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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 "Errors and Mistakes". The conference will be held in Philadelphia 3-4 November 2016 - In Italian and English.
Rob Gonsalves, "The Sun Sets Sail," 2001
Contemporary epistemology gives errors and mistakes a fundamental role in learning about the world. Truth is far from us. Errors 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 focusing on the Italian tradition in dialogue with other cultures and in an interdisciplinary horizon: from linguistics and semantics (the relation between the terms “error” and ”mistake” in Italian and in other languages), to science and philosophy, literature and the arts, politics and economics.
A selection of the delivered papers will be published.
Plenary speakers will include Luigi Ballerini, Cristina Benussi, Cristina Bicchieri, Kevin Brownlee, Fabio Finotti, Carla Locatelli, Gaetana Marrone Puglia, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Jean-Michel Rabaté, and Mirko Tavoni.
Scientific Committee: Cristina Benussi, Cristina Bicchieri, Marina Della Putta Johnston, Fabio Finotti, Carlo Ossola, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Gilberto Pizzamiglio
Organizing Committee: Bianca Maria Da Rif, Marina Della Putta Johnston
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"Mistakes: A Door to the Truth?" Book Exhibit: On the occasion of the conference, items from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collection of the Kislak Center at the Van Pelt Library will be exhibited in the Henry Charles Lea Room (Van Pelt, 6th Floor). Curators: Natale Vacalebre and John Pollack. For a list of the items follow the link
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Find your way around Philadelphia / Come spostarsi a Philadelphia
Where to stay / Dove alloggiare - Conference participants can reserve a room at a special conference rate at the Sonesta Philadelphia at a special UPenn price here.
Thing to do in Philadelphia / Cosa fare a Philadelphia
This event is organized under the patronage of the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia and with the collaboration of the Università degli Studi di Trieste