With the Sponsorship of AIA (Italian Association of English Studies) and the International Association of Word-Image Studies/Association Internationale pour l'Étude des Rapports entre Texte et Image and the Alizé - Centro di studi storici europei e transnazionali
Saturday, 12th September 2026
Schedule
8:45
Registration
9:00
Introduction and Greetings
9:30
Panel 1 Parchment, Paper, Bytes
Carlo M. Bajetta
A Gospel for the Saxons: the Manuscript Tradition of the Heliand as a Case Study
Rosella Tinaburri
University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
English as the Language of Protestantism: the Case of the Cambridge Epicedium
Maddalena Repetto
University of Genoa
Scattered Loosely: Reading, Writing, and the Book as Monument in Donne's Manuscript and Print Transmission
Maria Grazia Dongu
University of Cagliari
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee break
Campus café
11:00
Panel 2 Culture, Business and Communication Strategies
Luca Polidoro
A Linguistic-Stylistic Analysis of English Online Advertisements: Hero Images of Global Cosmetics Companies
Kallaya Chanphetch Petty
King Mongkut's University of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand
Gloss, Mediality, and Meaning: Lidel and the Remediation of Text, Image, and Reading Across a Century
Camilla Fabretti Campagnol
Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Pull the Author out of the Headscarf:’ Shifting Interpretations of Žemaitė Works (1845-1921) through a Book Historical Analysis of Her Editions
Monika Kazabuckaité
Vilnius University
Textual Embodiments in the Age of Generative AI: Remediating English Through Human–Machine Language Practices
Federico Valente
University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
12:30
Panel 3 Networks of Cultural Dissemination
Alberto Gabriele
The Case of Textual Exchanges and Intermediality between Safed, Venice, Paris and London during the XVIth and XVIIth Century
Yona Dureau
Université du Littoral, France
The Eighteenth-Century Architectural Book as Printed Object: The Irish Architect, Michael Shanahan (c. 1731-1811), and The Constitutive Role of Cost, Content, and Politics
Mary Nevin
Trinity College Dublin
The Network of Patrons, Printers, and book smuggling Jasna Michailovich
Fostering Literacy in Serbia
13:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
Link Campus University
14:30
Panel 4 Writing the Body, Remediating the Image: Embodiment and Textuality in Contemporary Art and Narrative
Sergio Lo Gatto
Writing Bodies, Performing Texts: Embodiment and Mediality in Contemporary Narrative Practices
Cristina Moraru
‘George Enescu’ National University of the Arts, Iași, Romania
The ‘Corps’ of Gina Pane, Image Embodiment from the L’Art Corporel Movement in Contemporary Performance Art Discourse
Ella Spitzer-Stephan
Goldsmiths University of London
Embodied Archives: Digital Mediality and the Remediation of Meaning in May Amnesia Never Kiss Us on the Mouth by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Mounira Zennia
Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz
On the Ubiquity of Digital Images and the Textualization of
Contemporary Art
Cole Gruber
University of Chicago
16:30
Conclusions