36.3855, Confs: The Muse of Fire: Narrating Conflict: Forms, Languages, and Cultures Across Literature and Linguistics (Italy)

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Date: 12-Dec-2025
From: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano [lamusadifuoco2026 at gmail.com]
Subject: The Muse of Fire: Narrating Conflict: Forms, Languages, and Cultures Across Literature and Linguistics


The Muse of Fire: Narrating Conflict: Forms, Languages, and Cultures
Across Literature and Linguistics

Date: 16-Apr-2026 - 16-Apr-2026
Location: Milano, Italy
Contact Email: lamusadifuoco2026 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Ling &
Literature; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 31-Jan-2026

This conference offers a unified framework bringing together two
complementary perspectives. The Literature and Media section examines
how conflict takes shape in narrative, from classical epic to modern
anti-epics and audiovisual representations, focusing on the narrative
devices and aesthetic strategies that construct meaning around wars,
crises and traumas. The Linguistics section considers language as a
site of conflict, analyzing how political and media discourse,
multilingual practices, language policies and specialized lexicons
produce exclusion, resistance or mediation. Tools such as discourse
analysis, corpus linguistics and minority language studies enable us
to interpret these dynamics.
The conference aims to foster dialogue between these two areas,
offering an overview of the forms, languages and cultures of
contemporary conflict and demonstrating how narration and language
intertwine in its representation and possible transformation.
You can find the full version of the abstract (it/en) here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rxTFKva7jBjqbjU1CoLECgpdkXtD0il4?usp=sharing
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