The Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) is the leading professional society in the United Kingdom for historians, political scientists, geographers, art historians, economists, and specialists in cultural, film and media studies working on nineteenth- twentieth- and twenty-first-century Italy. It was founded in 1982 by the distinguished historian of liberal Italy, Christopher Seton-Watson, and each year hosts a number of events including lectures, a postgraduate summer school and an international two-day conference. It also sponsors prizes and a variety of academic programmes and initiatives around the world devoted to the study of modern Italy. The themes of its annual conference have ranged from topics as diverse as migration, colonialism and law and order, to emotions, regi