(S)confinamenti.
Forme, funzioni e crisi dei binarismi.
Doctoral Conference
December 2nd, 2026 – December 3rd, 2026
The 40th and 41st cycles of the PhD Program in Linguistic, Literary and Intercultural Studies in European and Extra-European Perspectives at the University of Milan are organizing the biennial doctoral conference
(S)confinamenti.
Forme, funzioni e crisi dei binarismi.
This conference aims to reflect from a multidisciplinary perspective on the concept of binarism, understood not as a mere pair of elements, but as a relational configuration in which terms are mutually defined, establishing relationships of tension and complementarity.
In particular, the conference seeks to examine the ways in which binarisms appear and how they produce meaning, the historical and theoretical conditions that have determined and still determine their crisis, and their possible reconfigurations within linguistic, literary, and cultural systems.


When and where
On December 2nd, 2026
University of Milan
Aula – Via Festa del Perdono 7
On December 3rd, 2026
University of Milan
Aula – P.zza Indro Montanelli 1, Sesto S. Giovanni