The annual conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) will take place from April 25-27, 2025, at Princeton University.

The conference seeks to align itself with the mission of AATI by strengthening its focus on the teaching and learning of Italian language, literature, and cultures. Thus, in keeping with the mission of the AATI, we encourage interdisciplinary approaches that are relevant and applicable to the teaching of Italian at the K-12 and college level, as well as the promotion of research within the realm of Italian Studies. We invite interested presenters to submit proposals for complete sessions, roundtables, or individual presentations; we encourage proposals directly related to the teaching and learning of culture, language, and literary works, as well as scholarly analysis. We also encourage papers focusing on aspects of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging in language pedagogy and/or Italian Studies.

Some possible areas of interest include:

• The teaching, learning and integration of language, culture, intercultural competence, linguistics, literature, cinema and media studies, diversity, social justice, other disciplines such as sciences and art.
• FLES, content-based FLES, and FLEX
• High School curriculum
• Advocacy and program growth
• Analysis of literature, culture, cinema, art, music, popular culture, etc...

Session types:

• Panel: 3-4 participants with 15-20 minute presentations as established by the chair, followed by Q&A
• Roundtable: 5 or more participants with informal 5-10 minute presentations. Sessions are open to conversation and debate.
• Poster session: minimum of 4 participants, each with a 3’x4’ poster in landscape format. Posters must be legible.
• Workshop: hands-on interactive discussions led by a moderator. They aim to instruct participants on specific skills or methods.

Eligibility and regulations:

• Participants can be involved in no more than 1 panel as presenter, 1 round table, chair/moderate 1 panel, and 1 poster session.
• There is a limit of 4 presentations per panel and 8 presentations per roundtable. Any session with more than 4 presentations should be organized as a roundtable.
• Please note that double/triple sessions (ex. Part I and Part II) may be considered but cannot be guaranteed acceptance and may require a change in format. Please be mindful of this as you accept abstracts for your sessions.

Save the Dates Timeline for Proposals:

1. September 30th, 2024: Deadline to submit open session proposals to the conference committee. Please send open session proposals to aaticonferencecommittee@gmail.com
2. October 2nd, 2024: A complete list of open sessions will be disseminated to the AATI listserv and posted on the website. Abstracts will be sent directly to the session chair(s), who will select abstracts for the completed session proposal.
3. November 1st, 2024: Deadline for chairs to submit completed sessions (panel, roundtable, or poster session). Deadline for individual proposal submission. Proposals should only be submitted individually if they are not able to be accepted as part of a completed session. Individual presentations will be grouped or inserted into sessions at the discretion of the committee. Instructions for completed sessions submissions are forthcoming. NOTE: organizers of open session will also need to (re)submit their now completed session in this round with all the necessary presenter details. Please be advised that no accommodations can be made for date requests. Please also note that all presenters must be current on their AATI membership in order for their proposals to be accepted for the conference.
4. December 1st, 2024: All notifications of acceptance will be sent to the proposer (chair or individual). For completed sessions, the session chair will communicate details to individual presenters in their session.

Registration dates:

1. January 1st – February 25, 2025: Early Bird Registration Pricing ($25 savings or more, depending on membership level)
2. February 25th – March 25th, 2025: Regular Registration Pricing
3. March 25, 2025: Conference Registration Deadline.

Presentations will be in-person only Please note that this is an in-person conference, and that no streaming sessions, online presentations, or pre-recorded participation will be accommodated.