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 following are SIHS’ sponsored panels and other events for the January 2023 AHA virtual conference.
Sponsored Panels
SIHS Session 1: Embodying Difference: Age, Injury, and Impairment in Early Modern ItalyThursday, January 4, 2024: 1:30 PM-3:00 PMHilton Union Square, Union Square 15&16
Chair(s):Hannah Marcus, Harvard University
Papers:The Miseducation of Alessandro Farnese: On Education and Disability in Early Modern ItalyBrad Bouley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Magic, the Gathering: Witchcraft and Sociability between Older and Younger Women in 17th-Century VeniceJohn M. Hunt, Utah Valley University
Contested Visions of Amputation and Hybrid Bodies in Surgical Treatises: Italian Influences in the German ContextHeidi Hausse, Auburn University
Comment: Hannah Marcus, Harvard University
SIHS Session 2: Communal Identity, Violence, and the Law in Premodern ItalyFriday, January 5, 2024: 10:30 AM-12:00 PMHilton Union Square, Golden Gate 6
Chair(s):Daniel Bornstein, Washington University in St. Louis
Papers:Performing Clerical Violence in Late Medieval LuccaCorinne Wieben, University of Northern Colorado
State Violence and Jewish Community in Renaissance PerugiaKaren Frank, University of the Ozarks
Contemplating the Crusades in the Chronicle of the Anonimo RomanoJames A. Palmer, Florida State University
SIHS Session 3: “Did Women Have a Renaissance?” Joan Kelly’s Question Almost 50 Years LaterFriday, January 5, 2024: 1:30 PM-3:00 PMHilton Union Square, Golden Gate 8
Chair:Edward Muir, Northwestern University
Speaker:Elizabeth Cohen, York UniversityPaula Findlen, Stanford UniversitySarah Gwyneth Ross, Boston College
Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University
Comment: Tamar Herzig, Tel Aviv University
SIHS Session4: Infrastructures of Italian FascismFriday, January 5, 2024: 3:30 PM-5:00 PMHilton Union Square, Golden Gate 6
Chair(s):Molly Tambor, Long Island University Post
Papers:Designing for Self-Sufficiency in Mussolini’s ItalyRachel Cook, University of California, Berkeley
Soft Power, Hard (Slippery?) Infrastructure: Mobilizing Fisheries in AlbaniaPamela L. Ballinger, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ruralization and Radicalization: The “Agricultural Transformation of the Tavoliere” and the Infrastructural Foundations of Defeat in Fascist Italy, 1935–45Robert Liming Corban, Columbia University
Fascism and Schools in the Julian March (Venezia Giulia) in the 1920sMarta Verginella, University of Ljubljana
Borderland Bonifica: Racial Politics of Land RedemptionMatthew Worsnick, Vanderbilt University
Comment: Marla Stone, Occidental College and the American Academy in Rome
SIHS Session 5: AHA session co-sponsored by SIHS
Friday, January 5, 2024: 3:30 PM-5:00 PMHilton Union Square, Franciscan B
151. Paolo Sarpi’s Legacy on the 400th Anniversary of His Death: Politics, Religion, and Controversies in Early Modern Europe
Chair:Paula Findlen, Stanford University
Papers:“I Use Him as Doctors Use Vipers to Make Theriac”: Abraham Bzovius’s Ill-Fated Attempt to Oppose Paolo Sarpi’s HistoriaStefania Tutino, University of California, Los Angeles
Edwin Sandys, William Bedell, Paolo Sarpi, and the Editions of A Relation of the State of ReligionStefano Villani, University of Maryland, College Park
Beyond Sarpi: Reading Prohibited Books about the Council of Trent in Early Modern ItalyHannah Marcus, Harvard UniversityMadeline McMahon, University of Texas at Austin
Sarpi and the Atlantic Republic of Letters: Imagining Trent in Early AmericaDiego Pirillo, University of California, Berkeley
Comment: The Audience
SIHS Session 6: Social Engineering in Interwar Italy’s EmpireSunday, January 7, 2024: 11:00 AM-12:30 PMHilton Union Square, Franciscan C
Chair(s):Pamela L. Ballinger, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Papers:The Origins of the Italian Welfare System: State, Business, Social Policies, and the Search for Consent in Interwar Fascist Italy, 1920s–40sBianca Centrone, Princeton University
National-Imperial Pedagogies: Educational Projects in Fascist Italy’s African Colonies, 1922–43Caterina Scalvedi, Wake Forest University
Comment: Pamela L. Ballinger, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Other AHA Sessions of Interest to Historians of Italy
“Constructing and Deconstructing the Enemy between Italy and Germany: The Press in the 20th Century”
Thursday, January 4, 1:30-3:30 PM
Mason (Third, Parc 55)
Marla Stone, Pia Carmela Lombardi, Andrea Palermitano, & Manuela Pacillo
Edward Muir’s AHA Presidential Address: “Conversations with the Dead”
Friday, January 5, 5:30-6:30 PM
Continental Ballroom 5 (Ballroom, Hilton Union Square)
“Pope Pius XII and World War II: Roundtable on David Kertzer’s The Pope at War”
Friday, January 5, 2024, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Golden Gate 3 (Lobby, Hilton Union Square)
Roy Domenico, Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Martin R. Menke, Mark Edward Ruff & David Kertzer
“The Renaissance Reborn”
Saturday, January 6, 2024, 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Continental Ballroom 6 (Ballroom, Hilton Union Square)
Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Karl Appuhn, Brian Brege & Tamar Herzig
“The Renaissance before the Renaissance”
Sunday, January 7, 2024, 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
Continental Ballroom 6 (Ballroom, Hilton Union Square)
Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Brian Maxson, Stuart McManus & Christopher Carlsmith
Previous SIHS-AHA Panels
- 2023 panels
- 2021-2022 Panels (Pre-Virtual)
- 2020 Panels