Fellow Colleagues of Italian/ Italian American / Italian Diaspora Studies ,

My name is Colleen Ryan. I am Professor of Italian at Indiana University and currently serve as Secretary of the Italian American Studies Association. It is an honor for me to be a nominee to represent the MLA’s Italian American forum as an executive committee me…[Read more]

Fellow Colleagues of Italian/ Italian American / Italian Diaspora Studies ,

My name is Colleen Ryan. I am Professor of Italian at Indiana University and currently serve as Secretary of the Italian American Studies Association. It is an honor for me to be a nominee to represent the MLA’s Italian American forum as an executive committee member, an…[Read more]

Buon giorno a tutt*,

Having been nominated to stand for election to the executive committee of the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian, the following is a brief statement of my experience and interests.

I am a mid-career scholar of 19th-century Italian literature, opera, and scientific culture. My dissertation was on the…[Read more]

“Marine Feet and Vesuvian Eyes”: The Volcanic Aesthetics of Maria Orsini Natale

An edited volume

Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2020 “The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!” ~ Nietzsche “I have marine feet and Vesuvian…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: center;”>Deadline extended: CFP: Special Issue of Performance Matters Sound Acts: Unmuting Performance Studies
Deadline: Full submissions by 31 May 2019.</p>
<p style=”text-align: left;”>This special issue of Performance Matters places theater and performance on the map in sound studies by tracing out how sound acts. “Sound a…[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]

deadline for submissions: March 25, 2019

Call for Papers for a guaranteed session sponsored by the LLC Italian American Forum at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention on January 9-12, 2020, in Seattle, Washington.

This panel welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to texts in different media and genres that map and reflect…[Read more]

deadline for submissions: March 25, 2019

Call for Papers for a guaranteed session sponsored by the LLC Italian American Forum at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention on January 9-12, 2020, in Seattle, Washington.

This panel welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to texts in different media and genres that map and reflect…[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]

(Si trova la versione in inglese sotto) 

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]

52nd Annual IASA Conference in Houston — Call for Papers — Defying Boundaries, Rais(az)ing Walls: 

Italian Americans Negotiating Borders in a Changing Ethnic Framework Location: Doubletree at Hilton, 6 E. Greenway Plaza; Houston, Texas, 77046

Date: October 31-November 3, 2019

Submission Deadline: Friday, April 26, 2019 Upload/submit proposa…[Read more]

• 2nd IASA International Symposium in Italy

CALL FOR PAPERS

June 20-22, 2019

Roma Tre University

Via Valco di San Paolo, 19

Rome, Italy

Transposing Landscapes and Identities in the Italian Diaspora: Visual and Verbal Representations 

Upload/submit proposals to Submittable:https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit Submission D…[Read more]

Decolonizing Sound
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This panel explores sound and decolonizing Western methodologies, epistemologies, and archives, and the necessity of decolonizing sound studies. Intersectional scholarship encouraged; non-English and pre-20th century research welcomed. 250-word abstracts to MLAMediaSound@gmail.com by 15 March 2019.

Deadline for…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Though a new member of the Sound forum, I am writing to ask for your support for my nomination to the forum’s Executive Committee. For 20 years, I have been producing scholarship in the field of sound. Since 2001, I have presented on the topic of sound at MLA, beginning with “The Negative Dialectics of Phonographic Sound” (2001,…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

This is just a little reminder to make sure you vote for the Italian American Forum. I am one of the candidates and would appreciate your support. I am dedicated to increasing the interdisciplinary nature of our field along with our visibility outside of the US, particularly in Canada, Italy, and Latin/South America. At the 2019…[Read more]

Please see the IASA Conference Program: https://www.italianamericanstudies.net/cpages/conference-2018