The 12th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) 2024

Italian Studies for Global Challenges: Transdisciplinary Conversations

The 12th Biennial ACIS Conference invites perspectives on Italian Studies as a field of enquiry with a role to play in facing the challenges that continue to intensify in our highly globalised world – those cultural, political, economic, and environmental challenges demanding consideration and bold address.

Conference: Wednesday 3 July to Saturday 6 July 2024

Official Opening and Reception: Wednesday 3 July, 6pm

Location: Hedley Bull Building, 130 Garran Rd, ANU

• Full Conference registration (i.e covering all four days): $400.00 AUD (Early Birds) or $550.00 AUD (Full Fee)
• Full Conference registration (Concession - for students, low-income and Indigenous scholars; Early Birds only): $125.00 AUD
  
• One Day registration (any one of the four days): $180.00 AUD
• Conference Dinner (Fri 5 July, 6:30pm): $110.00 AUD

(Conference Dinner will take place at Agostinis. The menu will be pescetarian - vegetarian & seafood - and will cater for vegan, vegetarian and GF upon request. Please direct any questions regarding the Conference Dinner to Francesco Ricatti francesco.ricatti@anu.edu.au.)

Important: Upon completion of this registration you will be redirected to the ANU payment portal - please finalise payment there.

For further information and the full program of the conference, please check out our website. 

If you have any dietary requirements, please indicate when you check out for the tickets. 

Keynote speakers: 

• Chiara Beccalossi (Associate Professor in history at the University of Lincoln in the UK)
• Camilla Hawthorne (Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Yasmin Haskell, FAHA (Professor and UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Relations, Monash University)

Plenary Events:

• Gracie Lolicato and Jesse Thorpe-Koumalatsos: Making sense of it: Theorising perceptions of difference in life, love, research and art.
• Wellspring Public Event: We’ve been here. A theatrical performance by Summer Minerva. (Free registration via The Street Theatre is required. Tickets will be available from 21 June.)
• Italian Indigenous relations: historical and current perspectives

Special Screenings:

• The Hidden Spring, followed by Q&A with director Jason Di Rosso
• Summer Within, followed by Q&A with Summer Minerva