Call for Papers: Click here to read the call for papers for our 2020 international conference, Italian Borderlands: Restrictions, Breaches, Encounters.
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April 2019
Annual Conference: Eye-Centricity and the Visual Cultures of Italy and Its Diaspora
This interdisciplinary conference proposes to explore the visual cultures Italians ...
April 2018
Annual Conference: Corporeal Restrictions, Embodied Freedoms—Italian Interventions on the Body
The 1935 song “Faccetta Nera,” a paean to the Fascist ...
April 2017
Annual Conference: Italian Sonorities and Acoustic Communities: Listening to the Soundscapes of Italianit
In his 1984 book Acoustic Communication, Barry Truax defined acoustic ...
April 2016
Annual Conference: Migrating Objects: Material Culture and Italian Identities
This interdisciplinary conference focuses on material culture in the contexts ...
April 2015
Annual Conference: Bambini, Ragazzi, Giovani: Children and Youth in Italy and the Italian Diaspora
The Italian family has been a quintessential subject for scholarly ...
April 2014
MAFIAs: Realities and Representations of Organized Crime
Click here to view the program flyer as a PDF ...
April 2013
Lingue Migranti: The Global Languages of Italy and the Diaspora
This year's annual, two-day conference seeks to build on the ...
April 2011
The 3Fs in Italian Cultures: Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and Film
The 3Fs in Italian Cultures
Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and ...
November 2010
Hybrid Moments: Independent Music in Italian America
How is it that an Italian-American grandmother’s gesture against the ...
April 2010
Terre Promesse: Excursions Towards Italian Topographies
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s third annual conference ...
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