Society for Italian Studies

A massive GRAZIE! to everyone who participated in the SIS Biennial Conference! It was a phenomenal event—productive, insightful, and a wonderful moment of community 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪🇮🇹. A huge shoutout to the Italian Studies team at @RoyalHolloway for organizing this fantastic event!🎉📚

Delighted to announce the 2024-25 SIS Networking Scheme Fund awardees! Congrats to Valentina Mele, Jessica Hampton, Victoria Witkowski, Simona Di Martino, Luigi Pinton, George Rayson, Aurora Moxon & Frey Kalus, all making valuable contributions to research! #SISNetworkingScheme

Now accepting applications for the SIS Undergraduate and Postgraduate Prize!🎉To reward excellent work in Italian Studies from the 2024/2025 academic year, see the link below and submit your applications before 18th July 2025!✨ italianstudies.org.uk/postgraduates/…

Join us for Leopardi Day 2025 at @uniofwarwick on the 26th June!🎉 Now in its 17th year, this international event explores Leopardi in dialogue with ethics, temporality, theory, authorship, and the complexities of our contemporary world!✨ #LeopardiDay2025 italianstudies.org.uk/2025/06/17/con…

📣Call for Papers: Dante Futures 2025, New Voices in the UK and Ireland📣The annual doctoral and postdoctoral research conference will take place at @uniofwarwick this November! Submit your proposals by 30th July 2025 to [email protected]!✨ italianstudies.org.uk/2025/06/14/cal…

Join us on the 8th May 2025 for the conference ‘Notes on Water, Fluid Potentialities of an Intermedial Metaphor’ taking place at @IASH_Edinburgh! Listen to guest speakers explore water as a metaphor and its presence in visual cultural works!💧✨ italianstudies.org.uk/2025/04/30/con…

Registration is now open for the forthcoming SIS Conference on Italian Studies at the Digital Turn (University of Leeds, 23-24 June 2025). conferences.leeds.ac.uk/sis/ for registration form, programme, tips. Vi aspettiamo!!!

A reminder that applications for the SIS Postdoctoral Fellowship are open until 9th May 2025! Don’t wait to apply! 📣✨

📣Call for Applications!📣 The SIS is seeking to elect its first Postdoctoral Fellow for the academic year 2025-26! For one year’s worth of funding to turn your PhD thesis into a book, see the link below for details and apply before 9th May 2025!⭐️ italianstudies.org.uk/2025/04/10/sis…

We are delighted to announce the publication of the third issue of Notes in Italian Studies, the society’s PGR journal!✨ See the link below to explore some excellent contributions from postgraduate and early-career researchers in Italian Studies! italianstudies.org.uk/postgraduates/…

I’m happy to share that my book Gothic Italy: Crime, Science, and Literature after Unification (1861-1914), published by @utpress, has been awarded the 2024 American Association for Italian Studies (@AAIS_Official) prize for Literary & Cultural Studies. Happy and grateful!

Join us in Venice from 16th-19th September 2025 for the Summer School ‘Corpo a Corpo’! Explore the cultural, social, and political dynamics of corporeality in Italian culture through lectures, workshops and presentations! Apply before 1st April 2025!🌟italianstudies.org.uk/2025/02/24/sum…

We are delighted to announce the new SIS Executive Committee positions with Emanuela Patti as Research Portfolio Holder, Olivia Santovetti as Treasurer & Chiara Giuliani as Honorary Secretary! With thanks to previous position holders Emma Bond, Claudia Rossignoli & Tristan Kay!🌟

The School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University is currently at risk of being axed - please follow the link below to express your support to our colleagues at Cardiff chng.it/HbsSMbMk7t

Join us on the 8th February 2025 for the ‘Incontro degli Italianisti in Irlanda’ taking place at @ucddublin and the Italian Cultural Institute of Dublin!🇮🇪 A key event supporting Irish-based Italianists, with discussions on funding for humanities, AI & global Italian Studies!🇮🇹✨

Excited about this book launch: Intermediality: Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue - please get in touch if you want to join remotely ⁦@Interdiscitaly⁩ blogs.ed.ac.uk/intermediality…

Oggi, 31 gennaio, 5 anni dall'uscita del Regno Unito dall'Unione Europea. La Brexit continua nel suo corso e tra le novità, dal 2 aprile i cittadini UE non residenti in UK dovranno ottenere un'autorizzazione per entrare come turisti. Maggiori dettagli sul sito di @ItalyinLDN ...

Ambassador @InigoLND awarded the honour of Cavaliere della Stella d’Italia to Ms Ornella Tarantola. A well-deserved recognition for her contribution to promoting 🇮🇹Italian language and literature in the UK. Congratulations, Ornella! @iiclondra