October
21
HUMOR THEORY
Salvatore Attardo (East Texas A&M University)
Humor and the “genius loci”: a geosemiotic perspective.
November
12
LITERARY HISTORY AND CRITICISM
Richard Ambrosini (Università di RomaTre)
Theory and History of English Literature
19
CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
Giorgio Mariani (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Moby Dick and the Oceanic Turn in American Studies
24
PHILOLOGY OF EARLY MODERN DRAMATIC TEXT
Sonia Massai (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Provenance: What is it? And why should we care?
December
2
AUDIO VISUAL TRANSLATION
Antonio Pleguezuelos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Representations of Sexual and Gender Identity in Audiovisual Media
9
COGNITIVE STYLISTICS
Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo)
Creativity in literary writing
16
CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
Donatella Izzo (Università L’Orientale di Napoli)
A Selective History
January 2026
AI AND THE HUMANITIES
13
Fabio Ciambella (Sapienza Università di Roma)
AI-supported Applied Linguistics: Translation, pedagogical, and analytical tools
20
Daniel Raffini (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Artificial Intelligence and Literary Studies
27
Giacomo Traina (Università di Trieste)
The Ethics of AI
February
3
FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR
Renzo Mocini (Sapienza University of Rome)
Metafunctions of Language: A Gateway to Halliday’s Functional Grammar
10
STRUCTURALISM
Fausto Ciompi (Univesity of Pisa)
Weak Smiles: Philately, Structuralism, and Its Discontents
SECOND-LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
17
Enrico Grazzi (Università di Roma Tre)
Promoting Emotional Self-regulation in the English Classroom (1)
24
Enrico Grazzi (Università di Roma Tre)
Promoting Emotional Self-regulation in the English Classroom (2)
March
CULTURAL STUDIES
3
Michele Sisto (Università di Chieti -Pescara)
Pierre Bourdieu's Field Theory: A Methodological Introduction
10
Carlo Martinez (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Pierre Bourdieu and Literature: E.A. Poe’s Trajectory as Case Study
17
GENDER THEORY
Donatella Izzo (Università L’Orientale di Napoli)
A Selective History
24
CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
Alì Dehdaridad (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Between Fiction and Non-Fiction: William T. Vollmann and the Question of the Other.
April
22
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
Javier Ruano Garcia (University of Salamanca)
Recent perspectives on the history of English dialects: Late Modern English in focus
May
Doctoral Projects Forum