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Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures University of Rome “Tor Vergata” – January 29-31, 2020 School of Engineering, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome Organized in partnership with Auro University (Surat, India), and with “Challenging Precarity: A Global Network”, this three-day international event sets out to continue the fruitful exchange of debates, ideas and best practices, that began in Lucknow, during “The Cultures of New India” conference hosted at Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University (2017), and continued in Cordoba (“Precarity, Populism and Post-Truth Politics” Conference) in 2018, and in Surat (“Challenging Precarity” Conference) in 2019. While the previous conferences were focused on manifestations of precarity in the Global South, where certain populations are dispossessed and deprived due to systemic and sustained neglect, ‘Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures’ is mainly concerned with changes in politics and society, which are reflected in the global mobilization of labour force and the new blurred frontiers of class and belonging. Indeed, in the post-Fordist era, characterized by the adoption of neoliberal models of development, and marked by extreme flexibility, aggressive competition, and high levels of job insecurity, a new class has emerged: the precariat, a term merging precarity with proletariat. Guy Standing views it as a “class-in-the-making’ in the globalization era, which has eventually created a fragmented ‘global class structure’ (2011, 7). As Judith Butler has recently pointed out, in modern societies “precarity is not a passing and episodic condition, but a new form of regulation that distinguishes this historical time” (2015, vii). Paradoxically, the only certainty we seem to possess is the uncertainty and the vulnerability of our individual and collective condition. The rise of neoliberalism has brought substantial changes in labour-market policies and in immigration laws; nonetheless, all strata of society have been affected as working conditions have been revised, to a greater degree institutionalized and normalized, and, in the words of Isabell Lorey, “thus become a fundamental governmental instrument of governing” (2015, 63). Instead of being regarded as a social liability, inequalities caused by neoliberal forces are, thus, often enhanced and glamorized: but behind the appealing labels of flexibility, freedom, and autonomy in the work place and in life style choice, lurk the specters of isolation, insecurity, and subservience to hegemonic forces. In such a scenario, long-acquired rights are at stake and the future, in its multiple possibilities, looks increasingly uncertain. The present state of research in precarity demands metaquestions and hence we need to probe both philosophy and practice in light of precarity’s different manifestations. The plural perspectives by which this phenomenon can be addressed also suggest potential for further theorization alongside that of Butler and her critics. By inviting scholars and experts from different fields and disciplines, and by applying multiple frameworks, methodological approaches, and critical lenses, ‘Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures’ seeks to explore the different facets of our precarious world, while providing insights into the challenges of our possible futures. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: – Precarity and forms of political secessionism – The casualization of workforces and the new informal labour market – Migration, refugees and xenophobia – The glamorization of precarity – Precarity and social classes – The cultural aspects of precarity – The precaritization of academia – The challenge to precarity of literature and the visual arts – Populism and the rise of right wing movements – New modes and formats in representing precarity – Migrant /refugee narratives of citizenship – The language and discourses of precarity – Precarity and the (mass and social) media – Precarity and education – The precarity of women’s reproductive rights (surrogate motherhood, abortion debates) – Precarity and ageing – Precarity and dispossession – Self-precaritization and life style choices – Planetary precarity: climate change and environmental degradation – Alternative futures, beyond precarity Please, send abstracts of individual papers (250-300 words) and a short bionote by October 1, 2019 to: marino@lettere.uniroma2.it om_dwivedi2003@yahoo.com janet.wilson@northampton.ac.uk Acceptance will be notified by October 21, 2019. Network and conference website: http://icp2019.aurouniversity.ac.in   Link to the University website: https://web.uniroma2.it/home/newlang/italiano Conference Venue: School of Engineering, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133, Rome Home Registration fee (including coffee breaks, lunches, and conference folder): early bird (by December 1, 2019), €100; later registration (by January 15, 2020) €150. No registration on site will be possible. Mode of payment details will be soon shared on the Conference website. Further information regarding the accommodation will be posted on the conference website and sent to participants once abstracts have been accepted. Limited accommodation will be available in nearby hotels at a conference discount rate. Accommodation on campus (50 rooms available): https://campusx.it/camere-roma/ (single room, 43 euros per night; double room, 58 euros per night) Coordinators: Prof. Elisabetta Marino (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) Prof. Janet Wilson (Chair, Challenging Precarity: A Global Network) Dr Om Prakash Dwivedi (AURO University, Surat)

  Call for Papers Lawrence’s 1920s: North America and the ‘Spirit of Place’ 15th D.H. Lawrence International Conference, Taos, New Mexico, July 12-17, 2020   Lorenzo and Frieda arrived in New Mexico in mid-September of 1922, with Dorothy Brett, at the invitation of Mabel Dodge Sterne (who would marry Tony Luhan in 1923, becoming Mabel Dodge Luhan) and stayed for about two years. The Ranch property where they lived from 1924 was given to them by Mabel and was the only property they ever owned during their marriage. Most of St. Mawr was written there, and The Plumed Serpent was begun. Frieda died in New Mexico in 1956 and is buried on the ranch. New Mexico, then, is a magical place in the journey of Lawrence and Frieda, where he wrote some of his most powerful work and where both of them felt a sense of belonging. Lawrence was prolific in the last decade of his life and arguably his talents were at their zenith. This conference encourages papers on all aspects of Lawrence’s life and work, but especially studies pertaining to his last decade and to his imaginative engagement with North America. The 15th International D.H. Lawrence conference—while open to all considerations of Lawrence’s work and life–is especially interested in proposals reassessing Lawrence’s work 100 years earlier, in the 1920’s; in exploring Lawrence’s engagement with Mexico, New Mexico, North America, and ideas of democracy and “the open road”; in studying the immeasurable influence Lawrence’s criticism had on the study of American literature as late as the 1950’s and 60’s; in examining interconnectivity between artists—dance, ritual, music, visual arts as well as writing—and aspects of modernism across the arts; as well as interdisciplinary studies that deepen our sense of Lawrence’s engagement with Native peoples and cultures. Papers are welcome from Lawrence scholars, graduate students, and the public. Papers should last no longer than 20 minutes and will be followed by 10 minutes of questions. If you would like to contribute, please send an abstract of 350 words to the Executive Director, Dr. Nanette Norris, c/o dhlconf2020@yahoo.com by midnight on October 31, 2019. Submissions will be assessed by the Academic Program Committee detailed below, and responses will be issued by December 15, 2020. The abstract should include the following information as part of the same file (in either MS Word or pdf format): Your name, postal address, telephone number, and email address The name of the institution (if applicable) at which you are registered A short bio The conference is being held at the Sagebrush Inn, Taos, New Mexico. The conference fee is $350 USD for the week (there is an early-bird special), and includes all meals and transport to special events. The conference website may be found here: dhlconf2020.org. Academic Program Committee Chair:   Julie Newmark USA: Peter Balbert Jill Franks Feroza Jussawalla Julianne Newmark Judith Ruderman Garry Watson Joyce Wexler Canada: Mark Deggan Ronald Granofsky Nanette Norris David Pratt Laurence Steven Italy: Simonetta de Filippis Stefania Michelucci UK: Howard Booth Catherine Brown Jane Costin Susan Reid Germany: Christa Jansohn Ireland: Jenkins, Lee Japan: Hiroshi Muto South Africa: Dawid De Villiers Pakistan: Naveed Rehan Australia: David Game Austria: Paul Poplawski Korea: Sungho Kim

4th EDITION – International Symposium on Translation Specialists in the Translation Industry. Across Genres and Cultures The Department of Humanities at the University of Palermo takes great pleasure in announcing the fourth edition of the International Symposium on Translation, which will be held on May 23rd at the Complesso Monumentale di Sant’Antonino. The symposium, entitled Specialists in the Translation Industry. Across Genres and Cultures, aims to explore translation issues in relation to legal texts and audiovisual products by looking at cutting-edge research in translation, on the one hand, and at the professional dimension in the translation industry, on the other. The event will be welcoming international scholars from various European universities and experts from well-known translation agencies and associations. Our special guests from the academic environment are Łucja Biel (University of Warsaw), Serenella Massidda (University of Roehampton) and Annalisa Sandrelli (Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma). From the translation industry setting, experts in subtitling, subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing, surtitling for the theatre, and audio description for the blind and visually impaired are Vera Arma (Director of ARTIS-Project and President of CulturAbile Onlus,Viterbo), Carlo Cafarella (CEO of MovieReading), Mauro Conti (Director of Prescott Studio, Firenze), Maila Enea (Production Supervisor, GoLocalise, London), Lorry Evans (Audio Describer, VocalEyes, London). The 21stcentury scenario of wide multilingual and multicultural exposure, cultural and linguistic fluidity and advances in networked communication has accelerated the diversification of translation practices within different research areas. As a bridge and form of communication across cultures and languages, translation activities applied to the different varieties of texts and visuals have proliferated on digital platforms, and within public and institutional spaces. Viewed as a broad, complex and multi-faceted phenomenon encompassing linguistic, cultural and technical factors, translation is seen as a careful procedure of selection, combined with a skillful attention to text types. Investigating how new technologies are changing the global market, as well as the modalities by which we consume translation across and within languages, the scope of the symposium will be to shed light on how translation is produced, accessed and made accessible to diverse international, national and regional user groups with their varying backgrounds. Particular attention will be paid to Accessibility, Audiovisual Translation and corpus-based legal Translation Studies from the aspect of the translators’ choices in relation to the different text types, with a view to developing new tools and resources for translators, as well as providing a platform for exchanging ideas and promoting cutting-edge research in the area of translation. The numerous contributions aim to lead to an understanding of the new and old more traditional mechanisms in translation, of the pros and cons of the innovative technologies and developments and changes in the translation industry. In particular, modes of audiovisual translation such as audio description for the blind and visually impaired (ARTIS-Project, MovieReading, VocalEyes), subtitling for hearers and subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing (GoLocalise, CulturAbile) and surtitling for the theatre (Prescott Studio) will be discussed within the professional field of the translation industry. Scientific Committee: Silvia Antosa (University of Enna “Kore”), Lindsay Bywood (University of Westminster), Mikolaj Deckert (University of Łodz), Floriana Di Gesù (University of Palermo), Elena Di Giovanni (University of Macerata), Dionysios Kapsaskis (University of Roehampton), Giulia Adriana Pennisi (University of Palermo), Irene Ranzato (University of Rome “Sapienza”), Alessandra Rizzo (University of Palermo), Oleg Rumyantsev (University of Palermo), Chiara Sciarrino (University of Palermo), Maria Grazia Sciortino (University of Palermo), Cinzia Spinzi (University of Bergamo), Massimo Sturiale (University of Catania), Antonino Velez (University of Palermo), Marion Weerning (University of Palermo), Marianna Lya Zummo (University of Palermo).

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM — UNIVERSITÀ DI BOLOGNA DIPARTIMENTO DI LINGUE, LETTERATURE E CULTURE MODERNE Centro Interuniversitario per lo Studio del Romanticismo (CISR) Una giornata di studi per Laura Bandiera. Riflessioni critiche e ricordi personali per non dimenticare: l’eredità di una studiosa 5 Aprile 2019 Via Cartoleria 5, Bologna Aula Convegni 9.30-10.00: Saluti e Apertura dei lavori 10.00-10.20: Silvia Albertazzi, Ricordando Laura, senza malinconia 10.20-10.40: Giovanna Silvani, Laura Bandiera a Parma 11.00-11.20: Vita Fortunati, La proteiforme malinconia del Settecento inglese 11.20-11.40: Coffee Break 11.40-12.00: Maurizio Ascari, Volti e silenzi della malinconia in Caleb Williams 12.00-12.20: Serena Baiesi, L’illusione sentimentale. Riflessioni su The Man of Feeling 12.20-12.40: Giulia Cantarutti, Settecento e malinconia: una lettura tedesca 12.40-13.00: Carlotta Farese, Elizabeth Inchbald e il romanzo giacobino 13.00-14.30: Pranzo a Buffet 14.30-14.50: Patrick Leech, Joseph Johnson and the spread of radical ideas in the 1790s 14.50-15.10: Gillian Mansfield, Il sorriso di Laura 15.10-15.30: Diego Saglia, Laura curatrice e traduttrice tra Romanticismo e contemporaneità 15.30-15.50: Coffee Break 15.50-16.10: Gioia Angeletti, Lezioni sul Romanticismo di una raffinata settecentista 16.10-16.30: Lilla Maria Crisafulli, Laura e la ricezione di Shelley in Europa 16.30-16.50: Carla Maria Gnappi, Laura. Un ponte tra scuola e università 16.50-17.30: Conclusioni Saranno presenti i famigliari di Laura

Università degli Studi di Macerata SIAC Società italiana di antropologia culturale Call for Papers per il Convegno: Le metamorfosi dei razzismi. Discriminazioni istituzionali, linguaggi pubblici e senso comune Macerata, 12 e 13 giugno 2019 Call for Papers Chiusura: 15 aprile 2019 Oggi in Europa, come in molte altre aree del mondo, una parte crescente della politica costruisce il proprio consenso sociale ed elettorale facendo leva e amplificando narrazioni, messaggi e slogan contro l’immigrazione, rappresentata come una minaccia per la sicurezza della società, per i valori della civiltà occidentale e per la stessa sopravvivenza demografica delle popolazioni interessate. Le retoriche di attivazione sociale del “panico da migrazione” attingono ampiamente alle figure discorsive classiche del razzismo coloniale e postcoloniale, riattualizzate in contesti di accresciute disuguaglianze e di contraddizioni sociali, per lo più connesse agli effetti strutturali e simbolici delle trasformazioni economiche che alimentano il quadro generale di crisi – reale e percepita – che la semplificazione razzista ha buon gioco a ricondurre alle “invasioni di migranti”. Ma c’è anche qualcosa di inedito nel discorso pubblico razzista. In Italia, in particolare, convivono la consueta tendenza a minimizzare gli episodi di violenza a sfondo razziale – spesso semplicemente negati o derubricati a singole manifestazioni patologiche –, e il ricorso ad argomenti assolutori che spiegano l’esplosione di quella stessa violenza come reazione esasperata di fronte alla perdita di sicurezza personale e collettiva, nonché al presupposto aumento della criminalità, conseguenza del fenomeno migratorio “fuori controllo”. È soprattutto nella comunicazione social che l’accusa di razzismo viene rispedita al mittente per rivendicare il diritto a difendere gli italiani che sarebbero discriminati dalle politiche dell’accoglienza e minacciati nell’incolumità fisica, soprattutto nell’integrità del corpo – italiano in quanto bianco – delle donne. È assente o del tutto insufficiente la riflessione sulla memoria non solo del razzismo esterno praticato dagli italiani in contesto coloniale, ma anche del razzismo interno antimeridionale e di quello subíto dai migranti italiani nel mondo. A questi atteggiamenti si accompagna una rappresentazione istituzionale e diffusa del fenomeno migratorio come eterna “emergenza”, che determina una sorta di cancellazione di quella parte del tessuto sociale in cui i cittadini italiani di origine straniera, specialmente i non-bianchi, non sono un’eccezione, ma la realtà. Ne conseguono molteplici ricadute sul piano delle relazioni sociali quotidiane (si pensi all’inserimento scolastico e lavorativo o alla dimensione abitativa), e sul piano giuridico, con l’affermarsi ad esempio di un complesso di tendenze, all’interno del diritto penale odierno, che rivelano la sempre più massiccia criminalizzazione, non già di condotte, ma di modi di essere e status soggettivi (in specie, lo status di migrante “irregolare”), e la conseguente ripresa di tutto lo strumentario giuridico delle cosiddette “misure di prevenzione”, relative cioè a soggetti che non hanno (ancora – questo l’assunto implicito) commesso reati, ma che sono, di per sé, considerati “pericolosi”. I “fatti” di Macerata, culminati nell’aggressione razzista di un anno fa, il febbraio 2018, hanno ridisegnato irreversibilmente il panorama politico-istituzionale nazionale, e veicolato la sovraesposizione nel dibattito pubblico del nesso esplicativo immigrazione-criminalità razzismo, sia da parte di chi ha condannato l’accaduto sia da parte di chi ne ha più o meno apertamente giustificato le ragioni. Proprio quel nesso va oggi disarticolato, per provare a decifrare il processo di crescente e pervasiva normalizzazione del razzismo quotidiano e di quello “istituzionale” nel cuore dell’Europa, dove si moltiplicano gli ostacoli burocratici per l’accesso ai servizi di sostegno e integrazione sociale destinati agli immigrati già presenti, e si chiudono le frontiere agli altri, profughi inclusi, fino agli esiti estremi del rifiuto di salvataggio in mare. Il Convegno organizzato dall’Ateneo di Macerata, in collaborazione con la Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale/SIAC, intende offrire uno spazio di riflessione scientifica basata su alcune delle più recenti e dinamiche linee di ricerca sviluppatesi su queste tematiche, allo scopo di approfondire i principali spunti emersi durante la Giornata di studio del 25 settembre 2018, presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, della Comunicazione e delle Relazioni Internazionali/SPOCRI dell’Università di Macerata. Allo stesso tempo, il Convegno si propone come momento di confronto a livello locale e nazionale sulle nuove sfide lanciate alla convivenza e alla coesione sociale dai complessi processi di trasformazione dei rapporti economico-produttivi e delle forme della politica attualmente in corso su scala globale. Linee tematiche del Convegno: • La costruzione del ‘noi’ fra crisi economica e complessità sociale. La semplificazione razzista • ‘Razza’, razzismo, antirazzismo: epistemologie critiche e pratiche politiche • Soggetti ‘garantiti’ e soggetti ‘esclusi’: la progressiva affermazione delle nuove diseguaglianze nel contesto istituzionale • ‘Razzismo istituzionale’ e senso comune. Il peso della paura • Il nesso tra razzismo e sessismo nella comunicazione pubblica relativa alla violenza maschile sulle donne • Intersezionalità di ‘razza’, genere e classe in Italia • La memoria del razzismo • Le attuali tendenze del diritto penale italiano e straniero: criminalizzazione ‘di status’ e nuove ‘misure di prevenzione’ per i migranti • Il senso dell’accoglienza: dalla promozione umana al lavoro puramente burocratico • La discriminazione dell’abitare: città, nazione, mondo • I luoghi del razzismo quotidiano: scuola, lavoro, sport, divertimento, social • Ricerche etnografiche sulla fascinazione ideologica del razzismo • Razzismo e visualità: la produzione ‘razzializzata’ dello sguardo • Il protagonismo dei migranti fra traiettorie individuali e pratiche di associativismo • La ricerca permanente sul campo: Macerata laboratorio di discorsi e pratiche razziste e antirazziste Comitato scientifico: Mathilde Anquetil – Unimc Alberto Baldi – Unina Clelia Bartoli – Unipa Thomas Casadei – CRID/Unimore Uoldelul Chelati Dirar – Unimc Luigi Cozzolino – Unimc Roberto Mancini – Unimc Natascia Mattucci – Unimc Maria Teresa Milicia – Unipd Raffaella Niro – Unimc Maria Elena Paniconi – Unimc Daniele Parbuono – Unipg Paola Persano – Unimc Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh – Unimc Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz – Unimore – Abstract della proposta di intervento (tra i 2000 e i 3000 caratteri, spazi inclusi) corredato da: – Titolo – Bibliografia minima aggiornata – Curriculum sintetico del/la proponente (al max 1500 caratteri, spazi inclusi) – 5 parole chiave Inviare entro le ore 12.00 del 15 aprile 2019 al seguente indirizzo e-mail: metamorfosirazzismiconvegno@gmail.com

A one-day symposium into the state of the art of corpus linguistics, hosted by the University of Brescia, with guest speakers from the Survey of English Usage at University College London, the first corpus linguistics research group in Europe.

Car* soci*, segnaliamo il seguente CFP: Centro Studi “Arti della Modernità” c/o Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università di Torino Via Sant’Ottavio, 20 – 10124 Torino (Italy) info@centroartidellamodernita.it INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FORMS, HISTORY, NARRATIONS, BIG DATA: MORPHOLOGY AND HISTORICAL SEQUENCE FORME, STORIA, NARRAZIONI, BIG DATA MORFOLOGIA E DIACRONIA Centro Studi “Arti della Modernità” November 21-22, 2019 – Torino (Italy) CALL FOR PAPERS Historical explanation, explanation seen as a linear hypothesis, is just one way of gathering data – their schema. One can equally well consider data in their reciprocal relation and summarize them in a general image regardless of the form of a chronological development. Wittgenstein’s remarks on Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough, echoes similar stances coming from different fields of enquiry, such as Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale (1928) and André Jolles’ Einfache Formen (1930). They open up an on-going critical debate about how to study historical phenomena. What kind of relationship is established between historical or contextual enquiry and morphological analysis when we interpret a literary text or a work of art? Are we dealing with conflicting, even incompatible, modes of understanding or with interrelated and complementary ways that enlighten each other? Do literature and the arts symbolically convey a particular historical time, or are they to be seen as “precarious patterns of connections” which, though anchored to a given spatial and temporal dimension, bring together motives, topoi, and themes stemming from cultures and times far-apart? Following Carlo Ginzburg’s new introduction (2017) to Storia Notturna (1989; 2017), and by setting out to reconsider the ever-recurring argument opposing a contextual-historical to a morphological-formal approach in terms of mutual integration, we may find that one is constantly enmeshed with the other. Thus, both are necessary to critical enquiry: “though achronological, according to Propp, morphology may have laid the foundations of diachronical investigation” (Ginzburg 2017: xxxi). While searching for “correspondences” regardless of historical contexts, the morphological approach brings to light clues, signs, and hints that can be of use in historical research. According to Wittgenstein, the übersichtliche Darstellung, or bird’s eye view representation, helps the kind of comprehension that consists of “seeing connections” and needs finding intermediate links. As a consequence, a morphological approach to literature and the arts will focus on the way change and continuity alternate and dialectically act on one another. It addresses the historical issue of longue durée of topoi, themes, motifs. Exploring continuity implies investigating cultural memory and literary anthropology; it relates to recent perspectives highlighting the cognitive grounds of literary, and non-literary, narratives; in this way it also relates to a generalised “narrative turn”, where the understanding of narrative is based on cognitive sciences and a “natural narratology” (Fludernik 1996). Furthermore, a morphological approach based on “pattern of connection”, will be a prerequisite for any investigation of literary phenomena based on big-data collections and distant reading (Moretti 2013), whether their ancestors be Spitzer’s Stilkritik or Propp’s narrative functions, albeit in a new key. Although fictional narrative differs essentially from historical writing, in both cases narrative provides us with fundamental epistemological structures that help us to make sense of events, experience and thoughts. The Centro Studi Arti della Modernità (http://centroartidellamodernita.it/) is organizing an International Conference on Forms, History, Narrations, Big Data: Morphology and Historical Sequence to be held in Turin in November 21-22, 2019. The conference will address issues in the field of historiography, literary criticism and the wider area of interpretative practices of artistic and literary works organizing a dialogue among various disciplines and perspectives. The aim is to resume the critical and philosophical debate on the issue of form and its modern variations or developments, first articulated in the works of Georg Simmel, André Jolles, Aby Warburg, Roland Barthes, Paul Ricoeur, and others. This debate revolved on the dialectics of sequence and simultaneity, diachronic succession and system, in order to gain a richer understanding of the notions of transformation and structure (central to structuralism, post-structuralism) as well as literary and artistic interpretation (central to hermeneutics). Advisory Board: Georg Bertram (Freie Universität Berlin), Jens Brockmeier (American University of Paris), Giuliana Ferreccio (Università di Torino), Roberto Gilodi (Università di Torino), Mario Lavagetto (Università di Parma), Marie-Laure Ryan (Independent Scholar), Kristupas Sabolius (Vilnius University), Federico Vercellone (Università di Torino). Conveners: Giuliana Ferreccio, Roberto Gilodi, Luigi Marfè Keynote Speakers: Carlo Ginzburg, Franco Moretti, Jens Brockmeier, Georg Bertram. The Conference Advisory Board will consider proposals for papers on the following topics, both on a theoretical and empirical level: – Aspects of the critical debate discussing diachronic and systemic dimensions in the study of literature and the visual arts. – Historical contexts that gave birth and favoured, or hindered, the development of recurring morphological patterns (themes, motifs, topoi) both in literature and the visual arts. – The way in which recurring patterns may show anomalies, variants, or alterations signalling a change of paradigm or historical transformations. – The way in which morphological methods applied to historical analysis may disclose unforeseen “patterns of connections” among literary texts and works of art belonging to far-off places and ages. – Can a morphological methodology applied to literature be compared with the same methodology when applied to other media, especially the visual arts? – Can a method based on the analysis of clues and hints and on the search for morphological recurring elements, be applied to literary criticism? – Are there any connections between morphological analysis and recent developments in narratology, as well as Moretti’s recent theorizing on distant reading and his using big data in literary enquiry? Proposals of about 250 words may be submitted to convenors through info@centroartidellamodernita.it, by 30 June 2019, together with a bio-bibliographical profile. Proposals will be read and evaluated by 31 August 2019. The time of delivery for each paper should be no more than 20 minutes. Registration fee for Participants: 50 euros; Graduate Students and PhDs: 40 euros. The conference languages will be English, French and Italian. A number of conference presentations will be selected for publication in Cosmo: Comparative Studies in Modernism (ISSN 2281-6658, http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO) the

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE / CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE RELATING DIFFERENCE(S): MIGRATING SUBJECTS, INTER-CULTURAL EXCHANGES, LITERARY FORMATIONS 21-22 MARCH 2019 AULA 001 – DIPARTIMENTO DI LETTERE E FILOSOFIA PALAZZO PAOLO PRODI, VIA TOMMASO GAR, 14 – TRENTO Thursday, 21 March 14.15 Welcome / Saluti Istituzionali Rosie Staude Second Secretary at the Australian Embassy in Italy Francesca Di Blasio Opening Remarks 14.45 Chair: Francesca Di Blasio Keynote Speech Bill Ashcroft (Emeritus, University of New South Wales) Language, Difference and Relationality Discussion Coffee Break 16.30 Chair: Maria Micaela Coppola Jingyan Li (Harbin Institute of Technology – Australian Studies Centre) Vegemite: Journey from Cultural Icon to Cultural Confidence and Innovation Franca Tamisari (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Working for the Saints. Food, Memory and the Senses in the Construction of the Sicilian Domus in North Queensland Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University) British Baronet – or Australian Outlaw? Inter-cultural Exchanges, Narratives of Difference, and Contested Identities in the Celebrated Tichborne Claimant Affair (1867-1884) Discussion 18.30 Presentazione del libro A Gesture of Reconciliation di Antonella Riem (Università di Udine), con l’autrice, Angela Locatelli (Università di Bergamo). Modera Maria Renata Dolce (Università del Salento) Friday, 22 March 9.45 Modera: Greta Perletti Adriano Favole (Università di Torino) Isole di convivenza: Futuna e la Nuova Caledonia/Kanaky Anna Paini (Università di Verona) Il referendum del 2018 e la sfida di una società postcoloniale: Lifou, Kanaky Nuova Caledonia Discussion Coffee Break 11.00 Chair: Dominic Stewart Anne Brewster (University of New South Wales) Transnationalising the Nation: Diasporic Australian Women’s Writing about War Katherine E. Russo (Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”) Speculating About the Future: Right-wing Populism and Refugees in European and Australian Online News Discourse Inessa Kouteinikova (Independent scholar, Amsterdam) Taura Tangata (Maori: “Binding Relationships”). An Inventory of Bodies Oriana Palusci (Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”) Voices from the Ocean: Whale Stories Discussion Lunch 14.15 Tavola rotonda Relating Difference(s) con Augusto Ponzio (Università di Bari) e Susan Petrilli (Università di Bari). Modera Andrea Binelli Light Refreshments SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANISING COMMITTEE/COMITATO SCIENTIFICO E ORGANIZZATIVO FRANCESCA DI BLASIO GRETA PERLETTI ANDREA BINELLI MARIA MICAELA COPPOLA SABRINA FRANCESCONI DOMINIC STEWART CONTACTS/SEGRETERIA ORGANIZZATIVA ANTONELLA NERI – STAFF DIPARTIMENTO DI LETTERE E FILOSOFIA TEL. 0461281777, MAIL EVENTI.LETT@UNITN.IT With the support of the Australian Embassy in Italy / Con il patrocinio e il contributo dell’Ambasciata Australiana in Italia

Cari e care, segnaliamo il seguente evento: A LIFE IN THE SERVICE OF LEARNING: A TRIBUTE TO PROF. GUY ASTON 12 April 2019 Corso della Repubblica 136, Forlì. Sala Consiglio (ex Aula 1). 11:00 Welcome: Silvia Bernardini (Director DIT, Bologna University) 11:10 Lou Burnard (Oxford University) Achieving comity: disciplinary border-crossings with Guy Aston 11:50 Natalie Kübler (University of Paris, Diderot) Translation and Guy Aston’s fruit salads or how to apply various recipes to corpus training in translation 12:30 Gordon Tucker (Cardiff University) ‘We shall shortly be arriving into Reading’: A case study in contemporary language change Lunch 14:30 Laurie Anderson (Siena University), Laura Gavioli (Modena and Reggio Emilia University), and Federico Zanettin (Perugia University) Presentation of the festschrift Translation and Interpreting for Language Learners (TAIL). Lessons in honour of Guy Aston, Anna Ciliberti and Daniela Zorzi 15:30 Academic tributes to prof. Guy Aston Farewell To confirm participation, please send an email by March 31 to natacha.niemants@unibo.it