Category: News & Announcements

Noether Dialogues in Modern & Italian History

The SIHS proudly joins Dr. Sergio Luzzatto at University of Connecticut in promoting the “Noether Dialogues in Modern & Italian History.” Below you will find a description of the public speaking series, along with a schedule for the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 terms.   Concept All around the planet, the academic world is busy…
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CFP: SIHS-Sponsored Panels at the 2021 AHA Annual Conference

The Society for Italian Historical Studies invites anyone interested to submit proposals for paper presentations or for whole panels for the joint SIHS/American Historical Association annual meeting, January 7-10, 2021 in Seattle. For those assembling the panel, please include: Full names Institutional affiliations E-mail addresses Title of panel Titles of papers (2-3 papers per panel…
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Marraro Prize (2019): Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean 1800-1850

The SIHS’s Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the 2019 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History has been awarded to Konstantina Zanou’s Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). With an exemplary research effort consisting of archival documents and primary-source texts in Italian, French,…
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Marraro Prize (2018): The Avignon Papacy Contested

The SIHS’s Executive Committee is pleased to announce that the 2018 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History has been awarded to Unn Falkeid’s The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena (Harvard University Press, 2017). Unn Falkeid is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History…
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Introduction to “Italian Currents”

Welcome to “Italian Currents,” the official weblog for the Society for Italian Historical Studies! Beginning today, the Society will be using this feed for a number of purposes, such as: The publication of various News & Announcements, including Society announcements, calls for papers and publications, and fellowship or grant opportunities, New Research Spotlights, which will…
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