Society for Italian Studies

SIS Conferences


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Biennial Conference

A residential conference is held every two years. The 2009 Conference will be hosted by Royal Holloway University of London, from 16 to 19 April. See this page for the Call for papers and panel proposals.


Interim Conference

The Society holds a smaller, themed conference on alternate years to the Biennial Conference.

The 2010 Interim Conference, 'Religion, Mysticism and Heresy in Italian Culture', will be held at the Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, 16-17 April 2010. Organizers: Fabrizio De Donno (Royal Holloway) and Simon Gilson (Warwick). The programme is now available for download in PDF format.

See the call for papers on this page.

The 2008 Interim Conference, on the theme of 'Transmissions and Transformations of Italian Culture', took place at the Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, on 25-26 April 2008.

  • See this page for the Call for Papers (deadline: 17 December 2007).
  • Programme (18 February 2008) in PDF format.
  • Abstracts in PDF format.

Postgraduate Colloquium

The Society holds an annual Postgraduate Colloquium. The 2010 Colloquium will be hosted by the Department of Italian, Unviersity of Warwick on 5 June. See this page for the Call for Papers. The programme can be downloaded in PDF format.

The 2009 Postgraduate Colloquium was hosted by the Sub-Faculty of Italian at the University of Oxford on Saturday, 23 May. See this page for the programme and registration details.


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