37.2441, Confs: Margins and Marginality in Philology, Literature, Linguistics and Book Cultures (Italy)

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Date: 20-Jul-2026
From: Valentina Moscolari [valentina.moscolari at unibo.it]
Subject: Margins and Marginality in Philology, Literature, Linguistics and Book Cultures


Margins and Marginality in Philology, Literature, Linguistics and Book
Cultures
Short Title: CLF 2027 – 3rd International Doctoral Conference

Date: 27-Jan-2027 - 29-Jan-2027
Location: Bologna, Italy
Meeting URL:
https://phd.unibo.it/culture-letterarie-e-filologiche/it/attivita/convegno-dottorale-internazionale-2026

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Typology

Submission Deadline: 01-Sep-2026

The PhD students of the Doctoral Program in Literary and Philological
Cultures at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna are pleased
to announce the third edition of the Doctoral Conference of the
Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies. The conference
invites participation from both PhD candidates and early-career
researchers. This edition focuses on margins and marginality across
the fields of Philology, Literature, Linguistics and Book Cultures.
Contributions may explore theoretical and methodological perspectives
(history of debates, critical approaches, influential positions)
and/or empirical analyses (significant or widely discussed case
studies).
The concept of margin lends itself to numerous reflections within the
Language Sciences, opening up theoretical and methodological
perspectives ranging, to name but a few, from applied linguistics to
sociolinguistics, morphology, and discourse analysis.
First of all, the margin can be associated with the concept of
marginality. The historical, political, and cultural dynamics of the
recent years have heightened the attention that the Language Sciences
devote to communities marginalized in relation to migratory phenomena.
One may think, for example, of acquisitional approaches or of the
study of the sociolinguistics of migration. The margin may also recall
the opposition between core and periphery. In discourse analysis, the
left and right periphery of the utterance are privileged sites for
observing phenomena related to information structure. In morphology,
the margin recalls the notion of periphery or word boundary: it is in
these spaces that one observes, at a cross-linguistic level, not only
the specialization of one margin for derivation and the other for
inflection (although deviations from this expectation are not
lacking), but also the locus in which elements originally external to
the word become fused with the lexeme, giving rise to new affixes.
Broadening the perspective to the sociolinguistic dimension, the
dialectic between core and periphery is reflected in the concept of
the diasystem, within which «quite distant ‘grammars’ may coexist»
(Grandi 2020: 417, our translation): in this sense, margins constitute
the ideal point from which to investigate varieties that diverge
significantly from the standard.
Finally, the margin may be understood as a boundary or limit.
Understood in a geographical sense, it is at boundaries that different
languages and/or language varieties meet, often giving rise to contact
phenomena, and it is in these same areas that allochthonous languages
are often present as a legacy of past historical configurations.
Understood instead as a limit, the margin recalls the underlying aim
of typological research, oriented toward determining the limits of
linguistic variation and identifying their motivations.
We therefore invite contributions from areas of linguistic research
that, adopting perspectives drawn from different theoretical and
methodological frameworks, investigate linguistic phenomena at any
level of analysis (e.g. phonology, morphology, semantics, lexicon,
syntax, pragmatics), either from a comparative perspective or through
the study of individual languages.
General Information:
PhD students and those who have obtained such title within the last
two years by the abstract submission deadline are invited to submit by
September 1st, 2026:
- an original paper proposal (maximum 350 words, excluding the title
and up to 10 bibliographic references)
- a short academic profile (maximum 100 words)
Proposals should be sent to the email address
convegnodottoraleclf at gmail.com, with the subject line “Abstract
proposal – Doctoral Conference”, specifying the relevant section
(Romance Philology, Italian Philology and Italian Studies; Classics;
Aegean Philology; Book Cultures; Linguistics). The body of the email
should include the following information: title of the contribution,
name and affiliation, email address for correspondence. Proposals, in
Italian or English, should be sent in both anonymized .doc(x) and .pdf
format; the short academic profile, together with the title of the
proposal, should be sent in a separate file. The outcome of the review
process will be communicated by 2 October 2026.
Each presentation will have a maximum duration of 20 minutes. Selected
speakers are required to present their contribution in person. All
thematic units are interdisciplinary, and individual panels will be
organized according to the principle of thematic or methodological
similarity. Keynote lectures are planned. The Scientific Committee
will consider the possibility of publishing the Conference
Proceedings.
The conference will take place on Wednesday, January 27th – Friday,
January 29th, 2027, at the University of Bologna. There is no
registration fee. Further details regarding registration, the
conference venue, accepted proposals, and the full program will be
provided on the official conference website:
https://phd.unibo.it/culture-letterarie-e-filologiche/it/attivita/convegno-dottorale-internazionale-2026.
For further questions, please contact: convegnodottoraleclf at gmail.com.



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