I-LanD Research Centre

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I-LanD Research Centre

The research centre is run by scholars from Italian and foreign universities who share common research interests.

Interuniversity and interdisciplinary research centre for advanced study in linguistics, social studies and humanities with a specific focus on the concepts of diversity and identity (from linguistic, cultural, and gender studies perspectives) I-LanD Interuniversity Research Centre is an independent, interdisciplinary centre for advanced study in linguistics, social studies and humanities in gener

al with a specific focus on the concepts of diversity and identity (from linguistic, cultural, and gender studies perspectives). I-LanD’s main aims:

a) to promote interdisciplinary research through cultural and educational activities in the field of linguistic and socio-linguistic studies with reference to the concepts of ’diversity’ and ’identity’ within the macro-fields of migration, diaspora and gender studies;
b) to organise conferences and seminars with the aim of promoting scientific cooperation and exchange among Italian and foreign scholars;
c) to enable programmes and initiatives with Italian and foreign universities in order to facilitate the mobility of both teaching staff and students;
d) to encourage and promote the implementation of inter-university agreements with ad hoc partnerships among national and international institutions. To promote activities with other organizations such as cultural and social non-university research centres. To undertake any other appropriate means of pursuing the Charter’s purposes.

25/05/2026

In case you missed it!

💻 Find the video recording of the fourth and last I-LanD Seminar 𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑨𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔: 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔

➡️ Here: https://youtu.be/pPaApV6xN5U

Speakers:
Lawrence D. Berg (University of British Columbia)
Luisa Caiazzo (University of Basilicata)
Richard Coates (University of the West of England)
Sheila Embleton (York University)

In conversation with:
Mirko Casagranda (University of Calabria)

21/05/2026

CONFERENCE CFP! 📢

🔸International conference "Performing Identity: Semiotic Representation(s) and the Making of Meaning"
🔹 University of Naples Federico II
🔹 3-4 December 2026

The conference invites contributions that explore how identities are constructed, performed, negotiated and reimagined in and through English across a wide range of contexts and modalities. Moving from the idea that identity is not something we simply have, but something we do, the conference foregrounds the performative, processual and semiotic nature of identity, with particular attention to discourse, interaction, multimodality, digital mediation, embodiment, power relations and ecological concerns.

Abstracts should not exceed 300 words and should include a maximum of 5 references in APA style.

➡️ Submission deadline: 15 July 2026
Conference dates: 3-4 December 2026
Venue: University of Naples Federico II, Italy

➡️ Proposals should be sent to: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Keynote speakers:
• Giuseppe Balirano, University of Naples L'Orientale
• Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio, University of Granada

We warmly encourage you to submit a proposal and share the CfP across your networks.

11/05/2026

🎓 I-LanD Seminar Series – 4th Edition | 4th Seminar
𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑨𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔: 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔

📅 Thursday, 14 May 2026
🕟 16:30–18:30 (CET)
💻 Microsoft Teams
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/3s5ufnbs

The next seminar of The I-LanD Seminar Series – 4th Edition (2nd semester) will explore how names are key to the construction and representation of individual and collective identity.

Bringing together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds, ranging from onomastics to sociolinguistics and geography, the discussion will focus on naming practices as forms of decolonial resistance, gender performativity, cultural and linguistic reappropriation, and literary characterization and interpretation. The seminar will examine not only how personal names, placenames, fictional names, and brand names denote identity, but also how they become socially embedded acts performed across cultural communities, language varieties, and textual and media genres.

🎙️ Speakers:
Lawrence D. Berg (University of British Columbia)
Luisa Caiazzo (University of Basilicata)
Richard Coates (University of the West of England)
Sheila Embleton (York University)

💬 In conversation with:
Mirko Casagranda (University of Calabria)

👉 Join us on Microsoft Teams:
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/36496409267058?p=Q5tBlR3FtWfDf4JlkH

🔗 For further details about The I-LanD Seminar Series:
https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/the-i-land-seminar-series-3/

05/05/2026

🤩 Yes, yes, we are also still recovering from yesterday's exciting news, but:

The YouTube video recording of the last I-LanD Seminar "Artificial Intelligence in English Language and Translation: Bridging Research and Practice" is now available! 💻

Watch it here: https://youtu.be/zTieG6CNeJQ

04/05/2026

✨ Languaging Diversity is back, and it returns to Naples!

The 10th edition of the Languaging Diversity International Conference will take place at the University of Naples L'Orientale from 8 to 10 June 2027.

📍 University of Naples L'Orientale
📅 8–10 June 2027
Theme: Back to the Future: Languaging Diversity in an Age of Instability, Mobility, and Transformation

A milestone edition to look back at the journey of the conference series and move forward in rethinking discourse, identity, diversity, belonging, and representation in a rapidly changing world.
With Vesuvius as its symbolic backdrop, the conference evokes a landscape where normalization and precarity coexist, a powerful image of instability, transformation, and life constantly negotiated in the shadow of change.

📌 Save the date! More details coming soon

04/05/2026

✨ Save the Date
🔴🟠🟡 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑫𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟕 🟢🔵🟣
International Conference

The 10th edition of the Languaging Diversity International Conference returns to Naples, where the conference series first began.

📍 University of Naples L’Orientale
📅 8–10 June 2027
Theme: Back to the Future: Languaging Diversity in an Age of Instability, Mobility, and Transformation

A return to the past and a step into the future to rethink discourse, identity, diversity, and belonging in times of profound transformation.

Further details coming soon.

16/04/2026

🤩The I-LanD Seminar Series – 4th Edition (2nd semester)
𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞
🕟Thursday, 23 April 2026, from 16:30 to 18:30 (CET) on Microsoft Teams.

This seminar will explore the transformative role of artificial intelligence across language education and translation. Bringing together scholars working at the intersection of pedagogy, research, and professional practice, the discussion will examine how AI is reshaping the ways languages are taught, learned, and mediated. The seminar will address key issues such as teacher agency, ethical use, evolving translation practices, and the challenges of applying AI in diverse and often unequal educational contexts.

Speakers:
Ezgi Aydemir Altas (Yildiz Technical University, Turkey)
Elif Buber (Center for Innovative Education, USA)
Alessia Chiriatti (Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy)
Marián Kabát (Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia)
Achilleas Kostoulas (University of Thessaly, Greece)

In conversation with:
Francesca Raffi (University of Macerata)

🔜Join the meeting here: https://tinyurl.com/38zjxvep

30/03/2026

🎥
If you missed the second I-LanD seminar 𝑨𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒚𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆: 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔, you can now watch the full recording on YouTube.

👉 Watch the full seminar here:
https://youtu.be/kWgIdENYBYU

This seminar explored the interdisciplinary nature of social media studies through a dialogue between qualitative and quantitative approaches to the analysis of language and discourse online. Bringing together scholars whose work has significantly shaped research on digital communication, the discussion reflected on the methodological diversity and analytical potential of contemporary linguistic and discourse-oriented research in digital environments.

The seminar featured Massimiliano Demata (University of Catania), Matteo Di Cristofaro (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Candice L. Edrington (University of South Carolina), Federica Formato (University of Brighton), Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King’s College London), and Philip Seargeant (The Open University), in conversation with Anna Mongibello and Valentina De Brasi (University of Naples L’Orientale).

🎬 To watch past seminars from The I-LanD Seminar Series, visit our playlist:
https://t.co/tEaNeWqL5U

🔗 For further details about The I-LanD Seminar Series:
https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/the-i-land-seminar-series-3/

This instalment of The I-LanD Seminar Series explores the interdisciplinary nature of social media studies through a dialogue between qualitative and quantit...

26/03/2026

Today!😍

23/03/2026

Call for Papers🖍️

Special issue of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
Title: "𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞, 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞"
Edited by Bronwen Hughes (University of Naples Parthenope) and Margaret Rasulo (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli).

This special issue invites contributions on how truth value is attributed, contested, and put to strategic use through images in contemporary communication across platformed public spheres. Particular attention is given to the ways in which multimodal artefacts circulate as forms of "evidence", becoming focal points for polarised and discriminatory conflict in digital environments. The issue welcomes submissions that engage critically with these dynamics through Social Media Critical Discourse Studies and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, as well as through other methodological approaches addressing discrimination in platformed contexts.

Important dates:
- Abstract deadline: 15 April 2026
- Notification / invitation to submit full paper: 30 April 2026
- Full paper due: 28 February 2027
- Final submission: 30 July 2027
- Estimated publication: November 2027

Abstract submission:
- Length: up to 500 words (references excluded)
- Language: English
- Send to: [email protected] and [email protected]

Full details are available in the Call for Papers.

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