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.
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Latest News
‘The Experimental Practices of Italian Women Artists from the Late 1940s to the Mid-1960s’ – A SIS Networking Scheme Talk by Martina Borghi
Individuality and Emancipation through Abstraction: The Experimental Practices of Italian Women Artists from the Late 1940s to the Mid-1960s A SIS Networking Scheme Talk by [...]
Conference Report: The Waste Question: Landscapes of Toxicity and Resistance in Southern Italy
The colloquium “The Waste Question: Landscapes of Toxicity and Resistance in Southern Italy” took place at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences [...]
Conference ‘Grazia Deledda’s Waves’ (Cambridge, 25-26 September)
International Conference Grazia Deledda’s Waves: Networks, Memories and Legacies 100 Years After the Nobel Prize 25-26 September 2026 Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge The international conference Grazia Deledda’s Waves: [...]
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…