On 30 January 2026 I'll be speaking at "Nobody’s Perfect: LGBTQ+ Characters Talking on Screen" at Sapienza University. I'll be talking about queer voices, prosody, and audiovisual translation, and how visibility moves across languages and screens. Join online 👇 meet.google.com/ecg-uojv-pqv...

Honoured to give a plenary talk at the Languaging Diversity Conference 2025, celebrating ten years of I-LanD Research Centre. My talk, “Nothing Comes from Violence…”, looks at teen drama, hate speech and digital masculinities on TikTok. Happy to be back at Chieti–Pescara, my second home. #LD2025

🎙️ Excited to give a keynote at Media Discourse in Times of Crisis 📍 Univ. of Catania 6–7 Nov 2025 My talk "From Clinic to Platform" explores how crisis and medical communication intersect online. Glad to return to CLAVIER and be in great company. #CorpusLinguistics #CLAVIER2025

Happy to have been invited to participate in a webinar for AISCLI members. My talk is titled “God in Drag: Queer Excess and the Postcolonial Rewriting of the Sacred.” Join us online!

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Journal Launch! ALLIeD – Journal of Applied Linguistics Vol. 1 Innovations in English Language Education: New Issues and Trends We’re thrilled to announce the first issue of ALLIeD, a brand-new open-access journal published by UniorPress edited by yours truly. Read now: www.uniorpress.it/allied

Book launch! @unior

This coming Friday, join us online at univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

[JE] 28.03.25 / 14:00 / B1.607 (Re)Configuring Identities in Cinema, Television, and AVT Org. @mikatoulza.bsky.social & Marie Perrier Keynote speaker: 14h: @gbalirano.bsky.social (Université de Naples l’Orientale): Reconfiguring Identity Through the Queer Gaze in Italian Cinema @saesfrance.org

AIA Winter School 2025 Roma Tor Vergata 29-31 January 2025 Passages, Migrations, Transitions

Join us to explore sustainability communication and gain insights into current sustainability discourses. Università di Napoli l'Orientale

(Im)politeness on the Small Screen University of Naples L'Orientale Keynote speakers: Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University), Marco Teti (Università eCampus Novedrate) You can join us at: (Dec. 5th) t.ly/TxZ_3 (Dec. 6th) t.ly/uz1NP

📢 CfP Journal of English for Academic Purposes Special Issue: "Technology in EAP Language Teaching and Learning" bit.ly/3Be8Q8V (ed. by G. Balirano @gbalirano.bsky.social (Uni of Naples L'Orientale), J. McKinley @jimmckinley.bsky.social (UCL) & T. Zulli @tzulli.bsky.social (Uni of Chieti-Pescara)

The way we were... A sincere thank you to Esterino Adami for the invitation and to the students of the University of Turin for their kind attention and interest. Their engagement during the seminar rekindled my passion for humour, never truly lost, just quietly dormant.

Monday 25th of November, John Cabot University, Rome

Here is my scholargoogler word cloud (scholargoggler.com)

Happy to announce, in my first post on Bluesky, the publication of "Cinema e Diversità: Disability Studies, Sensorialità e Prospettive di Ricerca Integrata", edited by yours truly and Marilena Parlati! Available now at www.ibs.it/cinema-diver...