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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I am thrilled and massively grateful to be part of Elle Charisse's ‘knowledge capsule’. Through 180+ episodes, the Speaking Tongues Podcast showcases an amazing array of ingenuity, capturing the very heart of diversity and humanity. youtu.be/xBkA-4e44UU?si… #linguanapoletana #neapolitanlanguage

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🇮🇹 Episode 180. Speaking the Neapolitan language with Massimiliano Canzanella

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Hugely grateful to Dr Enza De Francisci for endorsing my Neapolitan language preservation work on her @glasgow.ac.uk website. 🙏 🙏 🙏 translatingpirandello.gla.ac.uk/en/follow-on/

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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Oh, and, women, especially nonwhite ones, are expendable, not worth naming, because we are less than human to him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump posts graphic video of woman’s killing in Florida

President’s post on Truth Social is in keeping with a pattern of using shocking video to sow fear about immigration and justify mass deportation

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Thanks so much to Dr Santiago Betancor Falcón from the University of Gran Canaria in Spain 🇪🇸 for his interest in my language activism and literary work in defence of the Neapolitan language.

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Bruce Springsteen’s maternal grandparents (originally from Vico Equense, a stone’s throw from Naples) remained speakers of Neapolitan throughout the rest of their lives in the States. Nonna Adele, in fact… www.napoliunplugged.com/neapolis-new...

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From Neapolis to New Jersey: genealogy of a lyrical alchemist - Napoli Unplugged

From Neapolis to New Jersey - there is a crystal clear connection between Bruce Springsteen’s Melancho-Rock and Neapolitan music, language and songs.

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

From right to left, representatives of the Basque (Euskara), Mapuche, Welsh, Neapolitan and Gaelic language who took part in KORRIKA SCOTLAND 2026. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙏💙 🏃 🏃‍♂️ 🏃

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Thanks so much to Dylan Inglis from the University of Edinburgh and KORRIKA Scotland for having the Neapolitan language at this marvellous event last Saturday in Edinburgh. 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️ 🏃🏻 KORRIKA is aimed at supporting and promoting the preservation of the Basque language (Euskara) through a relay-race. 🎈

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Ae fond kiss and then we sever - N’atu vaso e ce spartimmo MASTODASCIA tron.co.uk/shows/mastodascia/ #ScotsLanguage #NeapolitanLanguage www.canzanella.net www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjBf...

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Ae fond kiss and then we sever - N’atu vaso e ce spartimmo

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A taster of the spellbinding opening - in Scots - by Derrick McClure. From MASTODASCIA - Tron Theatre, Glasgow 17 October 2025. #ScotsLanguage #NeapolitanLanguage

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Neil McClelland @neilmcc91.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

History International Summer School 2026, University of Glasgow 10. Social History in Italian Renaissance Short Stories Supervisor: Neil McClelland Please share! 🙂 #History #Glasgow #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #MedievalSky #Naples #Napoli #UniversityofGlasgow #UoG www.gla.ac.uk/study/visiti...

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University of Glasgow - Study - Visiting students - International Summer School - Our courses - History Summer Research Project (open)

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The Vocal Fries @vocalfriespod.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I meant to post this yesterday, but I got into the cleaning zone. Is my place still messy? Yes, but hush

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Thanks for the mention, THE SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES. 🙏 "As a way of drawing attention to lesser-spoken languages, such as southern Italian considered a ‘vulnerable’ language by UNESCO, Massimiliano Canzanella and Neil McClelland italianstudies.org.uk/2025/12/09/r...

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Report: 'Pirandello and Modern Italian Writers: From Page to Stage', 1 December 2025 (Glasgow) - The Society of Italian Studies

Pirandello and Modern Italian Writers: From Page to Stage On Monday 1st December 2025, in the Advanced Research Centre at the University of Glasgow, we launched our hybrid panel, ‘Pirandello and Moder...

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

MASTODASCIA and the Neapolitan Language are coming to London! ✈️ 🇬🇧 MASTODASCIA e ’a Lengua Napulitana vèneno a Londra! 🔨 🪛 🪓

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

An excerpt from the reading of my bilingual play MASTODASCIA (CARPENTER) at the Translation Studies Symposium (University of Glasgow Advanced Research Centre) organised by Dr Enza De Francisci. Read by PhD candidate Neil McLelland (Glasgow University) and myself. youtu.be/tPjSR6M2ACc?...

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MASTODASCIA - Translation Studies Symposium organised by Dr Enza De Francisci University of Glasgow.

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Dr Pauline Henry-Tierney @drpaulinehenry.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Really looking forward to speaking at #IPCITI2025 tomorrow! My keynote, ‘Translating Rape’ will be hybrid. See below for details to register.

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Yesterday, with my friend, lead actor and PhD candidate Neil McClelland, at the Translation Studies Symposium organised by Dr Enza De Francisci at the University of Glasgow.

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I cannot thank @tazinabdullah.bsky.social and the whole @languageonthemove.bsky.social Team enough. You have literally put our language and the plight of its speakers on the world linguistics map. And thank you, @lauraskh.bsky.social, for your deeply humbling words. 🙏

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I am delighted and honoured to have been invited - courtesy of Dr Enza De Francisci - to present my bilingual play MASTODASCIA (Neapolitan with English translation) at the Translation Studies Symposium which will be held next 1 December at the University of Glasgow.

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 11/11/2025

I've started a Starter Pack for the Language on the Move research community 🥳 For members of the research group, contributors to the blog/podcast. Please shout out if you're part of the LOTM community and I'll add you/tag suggestions (or lmk if you're on there but would prefer not to be)

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Successo di “Mastodascia” a Glasgow. "La risposta straordinaria del pubblico dimostra quanto sia sentita l'esigenza di tutelare e tramandare il nostro patrimonio linguistico." www.giornalediplomatico.it/comites-succ...

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Comites: successo di “Mastodascia” a Glasgow lettura scenica bil

GD - Glasgow, 18 ott. 25 - Sold-out al Tron Theatre per Mastodascia, lettura scenica bilingue napoletano-inglese appena andata in scena. L'iniziativa,

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out to see my bilingual play MASTODASCIA last night! A fantastic audience and a beautiful array of languages with Scots and Neapolitan being the jewels in the crown. 👑 Huge thanks to Derrick McClure for being such mesmerising chorus. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙏 💙

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A salient snippet from my Neapolitan lecture at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland last Wednesday.

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This coming Wednesday, at the University of Edinburgh. Huge thanks to Dr Daniela Sannino for inviting me and the Department of European Languages and Cultures for hosting the event.

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

So what’s a Deus Ex Machina? And why is one featuring Maradona’s Napoli jersey being delivered to the Tron Theatre in Glasgow? 🎭 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌋 www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod... 🎟 🎫

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Pe accattà ’e bbigliette ncoppa a internet: www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod... 🎫 🎟️ Oppure pe telèfono: +44 (0)141 552 4267. MASTODASCIA è finanziato c’ ‘o contribbuto ’e COMITES Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Thanks for sharing news of my play, Bellahouston Academy! 🙏 Never a day goes by when I don’t feel fortunate and proud of teaching at Bella. ❤️

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Tickets are now on sale! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⚽️ 🇦🇷 💙 📚 🔨 🪚 🪜 www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod...

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Mastodascia - Tron Theatre

Mastodascia is adapted from the classic Scottish play Sailmaker by Alan Spence.

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Cu Neil McClelland stammatina simmo state ô Teatro Tron ’e Glasgow pe vedé ’a Changing House addó ô 17 ’e Uttobbre pròssimo se rappresentarrà ’a traggedia dinto a duie atte Mastodascia.

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Mastodascia - Fri 17 October 2025 - Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Tickets on sale soon!

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

«Nosotros tenemos más necesidad de Che Guevara, del lenguaje y de revolucionarios de la literatura que de letrados de la revolución». Julio Cortázar

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Tazin Abdullah @tazinabdullah.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Listen to Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller's inspiring words about using the resources researchers are given to "pay it forward" as she accepts her 2025 Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship Award on this @languageonthemove.bsky.social post. ⬇️ www.languageonthemove.com/alexander-vo...

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Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professorship Awards 2025

Dear Language-on-the-Move Community, It is with immense gratitude and excitement that I write this special news item about a recent career development: I’ve been awarded an Alexander-von-Humboldt P…

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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Ughhh. Check out my 2024 paper and learn why this is nonsense!

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Since the master bigots who have shamelessly added the racial slur 'Napoli' to the Italian language dictionary do not have the guts to do it, I have borrowed John Steinbeck's illustration of the term 'Okie' from 'The Grapes of Wrath' to clarify the meaning of…

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Kevin Castro, MA @kevincastror.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

"The decision to adopt one tongue and stop using another is not neutral; it is tied, inevitably, to power and prestige. … Language revitalisation is thus one part of a broader struggle for linguistic justice, which embraces the ability to thrive in one’s language of choosing" aeon.co/essays/langu...

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Language is at the heart of Indigenous community health | Aeon Essays

For First Nations people, health is not a matter of mechanical fitness of the body, but of language, identity and belonging

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I was very glad and proud to produce the English translation and subtitles for ’A Figliata (The Delivery), a bilingual Neapolitan-Italian short documentary by Serbian artist Slobodanka Ciric... youtu.be/GhDvkgFyado?...

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#'AFigliata#SlobodankaCiric#AlanDeLuca#PatrizioRispo,#AntonellaCioli#SlyProduction#Feminiello#Napoli

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Tazin Abdullah @tazinabdullah.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

What an informative @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast by @empacheco.bsky.social about better ways to work with atypical language users! ⬇️

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks to Massimiliano Canzanella. The conversation delves into the history of the Neapolitan language and the interplay of culture, race, and national identity that… goodpods.com/podcasts/new...

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Lingua Napoletana and Language Oppression | New Books in Italian Studies - Podcast on Goodpods

Have you ever heard of Lingua Napoletana or Neapolitan, the language of Naples?In this episode of the Language on t... | Listen & Review on Goodpods™

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

For Scott McTominay, the Neapolitan language and culture assimilation is complete. 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌋 #mcfràtemo #mcmybrother

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This animation film is indeed poetry. A huge thank you to the amazingly talented director Arron Quinn 💐 for giving our language a wonderful chance to shine: ‘Annabel Lee’ by Edgar Allan Poe in Neapolitan. #neapolitanlanguage #dialettonapoletano #linguanapoletana youtu.be/HgOf47MjNbQ?...

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ANNABEL LEE 'e Edgar Allan Poe

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Massimiliano Canzanella @mcanzanella.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

How the Italian ‘parla bene’ or ‘speak properly’ continues to perpetrate evil on Neapolitan schoolchildren and their parents/carers. Language oppression is one of the most diabolical forms of violence…

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