We invite scholars, educators, creatives, and students working within and beyond Italian Studies to reflect critically on the field's ever-changing disciplinary, linguistic, cultural, and geographic contours. As Italian Studies engages with pressing global conversations—from migration and decolonisation to generative AI and environmental crisis—this conference aims to foster new modes of inquiry, collaboration, and knowledge production.

The conference organisers welcome proposals that explore interdisciplinary approaches to Italian culture, language, and history; comparative, transnational, or diasporic frameworks; methodological and theoretical innovation; Italian Studies in the context of the Asia-Pacific region and globally; pedagogical transformation and curriculum renewal, and creative and practice-based research and paedagogy.