(August 24, 2016) Making a point on punctuation. This is the objective of the international conference: “Punctuation in Europe today. Theories and representations” in Basel from September 7-9 in the Linguistics department of the University of Basel in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Zurich. Among the organisers of the conference are Professors Angela Ferrari, Gianna Berberat, Dario Coviello, Letizia Lala, Fiammetta Longo, Filippo Pecorari, Benedetta Rosi and Roska Stojmenova. The conference is dedicated to Bice Mortara Garavelli, a well known Italian linguist “who was the first to make punctuation a topic within Italian textual linguistics”. More information is available on the ICI website. (Red)