The Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania will host the XXII annual conference of the Associazione Internazionale di Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana (AISLLI) in an interdisciplinary key, on the theme of "Mistakes". The conference will be held in Philadelphia, 24-25 March 2016.
Call for Papers
Contemporary epistemology gives errors and mistakes a fundamental role in learning about the world. Truth is far from us. Error and mistakes, on the contrary, are what we have and can ascertain. It does not surprise, therefore, that the boundaries between truth and mistake, reality and imagination, may tend to blur or even that the hierarchy between the two may be reversed.
Aren’t voluntary mistakes a prerogative of human beings? Isn’t the “linguistics of lying” - according to Weinrich’s definition - the core of most literature and art, as well as of politics and religion? The conference theme will be examined in an interdisciplinary horizon: from linguistics and semantics (the relation between the terms “errore”,”sbaglio”, and the corresponding words in other languages), to science and philosophy, literature and the arts, politics and economics.
A selection of the delivered papers will be published.
Please send proposals for 15 minute papers and a brief narrative vita to [log in to unmask] by December 15.
Conference registration: An online registration form will be available shortly. Registration is required by January 31.
Faculty/ Professional $120
Student $90
The registration fee includes your AISLLI membership