Conferences

The last ACIS Biennial Conference was held at the Australian National University, Canberra, Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country,  3–6 July 2024.

Italian Studies for Global Challenges: Transdisciplinary Conversations

Convenor: Francesco Ricatti

Advisory committee: Theodore Ell, Tom Geue, Katrina Lolicato, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli AM.

Please visit the dedicated 2024 ACIS conference website for details. 

2022: 12-14 December

University of Western Australia

Frontiers, Encounters, and Futures

Please follow this link to a gallery of informal photos taken throughout the conference. 

2019: 7-10 February

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Navigazioni possibili: Italies Lost and Found

Please follow this link to the gallery of official photos taken at the pōwhiri,  the traditional Maori welcome, held at the The Herenga Waka Marae on Thursday 7 February.

Photos credit: Colin McDiarmid, Victoria University of Wellington

2017: 4-7 July

Monash Centre, Prato, Italy

Scontri e Incontri: The Dynamics of Italian Transcultural Exchanges

2015: 1-4 July

The University of Sydney, Australia

Fertile Spaces, Dynamic Places: Mapping the Cultures of Italy

2013: 4-6 December

Flinders University/ University of South Australia, Adelaide 

Re-imagining Italian Studies

2011: 13- 16 July

The University of Melbourne, Australia

Italian Studies: New Directions

2009: 18-21 February

The University of Auckland, New Zealand

L’Italia nella Grande Migrazione

2007: 10-13 July

Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Conference Programme

2005: 30 June-2 July

Cassamarca Foundation, Treviso, Italy

L’Italia Globale: le altre italie e l’Italia altrove

2003: 3-5 July

University of Western Australia

Conference Programme

2001: 21-23 September

Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

The Importance of Italy

From time to time ACIS sponsors other conferences or workshops held by its members. Details of these will appear below.

2016: 24-25 November

Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

An Eye on Italy: Continuities and transformations in Italian visual culture

Flinders University, Griffith University, Victoria University of Wellington and the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies held an international conference, An Eye on Italy: Continuities and transformations in Italian visual culture, on 24-25 November 2016 at Flinders in the City, 182 Victoria Square, Adelaide, South Australia. Convened by Luciana d’Arcangeli (Flinders), Claire Kennedy (Griffith) and Sally Hill (VUW), the conference explored recent developments in Italian visual culture with the aim of bringing together expertise in the areas of photography, the fine arts, film and media studies, fashion and design in order to encourage novel exchanges and collaborations. Among the keynote speakers was Giancarlo De Cataldo. Papers were presented from a variety of disciplinary, interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, including the teaching of visual arts and the use of visual cultural products in teaching Italian language and culture. 

A selection of papers from the conference were published in the online journal FULGOR vol 5, no. 3, June 2018.