Monday, April 5
New York Borderlands
Negotiating the Upstate/Downstate Divide: Fiorello H. La Guardia, New York State’s Milk Crises, and the Potential for Rural-Urban Coalitions Today
Amy E. Traver, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
Wyckoff Heights? Italian American Borderland on the Brooklyn/Queens Line
Stephen J. Cerulli, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
The Young Italians’ Visions and Dreams of New York: Myth or Reality?
Rosemary Serra, University of Trieste
Tuesday, April 6
Literature beyond Borders
Giose Rimanelli, a Border Writer
Rosina Martucci, Independent Scholar
Border Crossings and Kinship in Women’s Letteratura della Migrazione
Meriel Tulante, Thomas Jefferson University
Albania as Perennial Italian Borderland in the Novels of Albanian Italophone Authors
Viktor Berberi, University of Minnesota Morris
Wednesday, April 7
Round Table: Hope Amidst the Chaos of the New Migrations to Southern Italy: Principles, Realities, and Trends
Filippo Piscopo, director, It Will Be Chaos (2018)
Katia Passerini, Seton Hall University
Arturo Pagán, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Thursday, April 8
Cultural Encounters between Italy and Latin America
Italian Immigrants and Ideas in Nineteenth-Century Argentina
Heather Sottong, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Crossing Cultural Borders: Fernando Ortiz and Italian Thought in Latin America
David Aliano, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Friday, April 9
Cinematic and Musical Borderlands
Italian American Borderlands in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever
Marie-Christine Michaud, Université de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient
The Politics of Italian Identity: Alessandro Mahmoud and Sanremo 2019
Anthony D. Sargenti, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Bonding across Borders in Matteo Troncone’s Arrangiarsi (Pizza … and the Art of Living)
Evelyn Ferraro, Santa Clara University
Mediterranean Border: The Case of Venice
Giuliana Muscio, University of Padua
Monday, April 12
Families, Neighborhoods, and Beyond
The Italian/American Question: Memory, Space, and Identity
Jacqueline May, Independent Scholar
Breaking Down Borders in the Digital Age: A Case Study of the Descendants of Gaspare Cario
Amy Deuink, Pennsylvania State University, and Melissa E. Marinaro, Senator John Heinz History Center
Arbëreshë, Italian Albanians, Albanian Americans, Italian Americans: Intersecting Borders during the Migrations of the 1890s–1920s
Francesca Canadé Sautman, Hunter College, CUNY
Tuesday, April 13
Italian Politics and Culture from Fascism to Postwar Democracy in the Life and Work of Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello (1906–1969)
Uguccione Ranieri, Giuseppe Prezzolini, and the Teaching of Italian Language in the United States in the 1930s
Roberto Dolci, University for Foreigners of Perugia
The Journey away from the Fascist Regime in the Wartime Experience of Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello
Ruggero Ranieri, Romeyne Robert and Uguccione Sorbello Foundation
“The Italian Scene”: A Cultural Bridge between Postwar Italy and the United States
Antonella Valoroso, The Umbra Institute
Wednesday, April 14
Colonial Africa
Research Resources on Italians in the Horn of Africa
Colleen Bradley-Sanders, Brooklyn College Library
The Roman Garden of Africa: Environmental Policies in Italian Colonial Libya
Michele Monserrati, Williams College
Italy’s Recruitment of Migrants in the Interwar Years: Empire and Labor Mobilization
Donatella Strangio, Sapienza University of Rome
Thursday, April 15
Negotiating Boundaries, Negotiating Identities
The Arrests of Alberto Mario and Jessie White Mario: British Exceptionalism, Transnational Families, and Derivative Citizenship
Diana Moore, John Jay College, CUNY
Testing Hybridity: Arab-Muslim Solidarity and the Italian Conquest of Ottoman Tripolitania, 1911–1912
Chris J. Rominger, University of North Florida
Returning Home as Enemies: Luigi Antonini, the Italian-American Labor Council, and the Fight against Italy during World War II
Antonia Cucchiara, The New School of Social Research
Friday, April 16
Sicily as Mediterranean Borderland
From Micheli to the Baracche: The Polis in Flux and Stasis after the 1908 Earthquake of Messina
Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh
The Rebirth of a Mediterranean Migration System: Migration between Sicily and Tunisia
Giuliano Fleri, The Graduate Institute, Geneva
Monday, April 19
Northeast Italy
Fostering a Nationalist Geographical Fantasy: Women Writers and the Italian Northeastern Border (1915–1918)
Cristina Gragnani, Temple University
Redrawing the Map, Reconstructing Identity: Italian-Yugoslavian Borderlands and Anti-Slavism in Italian Discourse during Fascism
Luisa Morettin, NCI University in London
Tuesday, April 20
Round Table: Crossing Borders with Ulysses’s Second Eye: Searching for Italy’s Identity in Il secondo occhio di Ulisse
Silvia Carlorosi, Bronx Community College, CUNY
Peter Carravetta, Stony Brook University, SUNY
Wiley Feinstein, Loyola University Chicago
Daniele Fioretti, Miami University
Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey
Discussant: Sante Matteo, Miami University
Wednesday, April 21
Keynote
Where Is Italy? Borders and Borderlands from Metaphor to Geopolitics
Donna Gabaccia, University of Toronto (Emerita)