CONFERENCES

Conferences

The ACIS Biennial Conferences are …

... a highlight in the calendar of Italianists throughout Australasia. Held since 2001, when ACIS was formally launched as an association, the conferences are a rare moment to gather together and hear about each other’s research which, though in a wide range of discipline areas, has a love of Italy and its complex cultures as a common thread. The official conference languages are Italian as well as English. 


Submissions and attendance by postgraduate students are especially welcome at our conferences. A contribution towards the costs of travel/accommodation is made available to students whose papers are accepted. 


Details of the forthcoming conference (3–6 July 2024), as well as previous conferences, their locations, and programmes (where available), are provided in the links below. 


Due to COVID-19, our 11th Biennial Conference was deferred to December 2022.

  • 12th ACIS Biennial Conference: Australian National University, Canberra, 2024

    The next ACIS Biennial Conference will be 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.


    Early bird registration is available until 30 April 2024. Please visit the dedicated 2024 ACIS conference website for details. 


  • ACIS Biennial Conferences since 2001

    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



  • Other ACIS conferences and workshops

    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.


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