Into Italy and Out of Italy

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Into Italy and Out of Italy: The Language and Culture of Migrants

London, 14 - 15 November 2008
Italian Cultural Institute

To reinforce this integrated approach to the study of the language and culture of migration, which, to date, has been characterised by little, if any, collaboration between linguistic and literary scholars, the conference will include not only a number of individual conference papers, but also a number of interviews with a selection of modern migrant authors, including T. Lamri (Algeria, now in Ravenna), C. Ali-Farah (Somalia, now in Rome) and from an earlier generation G. Pressburger (from Hungary, now in
Rome and Trieste). Given the themes of the conference and its integration into the events of the annual 'Settimana della lingua italiana', which aims to raise the profile of Italian language and culture among the general public, it is envisaged that the conference will be of interest not only to researchers, postgraduates and teachers of Italian at all levels, but also to the general public and, in particular, the large Italian community in the UK. The conference presentations will be based on the expertise and research of the various contributors, and the interviews with migrant authors will also offer the possibility to explore and test directly new ideas and hypotheses about recent linguistic and literary developments in a number of migrant communities in and out of Italy. From this synergy we trust that new insights, reflections and stimuli for further original projects will emerge.

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