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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 general 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.

19/10/2026

📣 Seminar series:
Representing the Femminiello: Linguistic, Cultural and Audiovisual Perspectives
https://tinyurl.com/rap-fem

Bringing together scholars, writers and filmmakers, the seminar series explores representations of the Neapolitan femminiello across language, culture, translation and audiovisual media, with particular attention to gender, identity and visibility

📅 23 October–14 December 2026
🌐 Seven online seminars on MS Teams
🎬 Two documentary screenings and discussions in Naples
🗣️ Sessions in Italian and English
🎟️ Free participation

The series opens on 23 October, 16:30–18:30, with Monica Florio's talk:
"Il femminiello: identità e integrazione nel mondo del vicolo"

💻 All online seminars take place from 16:30 to 18:30, Italian local time.
Microsoft Teams code: uu7pat1

🎥 Join us in Naples on 14 December for two documentary screenings with English subtitles:
♦ 10:30–12:30 — Femmenell – City of Mermaids: Giuseppe Balirano in conversation with director Andrea Fortis
♦ 14:30–16:30 — Pagani: Anna Mongibello in conversation with director Elisa Flaminia Inno
📍 Palazzo Santa Maria Porta Coeli, Room R4, Via Duomo 219, Naples

📩 Information and registration: [email protected]
📌 See the poster for the complete programme

The initiative is funded under the University's Gender Equality Plan (GEP) 2025–2027, promoted by the Comitato Unico di Garanzia (CUG), with the support of the I-LanD Research Centre

Please share with colleagues, students and anyone interested!

12/10/2026

📢 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗦

✨ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁, 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on End-of-the-Year Celebrations

📅 21–22 December 2026
💻 International online conference via Zoom
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

From rituals and festive meals to storytelling and digital celebrations, this conference explores how communities across cultures mark transitions, honour the past, celebrate the present, and express hope for the future.

Contributions are welcome from linguistics, literature, cultural studies, anthropology, folklore, sociology, and related fields, with particular attention to food traditions and multimodal representations.

🔎 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀
🔹 Linguistics and language of celebration
🔹 Literary representations and narrative traditions
🔹 Anthropological and cultural perspectives
🔹 Intercultural dialogue and global dynamics

📝 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀
Please submit a single Word document containing:
▪️ An abstract of around 300 words, excluding references
▪️ 3–5 keywords
▪️ A biographical note of 100–150 words

Presentations should last 15–20 minutes, followed by a 10-minute discussion. The working language is English.

📆 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀
▪️ Abstract submission deadline: 𝟯𝟬 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
▪️ Notification of acceptance: 7 December 2026
▪️ Final programme: 14 December 2026

📧 Send submissions to: [email protected]
Email subject: Abstract Submission - Spirits of Festivities Conference

The full Call for Papers is attached to this post and available at:
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/cfp-festivities

Please share with colleagues and networks who may be interested!

06/10/2026

📢 Symposium Announcement & Programme

"Challenging Identities: Between Human and AI Settings"
📅 20 October 2026
📍 University of Basilicata, Potenza (Italy)

The I-LanD Research Centre is pleased to share the programme for the symposium "Challenging Identities: Between Human and AI Settings", organised by the Department for Humanistic, Scientific and Social Innovation (DIUSS) of the University of Basilicata in collaboration with I-LanD.

The symposium will bring together scholars from philosophy, literature, linguistics, sociology, and history to explore how interactions between human and artificial settings are reshaping our understanding of identity, knowledge, and communication.

Topics include:
🔹 Identity and discourse
🔹 Culture and society
🔹 Language mediation and learning
🔹 Artificial intelligence and literature
🔹 Theoretical and methodological approaches to human-AI interaction

The event offers a valuable opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration among academics, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral researchers, and students.

📍 Venue: Aula Magna and Aula Disegno, Campus del Francioso, Potenza (Italy)

📎 Poster and programme below

16/09/2026

REGISTRATION OPEN 📣

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

👉Register here: https://www.frcongressi.it/pay/user/areapersonale.php?token=5c23b24205a6acf83e2915485bd4226d

Registration is now open both to presenters and to those who wish to attend without presenting a paper. Colleagues, researchers, students and anyone interested in the conference themes are warmly invited to join the event, including those who have not submitted an abstract.

For further information, please contact: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Keynote speakers:
• Giuseppe Balirano, University of Naples L'Orientale
• Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex (UK)

Conference fee and social dinner:
• €100 for senior scholars (RTD-B, RTT, Associate Professor and Full Professor)
• €80 for junior scholars (PhD student, Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor and RTD-A)
• €45 for participation in the social dinner

02/09/2026

Welcome back!☀️

We are happy to share the call for papers for the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Conference "Grammar of Sexualities: Forms of Saying, Narrating and Performing".

👉The conference will take place on 10 and 11 December 2026 at the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries (DUSIC) of the University of Parma.

The CFP is open to PhD candidates and to PhD holders who obtained their degree no more than three years ago.

Proposals are due by 30 September 2026, and selection results will be communicated by 19 October 2026, with information on the location and final programme to follow at a later date.

Full cfp here:https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/grammars-of-sexuality_cfp_eng_unipr.pdf

23/07/2026

Call for papers!

- 6th ILLA Focus Conference on Forensic Linguistics (29 June 2027)
- 8th General ILLA Conference (30 June – 2 July 2027)
"The Changing Landscapes of Language and Law History, Theory and Practice"

Host institution: University of Naples Federico II

Organisers: International Language and Law Association (ILLA)

This conference explores the dynamic interplay between language and law along multiple axes. Diachronic perspectives and future-oriented approaches are brought into dialogue: from the linguistic analysis of ancient and pre-modern legal texts to emerging developments driven by technological advances, particularly artificial intelligence, and multilingual legal communication.

Info: http://www.illa2027.unina.it

15/07/2026

🗣️Double Call for Panel Contributors!

IPrA 2027 International Pragmatics Conference, University of Helsinki, 27 June - 2 July 2027.

1️⃣ Panel 1: "The Pragmatics of Organized Crime and Conflict: Identity, Ritual, and Transnational Mediations"

2️⃣ Panel 2: "Multimedia and Multimodal Representations of Food: Pragmatic Perspectives on Identity and Space"

Convenors:
▪️Takako Kawabata (SOAS University of London, [email protected])
▪️Daniela Cesiri (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, [email protected])

Contributors should submit their abstracts via the IPrA CONFERENCE WEBSITE by 15 October 2026.

14/07/2026

👉Deadline extension!

Call for Papers: 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: EXTENDED: 30 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
• Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex (UK)

Info: https://tinyurl.com/performid-conf-2026

13/07/2026

😍Call for Papers for a special issue of 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘦, titled: "𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐀.𝐈.: 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬".

The special issue invites contributions examining representations of artificial intelligence in science fiction literature and cinema. Interdisciplinary approaches drawing on gender studies, posthumanism, media studies, cultural studies, and philosophy are particularly welcome.

Possible areas of inquiry include machine intelligence and becoming human, AI consciousness and responsibility, human identity, ethical and social questions, gender, posthumanism, sentient machines, and artificial agency.

Key dates:
- Abstracts (300 words) and bio-note (100 words) due: 20 July 2026
- Notification of acceptance: 30 July 2026
- Full papers due: 15 October 2026
- Publication: December 2026

Contributions may be submitted in English or Italian.

➡️Abstracts and bio-notes should be sent to [email protected]

10/07/2026

❗LAST BUT NOT LEAST❗

To conclude this week, we're announcing the third keynote speaker of Languaging Diversity 2027:
Don Kulick (Uppsala University)

The 10th Languaging Diversity Conference, "Back to the Future: Languaging Diversity in an Age of Instability, Mobility, and Transformation", will be held at the University of Naples L'Orientale next June 8-10, 2027. CfP to be announced soon! Stay tuned!

We can't wait to meet you there! ♥️

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