Please consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.

1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Romance Linguistics; Historical Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Romance

Call Deadline: March 15, 2020

Meeting Description and Call for Papers:

The Romance Linguistics Forum welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics and invites abstracts exploring any area of Romance…[Read more]

The 53rd Annual IASA Pittsburgh Conference November 5-7, 2020
Mining the Diaspora: Italian-American Materialities, Archaeologies, and Intersections
Submission Deadline: Friday, May 1, 2020
The Italian American Studies Association (IASA formerly the American Italian Historical Association AIHA) celebrates its fifty-third year of academic…[Read more]

Dear member of the LSL Romance Linguistics MLA Forum,

The Romance Linguistics Forum is currently seeking candidates to participate in the group’s governance. Nominees will have a chance to decide the forum’s priorities, organize panels, and interact with other standing member organizations of the MLA. The terms are generally for five years.

We…[Read more]

My name is Silvia Guslandi. I hold a Ph.D. in Euro-American Comparative Literature and I am currently a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago (working on Emanuel Carnevali, among other things). Thank you for the honor of considering me as a candidate for the LLC Italian American seat at the Delegate Assembly. As my…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I’m honored to have been nominated to serve on the HEP Teaching as a Profession Forum Executive Committee, and I write to introduce myself and my qualifications beyond the information that you’ll find in my MLA Commons Profile or at my personal web site. In brief, as a member of the executive committee, I’d like to expand my e…[Read more]

Fellow Colleagues of Italian/ Italian American / Italian Diaspora Studies ,

My name is Colleen Ryan. I am Professor of Italian at Indiana University and currently serve as Secretary of the Italian American Studies Association. It is an honor for me to be a nominee to represent the MLA’s Italian American forum as an executive committee me…[Read more]

Buon giorno a tutt*,

Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.

I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]

Buon giorno a tutt*,

Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.

I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]

“Marine Feet and Vesuvian Eyes”: The Volcanic Aesthetics of Maria Orsini Natale

An edited volume

Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2020 “The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!” ~ Nietzsche “I have marine feet and Vesuvian…[Read more]

2020 MLA CFP: Teaching in an Age of Populism 

Conference: Modern Language Association Convention

Location: Seattle, Washington

Dates: 09–12 January 2020

Full name of sponsoring MLA committee: Executive Committee for the Forum Higher Education and the Profession (HEP): Teaching as a Profession

Contact emails…[Read more]

2020 MLA CFP: Advocating for Foreign Language Departments

Conference: Modern Language Association Convention

Location: Seattle, Washington

Dates: 09–12 January 2020

Full name of sponsoring MLA committee: Executive Committee for the Forum Higher Education and the Profession (HEP): Teaching as a Profession

Contact email…[Read more]

Dear HEP Teaching as a Profession members,

My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing instructors in…[Read more]

deadline for submissions: March 25, 2019

Call for Papers for a guaranteed session sponsored by the LLC Italian American Forum at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention on January 9-12, 2020, in Seattle, Washington.

This panel welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to texts in different media and genres that map and reflect…[Read more]

Re-Thinking Design, Italian Style

Bridging the Italian Curriculum Through ‘MADE IN ITALY’ 

A Workshop for Instructors Aimed at Enriching the Italian CurriculumJuly 7-21, 2019  Lead Facilitator:

• Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Assistant Professor of Italian, University of Arkansas

Co-Collaborators:

• Alessandro Adorno, Director, Babilonia: Itali…

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CALL For Papers AATI  Conference  30 maggio – 2 giugno, 2019 Marist College – Poughkeepsie, NY 

L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno si terrà a Poughkeepsie, NY, dal 30 maggio al 2 giugno, 2019, presso Marist College.  Il tema del convegno è aperto, ma l’A…[Read more]