On 9-12 June will be held the VIII Congress of the Società Italiana delle Storiche, the Italian Society of Historians “Gender History: Paths, Intersections, Perspectives”, organised in collaboration with the University of Verona. About 180 speakers from various Italian, European and non-European universities and research institutes will discuss themes and interpretative categories in women's and gender history and debate new historiographic orientations from a multidisciplinary perspective.

The papers, organised in 44 parallel sessions, cover a chronological span that extends from antiquity to the present day and refer to a multiplicity of geo-political and cultural contexts (Europe, the Americas, the Middle and Far East, Africa) analysed with approaches that focus on local, national, transnational and/or global contexts.

The topics range from the analysis of bodies to women's voices and writings, from the critique of binarism to the construction of gender models, from work in its various forms to the sphere of the sacred, from urban spaces to mining, from migration and mobility to colonial perspectives, from the various forms of individual agency to those of collective actions, from citizenship to feminism and environmental movements, from political language and propaganda to autobiographies and self-perceptions, from emotions to representations of the feminine, to name but a few.

The Congress will be opened by Professor Joanna De Groot, a well-known Iranist from the University of York (UK), with a lectio magistralis entitled The Space of Gender and the Gender of Space: some Thoughts from a Historian of Nineteenth Century Iran. This is a tribute by SIS to the memory of Anna Vanzan - Iranist, member of the Society's board from 2014 to 2018, and of the editorial board of the journal Genesis since 2018, who prematurely passed away in 2020.