The Società Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (Italian Society for the study of contemporary history - SISSCO) is a non-profit organization founded in 1990[1] in order to promote the progress of contemporary history studies in Italy and their scientific, academic and civil importance.
[2] In Italy the expression "contemporary history" indicates the period between the end of the eighteenth century and today.
The society is composed exclusively by scholars specializing in Modern and Contemporary History.
[5] Of particular importance among the latter are the Cantieri di Storia Sissco (Sissco History Building Sites), that gathers every two years hundreds of historians, the Workshop Nazionale Dottorandi (National PhD workshop), a yearly meeting dedicated to Italian history PhDs and Percorsi di Storia (Paths of History), a seminar on Italian historiography.
[8] The society edits an online calendar that summarizes the contemporary history initiatives that take place in Italy as well as a calendar dedicated to call for papers, Twice a year SISSCO publishes a journal, Il Mestiere di Storico, (The Historian's Craft), mostly dedicated to reviews of history books.