salento
Michaela Mahlberg, Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor of Digital Humanities, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Alex Robinson, Honorary Fellow, University of Liverpool, Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS)
Elena Spandri, Professoressa Ordinaria di Letteratura Inglese, Università di Siena
We invite submissions addressing the core topic from either theoretical or applied and text-focussed perspectives, in literature, linguistics, and cultural studies, including discussion of best practices in teaching and other professional experiences. Contributions from established scholars, early-career researchers, and PhD students are welcome.
Possible topics and research areas to be explored include, but are not limited to:
• Academic, professional and corporate communication
• Accessibility and disability studies
• Digital Humanities and AI
• Environmental humanities
• Gender studies
• Multimodality, intermediality and AVT
• Medical humanities
• Migration, border discourse and cultural mediation
• News, mass media, social media
• Political discourse
• Specialized discourse and translation
• Travel, tourism and heritage
Abstract Submission and Timeline
Panel sessions: 20-minute presentations + 10 minutes Q&A
Abstracts: max 500 words, including references
The call is now open:
https://auth.oxfordabstracts.com/?redirect=/stages/77754/submissions/new
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
1 March, 2025
ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION
15 March, 2025
CONFERENCE
14-15 May, 2025
REGISTRATION FEES
Eur. 80,00 (standard)
Eur. 65,00 (PhD students only)
Details on the registration procedures will follow.