Please send details of events for inclusion to
L.Rinaldi@ucl.ac.uk. Include the title of the event, a brief description, the venue and date, and the URL of the relevant website.
IMPORTANT NOTICE (6 November 2009). Organizers of events are reminded that they should send a URL for a link to their own webpage: sis.ac.uk will not host PDF or other files for conferences and other events not directly organized by or on behalf of the SIS.
27 February 2010. Graduate Conference in Italian Studies
University College Cork, Ireland, Saturday, 27 February 2010
For information please contact Dr Silvia Ross, Head of Organizing Committee s.ross@ucc.ie.
15 March 2010. First MOSAICI Conference: Poetry in Conflict
University of St Andrews, 15-17 March 2010
Keynote speakers will include Valerio Magrelli and Alberto Bertoni (Bologna)
Organisers: Dr Rossella Riccobono (St Andrews); Dr Eanna Ó Ceallacháin (Glasgow); Professor George Talbot (Hull)
31 March 2010. Call for papers: SIS Postgraduate Colloquium, 2010
University of Warwick, 5 June 2010
Abstracts of a maximum of 300 words, together with a short biography indicating academic background and research interests should be sent by 31 March 2010 to Dominic Holdaway, Mariarita Martino Grisà, Clea Rivalta and Caterina Sinibaldi at SIS.PGC.Warwick@warwick.ac.uk.
8 April 2010. Orality, Language, and Communication in the Early Modern World
Renaissance Society of America Conference
Venice, 8-10 April 2010
Organizers: Liz Horodowich lizh@nmsu.edu and Filippo de Vivo f.de-vivo@bbk.ac.uk
16 April 2010. SIS Interim Conference, 'Religion, Mysticism and Heresy in Italian Culture'
Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, 16-17 April 2010.
Organizers: Fabrizio De Donno (Royal Holloway) and Simon Gilson (Warwick).
Keynote Speakers: Stephen Milner (University of Manchester), Mary Laven (University of Cambridge), Emilio Gentile (University of Rome)
Programme (download in PDF format)
22 April 2010. Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages
University of Oxford, 22-24 April 2010
Keynote speakers: Bill Burgwinkle (King's College, Cambridge) and Christian Moevs (Notre Dame)
Concept and Organization: Manuele Gragnolati (Somerville College, Oxford) and Elena Lombardi (Bristol); with the support of the Paget Toynbee Fund, University of Oxford, and Somerville College, Oxford
For information, please contact Tristan Kay: tristan.kay@queens.ox.ac.uk
28 May 2010. CALL FOR PAPERS: Enhancing the Italian Studies Curriculum: Innovation and Development Conference
City Inn, Manchester, 17 September 2010
Keynote speakers: Marina Orsini-Jones (Coventry University); Dr. Marina Mozzon-McPherson (The University of Hull)
The deadline for receipts of abstracts is Friday 28 May 2010. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words.
For any queries and for submitting your abstract, please contact Dr. Elena Polisca: Elena.polisca@manchester.ac.uk
5 June 2010. SIS Postgraduate Colloquium, 2010
University of Warwick, 5 June 2010
24 June 2010. Language, Space and Otherness in Italy Since 1861
British School at Rome, 24-25 June 2010
Confirmed speakers include John Agnew, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Charles Burdett, Derek Duncan, John Foot, Mia Fuller, Robert Gordon, and Alessandro Portelli.
Organizer: David Forgacs d.forgacs@bsrome.it
25 August 2010. XIX Convegno dell’Associazione Internazionale dei Professori di Italiano
Insularità e cultura mediterranea nella lingua e nella letteratura italiane
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 25-28 agosto 201025 August 2010
Il comitato organizzatore è coordinato dal Prof. Maurizio Virdis (Dipartimento di Filologie e Letterature Moderne, Università degli Studi di Cagliari virdis@unica.it
Segretaria dell’associazione: Leonarda Trapassi ltrapassi@us.es
15 September 2010. International Conference: 21st-Century European Literature: Mapping New Trends
St Andrews University, 15-17 September 2010
Organising body: St Andrews University School of Modern Languages
Convenor: Professor Margaret-Anne Hutton, Department of French
Subject convenor for Italian literature: Dr Rossella Riccobono rmr8@st-andrews.ac.uk
17 September 2010. Enhancing the Italian Studies Curriculum: Innovation and Development Conference
City Inn, Manchester, 17 September 2010
Keynote speakers: Marina Orsini-Jones (Coventry University); Dr. Marina Mozzon-McPherson (The University of Hull)
For any queries, please contact Dr. Elena Polisca: Elena.polisca@manchester.ac.uk
