International Symposium June 15 18, 2017 University of Calabria, Arcavacata (CS) Theorizing the Italian Diaspora

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1 International Symposium June 15 18, 2017 University of Calabria, Arcavacata (CS) Theorizing the Italian Diaspora In Collaboration with the Università della Calabria & Under the Patronage of the Fulbright Office, Rome 1

2 The Italian American Studies Association would like to extend its most heartfelt gratitude to all those who assisted in making this symposium a success. The Office of International Relations Gianpiero Barbuto, Director Paola Ciancio Alfio Covello Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici The IASA Conference Committee Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Chair Michele Fazio Jessica Femiani Margherita Ganeri Alan Gravano Anthony Julian Tamburri Special Thanks to Alessandro Tarsia 2

3 Thursday, June 15 Arrival 12:00-5:00 PM: Registration Foyer of the International Relations Office 6:30-7:00 PM: Opening Remarks Aula Caldora Gino Crisci, Rettore, UniCal Raffaele Perrelli, Direttore, Studi Umanistici Alan Gravano, IASA President, Rocky Mountain University Margherita Ganeri, Direttora del Programma CLIA, UniCal Gianpiero Barbuto, Responsabile, Ufficio Speciale Relazioni Internazionali, UniCal 7:00-7:45 PM: Plenary Address Aula Caldora Margherita Ganeri, Università della Calabria (UniCal) Italian American Studies and Italy: Theorizing the Birth of a New Union 7:45-8:45 PM: Reception Foyer of the Aula Caldora Hosted by the Office of International Relations, UniCal Dinner On Your Own 3

4 Friday, June 16 8:00AM-5:00 PM Registration Foyer of the International Relations Office 8:45-10:45 Workshops Workshop 1: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies Group Leaders: Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University Anthony Julian Tamburri, John D Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY Workshop 2: Creating, Sustaining, Promoting, and Building Italian American Studies (Programs, Relationships, and Funding Opportunities) Group Leaders: Clorinda Donato, CSU, Long Beach Luisa Del Giudice, Independent Scholar 11:00-12:15 Session 1: Revisiting John Fante Chair: Anthony Julian Tamburri, John D Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY Enrico Mariani, University of Siena, John Fante s Mature Poetics through Genesis of The Brotherhood of the Grape Davide Battente, University of Siena, A Linguistic and Thematic Analysis of Wait Until Spring, Bandini (Chapter 2) Carla Francellini, University of Siena, John Fante and the Evolution of the Italian/American Novel Session 2: Historical and Political Examinations of the Italian Diaspora Chair: Laura Corradi, UniCal Luke Vitale, University of New South Wales, British Preference was not British Preference : Italians Redefining Britishness in Australia in the 1930s Stefano Luconi, University of Florence, Diasporic Ballots? Italianness and External Voting Rights for Italian Citizens in the United States from Berlusconi to Renzi 4

5 Antonio Fontana, St. John s University (Queens), Criminals and Brigands: The Risorgimento and the Creation of Italy as a Domestic and Internal Locus of the Italian Diaspora 12:15-1:30 Lunch Mensa of UniCal 1:30-2:45 Session 3: Trying to Theorize Diaspora and Cultural Studies Chair: Marghertia Ganeri, UniCal Marco Gatto, UniCal, Philology, Wordliness, and Counterpoint: Edward W. Said against Essentialism Carmelo (Luca) Pizzimenti, UniCal, The Symbolic Shape of Anguish Daniella Trimboli, University of Melbourne, Italian-Australian Diaspora and Approaches to Ethnic Studies Session 4: Cultural Studies through the New Generation: Pop Culture in the Italian and Italian American World Chair: Alan Gravano, Rocky Mountain University Francesca Spina, UniCal, Italian and Italian in America: Language, Music and Identity Luana Francese, UniCal, The Cultural Interaction of Two Worlds: The Contemporary Generation of Italian Americans about Italy and the Younger Italians about Italian Americans Rocco Mesiti, Western New England University, Italian When We Eat: The Politics of Identity Development in the 21 st Century 2:45-3:15 Coffee Break Aula Caldora 3:15-4:30 Session 5: A Black Man from Apulia. The Story of an Italian African American in Postwar Italy Chair: Circe Sturm, University of Texas, Austin Rosetta Giuliani Caponetti, Auburn University Shelleen Greene, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Antonio Campobasso, Independent Scholar 5

6 Session 6: Female Literary Voices in the Italian Diaspora Chair: Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University & Laura Corradi, UniCal Carla Tempestoso, UniCal, New Italian/American Voices: Lia Spezzano s Poesie dall esilio Sandra Paoli, Antonio Canova Languages and Humanities High School, Treviso, Rita Ciresi. A Kaleidoscope of Irony Giuseppe Capalbo, UniCal, Writing as a Way of Healing in Louise DeSalvo s Vertigo and Breathless 4:45-6:00 Session 7: Page, Stage, and Reel in Italian American Studies Chair: Peter Covino, University of Rhode Island Manuel Pugliese, UniCal, Breaking Ties: Criminal Families Face Off Alan Gravano, Rocky Mountain University, The Working Man is a Sucker : Working- Class Values Contested in A Bronx Tale Colleen Ryan, Indiana University Bloomington, Weddings are the Best Opportunity Conflicts and Crossroads in Italian American/Italian Canadian Theater Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, University of Arkansas, Coming Out of the Closet in Italian American Theater Session 8: Analyzing the Italian Diasporic Narrative Chair: Fred Gardaphé, Queens College, CUNY Chiara Grilli, University of Macerata, The Collective Self: Towards the Construction of an Italian American Narrative Identity Francesco Chianese, University L Orientale, Naples, What Italianness? The Concept of Home in John Fante s Wait Until Spring, Bandini, Joseph Tusiani s in una casa un altra casa trovo, and Igiaba Scego s La mia casa è dove sono Erica Russo, UniCal, Psychoanalytic Criticism and Trauma in Italian American Novels 6:15-7:30 Creative Session Creative Writing in the Italian Diaspora: Poetry Reading Chair: Ryan Calabretta-Sajder Alan Gravano, Rocky Mountain University, We Only Kill Ourselves Anthony Mitzel, University of Bologna and UCL 6

7 Giovanna Riccio, Independent Scholar, Tra-versing Family Peter Covino, University of Rhode Island Saturday, June 17 8:45-10:45 Workshops Workshop 3: Teaching Italian American Studies Classroom: Aula Caldora Group Leaders: Donna Chirico, York College, CUNY Fred Gardaphé, Queens College, CUNY Workshop 4: Publishing in Italian American Studies Group Leaders: Peter Covino, University of Rhode Island Alan Gravano, Rocky Mountain University 11:00-12:15 Session 9: Politics, History, and Cultures of the Italian American Diaspora Chair: Matteo Pretelli, NYU Alessandra Gissi, University of Naples, L Orientale, Italian Women in the Intellectual Wave (Italy/United States of America, ) Giulia Sbaffi, NYU, The Neglected Story of a Heedless Idealist: Carl Marzani Cathy Robbins, Independent Scholar, No Room for Theory? Maria Chiara De Simone, UniCal, Italian Migration to American and the Anti-Italian Bias Session 10: Literature about the Italian Diasporic Trans Voices Chair: Bruna Mancini, UniCal Francesca Bardascino, UniCal, An Unrestrained Silence: The Talese Family Diaspora Francesco Corigliano, UniCal, The Appropriation of Language in Tony Ardizzone s In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu Annamaria Scorza, UniCal, Italian Emigration Seen by Who Remains: Gli Americani di Ràbbato by Luigi Capuana 7

8 12:15-1:30 Lunch Mensa of UniCal 1:30-2:45 Session 11: Culture in Flux Italian Americana and the Question of Cultural Studies Chair: Alan Gravano, Rocky Mountain University Alexandra de Luise, Queens College, CUNY, Italian Americans Are We Part of Ethnic Studies or Merely Elements in the Population? How Terminology Affects Book Buying in Academic American Libraries Anthony Mitzel, University of Bologna & University College London, Transformative Culture and Italian Identity in Flux Valeria Russo, UniCal, Saints and Sinners. Contact, Rivalry and Amity between the Italian and Irish Communities in the USA Session 12: Italian Diaspora and the Latino Culture(s) Chair: Donna Chirico, York College, CUNY Clorinda Donato, CSU Long Beach, Diaspora Synergies: Italian Americans and Latinos Elena Lombardo, UniCal, Argentina, On the Way to Hope 2:45-3:15 Coffee Break Aula Caldora 3:15-4:30 Session 13: The Coincidence of Italian Cultural Hegemonic Privilege and the Historical Amnesia of Italian Diasporic Articulations Chair: Anthony Julian Tamburri, John D Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY Donna Chirico, York College, CUNY, Hegemonic Perceptions as a Negative Factor in Identificational Assimilation Among the Italian Diaspora Margherita Ganeri, University of Calabria, Amnesia and Removal of the Diaspora in Pirandello and Sciascia, and in Their Critical Reception Session 14: Italian Diasporas: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Chair: Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, University of Arkansas 8

9 Maria Giovanna Cassa, University of Milano, Bicocca, Filming New Identities Outside Italy Chiara Reale, UniCal, A Double Perspective: Italy and the USA Giuseppe Natale, University of Las Vegas, Nevada, Migration in Recent Italian Films: A Liminal Space between Diaspora and Home 4:45-6:00 PM Film Screenings Aula Caldora Texas Tavola: A Taste of Sicily in the Lone Star State, Presented by director Circe Sturm (short documentary) Pasquale s Magic Veal, DJ Higgins, director (short film) As Good As Bread, Elisabetta D Amanda (short documentary) 7:00-7:45 PM: Plenary Address Aula Caldora Anthony Julian Tamburri, John D Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY Re-appropriating the Forget-me-nots: The [Mis-]state of Affairs of Italian/American Studies 8:00 PM: Dinner Departure of Bus for La Sorgente Ristorante Meet in front of the Office of International Relations Sunday, June 18 8:30 AM Umbertina Tour Calabria, Italy Meet in front of the Office of International Relations 9

10 Call for Papers Faith, (Ir)reverence, and the Italian Diaspora Fifty Years of Italian American Studies Marriott Wardman Park / 2660 Woodley Road NW / Washington, DC 2008 November 2-4, 2017 Submission Deadline: June 15, 2017 Upload/submit proposals to Submittable: For inquiries, please contact the conference committee at iasa.conference.dc.2017@gmail.com The Italian American Studies Association (IASA) formerly the American Italian Historical Association (AIHA) celebrates its fiftieth year of academic inquiry into all things Italian and Italian American. In December 1966, a group of historians, educators, sociologists, and other interested persons met at the LaGuardia Memorial House in New York City and founded the American Italian Historical Association. Since then, the Association has grown exponentially to reflect the diversity of scholarship that now subtends Italian-American studies. The organization encourages independent thinkers, scholars, and academics, past and present, to help mark this milestone with their participation at the 50 th annual conference in Washington, DC, November 2-4, This year s conference theme will focus on faith in all of its manifestations and will feature Dr. Robert Orsi as its keynote speaker. Dr. Orsi is Professor of Religious Studies and History and Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University. The conference is interdisciplinary in its perspective and methods. IASA welcomes scholars from all disciplines, especially those interested in the ethno-historical, religious, and psychological ramifications of faith as well as creative writers (novelists, poets, and memoirists), and visual-media artists. The conference committee will consider proposals that do not specifically address but may complement this year s conference theme. Please an abstract of your individual presentation or panel proposal and include a brief biography and academic affiliation, if applicable. The abstract should not exceed 500 words. Include requests for audiovisual equipment or special accommodations. We encourage the submission of organized panels of no more than three presenters, not including the chair and respondent, and creative writers and artists of three or more presenters. All presentations are limited to minutes based upon the number of people on the panel. An individual can participate in no more than two panels. If you are willing to serve as chair, please indicate that willingness in your cover letter. All presenters, respondents, and discussants must be members in good standing of the Italian American Studies Association by September 15, Possible presentation and panel topics may include but are not limited to the following: Faith Religion Religious Histories of the Italian Diaspora 10

11 Literature and Religion Italian Diaspora and the Arts The Psychology of Faith Atheism and Italians Italian Americans Fifty Years Later Italian Belief Systems Italians and the Clergy Italian Catholics/Protestants/Jews Catholicism Catholic Studies The Social Sciences and the Italian Diaspora For further information, please visit The keynote speaker is Dr. Robert Orsi, and the title of his plenary talk is The Dangers of Italian Americans Reading (Besides Going Blind). His keynote address will discuss reading as an activity in Italian American homes and its impact on Italian American scholars and intellectuals. 11

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