- IV API Congress (Grahamstown 1985)
- V International API Congress (Cape Town 1987): Literature and Mythology / The Relation between Literature and the Other Arts
- VI International API Congress (Johannesburg 1989): The minor Writers
Special double issue of Italian Studies in Southern Africa (n.4/1990 – n. 1/1991)
- VII International API Congress (Pretoria 1991): Novella and Short Story in Italian Literature
- VIII International API Congress (Cape Town 1993): Italian Literary Images of Woman / Images of Africa in Italian Literature
- IX International API Congress (Johannesburg 1995): Power and Italian Culture and Literature
- X International API Congress (Pretoria 1998): Identity and Diversity in Italian Culture
- XI International API Congress (Cape Town 2000): Time and Space in Italian Culture and Beyond
Special issue of Italian Studies in Southern Africa, vol. 14, n. 2 (2001)
- XII International API Congress (Durban 2013): FINIS TERRAE / FINIS MUNDI Apocalypse and the End of the World
Special issue of Italian Studies in Southern Africa, vol. 27, n. 2 (2014)
- XII International API Congress (Cape Town 2014) : Antichi Moderni. The contribution of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to Italian cultural identity in the 20th centurySpecial issue of Italian Studies in Southern Africa, vol. 29, n. 2 (2015)