29.606, Calls: English, Historical Linguistics/Italy

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Subject: 29.606, Calls: English, Historical Linguistics/Italy

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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:48:46
From: Letizia Vezzosi [letizia.vezzosi at unifi.it]
Subject: 11th International Conference on Middle English

 
Full Title: 11th International Conference on Middle English 
Short Title: ICOME XI 

Date: 05-Feb-2019 - 08-Feb-2019
Location: Florence, Italy 
Contact Person: Letizia Vezzosi
Meeting Email: icome11 at unifi.it
Web Site: http://www.icome11.unifi.it 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Eleventh International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 11) will be
hosted by the Department of Languages Literatures and Cultural Studies at the
University of Florence (Italy), 5 -8  February 2019. 

ICOME 11 continues the series of ICOME conferences held at Rydzyna (1994),
Helsinki (1997), Dublin (1999), Vienna (2002), Naples (2005), Cambridge
(2008), Lviv (2011), Murcia (2013), Wroclaw (2015) and Stavanger (2017). It
will cover different aspects of Middle English language, linguistics,
literature and texts, including papers on historical linguistic,
philological-textual criticism and literary topics.

The following plenary speakers have kindly confirmed their participation:

- Andrew James Johnston (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
- Alessandra Petrina (University of Padova, Italia)
- Merja Stenroos (University of Stavanger, Norway)
- Laura Wright (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)  


Call for Papers:

ICOME 11

Paper proposals should be between 350 and 500 words excluding references and
indicate clearly objectives, method(s), and results where appropriate. Each
paper will be given 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. Please
send your abstract by email to icome11 at unifi.it as a .docx, .rtf or .odt file.

Workshop proposals are welcome and should include a clear statement of its
objectives (about 300 words) as well as at least four names of proposed
speakers (with affiliations) and a sample bibliography. Workshop proposals
will be subject to review by our Scientific Committee. Please note that the
organizer(s) of a workshop session will be expected to solicit submissions,
advertise the session organize the reviewing process, and submit a complete
set of accepted abstracts by the main submission deadline.

Important dates:

Deadline for Submission of Workshop proposals: 1 June 2018
Deadline for Submission of the complete set of accepted abstracts: 15 August
2018
Deadline for Paper proposals: 15 August 2018
Notification of acceptance: 1 October 2018

Official website:  http://icome11.unifi.it/ 
Contact us: icome11 at unifi.it

Looking forward to seeing you in Florence!

ICOME 11 Organising Committee:

Luca Baratta
Nicholas Brownlees
Fernando Cioni
Fiorenzo Fantaccini
Ilaria Natali
Donatella Pallotti o Ballotti
Francesca Murano
Ayse Saraçgil
Letizia Vezzosi 
Mariarosa Zinzi

Scientific committee:

Stefania D'Agata D'Ottavi (University for Foreigners, Siena)
Ian Johnson (University of St Andrews)
Gabriella Mazzon (University of Innsbruck)
Donka Minkova (UCLA)
Herbert Schendl (University of Vienna)
Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford)
Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University)
David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)




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