The Society of Italian Studies

SIS Annual General Meeting
2020-01-11 11:00 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8NX, United Kingdom
We are pleased to invite all SIS members to the 2020 Annual General Meeting which is taking place this Saturday 11 January 2020 at the Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, London, from 11am until around 3.30 pm.

Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression - temporarily cancelled
2020-06-25 - 2020-06-26 | University of Cambridge, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, United Kingdom
English version
This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the role of women in Sardinian culture and society from the Middle Ages to the present day, with an emphasis on the concepts of creativity and self-expression, intended not only in literary, cultural and artistic forms, but also in daily practices and contexts. A central geographical area in the Mediterranean Sea, surrounded by an enduring archaic and mythical aura, Sardinia is a privileged space to examine the contradictions between pre-established gender roles and the emergence of extraordinary female figures, from the great giudicessa Eleanor of Arborea (1347-1404) to the Nobel prize winner in literature Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), the only woman who received this recognition in Italy to date.
Grazia Deledda evocatively defined Sardinia as the “Cinderella of Italy, still waiting for her fairy godmother to discover her and take her out of the obscurity in which she lives”. This unjustly neglected Italian region has witnessed a rising wave of imaginative women writers in the twentieth century, including Maria Giacobbe (1928-), Bianca Piztorno (1942-), Milena Agus (1959-), Michela Murgia (1972-). As recently as 2019, several cultural events in Italy celebrated the centenary of Maria Lai’s birth (1919-2013), another distinguished artist from Sardinia, whose sculptures, canvases and “sewn fairy tales” speak of and to women’s creative self-expressions across time and space.
Alongside such renowned female figures, numerous unknown women contributed to build up the unique and multifaceted character of this island, by blurring in everyday life the boundary between the secluded world of their households and the public sphere, and challenging their own worlds with small but bold acts of disobedience to the established order. By unravelling the unexplored threads between prominent female figures and those who did not make their way in the official history of this region, this conference seeks also to acknowledge the forms of creativity and self-expression that lesser-known women resorted to in a variety of social and cultural contexts.
We invite papers that explore the nexuses between women, creativity, self-expression and Sardinian culture in their multifarious facets. Proposals may include, but are not limited to, women’s role in Sardinian literature, both as writers and as fictional characters, in oral traditions, visual arts, education, law, everyday public and domestic spheres, beyond chronological boundaries, as well as in a comparative perspective with other cultural contexts.

Instructions and deadlines for proposals
We welcome submissions of both individual papers and proposals for panels:

Individual paper proposals for 20-minute presentations should consist of a title, an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short biographical note.
Panels should consist of three papers and each proposal should include a title, the names of the chair and the speakers, abstracts (max. 300 words each) and a short biographical note of the

The working languages of the conference are English and Italian. Abstract and panel proposals can be sent either in English or in Italian.
Please submit your proposal for either a paper or a panel to the conference organisers Sara Delmedico (sd683@cam.ac.uk) and Elena Emma Sottilotta (ees45@cam.ac.uk), University of Cambridge, Italian Section.
The deadline for submission of paper/panel proposals is 30 March 2020. Notification of inclusion in the conference will be sent by 20 April 2020.

Italian version
Questa conferenza interdisciplinare mira ad esplorare il ruolo delle donne nella cultura e nella società sarda dal Medioevo al giorno d’oggi, con un’enfasi sui concetti di creatività ed espressione di sé, intesi non solo nelle dimensioni letterarie, culturali e artistiche, ma anche in pratiche e contesti quotidiani. Crocevia geografico centrale nel Mar Mediterraneo, circondata da una duratura aura mitica e arcaica, la Sardegna è uno spazio privilegiato per esaminare le contraddizioni tra ruoli di genere prestabiliti e l’emergere di figure femminili straordinarie, dalla grande giudicessa Eleonora d’Arborea (1347-1404) alla vincitrice del premio Nobel per la letteratura Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), l’unica donna ad aver ricevuto questo riconoscimento in Italia ad oggi.
Grazia Deledda ha evocativamente definito la Sardegna come “la Cenerentola d’Italia, che aspetta tutt’ora la fata benefica che la scopra e la tragga dall’oscurità in cui vive”. Questa regione italiana ingiustamente trascurata è stata protagonista di un’ondata crescente di scrittrici creative nel corso del ventesimo secolo, tra cui Maria Giacobbe (1928-), Bianca Piztorno (1942-), Milena Agus (1959-), Michela Murgia (1972-). Di recente, nel 2019 si sono tenuti vari eventi culturali in Italia per la celebrazione del centenario della nascita di Maria Lai (1919- 2013), un’altra nota artista sarda, le cui sculture, tele e “fiabe cucite” danno voce alle espressioni creative delle donne attraverso il tempo e lo spazio.
Accanto a queste figure femminili illustri, numerose donne sconosciute hanno contribuito a plasmare il carattere unico e sfaccettato di quest’isola, sfumando nella vita di tutti i giorni il confine tra il mondo appartato delle loro famiglie e la sfera pubblica e sfidando i loro mondi con piccoli ma audaci atti di disobbedienza all’ordine prestabilito. Nel dipanare i fili inesplorati tra figure femminili di spicco e coloro che non sono entrate a far parte delle pagine ufficiali della storia di questa regione, questa conferenza mira anche a riconoscere le forme di creatività ed espressione di sé a cui ricorrevano donne meno note in una varietà di contesti sociali e culturali.
Vorremmo ospitare contributi che esplorano i nessi tra donne, creatività, espressione di sé e cultura sarda nelle loro molteplici sfaccettature. Le proposte possono incentrarsi sul ruolo delle donne nella letteratura sarda, sia come scrittrici che come personaggi di fantasia, nonché nelle tradizioni orali, nelle arti visive, nel campo dell’istruzione, in ambito legislativo, nelle sfere pubbliche e private, al di fuori di limiti cronologici ed anche in prospettiva comparata con altri contesti culturali.

Modalità di invio delle proposte e scadenze
Sono benvenute sia proposte per presentazioni individuali che proposte per sessioni:

Le proposte per presentazioni individuali della durata di 20 minuti ciascuna dovranno essere accompagnate da titolo, abstract (massimo 300 parole) e una breve nota biografica.
Le proposte per sessioni comprenderanno tre presentazioni individuali e ogni proposta dovrà essere accompagnata da titolo, nomi del coordinatore della sessione e dei relatori, abstract (massimo 300 parole ciascuno) e una breve nota biografica dei partecipanti.

Le lingue di lavoro della conferenza saranno inglese e italiano. Le proposte possono essere inviate in una delle due lingue.
Si prega di inviare le proposte entro il 30 marzo 2020 alle organizzatrici della conferenza Sara Delmedico (sd683@cam.ac.uk) ed Elena Emma Sottilotta (ees45@cam.ac.uk), Università di Cambridge, Dipartimento di Italianistica. La notifica di inclusione nella conferenza verrà comunicata entro il 20 aprile 2020.

Conference Organisers:
Sara Delmedico, MHRA Research Fellow sd683@cam.ac.uk
Elena Emma Sottilotta, PhD Candidate ees45@cam.ac.uk
Date: 25-26 June 2020
Location:
Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge
Keynote Speaker:
Dr Gigliola Sulis, University of Leeds
Guest of Honour:
Michela Murgia, Award-winning writer
Conference page:
https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/news/women-sardinia-creativity-self-expression

SIS Themed Conference 2020: Visions of Italy
2020-09-10 - 2020-09-11 | University of Kent, Giles Ln, Canterbury, CT2 7NZ, United Kingdom
Society for Italian Studies Themed Conference
Visions of Italy
University of Kent, 10-11 September 2020

Popular conceptions of Italy typically revolve around the visual: the beauty of its landscapes and its historic legacy of fine art and architecture. This dates back at least to the medieval period, and the innovations of artists such as Giotto and visionary writers like Dante. In the twentieth century, it is in the fields of cinema, photography, art, fashion and design that Italy has had the most marked impact around the world. Concurrently, Italy has also been a favoured subject of visual representation: from Grand Tour photographic albums to mainstream Hollywood films set in Italy, there is no lack of foreign representations of the country and its inhabitants.

This conference will explore Italian visual culture, Italy’s relationship with the visual and the way in which Italy and Italians have been depicted. It aims to further a dialogue among scholars in the field of Italian studies who deal with visual culture in the broadest sense, from studies of visual arts and objects to literary works characterized by an emphasis on the visual.

We welcome proposals for papers or pre-constituted panels (of three papers) on topics such as:

Cinema and photography;
Visual arts of all eras, from Medieval and Rennaissance to contemporary art;
Fashion and design;
Advertising and visual culture;
Intermediality and cross-media representation;
Visual representations of Italians and Italian culture abroad (e.g. Italian-Americans, the diaspora, etc);
Visual representations of migration to and within Italy;
Transcultural representations of Italy and Italians;
Ekphrasis and visual culture in Italian literature;
Visualisation within, and of, the work of medieval and early modern authors (e.g. Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca).

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Stephen Gundle

Papers may be delivered in either English or Italian

For individual papers, please send a 200-word abstract and a 100-word bio.
For panels, please send a 200-word rationale plus 100-word abstracts and 100-word bios for each paper in the panel. In putting together a panel, you should take into account the SIS policy on gender equality (copied at the foot of this CFP).
Proposals should be emailed to both conference organisers (a.p.marlow-mann@kent.ac.uk and a.sforza-tarabochia@kent.ac.uk) by 31st January 2020.

SIS Gender Policy
Conferences and events organised by the SIS will respect the following norms:

as far as possible there will be a balance in the number of male/female speakers and session chairs;
single-sex panels will be avoided wherever possible;
panel chairs will be briefed on how to ensure inclusive and balanced discussion;
where there is more than one keynote speaker efforts will be made to ensure gender balance.

Alex and Alvise

PRISMI new series - CALL FOR PAPERS
2020-09-15
CALL FOR PAPERS PER
PRISMI nouvelle série,
revue du Département d’Italien de l’Université de Lorraine
Dirigée par Elsa Chaarani et Giuseppe Sangirardi

2 (2021) et n. 3 (2022)

A partire dal 2020, PRISMI, rivista di studi italianistici fondata nel 1996 da Bruno Toppan e legata al Dipartimento di Italiano dell’Université de Lorraine, sarà oggetto di una doppia pubblicazione, in volume cartaceo e online, sul portale dell’editore Chemins de tr@verse (una richiesta è in corso per l’accesso al portale open edition).
Parallelamente, PRISMI si rinnova nella sua organizzazione interna e nella sua struttura per meglio inserirsi nel paesaggio universitario attuale e allinearsi agli standard scientifici oggi riconosciuti.

I fascicoli, pubblicati con cadenza annuale, comporteranno tre rubriche (due almeno per numero), per meglio alimentare e valorizzare il carattere tradizionalmente pluridisciplinare della rivista, facendo ampio spazio alla letteratura italiana, ma promuovendo ugualmente l’apertura dell’orizzonte in direzione di una comparatistica intesa in senso largo e degli studi storici e culturali.

Interprétation de textes et de corpus : questa sezione ospiterà studi aventi per oggetto la letteratura italiana, che si tratti di analisi di testi singoli o di inchieste su tematiche più o meno estese.
Interlangues : (letteratura comparata, intertestualità, traduzione) : questa sezione ospiterà studi sulla lingua e sulla letteratura italiane in relazione con altre lingue e letterature del presente o del passato, nella prospettiva della traduttologia, della letteratura comparata, della filologia romanza, della filologia tout court.
Arcimboldo: questa sezione ospiterà studi che esplorino le diverse sfaccettature della storia e della cultura italiana, dal teatro all’opera, dalla storia dell’arte al cinema, dalla sociologia allo sport, dalla musica alla filosofia o alla politica.

Sommario del n. 1, la cui pubblicazione è attesa per la fine del 2020
Interprétation de textes et de corpus
Paolo Orvieto, Lettura allegorica del Morgante
Matteo Residori, « Non si perde servigio mai nessuno ». Gratitudine, amicizia e giustizia nel Morgante
Pierre Musitelli, Langue, dramaturgie et lectures politiques des opéras de Verdi (1842-1849)
Interlangues
Federico Bertoni, La donna moltiplicata. Frammento di um discorso amoroso
Arcimboldo
Gilles Bertrand, Versailles en Italie. Usages et destin d’une référence pour les Français voyageant dans la Péninsule au XVIIIe siècle
Raffaele Ruggiero, Giambattista Vico, un filosofo in tipografia
Salvatore Settis, Tre inquietudini di Antonio Tabucchi: la pátria, la politica, il tempo.
Per i numeri 2 e 3 si può inviare all’indirizzo della redazione :
lis-revue-prismi@univ-lorraine.fr

Una proposta di articolo (un titolo e una descrizione del contenuto tra dieci e venti righe) per il n. 2 (uscita nel 2021) al più tardi il 15 settembre 2020 (se la proposta è accettata, l’articolo dovrà essere consegnato al più tardi il 30 ottobre)
Una proposta di articolo (un titolo e una descrizione del contenuto tra dieci e venti righe) per il n. 3 (uscita nel 2022) al più tardi il 31 gennaio 2021 (se la proposta è accettata, l’articolo dovrà essere consegnato al più tardi il 30 aprile)

Le lingue accettate sono il francese, l’italiano e l’inglese

APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS POUR
PRISMI nouvelle série,
revue du Département d’Italien de l’Université de Lorraine
Dirigée par Elsa Chaarani et Giuseppe Sangirardi

2 (2021) et n. 3 (2022)

A compter de 2020, PRISMI, revue d’études italiennes fondée en 1996 par Bruno Toppan et émanant de la section d’Italien de l’Université de Lorraine, fera l’objet d’une double publication, en volume papier et désormais aussi en ligne, sur le portail de l’éditeur Chemins de tr@verse (une demande est en cours pour la mise en ligne sur le portail open edition).
Parallèlement, PRISMI fait peau neuve dans son organisation interne et sa structure pour mieux s’accorder avec le paysage universitaire actuel et s’aligner sur les standards scientifiques aujourd’hui reconnus.
Les parutions régulières, à cadence annuelle, comporteront désormais trois rubriques (dont deux au moins par numéro), pour mieux nourrir et valoriser le caractère traditionnellement pluridisciplinaire de la revue, en accordant une large place à la littérature italienne mais promouvant également l’ouverture de l’horizon en direction d’un comparatisme compris dans le sens le plus large et des études historiques et culturelles.

Interprétation de textes et de corpus : cette section hébergera des travaux ayant pour objet la littérature italienne, qu’il s’agisse d’analyse de textes singuliers ou d’enquêtes sur des thématiques plus ou moins étendues
Interlangues : (littérature comparée, intertextualités, traduction) : cette section hébergera des travaux portant sur la langue et la littérature italiennes en relation avec d’autres langues et littératures du présent ou du passé, dans les optiques propres à la traductologie, la littérature comparée, la philologie romane, la philologie tout court.
Arcimboldo: cette section hébergera des travaux explorant l’ensemble des facettes de l’histoire et de la culture italiennes, du théâtre à l’opéra, de l’histoire de l’art au cinéma, de la sociologie au sport, de la musique à la philosophie ou à la politique.

Sommaire du n. 1, à paraître fin 2020
Interprétation de textes et de corpus
Paolo Orvieto, Lettura allegorica del Morgante
Matteo Residori, « Non si perde servigio mai nessuno ». Gratitudine, amicizia e giustizia nel Morgante
Pierre Musitelli, Langue, dramaturgie et lectures politiques des opéras de Verdi (1842-1849)
Interlangues
Federico Bertoni, La donna moltiplicata. Frammento di um discorso amoroso
Arcimboldo
Gilles Bertrand, Versailles en Italie. Usages et destin d’une référence pour les Français voyageant dans la Péninsule au XVIIIe siècle
Raffaele Ruggiero, Giambattista Vico, un filosofo in tipografia
Salvatore Settis, Tre inquietudini di Antonio Tabucchi: la pátria, la politica, il tempo.
Pour les números 2 et 3 vous pouvez envoyer à l’adresse de la rédaction :
lis-revue-prismi@univ-lorraine.fr

Une proposition d’article (un titre et dix à vingt lignes décrivant le contenu) pour le n. 2 (parution en 2021) au plus tard le 15 septembre 2020 (si votre proposition est retenue, l’article sera à remettre pour le 30 octobre au plus tard)
Une proposition d’article (un titre et dix à vingt lignes décrivant le contenu) pour le n. 3 (parution en 2022) au plus tard le 31 janvier 2021 (si votre proposition est retenue, l’article sera à remettre le 30 avril au plus tard).

Les langues acceptées sont le français, l’italien et l’anglais.

Annual General Meeting 2021
2021-01-16 13:30 - 16:00
The Society for Italian Studies is very pleased to invite you to the next Annual General Meeting, which will take place online on Saturday 16th January at 1:30pm, until around 4pm. The AGM will take 45 minutes and, after a short break, we will then move on to the afternoon discussion. As always, the meeting is an important opportunity for the Italian Studies community to discuss the major issues that are affecting our discipline. So this year our afternoon session will be devoted to addressing issues of equality, diversity and inclusion in Italian Studies.
To join the meeting, please use the following link and/or credentials:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83793076505?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 837 9307 6505
Passcode: [REDACTED]

«L 'ombra sua torna» Dante, il Novecento e oltre
2021-04-19 - 2021-04-21
The Departamento de Estudios Románicos, Franceses, Italianos y Traducción of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, together with the Universitat de Barcelona, the University of Leeds, and the University of Oxford, is happy to announce the forthcoming International Conference on Dante and the literary and artistic culture of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The event will take place on 19-21 of April 2021 online. You can follow it on youtube.
The programme is very rich and will feature the following lectiones magistralis:

Aurora Conde Muñoz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Divina Ficción
Lino Pertile (Harvard University) Dante, Primo Levi e il Fascismo
Marco Antonio Bazzocchi (Università di Bologna) Corpo, luce, ombra: declinazione di “figura” nella Commedia
Eduard Vilella Morató (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Deranged Paths: presenze fuori campo di Dante nel cinema
Jacob Blakesley (University of Leeds) Mapping Dante: the worldwide reception of Dante’s Commedia
Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester) Modernist Dante, but not as we know it

Translation as Position-Taking in the Literary Field
2021-04-22 - 2021-04-24 | Online
Translation as Position-Taking in the Literary Field. Agents and institutions of translated literature in Italy and of Italian literature abroad (20th and 21st Century)
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The aim of the conference is to foster critical discussion on translated literature as part of the target literature, by focusing on literary institutions (publishing houses, book series, journals) and agents (translators, literary agents, editors), and the composite sociocultural factors driving the selection, production, and publication of literary translations. “Calling into question the politics of canonisation and moving resolutely away from ideas of universal literary greatness”(Bassnett and Trivedi 1999), we are particularly interested in social categories of writers who have been dismissed by literary critics who insisted on “the autonomy of the aesthetic” (Bloom 1994); in other words, writers who challenge the ‘Western canon’.
The conference aims to explore the mechanisms of reception, dissemination, recognition and popularisation in the Italian literary system of foreign literature. This will include literature by women authors in translation, by feminist translators, authors from non-hegemonic/non-central languages, non-white, minoritarian and marginalised authors/groups and collectives. We are also interested in similar mechanisms by which Italian literature is translated and received beyond Italy.
Keynote lectures will be delivered by Cecilia Schwartz (Stockholm University, Sweden), Jacob Blakesley (University of Leeds, UK), and Susan Bassnett (University of Glasgow/University of Warwick, UK). Full programme is available here

SIS Workshop for Early Career Academics
2021-06-24 - 2021-06-25
Italian Studies: Theory and Practice

The Department of Italian at University College Cork and The Society for Italian Studies are delighted to host a two-day online Workshop for Early Career Academics (ECAs), which will address Methodologies and Theoretical Approaches within the Humanities and their application to the study of Italian language and culture. The event will also host two professional development sessions, which are designed to enhance the professionalisation of Early Career Academics.
The workshop is structured around four dedicated sections, each one of which will comprise a panel of ECA speakers in dialogue with a keynote speaker:
1) Digital Humanities
Keynote: Prof. Massimo Riva, Brown University
Organiser: Dr Ana Stefanovska, UCC
2) Mediating Subjectivities
Keynote: Prof. Loredana Polezzi, Stony Brook University
Organiser: Dr Valentina Mele, UCC
3) Intermediality
Keynote: Prof. Giancarlo Lombardi, City University of New York
Organiser: Dr Guido Bartolini, UCC
4) Deconstructing Whiteness
Keynote: Dr. Gaia Giuliani, University of Coimbra
Organiser: Dr Guido Bartolini, UCC
We invite submissions of papers in English or Italian, from Early Career Academics
throughout Ireland, the UK, and further afield. Please check the panel descriptions belowand write to the individual panel organisers. In line with the SIS EDI guidelines, westrongly encourage a diversity of participants and approaches to Italian language and culture.
The professional development sessions will comprise:
1) ‘What we look for in an article submission for an academic journal’
A roundtable with the Editors of the journal Italian Studies:
Professor Ruth Glynn, Dr Catherine Keen, and Professor Giuliana Pieri.
2) ‘How to write an academic book proposal’
Delivered by an editor from an academic press.
Given the restrictions of the online format, the workshop will be held as a plenary forum and the number of papers permitted will be limited. We welcome participation of all interested ECAs, whether presenting a paper or as part of the online audience.
DEADLINE for Submissions: 1 April 2021
Workshop Dates: 24-25 June 2021
Mode of Delivery: The event will be held online
For further information about the panel, please visit the Website
This conference is generously supported by The Society for Italian Studies and the
Department of Italian, UCC.
Please note: All participants will need to be registered members of The Society for Italian Studies
by 1 June 2021.

"Visibili rifatti": Early Modern Voices in the Contemporary World
2022-06-29 - 2022-06-30 | Universty of Sussex, United Kingdom
“Visibili rifatti”: Early Modern Voices in the Contemporary World aims to explore the revolutionary implications of the humanist enterprise in today’s society, fostering reflections on the art of adaptation as interpretation and remediation.
The conference is organised by Dr Ambra Moroncini (Sussex), Dr Aaron Kahn (Sussex), and Dr Daragh O’Connell (Cork), in collaboration with Prof. Peter Boxall (Sussex) and Prof. Brian Cummings (York).
You can find here the full programme.

Study Day 'Envisioning the Afterlife: Dante and the Irish Visionary Tradition'
2024-05-20 | University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Envisioning the Afterlife: Dante and the Irish Visionary Tradition
Study Day
20 May 2024
The Council Room, University College Cork, & online

This study day, organised by the UCC Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland, focuses on the medieval Irish vision tradition and its relationship with the Commedia, Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth-century poetic vision of the afterlife.
In collaboration with specialists in literature, theology, cosmology, history, and textual transmission, we aim to examine the particularity of medieval Irish literary visions and their ‘insular’ features, while also considering their extraordinary European circulation, especially the influence that works such as the Visio Tnugdali and Navigatio Sancti Brendani had in Italy, where they were copied, translated, and transformed. Despite the relatively high number of surviving manuscripts of these Latin and vernacular texts, the Irish visionary tradition has received little attention among Dante scholars, and its direct or indirect impact on late medieval Italy is yet to be fully explored.
This study day brings the Italian and the Irish literary traditions into dialogue via Dante in a way that appreciates their distinctiveness, while also recognising the commonalities they have in answering questions central to the medieval – and possibly modern – understanding of the self: namely, how can one be present to other realities than those immediately evident to our senses? How do writers invite readers to partake in their extraordinary visionary experiences? And how is our understanding of the miraculous and the supernatural in vision literature shaped by genre expectations and social, cultural, philosophical, and theological contexts of transmission?
In addition to hosting senior specialists and early-career scholars from Ireland, Italy, Hungary, and the UK, this study day draws upon existing research strengths at the UCC Department of Early and Medieval Irish and especially the project ‘De Finibus: Christian Representations of the Afterlife in Medieval Ireland,’ which resulted in the two-volume collection The End and Beyond: Medieval Irish Eschatology (2014).
Professor John Carey (UCC) will deliver a keynote on (dis)embodiment and (im)materiality in visionary experience, concentrating mainly on Irish texts, but also considering sources shared by Dante and the Irish, notably Visio Sancti Pauli and Gregory the Great’s Dialogues.

SIS Biennial Conference 2024
2024-06-19 - 2024-06-21 | Royal Holloway
The 2024 Biennial Conference of the Society for Italian Studies, the largest scholarly society in the UK and Ireland for the study of Italian language, literature, and culture, will take place in person at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Both presenting or not-presenting attendees can register at this link: https://onlinestore.rhul.ac.uk/product-catalogue/events-and-conferences/school-of-humanities/society-for-italian-studies-biennial-conference/society-for-italian-studies-biennial-conference
Please find all information on the conference and the conference venue at this link: https://sites.google.com/view/sisbiennial2024/home?authuser=0

Please remember to also subscribe to the Society for Italian Studies in order to participate in the conference: https://italianstudies.org.uk/the-society/membership/
Should you have any questions, please contact: SIS.biennial.2024@rhul.ac.uk

NILI-UK Event: Book Presentation 'Complete Italian'
2025-11-03 04:30 - 18:00 | Online
Organised by NILI – Network of Teachers of Italian in the United Kingdom, this event will be a workshop/presentation of the book Teach Yourself Complete Italian, a self-study Italian language textbook for learners of Italian as a foreign language, written by Elena Borelli and Giulia Baronti.

During the event, the following topics will be discussed:

How to write an Italian language textbook, particularly for self-learners

How to work with a publisher during the writing process

How to present culture in a respectful, authentic, and engaging way for the self-learner

How to incorporate inclusive language and pedagogy into this type of textbook.

To sign up and receive the link, please complete the registration form here

“Choose wisely: why language matters in Dante’s Commedia” – SIS Networking Talk at Bristol by George Rayson (Cork)
2025-11-18 05:00 - 19:00 | University of Bristol
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 18th of November, 5 pm, Arts Complex 1.H020 – Humanities Research Space.
His talk “Choose wisely: why language matters in Dante’s Commedia” will be delivered in hybrid format. See the details to access the online event below:
Teams link
Meeting ID: 330 386 067 301 46
Passcode: [REDACTED]

“Goat Herding in Aspromonte” – SIS Networking Talk at Edinburgh by Aurora Moxon (Cork)
2025-11-20 13:30 - 15:30 | University of Edinburgh
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 Society. The talk will be delivered in hybridg format on the 20th of November, 1.30 pm.
For those able to join in person, the talk will take place at: 50 George Square, Project Room, Edinburgh EH8 9LH.
For those who prefer to join online, here is the Teams link:
Join the meeting now
Meeting ID: 311 080 184 466 2
Passcode: [REDACTED]
The session will be recorded, so if the date and time don’t suit, you’ll still be able to catch up later.
Further details on this talk here.

Dante Futures 2025: New Voices in Ireland and the UK
2025-11-21 - 2025-11-22 | University of Warwick
The University of Wariwck is happy to invite you to the conference ‘Dante Futures 2025: New Voices in Ireland and the UK’. The conference is taking place on the 21st and 22nd of November at Warwick. Please find the full conference programme and venue details here.

SIS PG Colloquium at Cambridge: ‘Italian Literature and Culture through a Comparative Lens: Transnational and Transhistorical Networks’
2025-12-05 | University of Cambridge, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The Society for Italian Studies is delighted to invite you to our 2025 Postgraduate Colloquium. This year the Colloquium will take placen at the University of Cambridge on the 5th of December. See full programme and further details here.

SIS Annual General Meeting
2026-01-17 10:30 - 16:00 | Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London, United Kingdom
The AGM of the Society for Italian Studies in the UK and Ireland will take place on Saturday 17 January at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London (Senate House, Malet Street London), 10.30-4pm.

The morning session (10.30-12.30am) will be dedicated to the AGM and other Society business. The afternoon session (1.30 to 4pm) will be dedicated to research, with a focus on REF 2029 (including Q&A) and on research impact.

Speakers will include the Chair and Deputy Chair of our REF subpanel, Prof. Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow) and Prof. Susan Harrow (University of Bristol).

Lunch will be provided.

SIS Biennial Conference 2026
2026-07-09 08:00 - 2026-07-11 17:00 | Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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 on 9-11 July 2026. The conference programme and further details are available on the conference website; for further information, please get in touch with the conference organisers at sisdublin2026@gmail.com.
