The Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather SeriesTaormina, SicilyJuly 10-12, 2023 Sponsored by the University of Arkansas and Società cooperativa Taormina immagine Celebrating over 50 years of fandom, join us and commemorate Francis Ford Coppola’s series- The Godfather (March 15, 1972), The Godfather Part II (December 20, 19…[Read more]

CALL FOR PAPERS AATI/IASA JOINT CONFERENCELucca, IT 2022 The first joint international conference of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) and the Italian American Studies Association (IASA) will take place from May 25-29, 2022 at La Fondazione Campus in Lucca, Italy. In keeping with the missions of  the AATI/IASA, th…[Read more]

Multilingual Diasporic Italy: Language(s) in Context

MLA Call: This session explores the use of language–Italian, Italian dialects, regionalism, Italiese, or even foreign languages–within the context of Italian American e/o Italian diasporic studies. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions from literary to visual and performative…[Read more]

What makes a canon? More importantly, what is the confines, political and literary, faced by installing a canon? By destroying the canon as scholars, do we end up doing more good than bad? What is the future of ethnic writers when considering the canon?

Italian American studies scholar Mary Jo Bona claims that “many factors contributed to the e…[Read more]

MLA Working Group
Transgenerational Trauma in Italian-American Literary, Visual, and Performative Texts
From the shellshock victims of the First World War to adopting the term posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma studies cover a wide-ranging area, from psychiatry to transgenerational trauma. In The Traumatic Imagination, Eugene Arva…[Read more]

Please see the announcement and call for papers for Diasporic Italy.

Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies AssociationInaugural Volume (2021) – Call for Papers Description:Diasporic Italy is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Italian American / Diaspora studies, focusing on timely a…[Read more]

Please see the announcement and call for papers for Diasporic Italy.

Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies AssociationInaugural Volume (2021) – Call for Papers Description:Diasporic Italy is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Italian American / Diaspora studies, focusing on timely and v…[Read more]

Join Jon Cavallero’s for a lecture on family in The Sopranos. See the flyer for more information.

What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? Join the Italian American Studies Association on May 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time for a Zoom Q&A regarding the Lucca Symposium, Pittsburgh Conference, and the new IASA journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The participants will provide updates and a…[Read more]

What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? Join the Italian American Studies Association on May 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time for a Zoom Q&A regarding the Lucca Symposium, Pittsburgh Conference, and the new IASA journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The participants will provide updates and a…[Read more]

Title: Trauma & Its Consequences in Italian-Americana E-mail Address: rcalabretta@gmail.comDescription & Requirements: This session explores trauma and Italian Americans, individually, collectively as a community, and on a larger scale as a culture. Open to representations in literature, cinema, and the arts.Submission Deadline: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]

Title: Trauma & Its Consequences in Italian-Americana E-mail Address: rcalabretta@gmail.comDescription & Requirements: This session explores trauma and Italian Americans, individually, collectively as a community, and on a larger scale as a culture. Open to representations in literature, cinema, and the arts.Submission Deadline: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]

3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers

May 28-31, 2020

Fondazione Campus

Via del Seminario Prima, 790

Lucca, Italy

http://www.fondazionecampus.it 

Italian Diaspora(s): The Manifestations and Dynamics of Cultural ChangeSubmission Deadline: Saturday, February 1, 2020 https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit…[Read more]

3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers

May 28-31, 2020

Fondazione Campus

Via del Seminario Prima, 790

Lucca, Italy

http://www.fondazionecampus.it 

Italian Diaspora(s): The Manifestations and Dynamics of Cultural ChangeSubmission Deadline: Saturday, February 1, 2020 https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit The I…[Read more]

Italian Americans on the Page

Drama, fiction, poetry, migration, diaspora, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, 250-word abstract. Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville (calabret@uark.edu); Alan Gravano, Rocky Mountain U (alan.gravano@rm.edu)Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 20 March 2019 Alan J. Gravano, Rocky Mountain U …[Read more]

Re-Viewing Italian Cinema: New Theoretical Approaches (Guaranteed Session) This panel aims to explore new theoretical trends in Italian cinema that have emerged within the last ten years. Some approaches include the following: critical race theory, eco-criticism, queer theory, affect theory, etc.  Ryan Calabretta-Sajder (<…[Read more]

Re-Thinking Design, Italian Style

Bridging the Italian Curriculum Through ‘MADE IN ITALY’ 

A Workshop for Instructors Aimed at Enriching the Italian CurriculumJuly 7-21, 2019  Lead Facilitator:

• Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Assistant Professor of Italian, University of Arkansas

Co-Collaborators:

• Alessandro Adorno, Director, Babilonia: Itali…

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CALL For Papers AATI  Conference  30 maggio – 2 giugno, 2019 Marist College – Poughkeepsie, NY 

L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno si terrà a Poughkeepsie, NY, dal 30 maggio al 2 giugno, 2019, presso Marist College.  Il tema del convegno è aperto, ma l’A…[Read more]