giovedì 20 giugno 2019 - sabato 22 giugno 2019
THURSDAY, JUNE 20 14:30 - 15:00 Opening Comments
15:00 - 16:00 Keynote Address
Antonio MONDACoffee break
16:45 - 18:15 Session 1:
LanguageChair:
Anthony Julian TAMBURRIJohn D. CALANDRA
Speakers:
Roberto DOLCI,
il Giornalino di PrezzoliniRaffaella RAPONE,
In Their Words: Voices of Descendants of Italian MigrantsSara MASTRISCIANO, Federica DI SALVO,
Italianità in movimento: da emigrati a expat. Percezioni, rappresentazioni e indennità linguistiche18:30 - 20:00 Session 2: Roundtable,
Anti-Italianism Reconsidered. Presenting the collaborative volume L’anti-italianismo negli Stati Uniti. Evoluzione di un pregiudizioChair and Moderator:
William J. CONNELL
Speakers:
William J. CONNELL
Stefano LUCONI
Joanne L. DETOREFred Gardaphe
FRIDAY, JUNE 21 09:00 - 09:30 Coffee
09:30 - 11:00 Session 3:
Racial Identity and Gender in Film and LiteratureChair:
Michele DERAMO
Speakers:
Nicola ACCATTOLI,
”I’m Blacker Than You Are!”: Masculinity, Class and Ethnicity in Green Book’s Portayal of Italian AmericansChiara GRILLI,
White Cop, Black Cop: Afro-Italian Americans in Tom Fontana’s Homicide: Life on the StreetJanet MICHELLO,
From Madonna ro Mafiosa: The Multifaceted Roles of Italian and Italian American WomenSession 4:
Literary ArticulationsChair:
Alan J. GRAVANO
Speakers:
Giannina LUCANTONI,
Representations of Blackness in the Autobiographical Works of Pietro di Donato: Reuben, Stella L’Africana, and Black Angela ChristCristina DI MAIO,
Ludic Paths of Activism in Daniela Gioseffi’s Short FictionAnthony MITZEL,
Maybe You Can Judge A Book By Its Cover: Diasporic Peritexts as Memes of ProductionBreak
11:30 - 13:00 Keynote Address
Martino MARAZZI,
Subjects in Transition. Changing Landscapes and Shifting Agencies13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Session 5:
LocalesChair:
Donna CHIRICOSpeakers:
Teresa FAVA THOMAS,
Italian Diaspora in a Massachusetts Mill Town: Circular Migration between Lazio, Italy and Southbridge, MassachusettsValeria RUSSO,
Post-Brexit Italians: Exposing a Contemporary DiasporaAlessandra COCCOPALMERI,
From Italian to Italian-American and Back: The Evolution of an Old Culinary Culture in the New WorldSession 6:
Identities Re-VisitedChair:
Anthony MITZEL
Speakers:
Michele DERAMO,
Transposing the Appalachian Landscape on a Mezzogiorno IdentityDomenico BENEVENTI,
Queer Intimacies in Italian-Canadian LiteratureMichele PRESUTTO,
The Anarchist Stone Cutters: a Community in the borderlandsCoffee
16:45 - 17:45 Session 7:
Women [De]pictedChair:
Sabrina VELLUCCISpeakers:
Valerio DURÁN MANSO,
Italian Immigrants in the Classic Cinema: Representations of Tennessee Williams in The Rose Tattoo, Baby Doll and The Fugitive KindJoanne L. DETORE,
From Adoration to Absence: The Evolution of the Italian American Mother in Give Us This Day, Riding in Cars with Boys, and A Star Is BornLicia CANTON,
People, Places, Passages (Venera Fazio’s Legacy) and Narratives by Italian.Canadian WomenSession 8:
Gendered Literary ArticulationsChair:
Colleen RYAN
Speakers:
Francesco FERRARI,
Who Will Buy My Marriage Spread?: Economy of Affects and Domesticity Construction in Helen Barolini’s UmbertinaMaria Giuseppina CESARI,
The Homecoming of the “New Travelers”: Rita Ciresi’s Sometimes I Dream in Italian18:00 - 19:30 Session 9:
Re-Mapping Italian America: Places, Cultures, IdentitiesChair and Moderator:
Anthony Julian TAMBURRIJohn D. CALANDRA
Speakers:
Mary Jo BONA
Carla FRANCELLINI
Fred Gardaphe
Sabrina VELLUCCI20:30 - 23:00 Symposium Dinner
SATURDAY, JUNE 22 08:30 - 09:00 Coffee
09:00 - 10:30 Session 10:
Racial Language Frontiers in the Italian American DiasporaChair:
Colleen RYAN
Speakers:
Evelyn FERRARO,
Writing and Reading across Borders: Boccaccio in the Berkeley HillsMichele SEGRETARIO,
Between Tradition and Modernity: On the Uses of Dante in the Context of the Italian DiasporaTommaso CAIAZZA,
Italians on the “Frontier of the White Man”: The Making of Race in CaliforniaEnrico GRAMMAROLI,
Italian Appalachians: The Italian experience in the Appalachian coal fields10:45 - 12:15 Session 11:
Borders, Belongings, and Betweens: Italian American Women PoetsChair:
Fred Gardaphe
John D. CALANDRA
Speakers:
Alan J. GRAVANO,
What’s Italian about Mary Jo Salter: Poetry Flavored with American and ItalianCinzia MARONGIU,
”In the grips of poweful unconscious forces, I was callde to renewal”: Louisa Calio’s Poetic Call for ChangeColleen RYAN,
Madwomen in the Kitchen: Sandra Gilbert’s “The Italian Collection”12:15 Closing remarks
