37.439, Confs: Cultivating Plurilingual Education across Different Learning Contexts through the Arts and Museums Venice (Italy)

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Subject: 37.439, Confs: Cultivating Plurilingual Education across Different Learning Contexts through the Arts and Museums Venice (Italy)

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Date: 30-Jan-2026
From: Fabiana Fazzi [mile at unive.it]
Subject: Cultivating Plurilingual Education across Different Learning Contexts through the Arts and Museums Venice


Cultivating Plurilingual Education across Different Learning Contexts
through the Arts and Museums Venice

Date: 15-Oct-2026 - 16-Oct-2026
Location: Venice, Italy
Contact Email: mile at unive.it
Meeting URL: https://www.unive.it/web/en/17044/home

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics

Submission Deadline: 01-Mar-2026

This conference seeks to highlight how the synergistic connection
between the arts, museums, and (language) classrooms can create third
spaces (Bhabha 2010) or, in Li’s terms, “translanguaging spaces” (Li
2011, 2018). In such spaces, language users actively draw on their
full range of resources and modalities (including visual, embodied,
sensory, and social) to construct meanings in interaction, embracing
their inner spaces, personal journeys, and aesthetic sensibilities
(Anderson et al. 2018; Bradley et al. 2018; Lytra et al. 2022;
Abdelhadi et al. 2020). Research has shown that promoting plurilingual
communicative and pedagogical practices across different learning
contexts (e.g. museums, botanical gardens, city spaces, etc.) and in
integration with various art and creative methods (e.g. collage
making, drama, creative writing, a/r/tography, etc.) can have a
positive impact on learners’ deep and meaningful engagement with
content, metalinguistic awareness, creativity, self-expression, and
democratic citizenship (Bradley 2025; Meneghetti and Fazzi 2025;
Macleroy and Shamsad 2020; Arshavskaya 2021; Futro 2022). Moreover,
promoting plurilingualism in public spaces can help challenge
linguistic and social hierarchies by integrating new narratives and
perspectives, promoting the inclusion and empowerment of often
marginalised communities, and supporting intercultural understanding
(Meneghetti 2024; Fazzi 2025; Deroo 2022; Matras 2023; Lehman et al.
2018).



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