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CONVEGNO: “Sustainable Humanities: The Humanities, the Social Sciences and sustainability. Challenges and perspectives” ORGANIZZATORI: Department of Humanities, University of Macerata DATA: 29 September – 1 October 2022 SEDE: University of Macerata LINK AL CALL FOR PAPERS: https://bit.ly/3J986AP EMAIL: humanities@unimc.it   For paper proposals, send a 200-word abstract and a one-page CV to humanities@unimc.it by 31 May 2022. For panel proposals, please provide a brief overview of the panel in an email message and attach all paper proposals and CVs. Applicants will be notified about the outcome of their proposal by 15 June 2022. Accepted languages: English, Italian

Doing English Today  Environmental Issues and Bilingual Education in the Digital Age   Call for Papers   24-26May 2022  Plenary Speakers   Daniela Cuccurullo TESOL Italy Vice President   Victor Pavon University of Cordoba   MariaEllison University of Oporto   David Ruz Fundaciòn Santos Martires   Chiara Sciarrino University of Palermo   Adriana Iacono Eurolingue School Director   Ewa Sonczyk Eurolingue School Director of Studies  Mariana Laxague Teacher Trainer and Material Author   Marco Faldetta International House Palermo School Manager  Simon Brown Cambridge University Press and Assessment   Mark Lang Cambridge University Press and Assessment   Manuelisa Tuzzetti TESOL Italy Local Coordinator   The Department of Humanities, University of Palermo and Eurolingue School look  forward to welcoming you to the second edition of the Conference Doing English  Today, which will take place at the University of Palermo from Tuesday the 24th to  Thursday the 26th of May 2022. Professionals will come together to learn from each  other. By connecting with people and peers who are conducting similar studies,  attendees will learn practical methods and new findings that can contribute to their  future achievements. Teachers, scholars and teacher trainers are invited to submit  proposals for seminars and round tables on topics related to our fields of study:  o Online Teaching and Digital Tools  o Making Climate change a topic for your classes.  o Climate action and awareness ideas for writing/reading/speaking and listening activities. Tools and procedures  o How to Create Fit for Purpose Interactive Games  o Integrating Online Games in the online lessons  o Developing Lessons from Ted Talks and YouTube videos  o Interacting through file sharing platforms (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) o Using Language Management System platforms  o Making the most of social media (Facebook groups, Instagram, Whatsapp chats, etc.)  o Combining Platforms and digital tools (Kahoot, Quizlet, Slideshare, Dictionaries, Padlet, etc.)  o Using Tests and Tools for Online Assessment  How to apply:  o Choose one of the above topics concerning online teaching and digital tools. o Choose the tool and procedure you want to use.  o Select your best practice for online lessons according to the topic and tools of your choice.  o Send your abstract (max 200 words) for a 20-minute paper to chiara.sciarrino@unipa.it by the 26th of April 2022.  o Pay €20 fee to: IBAN T09A02008 04682 000300004577 ‘Doing English Today Conference D19’ and send proof with your abstract to the same email address. o The abstract must include details about the teacher (s) involved, the school, the class (s) and the students (age, number, level of English). It should also specify the length of the activity, any possible evidence of the practice itself (video, materials, links, etc.), and the kind of equipment needed (Interactive – Board Projector – Tablet – Computer- Smartphone – Other).  o The abstract should also specify for what skills the best practice has been designed (reading, writing, listening, speaking) and what specific areas are affected: Motivation – Assessment – Engagement – Goals achievement – Group work – Other  Dissemination  o The best eight presentations will be included in the Doing English Today Conference to be held in Palermo from the 24th to the 26th of May 2022. Their authors will be invited to deliver the presentations during the conference, either in presence or through Zoom.  o The presentations will also participate in the selection of the E-Ducation Erasmus project. The winners will be included in the project platform and their authors will be awarded a certificate in a dedicated online ceremony by the E-Ducation Erasmus Project. Locandine: Doing english today Call for Papers – Doing English def

Aestheticism: Sensations and Ideas International Walter Pater Society Conference Iuav University of Venice, 14-16 July 2022 Walter Pater is a key figure within the cultures of aestheticism and decadence, and his literary legacy reverberates throughout the twentieth century and beyond. His works engage with such diverse fields as art history, aesthetics and philosophy, religion and spirituality, sexuality and desire, education, and cultural heritage. In the twenty-first century, Pater remains one of the most studied authors of the English and international fin de siècle, and the ongoing Oxford University Press edition of his Collected Works opens up new perspectives on his writings. This conference of the International Walter Pater Society takes its cue from the subtitle of Pater’s novel Marius the Epicurean (1885), which refers to the protagonist’s “sensations and ideas.” Considering Pater and aestheticism from the perspective of “sensations” brings out the productive overlap between literature and contemporary discourses on aesthetics, perception, emotions, and psychology. The perspective of “ideas” emphasises processes of abstract thinking, their cultural legacies, and their mechanisms of dissemination. Considering “sensations and ideas” together shines a light on the ways in which the two modes potentially compete with and/or complement one another, producing new insights. The conference aims to foster new critical debate on the subject of “sensations and ideas,” broadly conceived, with reference to Pater and aestheticism. Possible topics include: – Affect and emotion – Religion, mythology, spirituality, and the occult – The body and the senses as organs of knowledge – Learning and pedagogy – Philosophy and the history of ideas – Aestheticism and impressionism – Nature, environment, cultural heritage, renovation, and regeneration – Paterian and aesthetic worlds and places: cities, travel, monuments, homes and houses, the flaneur/flâneuse – Crises in knowledge – Undisciplining Pater/aestheticism Please send proposals of maximum 250 words for 20 minute-papers, along with a short bio-bibliographical note, to: paterinvenice@gmail.com Deadline: 15 April 2022 Info: Elisa Bizzotto (bizzotto@iuav.it); Joseph Bristow (jbristow@humnet.ucla.edu); Stefano Evangelista (stefano-maria.evangelista@trinity.ox.ac.uk); Rebecca Mitchell (rnmitchell@gmail.com); Giles Whiteley (giles.whiteley@english.su.se)

Teaching and Researching Children’s Literature in the Digital Age: New Perspectives and Technologies An International Symposium 24 June 2022 Hosted on Zoom by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Over the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the already ongoing process of digitization of resources and creation of online tools for teaching and research. This period saw the rise of new websites and databases, including in the area of children’s literature and culture. As our individual space became smaller and confined to our homes, the web became a locus for the sharing of information, resources, and experiences. The past months have seen numerous projects, databases, and conferences being devoted to the challenges and opportunities posed by this sudden shift in academic teaching and research. Now that we are starting to come back to in-person teaching and research, this study day intends to be an occasion to showcase innovative research and the tools created to respond to the pandemic emergency and meant to outlast it, becoming important resources for the academic and wider community, especially in the face of the new challenges that we are currently facing. It will be a chance to initiate an international conversation on what this shift and the new resources that derive from it entail for Children’s Literature scholars and how we may deploy these emergency tools in the long run to improve teaching and research, making them more accessible at all levels to both students and researchers around the world. We welcome proposals – including from postgraduates and ECRs – for 15-min presentations on topics including, but not limited to: innovative teaching methods/tools and digital technologies databases digital archives and repositories digital collections ebooks and digital libraries digitization projects websites research projects social media the limits of digital research methods Please submit a 200-word abstract and 100-word biography to childrenslitita@unive.it by the 31/05/2022.

Call for Papers LAVENDER LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE The 28th Lavender Languages Conference will be hosted in Catania (Italy) from 23 to 25 May 2022, both onsite and online. The Conference has an intense and fruitful commitment towards investigating language use and representation concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, heterosexual, and/or queer life, as well as language and sexuality more broadly. The Conference supports a broad idea of “language” which encompass all areas of semiosis, including pronunciation, lexical choice, grammar, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, and the analysis of communication in various text genres, modes (spoken, written, signed, multimodal, non-verbal) and media. Historical, literary, cultural, and descriptive studies are also welcomed, as are performance-centered presentations and poster displays. The Conference proudly maintains a “no attitudes” atmosphere, which will continue in Catania (IT): all attendees should feel welcome in what will be a supportive and collaborative conference space. We are pleased to announce our plenary speakers: Jeremy Calder – University of Colorado (USA) tbc Adriana Di Stefano – Università degli Studi di Catania (ITA) tbc Busi Makoni – Penn State University (USA) Metalinguistic discourses of styling the other: The discursive construction of liminal masculinities. Pietro Maturi – Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (ITA) Gender and language in Italian: an ongoing struggle toward inclusivity” Tommaso M. Milani – University of Gothenburg (SWE) Queer stasis Eva Nossem – Saarland University (D) tbc Since its origin, in 1993, the Conference has always included papers and posters addressing a very wide range of topics and themes, and we do hope to keep that diversity maintained at LavLang28. We invite abstracts for presentations that explore both macro and micro contexts, but which acknowledge the need to position research into site-specific practices within broader contexts of social, cultural, and linguistic theory. Specific interest will be devoted to papers and panels that address future directions for language and sexuality inquiry. The language of presentation is English, research on languages other than English is greatly encouraged. Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to: • LGBTQ+ discourse • Literary and media representations of LGBTQ+ life • (Anti)homophobic and transphobic discourses, and other languages of discrimination • Pornography and/or the language of desire • Queer linguistics and (hetero/homo)normativity • Queer lexicology and lexicography • LGBTQ+ in Institutions: policies and inclusiveness • Variationist approaches to LGBTQ+ language/identity • Intersectionality, language, and sexual identity • Language, sexuality, and affect • Language, sexuality, and pedagogy Abstracts are invited for individual papers and panels. INDIVIDUAL PAPERS Abstracts for individual papers should be no more than 500 words, reference included. They should include the presentation title and the presenter’s name, affiliation, and email address. Abstracts should describe the paper’s focus, research method, findings, and ties to language and sexuality interests. Proposals will undergo a review process. PANELS Every panel can be made of 5 papers maximum. Scholars willing to organize a panel should submit a 300-word proposal together with the list of participants’ names and titles of contributions (5 max) to lavlang28@unict.it. Panelists will send their proposals as individual papers for the review process. Panel organizers are welcome to advertise a call for submissions to their panel via our website, where we will have a section entitled “Sessions under development”; please contact lavlang28@unict.it. DATES The deadline for panel and paper presentations is 1st March. Abstract submission, through Easychair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=lavlang28), will open on 15th January. Notification of acceptance will be communicated on18th April. Further information concerning LavLang28 (registration, travel, accommodation) can be found on the conference website: http://www.lavlang28.unict.it/.

ESPRit Conference, Budapest Call for Papers Conference theme: Periodicals beyond Hierarchies: Challenging Geopolitical and Social “Centres” and “Peripheries” through the Press Time and venue: 8– 9 September 2022, Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) – Artpool, Budapest, Hungary. The hybrid event is co-organized with the Petőfi Literary Museum (PIM) – Kassák Museum. Scientific committee: Gábor Dobó (PIM–Kassák Musem); Dávid Fehér (KEMKI); Emese Kürti (KEMKI – Artpool); Eszter Őze (KEMKI – Artpool); Evanghelia Stead (UVSQ Paris Saclay); Merse Pál Szeredi (PIM – Kassák Musem). Contact persons: Gábor Dobó (dobo.gabor@pim.hu), Merse Pál Szeredi (szeredi.merse.pal@pim.hu), and Eszter Őze (eszter.oze@szepmuveszeti.hu). Call for papers: For the first time in East-Central Europe, the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit) convenes its 2022 (10th) international conference in Budapest, Hungary, to focus on the following theme Periodicals beyond Hierarchies: Challenging Geopolitical and Social “Centres” and “Peripheries” through the Press The conference should reflect on how periodicals challenge, transform or interpret the notion of “centres” and “peripheries” in a context of permanently shifting and historically unstable situations. Papers should investigate these questions through essential forums of the public sphere, namely periodicals, from the mid-18th century to the present day. The generation of knowledge, social dialogue, and transnational communication (both textual and visual) hosted by periodicals gave visibility and platforms to politically and economically “peripheral” areas, as well as socially marginalized groups. At the same time, other journals provided means to maintain cultural and political hegemony of “central” social classes or global powers. We invite scholars to reflect on the ways periodicals represented, created, maintained, or challenged, even deconstructed the notions of “centre” and “periphery” as related to the status of their community, audience, editorial board or geographical areas. We are particularly interested in encounters, and negotiations between geopolitical or social “centres” and “peripheries” taking place in periodicals. The conference should focus on matters, including but not limited to, such as: • Theoretical reflections on “centres” and “peripheries” and the possible contribution of Periodical Studies to define the shifting meaning of this conceptual model • Circulation, adaptability and reworking of periodical models and genres, including the mainstream press; middlebrow periodicals and “little magazines” • Hybridity, performativity, materiality – how researching periodicals opens up new perspectives in literary, art and media history? • Shifting, emerging, and declining geopolitical centres and the press, from the Napoleonic wars to the end of the Cold War and beyond • Challenging the concept of “Eastern”, “Western”, “Southern” and “Central” – the periodicals in the entangled history in Empires – from a post-Empire perspective • Colonization, decolonization, and the periodicals – a postcolonial perspective • The effect of dominant discourses on marginal/”peripheral”/”provincial”/local contexts – and vice versa. • The role of journals in social conversation, including the voice of marginalized groups in/out of/against the mainstream press: the rise of counter-publics in periodicals • The diachronic and political dimension of artistic canons, and the role of periodicals in canonizing, theorizing, and financing art and culture • De-centring established cultural “centres” through a transnational network of “little magazines”. Establishing “imagined communities” (a term coined by Benedict Anderson) in periodicals The working language of the conference is English. We welcome proposals from researchers at all stages of advancement. Proposals of around 250 words (references not included) for 20- minute papers and a short CV (no more than 200 words) should be sent to 2022esprit@gmail.com by February 28 2022. We also welcome proposals for joint panels of three papers. Please include a brief rationale for the panel along with an abstract and CV for each presenter. Updates can be found on the 10th ESPRit Conference website, forthcoming. We look forward to welcoming you to the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest!

Audiovisual Translation and Minority Cultures International Conference Sponsored by CenTras (Centre for Translation Studies @UCL – UK), AIA (Italian Association for English Studies) and CUSVE (The University Centre for Victorian and Edwardian Studies) Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo Pescara, 3-4 June 2022 Call for Papers Within translation studies, minority has been the concern of scholars and translators whose interest has focused on language varieties (dialects, registers, styles, and discourses) linked to cultures that occupy subordinate positions in social formations, or what J.C. Catford defines as “states of language, ethnicity or sex with their own ghetto territorialities” (1987: 106). Minority languages and cultures challenge dominant, homogenising systems by posing resistance in the form of innovation, particularly when considered within the framework of our globalised world. This two-day conference aims to explore the unpredictable linguistic and cultural variations that minority might introduce in the study of audiovisual translation. We want to consider not only the uses of nonstandard linguistic items, multilingualism, and minor languages in audiovisual media, but also the range of cultural, social, and political issues raised by such uses, especially when affiliated with minor cultures. If we side with Abé Mark Nornes’s view that “to the extent that skilled translators disregard conventional practices and creatively work through translation problems – both typical ones and those arising from the specificities of dubbing and subtitling – the outlook and possibilities for moving image translation are both hopeful and intriguing” (Nornes 2007: 16), how might the study and practice of audiovisual translation be reformulated in relation to minorities in the 21st century? We particularly invite contributions that encourage interdisciplinary discussions between scholars and translators about how audiovisual media can give voice to voiceless cultures and how such media might redefine the identity and role of the translator in the 21st century. Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to: •       Standard vs. nonstandard language varieties, multilingualism, and minor languages in audiovisual translation •       Audiovisual translation and the formation of identity •       Translation activism in today’s global media landscape •       The social and political implications of translating humour in audiovisual material •       Dubbing and subtitling in world cinema understood as relations between film cultures positioned in global hierarchies, major and minor, central and peripheral •       The Cinema of Minorities: Film adaptation and minority cultures KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Jorge Díaz-Cintas (University College London – UK) Mona Baker (Oslo University – Norway) Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna – ITALY) INDIVIDUAL PAPERS (20 minutes) Please attach a single document including: •       Title and abstract of your proposal (300 words max.) •       5 keywords •       Author’s name, affiliation, email address and biography (100 words max.) Deadline for submissions: 7th May 2022 Conference fee: 150 EUR (standard) / 80 EUR (student) by 19th May 2022 All questions and submissions should be emailed to Eleonora Sasso (“G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara) to the following address: avt-minoritycultures@unich.it

Convegno internazionale online “Vulnerability and Resilience in English Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century” 16-17 dicembre 2021 co-organizzato da Raffaella Antinucci (Università di Napoli “Parthenope”) e Adrian Grafe (Université d’Artois, Arras) con il patrocinio del Centro Universitario di Studi Vittoriani ed Edoardiani (CUSVE) e dell’AIA. Link: bit.ly/VandRconf

Abbiamo il piacere di annunciare il lancio di una risorsa che speriamo sia di interesse, specialmente per studiosi di letteratura per l’infanzia e campi correlati in ambito inglese: il sito Children’s Literature in Italyospitato all’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. Originariamente ospitato all’Università di Milano, dove è stato fondato e diretto dalla Professoressa Francesca Orestano, il sito nasce dal desiderio degli studiosi italiani di letteratura per l’infanzia di condividere il proprio lavoro con la comunità accademica nazionale ed internazionale. Poiché il gruppo di ricerca che ha supportato la Professoressa Orestano nella fondazione del sito era composto da anglisti, il sito si focalizzava sulla letteratura per l’infanzia anglofona; un tratto che mantiene tuttora, seppur affiancato da ulteriori prospettive ed aree di ricerca di diversa matrice. Col pensionamento della Professoressa Orestano, il sito è stato fatto migrare ad Università Ca’ Foscari, in modo da non perdere il prezioso lavoro della Professoressa e dei colleghi che vi hanno contribuito. Sarà Gestito dalla Professoressa Laura Tosi con la collaborazione della Dottoressa Anna Gasperini e del Dottor Alessandro Cabiati, rispettivamente Assegnista Marie Curie Plus One e Assegnista Marie Curie Global a Ca’ Foscari. Il nostro team si impegnerà a portare avanti l’importante lavoro iniziato a Milano, espandendolo ulteriormente verso aree emergenti e interdisciplinari. Noi stessi, come gruppo di ricerca, ci specializziamo in medicalhumanities, letterature transnazionali comparate, e studi sul cibo. Se siete correntemente impegnati in progetti, pubblicazioni, organizzazione di eventi, e ricerca di collaboratori su progetti di letteratura per l’infanzia e aree tangenti, saremo felici di avere vostre notizie e diffondere informazioni mediante i nostri canali. Potrete contattarci all’indirizzo di posta elettronica childrenslititaly@unive.it. Sperando di fare cosa gradita, vi segnaliamo anche la possibilità, per chi avesse piacere, di iscriversi alla newsletter mensiledel sito con la quale è possibile ricevere aggiornamenti, che saranno diffusi anche su Twitter, a@ChildrensLit_It, e su Facebook, a Children’s Literature in Italy. Saremmo felici di accogliervi tra i nostri destinatari della newsletter e tra i nostri followers sui social, e siamo naturalmente a vostra disposizione per rispondere ad ogni domanda o curiosità. https://pric.unive.it/projects/childrens-literature-in-italy/home