<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Italian American Studies Association 2017</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>June 16-18, 2017</p>
 

In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has…[Read more]

Call for Papers: Theorizing Italian Diaspora Studies

Italian American Studies Association 2017

University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Italy

June 16-18, 2017

In the last twenty years, the term diaspora has become increasingly popular within academia. The scholarly appropriation of a term historically associated with the tragic dispersal of a…[Read more]

In conjunction with the MLA theme: #States of Insecurity, this panel seeks contributions that complicate notions of assimilation and the assimilated Italian American. How has Italian American radicalization been minimized, erased, or marginalized in favor of the assimilation tale of struggle, hard work, and success? How have Italian radical…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

gender/sexuality/italy 3, 2016 is now online. It includes outstanding research on the theme of gender and language (Themed Section and Invited Perspectives) and other topics related to gender (Open Contributions). gender/sexuality/italy 3, 2016 also hosts relevant multimedia files, interviews, and book reviews.…[Read more]

We are gathering material for a special issue of VIA to honor the creative spirit of Italian folktales. Writers should submit an original folktale of their own creation, or choose a previously published folktale from an existing source (such as Italo Calvino’s Italian Folktales, Italian American Folklore by Malpezzi and Clements, Italian Folkt…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

My name is Alan Gravano, and I am running for the Italian American Discussion Group. I sat in on the meeting last year in Austin and presented a paper on teaching Italian American beat poets. Yesterday, my paper on Ferlinghetti and di Prima challenging the conventional definitions of multi-ethnic literature was accepted by the Beat…[Read more]

The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed

The goal of “The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed” panel is to explore the Rocky franchise’s place in illuminating Italian Americans’ anxiety about whiteness in a post-Civil Rights era and black millennials’ continual struggle for autonomy in the post-9/11 twenty-first century. Jennife…[Read more]

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<b class=””>Italian American Studies Association Conference Proposals
Conference Theme: “Recorded, Reported, Projected, and Pixilated: Italian Americans in Mass Media”
Date:  November 3rd to November 5th, 2016
Location: California State University—Long Beach, Long Beach / Los Angeles, California
Site to submit pr…[Read more]

https://www.cfplist.com/CFP.aspx?CID=6828

The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that exp…[Read more]

DigITALamericana: New Archives of an Invisible People The Italian American Literature Forum is seeking panelists to present transmedia perspectives and projects (oral histories, photos, artifacts, home movies etc.) on the Italian American experience for its guaranteed session at the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia. As defined by Henry Jenkins,…[Read more]

The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of racism and ethnocentrism in the Rocky series. We are most int…[Read more]