The Society for Italian Studies
Supporting Italian studies in Britain and Ireland
Welcome to the Society for Italian Studies website, supporting academic Italian studies in Britain and Ireland. Announcements of events organized by or on behalf of the Society are posted here. The site also hosts details of events organized more generally in Italian Studies. The Society’s aims and objectives, as well as information regarding its membership and organization is also provided, as are details of our research activities, conferences and publications.
See our Resources page for a list of other learned and cultural bodies with which the Society and its members collaborate.
Our Conference
Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference
Trinity College Dublin – University College Dublin
9-11 JULY 2026
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Italian and Modern Languages in Higher Education in Ireland, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin are delighted to host the SIS Biennial Conference 2026. Confirmed keynote speakers:
Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) | Stephen J. Campbell (Johns Hopkins University)
The organisers welcome proposals for panels/sessions and single papers (either in English or Italian) on any topic within the broad area of Italian Studies. Read the full call for papers and download the submission forms here.
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Latest News
SIS PG Colloquium at Cambridge: ‘Italian Literature and Culture through a Comparative Lens: Transnational and Transhistorical Networks’
The Society for Italian Studies in the UK and Ireland, Postgraduate Colloquium University of Cambridge, 5 December 2025 SG2, Alison Richards Building, Sidgwick Site, [...]
“Goat Herding in Aspromonte” – SIS Networking Talk at Edinburgh by Aurora Moxon (Cork)
As part of the SIS Networking Scheme, Dr Aurora Moxon (University College Cork) will be presenting her research at Edinburgh with the support of the [...]
“Choose wisely: why language matters in Dante’s Commedia” – SIS Networking Talk at Bristol by George Rayson (Cork)
We are delighted to share that, as part of the SIS Networking Scheme, George Rayson (University College Cork) will be presenting at Bristol on the [...]
Our Journal
Italian Studies was founded in 1937 as the annual journal of the Society for Italian Studies (SIS), and has established itself nationally and internationally as one of the leading journals in the discipline. he journal has contributed to the development and broadening of Italian Studies as a field of enquiry within the Arts and Humanities, and has itself expanded in 2005 to two issues, in 2010 to three issues, and in 2015 to four issues per year. The editors welcome original scholarly and critical work, in English or Italian, on Italy’s literary culture, and also work on Italy from a range of other disciplines and inter-disciplinary fields, including history, politics, linguistics, art history, film, gender and cultural studies. Articles which adopt a comparative or global perspective on Italy are encouraged alongside those whose focus is exclusively the Italian peninsula and islands…