8 Re-imagining the future of Italian Studies: Experts and community share strategies to raise the profile of Italian during the 7 th ACIS Conference, Adelaide The 7 th Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) conference, on the theme of ‘Re-imagining Italian Studies’, was recently organised and hosted by Flinders University and the University of South Australia. Professor David Moss, President of ACIS, complimented the organisers for an interesting, insightful, and smooth-running event: over 90 participants, around 70 papers presented, and a breadth of topics which ranged from crime and legality to literature, theatre and cinema, migration, language and linguistics, translation, cultural studies, and teaching all of the above. The list of keynote speakers included: Fiat-Serena Professor Martin McLaughlin (University of Oxford), Professor David Forgacs (New York University), Professor Gabriele Pallotti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), and Professor and filmmaker Vito Zagarrio (University of Rome – Roma Tre). Professor Joe Lo Bianco, from the University of Melbourne, also participated in the final roundtable. The 7 th ACIS conference was co-convened by Dr Luciana d’Arcangeli and Dr Isobel Grave. The organising committee comprised Italian Staff from Flinders University (Professor Diana Glenn, Dr Daniela Rose, Dr Antonella Strambi) and UniSA (Associate Professor Angela Scarino, Dr Giancarlo Chiro, Dr Enza Tudini). Financial support was received from ADSA Conference: Staging Changes: Translation as Innovation and Intervention In July 2013, the Drama Department at Flinders University with the financial support of FIRtH hosted the annual conference of the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA). Organised around the theme ‘Staging Changes: Translation as Innovation and Intervention’, the program featured keynote presentations by Haresh Sharma, Resident Playwright at The Necessary Stage and Co-Artistic Director of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival; James Ashcroft, Tumuaki/ Artistic Director of New Zealand’s Taki Rua Productions; and Dr Christine Evans, playwright and Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, USA. More than 80 scholars and practitioners participated with presentations that sought to promote and enhance a dialogue between creative practice and critical reflection, focusing on the opportunities translation and adaptation present for creating and disrupting collective identities, and for diversifying mainstream audiences and performance practices. Having organised the inaugural ADSA conference back in 1977, the Drama Department demonstrated its unwavering commitment by showcasing the creative and research achievements of its staff and ACIS, Flinders University (Faculty of EHL, School of Humanities and Creative Arts, and FIRTH), UniSA (Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences and Research Centre for Languages and Cultures), the Dante Alighieri Society, Intext publishing and Serafino Wines. Conferences Held in 2013 students. With the further financial support of a Helpmann Academy grant, Rosalba Clemente, Head of Acting, and Dr Maggie Ivanova, Drama Lecturer, collaborated with third-year Drama Centre students and Dr Christine Evans on a production of her Trojan Barbie, an adaptation of Euripides’ play Trojan Women. Haresh Sharma, Resident Playwright at The Necessary Stage and Co-Artistic Director of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. Keynote Presenters; Dr Christine Evans, Playwright, Georgetown University and James Ashcroft, Artistic Director of Taki Rua Productions, The National Màori Theatre Company.