Faith, (Ir)reverence, and the Italian Diaspora: Fifty Years of Italian American Studies

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1 The 50 th Annual IASA Conference November 2 to November 4, 2017 Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC Faith, (Ir)reverence, and the Italian Diaspora: Fifty Years of Italian American Studies In Collaboration with the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) Image Credit: Center for Migration Studies of New York 1

2 The Italian American Studies Association would like to extend its most heartfelt gratitude to all those who assisted in making this conference a success. The IASA Conference Committee Jessica Femiani, Chair Rose De Angelis Alan J. Gravano Lisa Marie Paolucci Anthony D. Mitzel Special Thanks to Andrea Bartlett, NIAF Director of Events Program Cover Photo, Other Photos, and Letter Thanks to Frank Cavaioli Alexandra de Luise, IASA Secretary Mary Brown, Archivist/Bibliographer Center for Migration Studies of New York Interns: Taylor Smith, Rachel Morton, & Frances Fynan For Identifying AIHA Members in the Photos a Special Thanks to Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University Fred L. Gardaphé, Queens College, CUNY John Paul Russo, University of Miami Anthony Julian Tamburri, Queens College, CUNY/John D. Calandra Italian American Institute For Screening Antonino D Ambrosio s Frank Serpcio a Special Thanks to Stanislao G. Pugliese, Professor of History and Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies, Hofstra University Hofstra University 2

3 Thursday, November 2 Arrival 2:00-5:00 PM: Registration Exhibit Hall A 2:00-5:00 PM: Executive Council Meeting Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1 6:15-6:45 PM: Graduate Student Meet & Greet Maryland Room B & C Jessica Femiani, Binghamton University Alan Gravano, IASA President, Rocky Mountain University 6:45-7:00 PM: Opening Remarks Maryland Room B & C Alan Gravano, IASA President, Rocky Mountain University Samuele F. S. Pardini, Elon University 7:00-8:00 PM: Keynote Address Maryland Room B & C Robert Orsi, Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies, Northwestern University The Dangers of Italian Americans Reading (Besides Going Blind) 8:00-10:00 PM: Reception Maryland Room B & C Hosted by IASA Dinner on Your Own 3

4 Friday, November 3 8:30AM-4:30 PM Registration (Convention Registration Desk) Session 1: Ethnographic Studies Chair: Rose De Angelis, Marist College 7:30-9:00 AM Coffee Service (Exhibit Hall A Hallway) 8:00-9:15 AM Michele Deramo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Me, I m from the Mezzogiorno: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Memory, Migration, and Imagined Communities Joanne Milner, Independent Scholar, Family History: Foundation of Faith Maria Giovanna Cassa, University of Milano, Bicocca, In-Between Women Crossing the Mediterranean : An Ethnographic Documentary on Italian Diaspora in Morocco Session 2: Historical and Political Examinations of Immigration/Emigration of the Italian Diaspora Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2 Chair: Michael Buonanno, State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota Patrizia Fama Stahle, College of Coastal Georgia, Pope Leo XIII, Bishop Scalabrini, and Italian Americans Frank Salamone, Iona College, Before and After in Italian American Religious History: Pre and Post War Immigrants Laura Buonanno, Buffalo State University, SUNY, and Michael Buonanno, State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, The Italian American Influence on U.S. Immigration Policy: The Role of the Family in Unification in Contemporary Immigration Reform Session 3: Revisiting John Fante and Italian Women in Film Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 3 Chair: Dennis Barone, University of Saint Joseph Francesco Chianese, Independent Scholar, God Swearing and Father Blaming: Blasphemy and Assimilation in John Fante from Wait Until Spring, Bandini to The Brotherhood of the Grape Giuliana Muscio, University of Padua, Censoring Italian Women s Religious Practices: The Miracle, The Rose Tattoo, Full of Life and Film Censors Dennis Barone, University of Saint Joseph, The (Italian) American Mercury: Mencken's Publication (Sacred and Profane) of Cautela, Fante, and Turano 4

5 9:30-10:45 AM Session 4: Devotional Aids, Letters, and Religious Ideology Chair: Alexandra de Luise, Queens College, CUNY Alexandra de Luise, Queens College, CUNY, Written Devotionals for Guiding the Parish: The Church of the Holy Rosary, Washington DC Janet Michello, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, The Sociocultural Aspects of Religious Ideology of Italian American Catholics and Catholics in Southern Italy Lisa Ferrante-Perrone, Bucknell University, Letters as Lifelines for Early Italian Americans Session 5: Memoir Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2 Chair: Rose De Angelis, Marist College Kathy Curto, Sarah Lawrence College and Montclair State University, Cutlets and Candles: Food, Grief, Faith, and My Italian American Experience Cinzia Marongiu, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Border-crossing Madonna: Religious images and Multi-Ethnic Coalition in Kym Ragusa s The Skin between Us Rose De Angelis, Marist College, The Faithful and the (Ir)Reverent: Religion and the Italian American Experience Session 6: Canadian Italian Experience from WWII and Internment to Muslim Canadians Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 3 Chair: Joanne DeTore, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Jan Marta, University of Toronto, Faith as Identified and Source of Resilience: Italian Canadians in WWII and Muslim Canadians in the 21 st Century Jessica Leonora Whitehead, York University, The Italian-Canadian Internment: The Case of the Mascioli Brothers of Timmins, Ontario Session 7: Religions of the Self in Italian American Narrative Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 4 Chair: George Guiida, New York City College of Technology, CUNY George Guida, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Self, Soul, and Satire: Salvatore Scibona s The End and the Limits of Identity in Italian American Fiction Marie D Amico, Independent Scholar, Women s Selfhood in Maria Messina s Fiction Joanna Clapps Herman, Manhattanville College, My Numi 5

6 11:00-12:15 PM Session 8: Italy: from the Veneto to Firenze to Napoli Chair: Alexandra de Luise, Queens College, CUNY Gloria Nardini, Independent Scholar, Un Presepio Napoletano a Firenze: Combined Italian Belief Systems Teresa Fava Thomas, Fitchburg State University, The Experience of War and Occupation in The Italian Veneto Lawrence Squeri, East Stroudsburg University, Italian Americans: Not Fully Arrived Session 9: What Ever Happened to Little Italy: Part I Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2 Chair: Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College Teri Ann Bengiveno, Las Positas College, Little Italy San Jose: From the Valley of the Heart s Delight to the Arch of Silicon Valley Dominic Candeloro, Loyola University, Chicago, Chicago s Little Italies: Past and Present Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, The Italians of Brooklyn Revisted Session 10: This Panel Is Brought to You by the Number 13 and the Letter M (for Malocchio): Religion, Superstition, and Magic in Italian America Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 3 Chair: Fred Misurella, East Stroudsburg University Sarah Annunziato, University of Virginia, The Good Witch of the South: Tomie depaola's Strega Nona and the Tradition of Female Healers in Italian American Communities Francesco Fiumara, Southeastern Louisiana University, Amulets and Crucifixes and Candles, Oh My: How Social Workers Viewed Italian American Religious Traditions and Superstitions in 1930s New England Lucia G. Harrison, Southeastern Louisiana University, You're Not in Sicily Anymore: How Immigrants and Their Descendants Adapt Italy's Religious Traditions to Life in a Louisiana Town 12:15-2:15 PM Lunch Screening of Frank Serpico (Documentary) Introduction: Antonin D Ambrosio, Director Location: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1 6

7 2:30-3:45 PM Session 11: Pasolini, Fellini, and The Sopranos Chair: Jonathan Cavallero, Bates College Pietro Bocchia, University of Notre Dame, How Religion Shapes Revolution: Pier Paolo Pasolini s Reception of the American New Left Claude Barbre, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Faithful Disbelief, Trickster Spirituality, and the American Sublime in Federico Fellini s Films Jonathan Cavallero, Bates College, Putting Faith in the Visual: Television, Authorship, Gender, and The Sopranos Session 12: Creative Writing: Poetry, Fiction, and Memoir Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2 Chair: Joanne DeTore, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Joane DeTore, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Curses, Spells, and Catholic Recovery: A Collection of Poetry Steve Villano, Independent Scholar, The Tightrope Italian Americans Tread When Organized Crime Touches Us excerpt from Tightrope: Balancing a Life between Mario Cuomo and My Brother Fred Gardaphé, Queens College, CUNY, Alter Boys excerpt from Blood Stains: A Memoir Session 13: Dagoes, Darkies, and 20 th Century Modernity: Two Encounters Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 3 Chair & Moderator: Thomas J. Ferraro, Duke University Presenter: John Gennari, University of Vermont, Soul and Flavor: Italian America at Its African American Edge Presenter: Samuele F. S. Pardini, Elon University, In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen 4:00-5:15 PM Session 14: Newspapers, Inter-Colonialism, and Globalism in Italian American Studies Chair: Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, State College of Florida Sarah Salter, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Faith, Health, and the Allure of Consumer Mysticism Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, State College of Florida, Inter-Colonialism and its Integration into Italian American Studies 7

8 Rocco Mesiti, Western New England University, Italy s New Diaspora: The Cultural and Ecclesiastic Practices of New Immigrants Session 15: What Ever Happened to Little Italy: Part II Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2 Chair: Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College Salvatore LaGumina, Nassau Community College, Suburban Little Italies on Long Island: Four Generations Later Anthony Mitzel, Università di Bologna, University College London, The Ephemerality of Little Italy in Youngstown, Ohio: Brier Hill or Coalburg? Danielle Oteri, Art Historian, A Taste of Arthur Avenue in The Bronx Session 16: (Ir)Reverent in More Ways than One: Narrators Navigating the Perils of Being Italian American, Catholic, and Female Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 3 Chair: Maria Giura, Independent Scholar Brenda DeMartini-Squires, Dutchess Community College Maria Giura, Independent Scholar Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Purchase College, SUNY 5:30-6:45 PM Session 17: Page, Stage, and Screen in Italian American Studies Chair: Colleen Ryan, Indiana University Bloomington Colleen Ryan, Indiana University, Bloomington, Scripting Identities, Shaping Lives: Italian American Theater across the Decades Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Gendering, the Body, and Politics in Gay Italian American Theater Maria Protti, Independent Scholar, The Dies Irae: A Lineage of Gregorian Chant, Verdi, Spaghetti Westerns, and Horror Session 18: Writing Faith and the Italian American Writer s Irreverence Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2 Chair & Moderator: Jessica Femiani, Binghamton University Susan Scutti, Creative Writer Jessica Femiani, Binghamton University Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College 8

9 Session 19: Psychology to Psychological: Faith to Daughters and Fathers Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 3 Chair: John Gennari, University of Vermont Victoria Sferlazza, Independent Scholar, The Psychology of Faith and Faith of the Psychologized Lorraine Mangione, Antioch University, New England, Italian American Daughters and Dads: Relationship to Spirituality and Religion Session 20: Orsi Roundtable Chair: Samuele F. S. Pardini, Elon University 7:00-8:15 PM Keynote Roundtable Follow-up Thomas J. Ferraro, Duke University Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin, Madison 8:30 PM Farewell Banquet (Omni Hotel) 9

10 Saturday, November 4 8:00-12:00 Registration (Convention Registration Desk) 7:30-9:00 AM Coffee Service (Exhibit Hall A Hallway) 8:00-9:15 AM Session 21: The Routledge History of Italian Americans: A Roundtable Chairs: William J. Connell, Professor of History and Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies, Seton Hall University, and Stanislao G. Pugliese, Professor of History and Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies, Hofstra Peter Carravetta, Alfonse M. D Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, Stony Brook University John Gennari, Associate Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Vermont Jerome Krase, Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY Giuliana Muscio, Professor of History of Cinema, Emerita, University of Padua James Periconi, Independent Scholar (Foremost non-institutional collector of Italian language American imprints) Robert Viscusi, Professor of English and Executive Officer of the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College, CUNY 9:30-10:45 AM Session 22: Teaching The Godfather Films Chair: Alan J. Gravano, Rocky Mountain University Presenter: Benjamin Lawton, Purdue University Respondent: Ryan Calabretta-Sadjer, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Respondent: Alan J. Gravano, Rocky Mountain University 11:00-12:15 PM Session 23: Teaching Italian American Studies: A Roundtable Approach Moderator: Ryan Calabretta-Sadjer, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Laurie Buonanno, Buffalo State University (SUNY) Jonathan Cavallero, Bates College Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh Stanislao G. Pugliese, Hofstra University 10

11 12:15-1:15 PM Lunch & Graduate Student Meet & Greet (Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 4) Alan Gravano, IASA President Michele Fazio & Jessica Femiani, EC Members 1:15-2:15 PM Business Meeting (Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 4) 2:30-3:30 PM Session 24: Bridging the Gaps: From Teaching Commercial Italian to Living It: A Roundtable Chair: Ryan Calabretta-Sadjer, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Enza Antenos, Montclair State University Lyn Scolaro, Prospect High School (Illinois) Gabriella Mileti, NIAF Session 25: Reflections on Calabria Symposium and Diaspora Summer Program Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2 Chair: Robert Oppedisano, Independent Scholar Francesco Chianese, Independent Scholar Jessica Femiani, Binghamton University Fred Gardaphé, Queens College (CUNY) Patrizia Stahl, College of Coastal Georgia 3:45-4:45 PM Session 26: Past IASA (AIHA) Presidents Panel Chair & Moderator: Michele Fazio, University of North Carolina, Pembroke Sal LaGumina ( ) Dominic Candeloro ( ) Jerome Krase ( ) Fred L. Gardaphé ( ) Josephine Gattuso Hendin ( ) George Guida ( ) Alan J. Gravano (2015-Present) 11

12 5:30 PM: NIAF Reception (Marriott Foyer) 7:00 PM: NIAF Gala Dinner (Marriott Ballroom) 10:00 PM: NIAF After Party (Marriott Mezzanine) Sunday, November 5 10:30-11:30 AM Catholic Mass in Italian (Holy Rosary Church) 12

13 9 th Annual AIHA Conference in Washington, DC 1976 Back Row: Robert Severino, Rudolph J. Vecoli, Salvatore LaGumina, Elena Agarossi, Humbert S. Nelli, Jean Scaparci, Fanco Cerase, A. William Salamone, Enio di Nolfo Front Row: Luciano Iorizzo, Emilia Morelli, Giorgio Spini, Raimond Luraghi, Clara Lovett 13

14 14 th Annual AIHA Conference St. Paul, Minnesota 1981 Back Row: Rudolph J. Vecoli, Francis X. Feminella, George Pozzetta, Phyllis Martinelli, Ernest E. Rossi, Dominic Candeloro Front Row: Teresa Cerasuola, Helen Barolini, Gary Mormino, Frank Cavaioli, Carlo Ferroni 14

15 39 th Annual AIHA Conference Orlando, FL 2006 Back Row: Michael Di Virgilio, George Guida, Fred L. Gardaphé, Stanislao Pugliese, Stefano Luconi, Frank Cavaioli Middle Row: Angelo Tripicchio, Angela Danzi, Dominic Candeloro, Frank Alduino, Anthony Tamburri Front Row: Maria Elisa Ciavarelli, Dawn Esposito, Mary Jo Bona, Salvatore LaGumina, Jerome Krase, Edward Maruggi 15

16 Casa Italiana of Columbia University 1931 Front Row: Angelo Lipari, Dino Bigongiari, Counsel General Grossardi, Angelo Patri, Leonard Covello 16

17 Image Credit: Center for Migration Studies of New York 17

18 Image Credit: Center for Migration Studies of New York 18

19 Call for Papers The 51 st Italian American Studies Association Conference Loyola University, Chicago Hampton Inn Chicago North Loyola Station / 1209 W. Albion Ave. / Chicago, IL October 18-20, 2018 Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018 Upload/submit proposals to Submittable: For inquiries, please contact the conference committee at iasa.conference@gmail.com 19

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