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Prospero. A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures University of Trieste, Italy VOL XXVIII (2023) “Revolutions. Changes of paradigm in British and German literatures and cultures between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” The forthcoming number of Prospero (XXVIII 2023) invites contributions that will focus on paradigm shifts in the literary and cultural fields of English and German literatures between the Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Starting with the great political and social revolutions of the eighteenth century in Western civilization, many revolutions and epistemic turns have marked early modernity, both in a longue durée perspective and in the turmoil of the epochal punctum, and have seen moments of dialogic confrontation and decisive influences between national cultures. Authors could consider both the role that revolutions and epistemic turning points have played in the Anglo-German literary and cultural sphere, and also the way in which they have influenced and contributed to intensifying the relations between British and German-speaking literature and culture. Proposals may also examine forms, genres and styles that have characterized the evolution of British and German literature, starting from the innovative impulses and trends that arose in some phases of reception and cultural intersection: from the rise of the novel to the discovery of German drama, from the influences of German idealism and Sturm und Drang on English Romanticism to the links between the phenomenon of the Gothic and the age of revolutions, among the many possible examples which this issue aims to consider. An array of relevant topics may include – but are not be limited to – the following suggestions (further topics are welcome):  Political and social revolutions  Industrial revolutions  Philosophical, aesthetic and anthropological revolutions  Scientific revolutions and epistemological crises  Technology and the human: experimentations, borders, new myths  Freedom and human rights  Romanticisms  Social reforms and radicalism in national literatures  Enlightenment and protofeminism  The foundation of the liberal arts and the birth of journalism  The novel and the revolution of literary genres  The Gothic and the age of revolutions An abstract of maximum 350 words in English and a short bionote should be sent by March 30, 2023 to Roberta Gefter Wondrich (gefter@units.it) and Marilena Parlati (marilena.parlati@unipd.it) for British literature and to Federica La Manna (federica.lamanna@unical.it) and Irene Fantappiè (irene.fantappie@unicas.it) for German literature. Contributors will be notified acceptance of their abstracts by April 30, 2023, and full articles (between 6000 and 10000 words) will be due by September 1, 2023, in order to ensure publication after the peer-review process by December 2023. For queries and further information about the journal, please contact the editor in chief Roberta Gefter Wondrich at gefter@units.it and visit the website at: https://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/handle/10077/6091.

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 8th edition of the Languaging Diversity Conference (LD2023), which will be held on 14th-16th December 2023 both at Università di Torino (ITALY) and online, incl. live streams of plenary sessions and online panels. The theme of this year’s conference is “Languaging identities in changing times: Challenges and opportunities”. Research which investigates traditional and digital genres in different domains, including (but not limited to) gender and sexuality, ethnicity, disability, ageism, religion, ecology, medicine and science, media, politics, the law, education, and learning is welcome. With its focus on identity, Languaging Diversity 2023 invites contributions from researchers in linguistic, literary, translation, interpreting and cultural studies, as well as from academics in n LangDiv2023_posterCFP_LD2023eighbouring disciplines with an interest in identity construction through language. We are now welcoming submissions for both individual presentations and panels. Abstracts are due by April 1st 2023. For full details visit the LD2023 conference website and social media accounts (Twitter and Facebook).

Cross-Media Languages. Applied Research, Digital Tools and Methodologies è una rivista accademica internazionale double-blind peer-reviewed, che esplora le intersezioni tra ricerca, riflessione critica e sperimentazione didattica delle potenzialità applicative di strumenti e metodologie digitali nell’ambito della formazione linguistica. Privilegiando un’ottica plurilingue, la rivista si interessa, inoltre, alla pubblicazione di risultati di ricerche relative all’uso del linguaggio non verbale o visivo in diversi contesti linguistico-culturali attraverso differenti generi e tipi di testo. I volumi saranno miscellanei; ma è prevista la possibilità di proporre e coordinare delle micro- sezioni tematiche che contengano almeno tre contributi scientifici di autori diversi. E’ aperta la call for papers per il primo volume. Le proposte dovranno pervenire entro il 30 giugno all’indirizzo: cml.journal@uniba.it. Per le modalità di presentazione delle proposte si può consultare la sezione “Call for papers” del sito della rivista (https://ojs.cimedoc.uniba.it/index.php/cml/pages/view/callpapers).

Literature and Science : 1922-2022 “Sapienza” – Università di Roma, 30-31 March 2023 The conference is intended to foster a productive dialogue between the literary and scientific communities. The conversation between the two communities has been ongoing over time, across different geographical areas, and has been shaped by continuities and discontinuities (Hagen). For a good part of the twentieth century, it has certainly presupposed a difference between the humanities and the sciences, especially with regard to the question of method (Gadamer), but the resurgence of the debate on method in literary studies in the first two decades of the twenty-first century suggests that, in spite of the diverging paths of specialization and differentiation, the dialogue between the literary and scientific communities unfolds a dialectics of encounters in a unified cultural system of knowledge which intensifies the search for a common ground while countering and demystifying radical oppositions. This conference targets issues of contiguity between the human and the external world (animals, plants, objects, the biosphere as a whole), from a decentred, non-anthropomorphic perspective. From this vantage point, it intends to re-examine Modernism: 2022 is also the centenary of both Ulysses and The Waste Land — works that place center stage figures of knowledge (Ulysses; Tiresias) — foregrounding the human creature’s uncanny capacity for distancing and domination of cosmic reality through logos and technique. These modernist classics engage with science; they show the indebtedness of literature to — and alignment with — scientific attitudes and methods (Pound, Huxley, Woolf, M. Moore, Beckett, among many more). Their generative quality as literary texts simultaneously invites reflection on attempts at innerving literary criticism and critical discourse with scientific objectivity, encouraging a reassessment of the concept of technique in the philosophical-critical tradition and its role in the rise and fortune of literary-critical schools, from Russian Formalism, through poststructuralism, and present currents such as new realism, ecocriticism, etc. Within this horizon, the conference also welcomes studies related to posthumanism, to ecology and climate change, to holism and to the idea of Anthropocene, and encourages contributions that explore how the conversation between literature and science might entail looking into the scientists’ frequent employment of allegorical and metaphorical language, climaxing in texts stylistically close to narratives. We invite submissions focused on, but not limited to, the following topics: § Literature and sciences (medicine, psychology, psychoanalysis, anthropology, history, hard and soft sciences) § Modernism and science § Postmodernism and science § Literary criticism as/and science § The literary in science § Posthumanism § Trans-species languages and discourses § The human in context: plants § The human in context: animals § The human in context: the world of objects § Philosophy and reality as independent from human thought § Mythological figures of the Search for Knowledge (Prometheus, Oedipus, Ulysses) § Prosthetic bodies § Artificial intelligence § Ageing/youth preservation § Faith, Science, Literature Please send anonymized 300-500-word abstracts in English and a short bio of no more than 150 words by July 2022 to: literatureandsciencerome2023@gmail.com Prof. Mario Martino Prof. Mena Mitrano Dr. Davide Crosara Dr. Yuri Chung Proposals in Italian will be accepted on condition that an English version of the paper is circulated one week prior to the Conference.

CFP for special issue of Terminology on Terminology, ideology and discourse   Guest editors: Katia Peruzzo and Paola Catenaccio   The full CFP is available here: https://benjamins.com/series/term/callforpapers_tid.pdf   Important dates  Deadline for submission of abstracts (max. 500 words, references excluded): September 30th 2022  Acceptance/rejection of abstracts: November 20th 2022  Deadline for submission of full papers: April 30th 2023  Acceptance/rejection notice: September 3rd 2023  Final papers due: December 17th 2023  Scheduled publication date: mid‐2024 

Dear Colleagues, “CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES. Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania” (CP – http://pubs.ub.ro/?pg=revues&rev=cp) invites submissions to Issue 26/2021 presenting different perspectives on the theme coming from different fields, such as literature, linguistics, semiotics, political and sociological studies, communication, public relations, anthropology, translation studies, etc. Note that the empirical background can be provided from different cultures, but it should underline the link between the respective culture and the British one. In recognition of its high academic standards, CP is indexed in several databases: EBSCO, CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library), BHI (British Humanities Index), INDEX COPERNICUS, WorldCat, KVK, COPAC, SCIPIO, DOAJ, ERIH+. The deadline for Issue 26/2021 is July 15, 2021. Should you be interested in submitting your paper, please read the author guidelines posted on the CP dedicated webpage – http://pubs.ub.ro/?pg=revues&rev=cp Please send you papers to this year’s editor: culea.mihaela@ub.ro and, simultaneously, to cpjournal@ub.ro

Call for Papers per Linguæ &. Rivista di Lingue e culture moderne, fascicolo 2-2021 Deadline 15 aprile 2021 https://www.ledonline.it/index.php/linguae On Lying Intuitively, we all know what lying is. However, on a theoretical level, defining its nature and aims has been a core issue in many topical domains of human knowledge. This Call for Papers aims to develop an interdisciplinary discourse on the nature of lying and of phenomena directly or indirectly connected with it, such as deception and self-deception, illusion, forgery, fake news, manipulation of sources, and others. We will welcome contributions from literature and the other arts, philosophy, theology, history, philology, psychology, neurosciences, linguistics, and others. The output of this special issue should be a common core of insights linking the humanities with the social sciences and the ‘natural sciences’ so to enable a full-scope investigation of this fundamental phenomenon, and place it within the larger picture of what it means to be human. Although we prefer contributions in English, we also accept essays in Italian, French, German and Spanish. Authors wishing to propose a paper for this special issue should register on the journal web site  and upload their papers preferably in English, no later than April 15th,  2021. See Information for Authors and Online submissions Only papers which fully comply with the requirements in the “Guidelines” and in the “Authors’ Statement” (the latter’s point 1.a in particular) will be accepted for the double-blind peer review process. Sulla bugia Intuitivamente, tutti sappiamo cosa sia una bugia. Ma sul piano teorico, la natura e gli scopi di questo fenomeno sono tuttora oggetto di discussione in molti settori fondamentali del sapere umano. Questo Call for papers mira a sviluppare un discorso interdisciplinare attorno alla natura della bugia e dei fenomeni ad essa direttamente o indirettamente collegati, come l’inganno e l’autoinganno, l’illusione, la falsificazione, le fake news, la manipolazione delle fonti, ed altri. Accoglieremo contributi di letteratura e delle altre arti, filosofia, teologia, storia, filologia, psicologia, neuroscienze, linguistica. Il fine ultimo sarà individuare delle convergenze tra le scienze umanistiche, sociali e naturali che consentano un’investigazione a tutto campo di questo fenomeno fondamentale della natura e dell’esistenza umana. Nonostante l’uso dell’inglese sia preferibile, la rivista accetta articoli anche in italiano, francese, tedesco e spagnolo. Si invitano gli autori che desiderano sottoporre i propri contributi, preferibilmente in inglese, a registrarsi sul sito della Rivista e a caricarli entro e non oltre il 15 Aprile 2021. Si vedano la pagina Information for Authors, e la sezione Online submissions che contiene informazioni anche in italiano). Solo gli articoli che saranno caricati nel sito secondo quanto richiesto dalle “Linee guida per gli Autori” e dalla “Dichiarazione degli Autori” (si veda in particolare il punto 1.a di quest’ultima) saranno avviati al processo di referaggio “double-blind”.  

The Languages and Anti-Languages of Health Communication in the Age of Conspiracy Theories, Mis/Disinformation and Hate Speech Ed. by Massimiliano Demata, Natalia Knoblock and Marianna Lya Zummo We are calling for abstracts for a special issue of Lingue e Linguaggi focusing on the languages of health communication in both institutional and non-institutional media settings. The special issue will address aspects related to genre and discourse as well as morphosyntactic characteristics of health communication in the current age, an age increasingly characterised by (dis-/mis-)information, conspiracy theories and hate speech as occurring in the context of both mass media and social media. Dis- and misinformation, conspiracy theories and hostile communication are reportedly on the rise and are beginning to receive significant attention among linguists and discourse scholars because of the alternative discourses which are generated through them (Demata et al, forthcoming; Knoblock 2020; Zummo 2018, 2017; Lazaridis et al., 2016). In particular, health communication has been subjected to mis-and disinformation as well as to contributing to conspiracy theories which have become very influential in many countries. With the growing influence of social media in the public sphere (KhosraviNik & Unger 2015; KhosraviNik 2017; Zummo 2017; Demata, Heaney & Herring 2018), the communication of alternative health discourse, often in opposition to that of “official” media and science, has become very difficult to challenge. Furthermore, the narratives supporting alternative health discourses have increasingly become part of the growing consensus for populist parties and leaders in many parts of the world, as distrust in the official science feeds into the typically populist drive against establishment politics (Bergmann 2018). During the last three decades, health discourse has been particularly exposed to mis/disinformation and fake news. Conspiracy theories (CTs) and mis/disinformation about AIDS have been followed by those about the supposed damage brought by vaccines (Archer 2015; Kata 2010). In fact, tension arises between medical science looking out for the collective well-being and the emotive amplification of groups being concerned with their individual health. Such exchanges have developed in anti-vaccination discourses, with online fora working as echo chambers. More recently, the coronavirus outbreak has provided evidence of how the spread of disinformation and conspiracy thinking has reached beyond the narrow confines of individual or group narratives for believers. CTs support alternative views on official science, economy and the news, and construct certain (often radical) beliefs in periods of existential or social uncertainty. They are creating new articulations of discourse in the public sphere because of their innovative, and often subversive, language that mixes urgency, hope, hate speech and suspicions for potential machinations form the establishment. Social media have provided the ideal output for CTs: without “gatekeepers”, polarized communities create an “antagonistic sphere” (Krzyzanowski & Ledin 2017) and foster political engagement (especially against governments and the establishment), which can even lead to extremism and violence (Bergmann 2018; Wodak 2020). The purpose of this special edition to explore the “anti-languages” (Halliday 1976) and the counter-discourses endorsing (mis/dis-)information and CTs in direct opposition to official discourses and challenging social and political hegemony (Terdiman 1985; Van Dijk 1997). We welcome papers that explore the following points, though other pertinent submissions will also be considered: CT production and discourse on a social, linguistic and political perspective(s) Critical analysis of CT on health-related issues and their social impact Intersectional analysis of health and computer-mediated communication Historical overview of Health (and Medical) Humanities and CTs Military language in social representation of medicine Linguistic and cross-cultural analysis of threat assessment levels Othering caused by health issues Hate speech related to/originating from groups opposing official health discourse Analysis of linguistic cues (e.g. the occurrence of certain parts of speech) that distinguish the language of CTs from strictly informative sources. Verbal aggression, “othering”, dehumanization, hate speech in health-related discourse(s) The politicization of health discourse Please send abstracts (maximum 300 words plus references) by 1 April 2021 to: massimiliano.demata@unito.it, nlknoblo@svsu.edu, mariannalya.zummo@unipa.it Confirmation of acceptance: 15 April 2021 Deadline for submission of first drafts: 1 October 2021 Deadline for submission of revised papers: 31 January 2022 Publication: Summer 2022

I-LanD Journal – Identity, Language and Diversity International Peer-Reviewed Journal Call for papers for the special issue (2/2020) Hybrid Dialogues: Transcending Binary Thinking and Moving Away from Societal Polarizations This special issue of the I-LanD Journal will focus on hybrid dialogues in various communities of practice across time and space. It will be edited by Cornelia Ilie (Strömstad Academy, Sweden) and Sole Alba Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy). Submission of abstracts Authors wishing to contribute to this issue are invited to send an extended abstract of their proposed article ranging between 600 and 1.000 words (excluding references) in MS Word format to the two editors by the 18th October 2020. Proposals should not contain the authors’ name and academic/professional affiliation and should be accompanied by an email including such personal information and sent to: cornelia.ilie@gmail.com and solealba.zollo@unina.it. Please put as subject line “I-LanD Special Issue 2/2020– abstract submission”, and include the Journal e-mail address – ilandjournal@unior.it – by using the Cc option. In order to meet editorial processes, the most important dates to remember are as follows: – Submission of abstracts: October 18, 2020 – Notification of acceptance/rejection: November 8, 2020 – Submission of chapters: February 14, 2021 Description Following the successful and fruitful 5th ESTIDIA conference, held on 19-21 September 2019 at the University of Napoli L’Orientale, the theme of this Special Issue was prompted by the risks and challenges posed by the increasing use of virulent polemics both on- and off-line that are constantly shifting the boundaries between traditionally dichotomous forms of communication (e.g., public/private, face-to-face/virtual, formal/informal, polite/impolite) and types of mindsets (e.g., trust/distrust, liberal/illiberal, rational/emotional, biased/unbiased). Binary or dichotomous thinking is responsible for producing and/or maintaining historically unsustainable hierarchies and inequitable power relations. While cyberspace communication environments can trigger and stimulate creative and productive dialogues that can be integrated with face-to-face dialogues, we are still witnessing a growing proliferation of dichotomy-based misperceptions and misrepresentations of world phenomena and societal events (Beaufort 2018), which involve the mismanagement and manipulation of interpersonal relations and institutional power networks, leading to an environment of apprehension, suspicion and insecurity, strongly amplified and aggravated in recent times by anti-social discourse and behavior, extremist movements, and hate speech. As a counterbalance of dichotomy-based beliefs and ways of thinking, new and hybrid forms of dialogue are needed to cross the frontiers of established dichotomies, questioning the legitimacy of increasingly conflictual, aggressive and divisive encounters (Sunstein 2007; Mason 2015) conducted both offline (in public meetings, TV debates, political and parliamentary debates, etc.) and online (on social media, such as Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat). A wide range of analytical tools pertaining to multi-disciplinary frameworks of analysis can effectively contribute to identifying and critically examining dichotomy-based conceptualisation strategies that undermine existing democratic norms and practices, giving rise to polarized, confrontational and downright violent off- and on-line discourses. The questions researchers are called upon to consider, analyse and debate include, but are not limited to, the following: • What types of polarized dialogue are to be found in various communities of practice (e.g. business, politics, education, health sector)? • Has the increasing use of social media had a noticeable impact on the proliferation of the use of aggressive language and person-targeted attacks? • What cross-cultural parallels can be noticed with regard to dichotomy-based polarization patterns in off-line and online dialogues? Is it possible to identify differences in terms of age, gender, education, to name but a few? • What dichotomy-based forms of reasoning and arguing are more likely to be found in spoken, written or hybrid types of discourses, respectively? • How are the audience’s emotions targeted, as well as manipulated, by the use of fallacious dichotomies in online and offline dialogue? • How have radicalised, polarized, confrontational and downright violent discourses of extreme political movements given rise to institutional confrontations and the use of violence in both face-to-face and online interactions? • To what extent is gender an impactful element in adversarial discursive behaviour? Are women and men equally inclined to initiate confrontational types of dialogue? How similar and/or how different are women and men when reacting/responding to aggressive language? • What types of argumentation and contra-argumentation strategies are particularly prevalent in female and male professionals/leaders when engaging in adversarial debate? • How can new, hybrid dialogues help to address the polarization which reinforces the current social and political crises in a vicious circle of multiplying conceptual dichotomies, deceptive binary thinking and fearmongering slogans or ‘shockvertising’? Researchers are warmly welcome to propose contributions from diverse fields of enquiry, including linguistics, media studies, journalism, cultural studies, psychology, rhetoric, political science, sociology, pedagogy, philosophy and anthropology. More about I-LanD Journal Editors in chief: Giuditta Caliendo (University of Lille) and M. Cristina Nisco (University of Naples Parthenope) Advisory board: Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L’Orientale) Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna) David Katan (University of Salento) Don Kulick (Uppsala University) Tommaso Milani (University of Gothenburg) Oriana Palusci (University of Naples L’Orientale) Paul Sambre (KU Leuven) Srikant Sarangi (Aalborg University) Christina Schäffner (Professor Emerita at Aston University) Vivien Schmidt (Boston University) Stef Slembrouck (Gent University) Marina Terkourafi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Girolamo Tessuto (Seconda Università di Napoli) Johann Unger (Lancaster University) The I-LanD Journal (http://www.unior.it/index2.php?content_id=15279&content_id_start=1& titolo=i-land-journal&parLingua=ENG) reflects a commitment to publishing original and high quality research papers addressing issues of identity, language and diversity from new critical and theoretical perspectives. All submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed. In fulfillment of its mission, the I-LanD Journal provides an outlet for publication to international practitioners, with a view to disseminating and enhancing scholarly studies on the relation between language and ethnic/cultural identity, language and sexual identity/gender, as well as on forms of language variation derived from instances of contamination/hybridization of different genres, discursive practices and text types.