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  • Call for papers | Signs, Traces, Clues: Carlo Ginzburg’s Contribution to Humanities

    2026-07-28

    Signs, Traces, Clues: Carlo Ginzburg’s Contribution to Humanities

    Editors:

    Fabiana Giovani (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC- Brasil)

    Luciano Ponzio (University of Salento – Lecce - Italy)

     

    The exercise of knowing stems from the ability to look in order to see; however, seeing requires more than merely looking. As in archaeology, it involves searching within signs for the traces of a history. (Maria Emília Caixeta de Castro Lima)

     

    Research on language constitutes a field of particular interest for Humanities. In this field, the role of the human being is central, since the study of language entails recognition of the expressive and speaking subject who produces and uses it. From this perspective, the subject of research is inexhaustible in its meanings and interpretive possibilities.

    When conducting research in the humanities that involves language, the researcher engages with the evidential paradigm – whose origins are extremely ancient: hunting, divination, empirical medicine –, which points to a form of inferential knowledge based on clues. This form of knowledge does not necessarily coincide with exactness or with definitive truth, but rather with conjectural modes of interpretation. Although the sciences tend to seek what remains stable through change, they deal with subjects who actively participate in the process of knowledge, which prevents such knowledge from being reduced to the categories proper to material objects.

    “We could compare the threads that make up this research” – writes Carlo Ginzburg in Myths, Emblems, Clues – “to the threads of a carpet […]; we see them forming a dense and homogeneous pattern […]. The carpet is the paradigm that we have called, depending on the context, venatory, divinatory, evidential, or semiotic.” From this perspective, the evidential paradigm refers to an epistemological model shared by different practices and disciplines, united by the use of inferential methods and the borrowing of conceptual tools. Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with the emergence of the humanities, this constellation of forms of knowledge underwent profound transformation, gradually leading to the consolidation of the evidential paradigm.

    In this context, the evidential paradigm has acquired increasing relevance in language studies. Developed by Carlo Ginzburg, it is now used not only by historians but also by philosophers, anthropologists, semioticians, linguists, and scholars of education. It constitutes a fruitful paradigm for the analysis of human action through traces, clues, and forms of non-deductive inference.

     

    Through an open call, 12 articles will be selected (6 in Portuguese and 6 in an additional language—English, Italian, French, or Spanish) addressing one of the following thematic areas.

    Thematic Areas for Submission

     

    • Language Studies (Linguistics and Literature)
    • Historical Semiotics
    • Education
    • Arts
    • History

     

    Submission Period: December 1, 2026 – March 2, 2027

    Expected Publication: December 2027

     

     

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  • Chamada | Dossiê Ensino e materiais didáticos: a educação em prol do fortalecimento das comunidades minorizadas

    2026-07-27

    Ensino e materiais didáticos: a educação em prol do fortalecimento das comunidades minorizadas.

     

    Organizadores/as

    Profa. Dra. Rita de Cássia Souto Maior (PPGLL/FALE/UFAL) Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1312070903160476

    Profa. Dra. Maria Teresa Tedesco Vilardo Abreu (PPGL/UERJ) Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0395940520777127

    Prof. Dr. Silvio Nunes da Silva Júnior (UPE-Garanhuns/Profletras) Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0879864383265157

    Prof. Me. Doutorando Nedson Antônio Melo Nogueira (PPGLL/UFAL/CAPES) Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7155261043138

     

     PUBLICAÇÃO: SEGUNDO SEMESTRE DE 2027

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  • Call for papers | Signs, Traces, Clues: Carlo Ginzburg’s Contribution to Humanities

    2026-07-24

    Signs, Traces, Clues: Carlo Ginzburg’s Contribution to Humanities

    Editors:

    Fabiana Giovani (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC- Brasil)

    Luciano Ponzio (University of Salento – Lecce - Italy)

     

    The exercise of knowing stems from the ability to look in order to see; however, seeing requires more than merely looking. As in archaeology, it involves searching within signs for the traces of a history.(Maria Emília Caixeta de Castro Lima)

     

    Research on language constitutes a field of particular interest for Humanities. In this field, the role of the human being is central, since the study of language entails recognition of the expressive and speaking subject who produces and uses it. From this perspective, the subject of research is inexhaustible in its meanings and interpretive possibilities.

    When conducting research in the humanities that involves language, the researcher engages with the evidential paradigm – whose origins are extremely ancient: hunting, divination, empirical medicine –, which points to a form of inferential knowledge based on clues. This form of knowledge does not necessarily coincide with exactness or with definitive truth, but rather with conjectural modes of interpretation. Although the sciences tend to seek what remains stable through change, they deal with subjects who actively participate in the process of knowledge, which prevents such knowledge from being reduced to the categories proper to material objects.

    “We could compare the threads that make up this research” – writes Carlo Ginzburg in Myths, Emblems, Clues – “to the threads of a carpet […]; we see them forming a dense and homogeneous pattern […]. The carpet is the paradigm that we have called, depending on the context, venatory, divinatory, evidential, or semiotic.” From this perspective, the evidential paradigm refers to an epistemological model shared by different practices and disciplines, united by the use of inferential methods and the borrowing of conceptual tools. Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with the emergence of the humanities, this constellation of forms of knowledge underwent profound transformation, gradually leading to the consolidation of the evidential paradigm.

    In this context, the evidential paradigm has acquired increasing relevance in language studies. Developed by Carlo Ginzburg, it is now used not only by historians but also by philosophers, anthropologists, semioticians, linguists, and scholars of education. It constitutes a fruitful paradigm for the analysis of human action through traces, clues, and forms of non-deductive inference.

     

    Through an open call, 12 articles will be selected (6 in Portuguese and 6 in an additional language—English, Italian, French, or Spanish) addressing one of the following thematic areas.

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  • Call dor papers | Dossier Language, Race, and Artificial Inteligence in the Global South(s)

    2026-06-01

    órum Linguístico

     

    Dossier

     

    Language, Race, and Artificial Inteligence in the Global South(s)

     

    Editors:

    Kleber Aparecido da Silva

    Associate Professor of Linguistics and International Relations, Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasília, DF / Brazil

    CNPq

    Mercia Regina Santana Flannery

    University of Pennsylvania, Estados Unidos

     

    Leketi Makalela

    University of the Witwatersrand, Joanesburgo, Gauteng / South Africa

     

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