SIS Conferences

The Society for Italian Studies supports research across the discipline by holding three conferences: the Biennial Conference; the Themed Conference (previously known as the Interim), and the Postgraduate Colloquium. The Society also supports research by providing some funding to conferences and symposia run by SIS members.

Postgraduate Colloquium

The Society holds an annual Postgraduate Colloquium. See this page for further details.

The form for the registering of interest in holding the Biennial Conference is available below. Please complete the form as fully as possible, bearing in mind that not all questions will be relevant to the Biennial Conference (the form covers both this and the Themed Conference) and return to Chiara Giuliani, as Hon. Secretary at chiara.giuliani@ucc.ie .

Previous Conferences

• The 2024 Conference was hosted by Royal Holloway University of London, 19-21 June. See the programme here.
• The 2022 Conference was hosted by the University of Warwick, 20-22 April. See the programme here.
• The 2019 Conference was hosted by The University of Edinburgh, 26-28 June. See the programme here.
• The 2017 Conference was hosted by the University of Hull from 27^th– 30th June 2017. The programme is available for dowload.
• The 2015 Conference was hosted by the University of Oxford from 28 to 30 September 2015. The programme is available for download.
• The 2013 Conference was hosted by Durham University from 8 to 11 July 2013. The programme is available for download.
• The 2011 Conference was hosted by St Andrews University from 6 to 9 July 2011. The programme is available for download.
• The 2009 Conference was hosted by Royal Holloway University of London, from 16 to 19 April.

Previous Themed Conferences

• The 2025 Themed Conference ‘Italian Studies at the Digital Turn. Practice, Methods, Interdisciplinarity’ was held at the University of Leeds, 23-24 June. The programme is available here.
• The 2023 Themed Conference ‘Affect, Sensation, Emotion’ was held at Selwyn College, Cambridge, 7-8 September. Programme available here.
• The 2020 Themed Conference ‘Visions of Italy’ was held virtually at the University of Kent on the 10 and 11 September 2020. The conference was organised by Dr Alex Marlow-Mann and Dr Alvise Sforza Tarabocchia. The keynote speaker was Prof Stephen Gundle.
• The 2018 Themed Conference, Resistance in Italian culture: Literature, Politics and Film was held at the University of Sussex, 5th and 6th April 2018 . The programme and the Conference Report are available for download in PDF format.
• The 2016 Themed Conference, Turning Points: Cultures of Transition, Transformation and Transmission , was held at Trinity College, Dublin, 29th and 30th April 2016. The programme is available for download in PDF format
• The 2014 Themed Conference, Interstitial Italy: Reassessing Global Questions Through the ‘Peculiar’ Italian Case, was held at the British School at Rome, 27 and 28 March 2014. The programme is available for download in PDF format.
• The 2012 Themed Conference, Transnational Italy: National Identity and the World Atlas, was held at the University of Reading’, 13 and 14 July 2012. The programme and abstracts are available for download in PDF format.
• The 2010 Themed Conference, Religion, Mysticism and Heresy in Italian Culture, was held at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, 16-17 April 2010. The programme is available for download in PDF format.
• The 2008 Themed Conference, Transmissions and Transformations of Italian Culture, took place at the Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, on 25-26 April 2008. The programme and abstracts are available for download in PDF format.

Conferences and events organised by the SIS will follow our EDI Policies.