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ORGANIZATION
The Italian Society of Women Historians (Società Italiana delle Storiche)
was founded in 1989 with the aim of implementing research and teaching in the
history of women and gender as well as encouraging innovative practices in the
field of archival and documentary preservation. The SIS is grounded in the Italian
women's movement and feminism as well as in the intellectual tradition of the
first two leading journals of women's studies, DWF (Donna Woman Femme) and Memoria.
The board of directors is composed of 11 members, elected by the general assembly, while the board names the President and vice president. The SIS has 360 members who are active in many fields: university researchers and school teachers, administrators, librarians and archivists. SIS members pursue all branches of historical enquiry: social and political as well as cultural and religious from Antiquity to the present. Many young scholars, teachers, librarians and archivists have recently joined the Association.
The SIS organizes seminars, conferences as well as didactic projects for secondary education; it cooperates with local institutions and with the National Ministry of Public Education in putting together programs and teacher training courses.
One of the best-known and long-lasting initiatives over the past ten years is the two-week summer school in women's studies named after Annarita Buttafuoco at the Certosa of Pontignano (University of Siena). The SIS also offers, in cooperation with the City Council in Florence, a yearly prize for the best unpublished research in women's history, which is generally a Ph.D. dissertation (Premio Pieroni Bortolotti).
The SIS has published a substantial number of monographs and collection of
essays (all of which are listed in the Association's website). The latest is
Scattigno, Plebani and Filippini (eds.) Corpi e storia Roma, Viella 2003.
The SIS now publishes its journal, Genesis and the first two issues are now
in print.
For information concerning all other activities, publications, conferences please contact the SIS website: www.Societadellestoriche.it
Compiled by Giulia Calvi