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Society for Italian Studies

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.

AIPI- Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano. Bando per l’organizzazione di una Summer School

6 March, 2018AIPI – Associazione Internazionale Professori d’Italiano proudly presents a competition notice for doctoral researchers in Italian Studies  to organize a Summer School.  The best proposal will receive €4000 for the project. (Deadline: 15th July 2018) L’AIPI indìce un bando per offrire ai dottorandi e post-dottorandi in italianistica la possibilità di organizzare una ...

XXIII Congresso dell’Associazione Internazionale dei Professori di Italiano Le vie dell’italiano: mercanti, viaggiatori, migranti …

10 February, 2018Il XXIII Congresso dell’AIPI, Associazione Internazionale dei Professori di Italiano, si terra’ all’Universita per stranieri di Siena, dal 5 al 8 settembre 2018. Il titolo del convegno e’: Le vie dell’italiano: mercanti, viaggiatori, migranti, cibernauti (e non solo) Percorsi e incroci tra letteratura, lingua, arte e civiltà Ulteriori infomazioni sono ...

Society of Italian Studies Postgraduate Conference, University of Bristol, 24th November 2017

9 November, 2017Registration is now open for the Society of Italian Studies Postgraduate Conference on 24th November 2017 at the University of Bristol (The Verdon-Smith Room, Royal Fort House). If you wish to attend, please register  by  21st November. The programme is available here. For further details, contact m.balzi@bristol.ac.uk and rebekah.locke@bristol.ac.uk

Conference “La prima donna del Rinascimento?” Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547): Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact

12 April, 2017Conference announcement “La prima donna del Rinascimento?” Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547): Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact, NYU Florence April 20-21, 2017. The full programme, plus contact details, can be found here.

SIS Themed Conference 2018. University of Sussex, 5-6 April 2018

15 January, 2017  The 2018 SIS Themed Conference will be held from 5th to 6th April, 2018 at the University of Sussex. The theme is  Resistance in Italian culture: Literature, Politics and Film.  The Conference organisers are Dr Ambra Moroncini (University of Sussex), who is the lead contact, Dr Darrow Schecter (University ...

Colloquium: Leopardi e i suoi fratelli: Le Marche e la letteratura italiana, Senate House, IMLR, 3rd February 2017

15 January, 2017Information on this colloquium, to be held at Senate House (Room 104), IMLR,  in support of historic towns in Le Marche can be found here. For information, contact the organisers: Dr Fabio Camilletti (Warwick University) and Dr Ambra Moroncini (Sussex University)