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 New York, NY in January 2009. For general information on the AHA annual meeting, please consult the AHA website. See below for a schedule of SIHS-sponsored sessions and other meetings.
Friday, January 2nd:
Session 1 - Reform and Clerical Culture in the Eleventh Century
1:00-3:00 PM, Hilton New York, Hudson Suite
Chair: David Bornstein (Washington University in St. Louis)
William K. North (Carleton College), Bishop Bonizo of Sutri (d.1090) and the Reform of Clerical Hermeneutics in the Eleventh Century.
Neil J. Roy (University of Notre Dame), A Priest's Manual form the Gregorian Reform.
Maureen C. Miller (University of California at Berkeley), Vesting Prayers: Material Culture and Priestly Spirituality in the Eleventh Century.
Saturday, January 3rd:
Session 2 - Weapons, Battles and Violence in Early Modern Italy: Can they Inform Social and Cultural History?
9:30-11:30 AM, Hilton New York, Holland Suite
Chair: Liz Horodowich (New Mexico State University)
Luciano Pezzolo (University of Ca'Foscari), Military and Civilians in the Wars of Venice.
Carla Sodini (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Soldiers and Civilians in the Wars of Castro.
William P. Caferro (Vanderbilt University), Identity and Nation: An Alternative Interpretation of the Fourteenth-Century Italian Mercenary System.
Gregory Hanlon (Dalhousie University), An "Italian" Army during the Thirty Years War.
Session 3 - Italian Fascism and its Legacies: the Politics of Identity
2:30-4:30 PM, Hilton New York, Holland Suite
Chair: Frank M. Snowden (Yale University)
Joshua W. Arthurs (George Mason University), Monumental Memories: the Architectural Heritage of Fascism in Postwar Italy.
Eden R. Knudsen (Yale University), The Rhetoric of Race in Fascist Italy and its Echoes Today.
Mark I. Choate (Brigham Young University), Legacies from Fascism in Italy's Population and Migration Policies.
Richard R. Nybakken (University of California at Berkeley), Salò's Martyrs, Postwar Politics, and Post-Fascist Italian Identity.
SIHS Annual Business Meeting
5:15-6:00 PM, Hilton New York, Holland Suite
SIHS Social Hour
6:00-7:00 PM, Hilton New York, Holland Suite
Sunday, January 4th:
Session 4 - Rethinking Gender in Baroque Rome
9:00-11:00 AM, Hilton New York, Holland Suite
Chair: Judith C. Brown (Wesleyan University)
Laurie Nussdorfer (Wesleyan University), The Male City: Male Households in Baroque Rome.
Elizabeth S. Cohen (York University), Ordinary Women on Their Own: Female Households in the Male City.
Caroline F. Castiglione (Brown University), Aristocratic Mothers and Daughters in the City of Men, c.1700.
Comments: Giovanna Benadusi (University of South Florida)
Session 5 - Scholarly Roads Leading to Rome: New Research Avenues to the Eternal City
2:30-4:30 PM, Hilton New York, Holland Suite
Chair: Joanna H. Drell (University of Richmond)
Emily O'Brien (Simon Fraser University), Renaissance Rome: Recent Scholarship.
Victoria M. Morse (Carleton College), Rome as Viewed by North Italians in the Later Middle Ages.
Paul A. Garfinkel (Simon Fraser University), A Legal Risorgimento? Italian Criminal Law and its Jurists from Liberalism to Fascism.
Awards
The SIHS regularly awards three prizes: the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History, the Best Unpublished Manuscript Award and the Citation for Career Achievement. Visit the links below for more information on each award and application procedures.
Marraro Prize
Best Unpublished Manuscript Award
Citation for Career Achievement