Annual Meeting
As an affiliated society of the American Historical Association (AHA), the SIHS holds an annual meeting in conjunction with that of the AHA, marked by at least one academic session, a business meeting, and a social hour. The next annual meeting is planned for Chicago, IL in January 2012. For general information on the AHA annual meeting, please consult the AHA website.
Our annual business meeting will be held on Saturday, January 7, 2012, 6:00 PM, in Parlor D of the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers. As usual, the business meeting will be followed by a social hour, at 7:00 PM in the Colorado Room of the Sheraton Chicago.
Sponsored Sessions
Our Joint Session with the AHA, organized by Giovanna Benadusi, will be held on Sunday, January 8, 8:30-10:30 AM in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Michigan Room A.
Chair: Giovanna Benadusi (University of South Florida)
The Society will also offer several academic sessions:
1) Pius XII, Religion, and Politics
Friday, January 6, 2:30-4:30 PM in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Tennessee Room.
Chair: Roy Palmer Domenico (University of Scranton)
2) Church and Society in Medieval Italy
Saturday, January 7, 9:00-11:00 AM in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Parlor D.
Chair: Daniel Bornstein (Washington University in St. Louis)
3) Perspectives on Early Modern Naples
Saturday, January 7, 11:30 AM—1:30 PM, in the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Parlor D.
Chair: Barbara Ann Naddeo (CUNY: The City College of New York)
4) Fascist Italy’s Eastern Front: Images, Intellectuals, and Military Campaigns
Saturday, January 7, in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Parlor D.
Chair: Charles Killinger (University of Central Florida)
Chair: Giovanna Benadusi (University of South Florida)
- Monique O'Connell (Wake Forest University, Religious Accommodation and Imperial Politics in Fifteenth-Century Venice and Crete
- Stephanie L. Nadalo (Northwestern University), Mosques without Minarets, a Ghetto without Walls: Minority Topographies in Seventeenth-Century Livorno
- Thomas Dandelet (University of California, Berkeley), Global Catholicism, Cosmopolitanism, and Early Modern Rome as Imperial Capital
- Barbara Ann Naddeo (CUNY: The City College of New York), Birth of a Metropolis: The Open City and the Social Sciences in Naples, 1650–1800
The Society will also offer several academic sessions:
1) Pius XII, Religion, and Politics
Friday, January 6, 2:30-4:30 PM in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Tennessee Room.
Chair: Roy Palmer Domenico (University of Scranton)
- Giuliana Chamedes (Columbia University), Christ the Democratic King? Pius XII's Political Theology on the Eve of the Second World War
- Robert A. Ventresca, King's College, University of Western Ontario, "Un Mondo Nuovo": Pius XII and the Challenge of Political Pluralism in Cold War Italy
2) Church and Society in Medieval Italy
Saturday, January 7, 9:00-11:00 AM in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Parlor D.
Chair: Daniel Bornstein (Washington University in St. Louis)
- George Dameron (St. Michael's College), Ecclesiastical Lordship on the European Continent in the Middle Ages: The Case of Italy
- David N. Foote (University of St.Thomas), Liber Censuum and the Eccentricity of Papal Politics in Central Italy
- Samantha Kelly (Rutgers University-New Brunswick), Civic Religion in Naples
3) Perspectives on Early Modern Naples
Saturday, January 7, 11:30 AM—1:30 PM, in the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Parlor D.
Chair: Barbara Ann Naddeo (CUNY: The City College of New York)
- Tommaso Astarita (Georgetown University), Editing Naples
- Sean F. Cocco (Trinity College), Science in Early Modern Naples
- John A. Marino, (University of California, San Diego), Contesting the Past of Early Modern Naples: Sources and Historiography
4) Fascist Italy’s Eastern Front: Images, Intellectuals, and Military Campaigns
Saturday, January 7, in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Parlor D.
Chair: Charles Killinger (University of Central Florida)
- Marla Stone (Occidental College), If Not For The March On Rome, There Would Be No March On Moscow: Fascist Anti-Communism and the War Against the Soviet Union
- Ben Martin (Uppsala University), Ambivalent Europeans: Italian Intellectuals in Nazi Germany's Cultural New Order
- H. James Burgwyn, (West Chester University, emeritus), Bravo italiano, cattivo tedesco? Test Case: The Eastern Front
