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ITALIAN OSCAR WILDE SOCIETY’ CONFERENCE1854-2024: Omaggio a Oscar Wilde a 170 anni dalla nascita1854-2024: A Tribute to Oscar Wilde on the 170th Anniversary of His Birth15-16 ottobre 2024Gipsoteca di Arte Antica – Piazza San Paolo all’Orto, 20 56126 Pisahttps://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 202409.30 Saluti istituzionali – Institutional greetings CHAIR: Laura Giovannelli10.00 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 Bizzotto11.45 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 Ferrari15.00 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 2024CHAIR: Gino Scatasta10.00 Elisa Bizzotto, Laura Giovannelli, Pierpaolo Martino, Gino ScatastaThe Devoted Friend: Tavola rotonda in memoria di Alex R. Falzon 12.30 Chiusura lavori – Closing remarks

PRIN/CLAVIER 2025 Joint ConferenceCALL FOR PAPERSCommunicating transparency:New trends and insights for professional and intercultural settingsTropea, Calabria (Italy), May 29-30, 2025 We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Joint PRIN/CLAVIER 2025 Conference to be held May 29-30, 2025 at the conference facilities of Hotel Tropis in Tropea, Calabria. The conference marks the end of a three-year PRIN1 research project entitled Communicating transparency: New trends in English-language corporate and institutional disclosure practices in intercultural settings (CommTran). It is being jointly organized under the auspices of CLAVIER, an Italian inter-university research center. Transparency broadly refers to the degree of openness in conveying information to key stakeholders as well as the public at large. A perception of transparency becomes a precursor to trust as manifested in the belief that organizations will act in the best interests of their stakeholders and also assume accountability for their actions (Ball, 2009; Rawlins, 2008). Thus, demonstrating transparency remains a critical communicative objective of organizations, particularly in light of recurring scandals and growing scrutiny on the part of informed citizens whose expectations of and access to information are ever-expanding (Christensen & Cheney, 2015). In corporate settings, transparency is typically associated with financial disclosure, a well-consolidated practice comprising both mandatory and voluntary reporting genres that are produced to comply with legal requirements but also to proactively engage with stakeholders. In recent years, non-financial disclosure relating to environmental and social issues has become increasingly important and, like financial disclosure, is now often mandated by regulatory directives (Jackson et al., 2020). Moreover, thanks to an increasing array of digital affordances, companies are also leveraging their own web-based communications, as well as social media platforms (e.g., X, Instagram, Facebook), to boost perceptions of transparency among a wider audience. In institutional settings (e.g., media organizations, governmental authorities, political entities), communicating with transparency is also an ongoing concern in an effort to establish trustful relationships with citizens (Chilton, 2004). In the current context of growing public suspicion and distrust, institutions are under mounting pressure to commit to disclosing information in a way that is perceived as transparent and trustworthy. Language clearly plays a vital role in communicating transparently and establishing trust. For organizations operating in international/intercultural contexts, regardless of country of origin, it is now common to find disclosure-oriented communications in English posted on publicly accessible Internet venues. This reflects not only the need to overcome barriers with a shared code of communication (Kecskes, 2004), but also to promote an image of transparency to a global and multicultural audience (Crowley et al., 2015). Thus, culture can play a key role in the communicative strategies of corporate and institutional actors from different linguacultural backgrounds when producing written and oral texts in English aiming to boost perceptions of transparency. This conference intends to provide a platform for research that sheds light on how transparency is constructed and communicated across professional and intercultural contexts. We invite proposals related but not limited to the following themes:1. Communicating transparency across sectors and discourse domains2. Communicating transparency in institutional contexts3. The impact of digital technologies on communicating transparency4. Cultural differences in communicating transparency5. The role of English in communicating transparency in cross-cultural/intercultural contexts6. The role of normative requirements in communicating transparency7. Transparency in the context of sustainability8. Transparency in the context of diversity, equity and inclusion9. Enhancing, hindering or violating transparency10. Teaching skills for communicating transparently We welcome submissions from scholars working in various fields such as discourse analysis, genre analysis, corpus-assisted discourse analysis, pragmalinguistics, critical discourse analysis, multimodality, intercultural communication, ESP teaching and learning, and other related fields, as well as interdisciplinary approaches. Keynote speakersLars Thøger Christensen – Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business SchoolMarlies Whitehouse – ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Applied Linguistics, Institute of Language Competence Conference chair:Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli Organizing committeeAssunta (Susie) Caruso, Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli, Jean Jimenez, Vanessa Marcella, Sergio Pizziconi, Ian Robinson, Ida Ruffolo Scientific committeeMarina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Gloria Cappelli (University of Pisa), Paola Catenaccio (University of Milan), Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli (University of Calabria), Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo), Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona), Daniele Franceschi (University of Roma Tre), Denise Milizia (University of Bari), Renzo Mocini (“La Sapienza” University of Rome), Giuseppe Palumbo (University of Trieste), Christina Samson (University of Florence) Guidelines for abstract submissionIndividual papers: Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words + max 5 references. Presentation format is 20 minutes followed by 5 minutes for discussion. Panels: Panels should feature 3-5 speakers. Panel proposals must include 200-250 words of general presentation, followed by individual abstracts (max 250 words + max 5 references). Presentation format is 20 minutes per individual paper, with 10 minutes for discussion at the conclusion of the panel. To prepare the abstract, please use the template provided on the conference website:https://prin2020commtran.dices.unical.it/ Abstracts should be submitted electronically via email to the conference email-address PRIN-CLAVIER2025@unical.it, together with a separate cover letter indicating the author’s name, affiliation, contact information and title of of the contribution. Please use the APA 7 citation style for your references and indicate minimum 3 and maximum 5 keywords. Important: do not indicate author name(s) and affiliation(s) on the abstract file. All abstracts will be submitted to a double-blind review process. The proposed abstracts will be evaluated according to the following criteria:• Original topic of relevance to conference theme(s)• Appropriate theoretical background and references• Clearly articulated aim(s) and methodological approach• Presentation of findings (or preliminary findings)• Well-structured, coherent, and clearly written Dates to rememberAbstract Submission Deadline: 20 November 2024Notification of Acceptance: 20 December 2024 For information, please write to: PRIN-CLAVIER2025@unical.itReferencesBall, C. (2009). What is transparency? Public Integrity, 11(4), 293-308.Chilton, P. (2004). Analysing political discourse. Routledge.Christensen, L.T., & Cheney, G. (2015). Peering into transparency: Challenging ideals, proxies, and organizational practices. Communication Theory, 25, 70–90.Crowley, M. D., Yurova, Y., & Golden, C. F. (2015). IFRS without an International Financial Reporting Language (IFRL): Evidence of multiculturalism and a lack of global transparency in the EU. Studies in Communication Sciences, 15(1), 53-60.Jackson, G., Bartosch, J., Avetisyan, E., Kinderman, D.,

Sapienza University of Rome -Dipartimento di Studi Europei Americani e Interculturali PhD Programme in STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION, academic year 2024-2025 TUTORIALS and EVENTS The Sapienza International PhD Programme in English Literatures, Language, and Translation (SELLT), offered in partnership with the University of Silesia in Katowice, provides an exceptional opportunity for students to develop advanced critical and analytical skills for specialized research. The programme is structured around three distinct curricula: English Language and Translation, English Literature, and Anglo-American Literature. As such, SELLT offers a unique academic environment, fostering both depth and breadth in English studies, currently unmatched in Italy. Scholarships and mobility grants are available through Sapienza University, supporting academic excellence and international collaboration. The main campus, housed in the modern “Marco Polo” building, is located in the vibrant San Lorenzo district of Rome. Courses begin in October and span a wide range of academic areas, including: American Studies, Modern Literary Discourse, Shakespeare Studies, Theatre Studies in the 21st Century, Early Modern Language and Culture, Translation Studies (Audiovisual Translation, Adaptation Studies, History of Translation), Linguistics and Sociolinguistics (Humor Studies, Multilingualism, Diatopic Varieties), History of English, Historical Linguistics, and Pragmatics, Stylistics, English Language Teaching

International Conference/Convegno InternazionaleMarginalities/Marginalità9-11 October 2024 / 9-11 ottobre 2024Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (IT) Margins are the kingdom of change, transformation, fluidity, and (re)location. To stand on the margins is to be transgressive, interdicted, eccentric. To prefer the margins over the central/centralised dominant culture is to take up a space of resistance. Therefore, it is crucial to embody marginality and counterpower in order to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct the complexity of reality. Thinking and rethinking the borders means re-evaluating space from a geocritical perspective, combining language, identity, and setting representation – be it home, a rural or urban landscape, or even a digital or scientific/science-fiction space. Strictly connected with female writing, the household space, for instance, is remarkably ambivalent: a familiar place that provides protection but also requires it, the household often becomes a “prison”, and the inside-outside dialectic eventually leads to subversion dynamics. Because of the possibilities provided by semanticization, walls – namely, dividing lines between indoors and outdoors – become somewhat destabilising despite their function to support other elements and define space. Therefore, a house can also become a place of the eccentric and the unsettling, the so-called Freudian Unheimliche. The notion of margin opens up a wide range of possibilities. Margins are frontiers that become a space of transition where different forces and individuals come in contact and alter their identities. As geographical borders, margins generate dividing lines that protect well-established political, social, and symbolic spaces. The crossing of borders, limits, and marginalities leads to issues of citizenship and belonging; and suffice it to think that some identities in movement, in the making, in transition, find it more complex to develop a sense of belonging towards a certain space, as well as to recognise themselves within it. Yet, crossing borders means opening a breech in the self, to enhance the possibilities for that self, to come to life once again. The notion of margin opens up a wide range of possibilities. Margins are frontiers that become a space of transition where different forces and individuals come in contact and alter their identities. As geographical borders, margins generate dividing lines that protect well-established political, social, and symbolic spaces. The crossing of borders, limits, and marginalities leads to issues of citizenship and belonging; and suffice it to think that some identities in movement, in the making, in transition, find it more complex to develop a sense of belonging towards a certain space, as well as to recognise themselves within it. Yet, crossing borders means opening a breech in the self, to enhance the possibilities for that self, to come to life once again. This international conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogues on the diverse linguistic, literary, and cultural manifestations that margins can assume within the Humanities. Scientific Coordination: Scientific Committee: Organising Committee: