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Care socie e cari soci, siamo liet* di segnalare quanto segue: Call for Papers: JEMS 10, 2021 We are now inviting contributions for Volume 10 of the Journal of Early Modern Studies, to be released online in 2021. Early Modern European Crime Literature: Ideology, Emotions and Social Norms Edited by Maurizio Ascari and Gilberta Golinelli The 2021 issue of JEMS aims to cover various inter-related fields within the vast domain of European crime literature, with a particular focus on the British Isles. The literary and cultural phenomena we aim to investigate range from street literature, with its variety of broadsides and chapbooks, to drama (from revenge tragedies to domestic tragedies) and providential fictions, such as John Reynolds’ The Triumphs of Gods Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sinne of Murther (1621-35), including the translation and transnational circulation of crime stories. While exploring the connection between real crime and the literary imagination at various levels (from street literature to more sophisticated renderings), this issue delves into the ideological import of crime narratives intended as prevention of crime, a form of psychological ‘policing’ that compensated for the absence of organized police forces by reasserting the certainty of mundane and supernatural punishment. At the same time, focusing on the description and the representation/performance of emotions will enable us to analyse early modern criminography with the right lens to highlight its peculiarity and interrogate its multilayered aims. Instead of pivoting mainly on detection, early modern crime narratives revolve around criminal lives and criminal minds, not to mention self-appointed justice seekers, although of course community-based forms of social control were far from absent in early modern Europe. Both on page and on stage, providential fictions are often tragic and proto-melodramatic in tone, and this includes broadsides, which typically climax with a ballad to be sung to the tune of a song, achieving a combination of news circulation and engaging rhetorical/aural effects. Given the nature of early modern crime literature, we invite papers exploring these and related issues: History. The relation between historical criminal events and their literary representations. Many early modern crime narratives are part of the vogue of news that was fostered by both the invention of print and the translation/remediation of foreign materials. Being marketed as ‘true stories’ (often soon after the events they recount), in order to exploit the sensational appeal of real criminal cases, these narratives can be regarded as the ancestors of what we label as true crime. Ideology. The conceptualization of crime in relation to the complementary paradigms of sovereign power (or mundane justice) and of God’s omniscience/omnipotence. Early modern crime is conflated with sin, and in the absence of organized policing detection is correspondingly presented as resulting from the synergy of social surveillance and providence. The emphasis is on coincidence rather than on organized and rational detection. Due to the containment of, and simultaneous fascination with, transgression, criminals are portrayed as both abject and heroic, but we can also interpret these ambivalent portraits as the ‘product’ of gender constrictions and discriminations. Agency. While criminal agency is often presented as stemming from the devil, early modern crime narratives reveal an increasing ‘psychologisation’ of crime, investigating both the criminal’s motives and the devastating impact of guilt. This interest for the criminal overlaps with the conception of the human the early moderns inherited from classical tragedy, notably with the Aristotelian concept of hamartia. Emotions. Early modern crime literature appeals to the emotions on various levels and in all its forms, whether the focus is on the plight of victims or on the inner turmoil of offenders and revengers. Body. The spectacle of the violated/murdered body, of bodily punishment and execution rituals, raises questions on the various meanings and appropriations of a racialized and gendered body, calling our attention to the body as a powerful symbol and rhetorical tool in relation to a set of discourses in which science and medicine conflate with politics and ideology. Gender: Gender as a method of inquiry has been extremely useful to re-consider the formation of identities, subjectivities, their agency and their access to justice and compensation. Reading the performance and representation of male/female crime and criminals in a gender perspective might illuminate how gender relations and hierarchies were implicated in the construction of systems of power, social norms and national legal system. Genre. Early modern crime fiction covers a wide spectrum of genres, ranging from domestic tragedies and revenge tragedies to providential fictions, ballads, sermons and other religious texts. Issues of crime and punishment are also central to early modern utopias and utopian speculations and thus pivotal in those hybrid literary texts in which fictional debates on social norms and justice, on the nature of crime and on capital punishment serve (new) political programmes and the envisioning of alternative forms of government. Main deadlines: 30th June 2019: Please send your proposal and working title to the editors (maurizio.ascari@unibo.it; gilberta.golinelli@unibo.it). 20th July 2019 Notification of proposal acceptance. 10th January 2020: Submission of articles to the editors. Please note that articles must comply with the editorial norms and must not exceed 12,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. Articles may include up to 10 images (for publication they need to be submitted in 600 dpi resolution and with publication permit). All articles are published in English. Please be so kind as to have your paper revised by a native speaker. Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS) is an open access peer-reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion on issues concerning all aspects of early modern European culture. It provides a platform for international scholarly debate through the publication of outstanding work over a wide disciplinary spectrum: literature, language, art, history, politics, sociology, religion and cultural studies. JEMS is open to a range of research perspectives and methodological orientations and encourages studies that develop understanding of the major problematic areas relating to the European Renaissance. Editors in Chief Donatella Pallotti (University of Florence) Paola Pugliatti (University of Florence) jems@comparate.unifi.it

LINGUAE & Rivista di lingue e culture moderne Call for papers: Vol. 18 (2019) No 2 Safe and Sound. Listening to British and American Languages and Cultures Deadline for paper submission: July 15, 2019 Remapping he literary canon through listening practices means giving the aural dimension of poetry, prose, or simply language a fascinating chance to match the wonders of visual representation. Fiction and storytelling are actually strongly based in the universe of sounds and often involve something very similar to acousmatics, sound design, soundmarks, and sound icons. As a matter of fact, every single page is a soundscape, whether the sounds it contains be realistic, symbolic, or imaginary. This issue will collect essays which – by focusing on sounds, noises, voices, music, and silences as they appear in literature (including song lyrics), and with reference to the existing critical and scientific works in the multifaceted field of soundscape studies – reflect on the sonic construction of texts and acoustically deconstruct them. Issues concerning memory, ethnicity, class, religion, and gender are welcomed, together with translation studies, cultural studies, and intermodal studies. However, any idea will be eagerly evaluated. 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 July 15th, 2019. See Information for Authors 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. ________________________________________ Rimappare il canone letterario mediante pratiche di ascolto significa offrire alla dimensione orale della poesia, della prosa o semplicemente del linguaggio l’affascinante opportunità di eguagliare le meraviglie della rappresentazione visiva. Narrazioni e racconti sono in verità fortemente radicati nell’universo dei suoni e spesso implicano qualcosa di assai simile all’acusmatica, al sound design, ai marcatori sonori e alle icone sonore. In realtà ogni singola pagina è un paesaggio sonoro, indipendentemente dal fatto che i suoni che lo compongono siano realistici, simbolici, o immaginari. Questo numero della rivista raccoglierà saggi che – focalizzandosi su suoni, rumori, voci, musica e silenzi così come appaiono in letteratura (inclusi i testi delle canzoni) e con riferimento alle opere critiche e scientifiche esistenti nel multiforme ambito dei soundscape studies – riflettano sulla costruzione sonora dei testi e li decostruiscano acusticamente. Tematiche concernenti la memoria, l’etnicità, la classe, la religione, e il genere sono le benvenute, insieme agli studi sulla traduzione, agli studi culturali e agli studi intermodali. Tuttavia, valuteremo con interesse ogni idea che ci verrà proposta. 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 luglio 2019. Vd. Information for Authors 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”. http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/linguae/

Token: A Journal of English Linguistics – http://www.ujk.edu.pl/token Editors John G. Newman, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Marina Dossena, University of Bergamo Sylwester Łodej, Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce ISSN 2299-5900 e-ISSN 2392-2087 Token: A Journal of English Linguistics is an open-access journal which focuses on English linguistics in a broad sense: it accepts both diachronic and synchronic work, grammatical as well as lexical studies. Token publishes original research papers, and favors empirical, corpus- based research. The journal is listed in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the MLA Directory of Periodicals, and EBSCO (Academic Search Ultimate). Jan Kochanowski University (Kielce, Poland) publishes Token once annually, and all submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed. Publication is planned for late December every year, so the due date for individual submissions is 1 March, but submissions are welcome at any time. Contributors wishing to offer special issues or special sections within issues should contact the Editors by 15 January outlining the topic(s) they wish to address and providing a preliminary ToC (with the names and affiliations of the prospective contributors). Submissions should be prepared according to the style sheet available at www.ujk.edu.pl/token/submit/ and sent to token.journal@gmail.com. To submit a book review see the information at www.ujk.edu.pl/token/contact/. The full text of the articles published in earlier issues can be accessed at www.ujk.edu.pl/token/volumes/. For more information visit the journal’s webpage at www.ujk.edu.pl/token and LIKE our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/TokenAJournalofEnglishLinguistics/

Call for Papers – International symposium English Historical Lexicography in the Digital Age: Focus on Social and Geographical Variation Thu. 11th – Sat. 13th April 2019, Bergamo (Italy) Invited keynote speakers: Wendy Anderson, University of Glasgow Stefan Dollinger, University of British Columbia María F. García-Bermejo Giner, University of Salamanca Susan Rennie, independent scholar (Edinburgh) Organising committee: Marina Dossena (chair), Stefano Rosso and Polina Shvanyukova We invite abstracts for papers on English historical lexicography that pay close attention to the growing number of electronic resources that are currently becoming available in this field. Within this framework, we encourage submissions that focus on social and geographical varieties of English, ideally up to Late Modern times. Papers will be 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion, and we expect to publish a selection of them, following double- bind peer-review. Please note that we do not envisage parallel sessions. Send abstracts (ca. 400 words excluding references) as Word files to polina.shvanyukova@unibg.it no later than 15 November 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be issued by 15 December 2018. General information The event will be held in the Upper Town of Bergamo (www00.unibg.it/maps/mappa_citta_alta.htm). There is no registration fee, but delegates are invited to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. More information will be provided in future circulars and on the conference website at https://ls-llepa.unibg.it/it/news/english-historical-lexicography-digital-age-focus-social-and-geographical-variation The event takes place as part of the initiatives organized by the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bergamo as a Dipartimento di Eccellenza 2018-2022 and benefits from research conducted by the organizers in the 2015 PRIN research project Knowledge Dissemination across Media in English: Continuity and change in discourse strategies, ideologies, and epistemologies (prot. 2015TJ8ZAS). We also acknowledge the support of Token: A Journal of English Linguistics.

The Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies publishes original empirical research employing corpus methods for the analysis of language in use as a vehicle of communication. We welcome contributions from any disciplinary background and theoretical standpoint that present research based on the systematic examination of naturally-occurring language in specific settings and contexts using corpus techniques. In order to maximise the accessibility of research across disciplinary boundaries and to foster open and critical analysis, JCaDS places emphasis on the explicit and comprehensive documentation of discovery procedures, and encourages authors to publicly deposit the data and code used in their analysis whenever possible. The journal also publishes reviews of books, software tools and corpora. https://jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/