The California Interdisciplinary Consortium of Italian Studies (CICIS) was established in 2001 to bring together faculty, students, and independent scholars from around the state interested in Italy. CICIS' mission is to foster interdisciplinary and transnational research related to Italian studies in California, and to convene conferences where this research can be promoted, undertaken, presented, and discussed. The organization is open to UC faculty and graduate students as well as scholars and researchers from other California research institutions, and independent scholars residing in California. CICIS maintains a list-serve and holds meetings to discuss shared concerns and to organize annual conferences. CICIS ListServ 2009 CICIS Conference; Stanford University 2009 ISMRG Graduate Student Paper Prize CICIS 2009 Call For Papers Deadline For Submissions: December 15, 2008. This year's topic: Beginnings. CICIS Graduate Student Paper Prize - April 2008: "As Men Do With Their Wives" : Domestic Violence In Fourteenth-Century Lucca (Winner: Corinne Wieben) UC Santa Cruz March 2008: Violence in Italian History and Culture. Keynote: Alexander Stille, Professor of International Journalism, Columbia University. California State University, Long Beach March 2007: Italian Masculinities. Keynote: Derek Duncan, Professor of Italian Studies, University of Bristol. UCLA February 2006: Italy and the Mediterranean. Keynote: Nicola Labanca, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Siena. UC San Diego February 2005: Ephemeral Events, Enduring Memories: Performativity in Italian Culture. Keynote: Philip Gosset, Professor of Music, University of Chicago. UC Berkeley May 2004: Spaces in Time: Italian Geographies of Modernity. Keynote: Giuliana Bruno, Professor of Visual Studies, Harvard University. UCLA March 2003: Visualizing Culture: Italian Modernities. UC Berkeley April 2002: Recent Trends in Early Modern Italian Studies; Plans and Prospects for Italian Studies in California. Web ISMRG