37.2789, Confs: REINVENT – Representing Ecolinguistic Identity through Narratives: Voices for Environmental Transition (Italy)

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Date: 01-Sep-2026
From: REINVENT Organising Committee [reinvent2027 at gmail.com]
Subject: REINVENT – Representing Ecolinguistic Identity through Narratives: Voices for Environmental Transition


REINVENT – Representing Ecolinguistic Identity through Narratives:
Voices for Environmental Transition

Date: 20-May-2027 - 21-May-2027
Location: Vercelli, Italy
Meeting URL: https://reinvent.uniupo.it

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 01-Dec-2026

The University of Piemonte Orientale will host the International
Conference REINVENT – Representing Ecolinguistic Identity through
Narratives: Voices for ENvironmental Transition (Vercelli, 20–21 May
2027).
Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach, the conference aims to
highlight the fundamental role that linguistic choices and narrative
models play in shaping our attitudes towards environmental issues,
influencing perceptions of individual and collective responsibility,
and encouraging – or discouraging – the adoption of more sustainable
behaviours.
More specifically, the event seeks to bring together research that
contributes to the following objectives:
- Exploring, through multidisciplinary lenses and the perspectives of
diverse communities, cultures, groups and societies, the
characteristics of language and narrative regarding environmental
themes (e.g., climate change, drought, pollution, relationships with
the physical environment and other species, sustainability, etc.).
- Understanding how individual and social ecological identity is
constructed, emerges, and is (re)negotiated within dialogic and
narrative contexts.
- Investigating the impact of specific linguistic and narrative
choices on the perception of individual and collective responsibility
and their potential to foster sustainable practices.
- Examining how and to what extent narrative models and media
discourse shape public responses to global ecological challenges.
- Analysing how ecological narratives and discourse can inspire
learners of all ages – from primary school to higher education – to
lead ecological transformation by integrating environmental
storytelling and hands-on projects into formal educational settings.
Invited Speakers:
Valentina Bambini (IUSS Pavia), Maria Bortoluzzi (University of
Udine), Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri (Roma Tre University), Douglas
Ponton (University of Catania), Arran Stibbe (University of
Gloucestershire).
Call for Pa:pers
The call for papers is now open
(https://reinvent.uniupo.it/call-for-papers).
We invite proposals for contributions related to one or more of the
themes listed above.
Oral presentations will have a maximum duration of 30 minutes,
including 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
The language of the conference will be English, but proposals can
concern all languages.
Studies regarding Italian and/or including interlinguistic and
comparative perspectives are particularly welcomed.
Abstract Submission:
- Submissions (in English, in both Word and PDF formats) should be
sent to the organisers at reinvent2027 at gmail.com by 1 December 2026.
- The attached abstract must be anonymous, and should not exceed 500
words (including examples, excluding references).
- Author names, affiliations, and contact emails should be included
only in the body of the email (email subject format: “REINVENT Surname
Author(s)”).
The Scientific Committee will notify authors of the outcome of the
evaluation by 31 January 2027.
The conference will be preceded, on 19 May 2027, by a Spring School on
Research methods for linguistic and discourse analysis on
environmental issues. Further information will be available at:
https://reinvent.uniupo.it/spring-school.
Scientific Committee: Maria Napoli, Irene De Felice, Stefania Ferrari,
Carla Ferrario, Elena Zanet.



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