CALENDARIO AIA

ITALIAN OSCAR WILDE SOCIETY’ CONFERENCE
1854-2024: Omaggio a Oscar Wilde a 170 anni dalla nascita
1854-2024: A Tribute to Oscar Wilde on the 170th Anniversary of His Birth
15-16 ottobre 2024
Gipsoteca di Arte Antica - Piazza San Paolo all’Orto, 20 56126 Pisa
https://www.gipsoteca.sma.unipi.it/

COMITATO SCIENTIFICO: Elisa Bizzotto (Università IUAV di Venezia), Roberta Ferrari (Università di Pisa), Laura Giovannelli (Università di Pisa), Pierpaolo Martino (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro), Gino Scatasta (Università degli Studi di Bologna), Giuseppe Virelli (Università degli Studi eCampus)

COMITATO ORGANIZZATIVO: Paolo Bugliani (Università di Pisa), Camilla Del Grazia (Università di Pisa), Luca Pinelli (Università di Bergamo)

15 ottobre 2024
09.30 Saluti istituzionali - Institutional greetings

CHAIR: Laura Giovannelli
10.00 Francesco Marroni, “Wilde, Shaw, and the Season of Utopia”
10.30 Neil Sammells, “Oscar Wilde and Sebastian Horsley: Dandies in the Underworld”

11.15 Coffee break

CHAIR: Elisa Bizzotto
11.45 Pierpaolo Martino, “Oscar Wilde in America: Then and Now”
12.15 Michael Davis, “Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and the Anxiety of Queer Influence in The Picture of Dorian Gray”
12.45 Laura Giovannelli, “‘The trees seemed to sweep past him in spectral procession’: Nature’s (Un)sympathy in The Picture of Dorian Gray”

13.30 Pausa pranzo - Lunch

CHAIR: Roberta Ferrari
15.00 Camilla Del Grazia, “Wilde e il ‘gotico comico’: echi di Edgar Allan Poe in Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories”
15.30 Luca Pinelli, “Oscar Wilde and the Politics of Being Unwell”
16.00 Paolo Bugliani, “‘L’artista è il creatore di cose brevi’: simulacri dell’autore nei racconti di Oscar Wilde”
16.30 Elisa Bizzotto, “Wilde Studies: Some Recent Approaches”

19.30 Cena sociale - Social dinner

16 ottobre 2024

CHAIR: Gino Scatasta
10.00 Elisa Bizzotto, Laura Giovannelli, Pierpaolo Martino, Gino Scatasta
The Devoted Friend: Tavola rotonda in memoria di Alex R. Falzon

12.30 Chiusura lavori - Closing remarks

ITALIAN OSCAR WILDE SOCIETY’ CONFERENCE
1854-2024: Omaggio a Oscar Wilde a 170 anni dalla nascita
1854-2024: A Tribute to Oscar Wilde on the 170th Anniversary of His Birth
15-16 ottobre 2024
Gipsoteca di Arte Antica - Piazza San Paolo all’Orto, 20 56126 Pisa
https://www.gipsoteca.sma.unipi.it/

COMITATO SCIENTIFICO: Elisa Bizzotto (Università IUAV di Venezia), Roberta Ferrari (Università di Pisa), Laura Giovannelli (Università di Pisa), Pierpaolo Martino (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro), Gino Scatasta (Università degli Studi di Bologna), Giuseppe Virelli (Università degli Studi eCampus)

COMITATO ORGANIZZATIVO: Paolo Bugliani (Università di Pisa), Camilla Del Grazia (Università di Pisa), Luca Pinelli (Università di Bergamo)

15 ottobre 2024
09.30 Saluti istituzionali - Institutional greetings

CHAIR: Laura Giovannelli
10.00 Francesco Marroni, “Wilde, Shaw, and the Season of Utopia”
10.30 Neil Sammells, “Oscar Wilde and Sebastian Horsley: Dandies in the Underworld”

11.15 Coffee break

CHAIR: Elisa Bizzotto
11.45 Pierpaolo Martino, “Oscar Wilde in America: Then and Now”
12.15 Michael Davis, “Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, and the Anxiety of Queer Influence in The Picture of Dorian Gray”
12.45 Laura Giovannelli, “‘The trees seemed to sweep past him in spectral procession’: Nature’s (Un)sympathy in The Picture of Dorian Gray”

13.30 Pausa pranzo - Lunch

CHAIR: Roberta Ferrari
15.00 Camilla Del Grazia, “Wilde e il ‘gotico comico’: echi di Edgar Allan Poe in Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories”
15.30 Luca Pinelli, “Oscar Wilde and the Politics of Being Unwell”
16.00 Paolo Bugliani, “‘L’artista è il creatore di cose brevi’: simulacri dell’autore nei racconti di Oscar Wilde”
16.30 Elisa Bizzotto, “Wilde Studies: Some Recent Approaches”

19.30 Cena sociale - Social dinner

16 ottobre 2024

CHAIR: Gino Scatasta
10.00 Elisa Bizzotto, Laura Giovannelli, Pierpaolo Martino, Gino Scatasta
The Devoted Friend: Tavola rotonda in memoria di Alex R. Falzon

12.30 Chiusura lavori - Closing remarks

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Foodx Language: Adapting and representing food across media and genres in Englishand in Spanish


https://www.unive.it/web/en/6648/home
Contacts: food.language@unive.it

«Food x Language: Adapting andrepresenting food across media and genres in English and in Spanish/Lengua ycomida: adaptaciones y representaciones de la comida a través de los medios decomunicación y de los géneros textuales en inglés y español»

Venice, 17-18 October 2024
Sala B – Ca’ Bernardo – “Ca’ Foscari” Universityof Venice

The Organising Committee is happy to present theInternational Conference on “Food x Language: adapting and representing foodacross media and genres in English and in Spanish” ("Lengua y comida:adaptaciones y representaciones de la comida a través de los medios decomunicación y de los géneros textuales en inglés y español"). The eventwill take place on 17th and 18th October 2024 in Ca’ Bernardo, one thebuildings hosting the Department of Linguistics and Comparative CulturalStudies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Call for Papers

Food is an important means for humansocieties not only because it provides nutrition but also for its socializingfunction. The rituals accompanying its preparation and consumption have alwaysfavoured social bonding in any kind of human civilization. However, theparticipants in communication about food and the ways in which this form ofcommunication happens vary according to several factors, which include genderand age of the participants as well as their role and status in society as wellas the reciprocal relations they have with the other members of a specificgroup. Traditionally, communication about food has happened asynchronouslythrough printed material, however, new technologies and - in recent years -social media have introduced a new element of interaction that has changed theway in which food and foodways are narrated and constantly remediated betweenindividuals and social groups.  

The two-day conference seeks to bringtogether scholars who conduct their research on food-related communication. Thefocus of the conference is communication involving English and Spanish, either aloneor in a contrastive perspective. Particularly welcome are contributions thatinvestigate the communicative strategies and dynamics through which culturalelements connected to food-related communication in these two languages andcultures are adapted using several media and genres through which food isnarrated and represented. Socio-linguistic, socio-cultural, multimodal, andlinguistic approaches are especially welcome.
Therefore, we invite contributions addressing the main conference theme as wellas relating to the following specific themes:

• food and/in communication strategies
• food and/in social media
• food and/in narratives
• food and/in the news
• food and/in politics

Proposals should be sent no laterthan 30th June 2024 as email attachments in .doc,.docx, or .rtf format. Abstracts should be in either Englishor Spanish and should be no longer than 300 words (referencesincluded). Prospective participants should also provide a short bionote (no longer than 100 words).
Emails should be sent to food.language@unive.it – object of the email: “CONFERENCEFOOD X LANGUAGE/LENGUA Y COMIDA - ABSTRACT PROPOSAL”.

Plenary speakers

• Dr. Cornelia Gerhardt, University of Saarland (Germany)
• Prof. Robles Ávila, Universidad de Málaga (Spain)

Committees

Organising committee

• Daniela Cesiri, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Giuseppe Trovato, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Francesca Coccetta, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Scientific committee

English component

• Daniela Cesiri, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Francesca Coccetta, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Laura Tosi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Stefania M. Maci, Università degli Studi di Bergamo

Spanish component

• Giuseppe Trovato, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Maria Del Valle Ojeda Calvo, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Francesca de Cesare, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
• José Francisco Medina Montero, Università degli Studi di Trieste

CALL FOR PAPERS
Metaphors, Argumentation,and Institutions
17-18 October, 2024, University of Turin, Italy

CIRM (Inter-UniversityResearch Centre on Metaphors - https://cirm.unige.it) announces its 2024 AnnualConference, which will look at metaphors in relation to their argumentativefunction in a wide range of institutional contexts. The concepts of metaphorand argumentation, which have always been central to the analysis ofinstitutional discourse, will be investigated from different viewpoints andepistemological perspectives.

We call for linguistic, discursive,and rhetorical-argumentative contributions, with a special focus on topics ofeconomic, political, and social interest such as inclusion, sustainability,artificial intelligence and innovation, immigration, and economic development.Special attention should be given to national, European and non-Europeangovernmental institutions, international organisations, as well as educational,health, social, economic, and financial institutions.

We welcome contributions that pursuethe following research objectives:

-       theanalysis of the relationship between metaphors and argumentation ininstitutional settings from a theoretical and epistemological perspective;

-       theinvestigation of discursive-translational realisations of metaphors inmultilingual institutional contexts;

-       thestudy of the correlation between metaphors and institutional ethos;

-       thescrutiny of framing and reframing strategies through metaphors in institutionalcontexts.

Proposals (a 250-word abstractincluding at least 5 bibliographical references, institutional affiliation andcontact details) should be sent to convegnocirm2024@gmail.com by 30^th April 2024.

Importantdates:

30/04/2024deadline for submission of proposals.

31/05/2024Notification of acceptance by CIRM Scientific Committee.

30/06/2024Preliminary programme and opening of registration.

30/09/2024Registration deadline and publication of the final programme.

17-18/10/2024CIRM Conference.

31/12/2024Deadline for submission of papers for publication.

The conference proceedings(peer-reviewed) will be published in the series "I Quaderni del CIRM"(TAB edizioni) in 2025.

The conference will be in hybridmodality. In-person attendance will take place at the Department of Economics,Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics (ESOMAS), Corso UnioneSovietica 218/bis, Turin.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Foodx Language: Adapting and representing food across media and genres in Englishand in Spanish


https://www.unive.it/web/en/6648/home
Contacts: food.language@unive.it

«Food x Language: Adapting andrepresenting food across media and genres in English and in Spanish/Lengua ycomida: adaptaciones y representaciones de la comida a través de los medios decomunicación y de los géneros textuales en inglés y español»

Venice, 17-18 October 2024
Sala B – Ca’ Bernardo – “Ca’ Foscari” Universityof Venice

The Organising Committee is happy to present theInternational Conference on “Food x Language: adapting and representing foodacross media and genres in English and in Spanish” ("Lengua y comida:adaptaciones y representaciones de la comida a través de los medios decomunicación y de los géneros textuales en inglés y español"). The eventwill take place on 17th and 18th October 2024 in Ca’ Bernardo, one thebuildings hosting the Department of Linguistics and Comparative CulturalStudies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Call for Papers

Food is an important means for humansocieties not only because it provides nutrition but also for its socializingfunction. The rituals accompanying its preparation and consumption have alwaysfavoured social bonding in any kind of human civilization. However, theparticipants in communication about food and the ways in which this form ofcommunication happens vary according to several factors, which include genderand age of the participants as well as their role and status in society as wellas the reciprocal relations they have with the other members of a specificgroup. Traditionally, communication about food has happened asynchronouslythrough printed material, however, new technologies and - in recent years -social media have introduced a new element of interaction that has changed theway in which food and foodways are narrated and constantly remediated betweenindividuals and social groups.  

The two-day conference seeks to bringtogether scholars who conduct their research on food-related communication. Thefocus of the conference is communication involving English and Spanish, either aloneor in a contrastive perspective. Particularly welcome are contributions thatinvestigate the communicative strategies and dynamics through which culturalelements connected to food-related communication in these two languages andcultures are adapted using several media and genres through which food isnarrated and represented. Socio-linguistic, socio-cultural, multimodal, andlinguistic approaches are especially welcome.
Therefore, we invite contributions addressing the main conference theme as wellas relating to the following specific themes:

• food and/in communication strategies
• food and/in social media
• food and/in narratives
• food and/in the news
• food and/in politics

Proposals should be sent no laterthan 30th June 2024 as email attachments in .doc,.docx, or .rtf format. Abstracts should be in either Englishor Spanish and should be no longer than 300 words (referencesincluded). Prospective participants should also provide a short bionote (no longer than 100 words).
Emails should be sent to food.language@unive.it – object of the email: “CONFERENCEFOOD X LANGUAGE/LENGUA Y COMIDA - ABSTRACT PROPOSAL”.

Plenary speakers

• Dr. Cornelia Gerhardt, University of Saarland (Germany)
• Prof. Robles Ávila, Universidad de Málaga (Spain)

Committees

Organising committee

• Daniela Cesiri, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Giuseppe Trovato, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Francesca Coccetta, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Scientific committee

English component

• Daniela Cesiri, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Francesca Coccetta, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Laura Tosi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Stefania M. Maci, Università degli Studi di Bergamo

Spanish component

• Giuseppe Trovato, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Maria Del Valle Ojeda Calvo, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Francesca de Cesare, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
• José Francisco Medina Montero, Università degli Studi di Trieste

CALL FOR PAPERS
Metaphors, Argumentation,and Institutions
17-18 October, 2024, University of Turin, Italy

CIRM (Inter-UniversityResearch Centre on Metaphors - https://cirm.unige.it) announces its 2024 AnnualConference, which will look at metaphors in relation to their argumentativefunction in a wide range of institutional contexts. The concepts of metaphorand argumentation, which have always been central to the analysis ofinstitutional discourse, will be investigated from different viewpoints andepistemological perspectives.

We call for linguistic, discursive,and rhetorical-argumentative contributions, with a special focus on topics ofeconomic, political, and social interest such as inclusion, sustainability,artificial intelligence and innovation, immigration, and economic development.Special attention should be given to national, European and non-Europeangovernmental institutions, international organisations, as well as educational,health, social, economic, and financial institutions.

We welcome contributions that pursuethe following research objectives:

-       theanalysis of the relationship between metaphors and argumentation ininstitutional settings from a theoretical and epistemological perspective;

-       theinvestigation of discursive-translational realisations of metaphors inmultilingual institutional contexts;

-       thestudy of the correlation between metaphors and institutional ethos;

-       thescrutiny of framing and reframing strategies through metaphors in institutionalcontexts.

Proposals (a 250-word abstractincluding at least 5 bibliographical references, institutional affiliation andcontact details) should be sent to convegnocirm2024@gmail.com by 30^th April 2024.

Importantdates:

30/04/2024deadline for submission of proposals.

31/05/2024Notification of acceptance by CIRM Scientific Committee.

30/06/2024Preliminary programme and opening of registration.

30/09/2024Registration deadline and publication of the final programme.

17-18/10/2024CIRM Conference.

31/12/2024Deadline for submission of papers for publication.

The conference proceedings(peer-reviewed) will be published in the series "I Quaderni del CIRM"(TAB edizioni) in 2025.

The conference will be in hybridmodality. In-person attendance will take place at the Department of Economics,Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics (ESOMAS), Corso UnioneSovietica 218/bis, Turin.

DICTIONARY DAYS 2024
III EDIZIONE

Dipartimento di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Largo A. Gemelli, 1 - Milano
29 ottobre-8 novembre 2024

La terza edizione dei "Dictionary Days" si presenta come un evento ricco di iniziative dedicate al mondo della lessicografia e della lingua; scopriremo come le parole plasmano la nostra cultura e il nostro pensiero. Dal 29 ottobre all'8 novembre, esperti e studiosi offriranno conferenze e laboratori che esploreranno temi affascinanti come la nascita dell'Oxford English Dictionary, i dizionari come fonte di ispirazione letteraria per l'Avanguardia viennese e gli strumenti lessicografici digitali. La manifestazione sarà affiancata da un’esposizione di poster elaborati dagli studenti, un’occasione per vedere la creatività in azione.

The third edition of ‘Dictionary Days’ offers a range of initiatives dedicated to the world of lexicography and language; attendees will explore how words shape culture and thought. From 29 October to 8 November, experts and scholars will give lectures and workshops exploring fascinating topics such as the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, the influence of dictionaries on the Viennese Avant-Garde, and digital tools for lexicography. The event will also feature an exhibition of student-created posters, highlighting creativity in action.

DICTIONARY DAYS 2024
III EDIZIONE

Dipartimento di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Largo A. Gemelli, 1 - Milano
29 ottobre-8 novembre 2024

La terza edizione dei "Dictionary Days" si presenta come un evento ricco di iniziative dedicate al mondo della lessicografia e della lingua; scopriremo come le parole plasmano la nostra cultura e il nostro pensiero. Dal 29 ottobre all'8 novembre, esperti e studiosi offriranno conferenze e laboratori che esploreranno temi affascinanti come la nascita dell'Oxford English Dictionary, i dizionari come fonte di ispirazione letteraria per l'Avanguardia viennese e gli strumenti lessicografici digitali. La manifestazione sarà affiancata da un’esposizione di poster elaborati dagli studenti, un’occasione per vedere la creatività in azione.

The third edition of ‘Dictionary Days’ offers a range of initiatives dedicated to the world of lexicography and language; attendees will explore how words shape culture and thought. From 29 October to 8 November, experts and scholars will give lectures and workshops exploring fascinating topics such as the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, the influence of dictionaries on the Viennese Avant-Garde, and digital tools for lexicography. The event will also feature an exhibition of student-created posters, highlighting creativity in action.