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Underground Imaginaries 2025: Spaces In Between (3-5/04/2025)

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  International ConferenceUnderground Imaginaries 2025:Spaces In Between3-5 April 2025 Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli Parthenope University of Naples Call for Papers The Vertical Turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences has prompted an epistemological shift, advocating for the examination of spaces in terms of thickness and volume, as opposed to the horizontality typically depicted in most cartographies. In line with this paradigm, a critical understanding of underground infrastructure becomes essential. This conference builds on this shift to delve deeper into below-ground perspectives within literary, cultural and language studies. A critical understanding of the underground examines how spaces are socially constructed, inhabited and aesthetically portrayed. This analytical endeavour entails engaging with the dual structures that shape the above-below relationship (for example, light-dark; good-bad; allowed-forbidden). Our conference aims to move beyond these dichotomies and adopt a dynamic framework in the analysis of literary and cultural works. In this context, we envision the underground as a constellation of interlinked realms. From transitional mythical and metaphorical spaces to liminal rites bridging worlds, from present-day metro passages to meeting points between the living and the deceased, the conference will particularly focus on threshold spaces and narratives of descent, encounters, and metamorphosis. As Rachel Falconer writes in Hell in Contemporary Literature, “there are as many routes through hell, as there are minds to imagine them” (2019: 6). Hence, we seek to explore these access points, passages, gateways, liminal creatures, communication systems, networks and other epistemologies of transience, suspension and connection within the underground. Topics of interest include but are not limited to literary and cultural studies in the following areas: Please note that abstracts should be submitted with a short bionote to naplesunderground2025@gmail.com and must not exceed 300 words in length. Deadlines Keynote Speakers Iain Chambers Writers and indipendent researcher, former Full Professor of Cultural and Postcolonial Studies (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) Sandro Dionisio Musician, Playwright, Screenplayer and Director, Professor (Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, IT):  “Bellezza e degrado nella città porosa” Rita Lucarelli Associate Professor of Egyptology (University of California “Berkeley”, USA): “Doorscapes Of The Netherworld: A Humanist Geographical Perspective Towards The Ancient Egyptian Underground Imaginaries” Eleonora Rao Associate Professor of English Literature (University of Salerno, IT): “Thinking about Liminal Space in Literary Studies” Guests Scientific Committee Organizing Committee Contact naplesunderground2025@gmail.com Venues Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici di Napoli (IT)Palazzo Serra di Cassano, Via Monte di Dio 14, 80132 – Napoli (I)https://www.iisf.it Parthenope University of NaplesVia Ammiraglio Ferdinando Acton, 38, 80133 Napoli NA (IT)https://www.uniparthenope.it Accommodation:

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Call For Papers: From Art Nouveau to Green Design: Fashion, Décor, Fashion Writing

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Call For Papers: From Art Nouveau to Green Design: Fashion, Décor, Fashion Writing Volume 15 n. 1, 2025 Editor: Carmen Concilio (Università di Torino)ZoneModa Journal invites you to present proposals for a monographic issue on From Art Nouveau to Green Design: Fashion, Décor, Fashion Writing. The aesthetic of Art Nouveau relied on shapes of flowers and plants, its heydays begin the fin de siècle and the beginning of the twentieth century. Wrought iron was a must material in decoration of railings, balcony parapets, window frames and main entrance doors; wrought iron was mass produced and malleable enough to be made to imitate vegetable life. Nowadays figures of flowers and vegetation have become fashionable again in woven materials for clothes, wall paper and upholstery. The turn green movement is now dominant in the world of fashion and the consumer society in all sorts of design contexts; it deals with, and boosts, the recycling of garments and a large variety of fabrics and objects, the so-called “vintage” fashion, which somehow includes the re-use of “biological” leftovers and “waste”- to a degree in imitation of the artistic movement akin to “arte povera” – in the manufacture of furniture, housewares, garden tools. Examples can be the reuse of orange skin to make compostable, biodegradable tools – through 3D printers – and of nut shells to manufacture items of furniture. This issue of the Journal investigates the role of green aesthetics in fashion, design, and in fashion literature and writing, in the specialized fashion media and in the new media: Submissions Abstracts of no more than 1000 words + 5 bibliographical references (word*.docx format), written either in Italian or English, must be sent to: zmj@unibo.it; carmen.concilio@unito.it. Abstract acceptance does not guarantee publication of the article, which will be submitted to a double-blind peer-review process. Key deadlines ZMJ Vol. 15 N.1 is scheduled to be published by July 2025. https://zmj.unibo.it/announcement/view/657

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European Journal of English Studies (EJES) – Call for proposals for special issues

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The European Journal of English Studies is inviting proposals for special issues in volume 30 (2026). EJES takes an interest in topics that investigate the borders and intersections between different research fields in English studies, including, but not limited to, literary analysis, linguistics, critical and cultural theory, and gender and sexuality studies. This expansive focus allows the journal to encompass the plurality of English studies in Europe, a reflection of its affiliation with the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE). Topics of special issues feature high-level scholarship as well as a reflection on the argumentative strategies behind ongoing work and emerging directions in the study of Anglophone language and culture. Guest editing teams should consist of two or three scholars who work in different locations within Europe and who have some previous editorial experience. In some cases, EJES publishes issues that have grown out of a conference or a conference panel. Such issues can be considered if the resulting CFP also appeals to scholars who did not participate in the original event. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Proposals for topics for volume 30 (2026) should be sent to the editors before 30 November 2024: Isabel Carrera Suárez (University of Oviedo): icarrera@uniovi.es Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou (Artistotle University of Thessaloniki): katkit@enl.auth.gr Frederik Van Dam (Radboud University, Nijmegen): frederik.vandam@ru.nl Procedure 1. Aspiring guest editors submit a CFP of 300-500 words to the general editors. This document includes a list of leading questions (for examples, see the current CFPs on the ESSE website), and brief biographies of the guest editors. 2. The general editors select new topics for the issues before the end of 2024. The chosen CFPs are edited to cohere with EJES’s aims. 3. During the following calendar year, the resulting CFPs are distributed widely. Abstracts for potential submissions are collected in the spring of 2025 and are reviewed by the guest editors and general editors. 4. Selected authors are then invited to submit full-length essays of between 6,000 and 8,000 words by November 2025. These essays are peer-reviewed and appear in the EJES issues scheduled for 2026.

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CfP: Special issue on “The language of judges: exploring the discourse of separate opinions (Guest editors: Jekaterina Nikitina, University of MilanKatia Peruzzo, University of Trieste)

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Call for Papers – Special issue on “The language of judges: exploring the discourse of separate opinions“ Guest editors:Jekaterina Nikitina, University of MilanKatia Peruzzo, University of Trieste AbstractJudicial discourse has attracted its fair share of academic attention from a variety of perspectives, and yet, one of its most characteristic realizations remains somewhat understudied. Separate opinions, also known as votum separatum (Goźdź Roszkowski 2020: 381), are used by judges, at least in certain judicial systems, to convey their individual views on a legal case. Unlike the majority opinion, which represents the official decision of the court, a separate opinion provides standpoints of a single judge or a group of similar-minded judges that diverge from the majority opinion, of those judges “who lost their case in camera” (Bruinsma 2006: 360), and want to disagree, clarify or expand on a particular point. The discourse of separate opinions is a fascinating terrain for an exploration from a legal linguistics standpoint (Goźdź-Roszkowski 2020; McKeown 2021). It opens a window into the mechanisms of legal argumentation (Goźdź-Roszkowski 2024) and dialogical banter (Garzone 2016; Extebe 2020) between the majority and the minority. Since “dissident judges are not bound by the straightjacket of the majority judgment and its legal validity, [they can] […] express their opinions freely and follow their own convictions” (Bruinsma 2006: 360). Separate opinions are also pragmatically intriguing (Galdia 2022), as they must balance between some open confrontation and considerations of professional politeness (Kurzon 2001; Nikitina 2025, forthcoming) in their evaluative sections. At an international level, these opinions become curious instances of L2 legal rhetoric, as judges working in international courts must formulate their thoughts in the court’s official language(s), frequently different from their native ones. We invite proposals dealing with but not limited to the following perspectives on separate judicial opinions: Legal discourseLegal argumentationLegal genresDialogism and polyphony in legal discourseLegal drafting in L2 and legal translationCreativity in legal discourseLegal pragmaticsEvaluation and stance References Bruinsma, F. (2006). Les Opinions Séparées Des Juges à La Cour Européenne Des Droits de l’Homme. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 24 (2): 358–362. Etxabe, Julen. (2022). The Dialogical Language of Law, Osgoode Hall Law Journal 59 (2): 429-515. Galdia, M. (2022) Foundations of pragmatic Legal Linguistics. Comparative Legilinguistics, 51: 241-278. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/cl.51.2022.11 Garzone, G. (2016). Polyphony and dialogism in legal discourse: Focus on syntactic negation”. In Constructing legal discourses and social practices: Issues and perspectives, edited by G. Tessuto et al., 2–27. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Goźdź-Roszkowski, S. (2020). Communicating dissent in judicial opinions: A comparative, genre-based analysis. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law = Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique, 33(2), 381–401. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09711-y Goźdź-Roszkowski, S. (2024). Language and Legal Judgments. Evaluation and Argument in Judicial Discourse. London-New York: Routledge. Kurzon, D (2001). The politeness of judges: American and English judicial behaviour. Journal of Pragmatics 33/1: 61–85. McKeown, J. (2021). A corpus-based examination of reflexive metadiscourse in majority and dissent opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court. Journal of Pragmatics, 186, 224–235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.10.019 Nikitina, J. (2025, forthcoming). Separate opinions. In Nikitina J. Human Rights Discourse: Linguistics, Translation and Genre at the European Court of Human Rights. London-New York: Routledge. Important dates Abstracts: by January 30, 2025Acceptance/rejection: February 15, 2025Full papers: April 30, 2025Acceptance/rejection: June 15, 2025Publication: September 2025 Please note that starting in 2025, all publications will require the use of APA 7ed. formatting style. Please prepare your manuscripts strictly according to the instructions in the manual (see: Guidelines). Manuscripts not prepared according to the guidelines will be rejected. For details, please contact the volume editors.Please send all documents and requests to both jekaterina.nikitina@unimi.it and kperuzzo@units.it https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/cl/announcement/view/653

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