PROGRAM

THURSDAY, April 22, 2010

6:30-8:30 pm WELCOME AND RECEPTION

Friday, April 23, 2010

9–9:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:30–10:45 AM CONFERENCE ROOM

Travel Writing Chair: Nancy Ziehler, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

“The Dead Sang with Dirt in Their Mouths” Joseph P. Cosco, Old Dominion University

"The Re-enchantment of the Everyday: Late-Twentieth-Century Expatriate Memoirs and the New Arcadian Dream “Made in Italy” Lynn Mastellotto, University of East Anglia

Click to Enlarge: Connecting Memories, Places, and Cultures in the Virtual Paese
Robert Oppedisano, Editor/Writer

11–12:15 PM CONFERENCE ROOM

COMMON GROUNDS Chair: Maria LaRusso, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

"Fright or Delight: The Cultural Implications of Wild Fungi as Food" SUSAN M. ROSSI-WILCOX, "Independent Scholar

Social Justice and Democracy: The Significance of a Commons" CHRISTINE F. ZINNI, State University of New York at Brockport

"The Confiscation of Mafia Lands" ANTHONY FRAGOLA, Greensboro University

11–12:15 PM LA GALLERIA

Points South and West I Chair: Vincenzo Milione, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

The Italians of the Jamestown and Virginia Colonies Giuseppe Di Scipio, Hunter College/CUNY

Here Come the Sicilians: Another Puzzle Piece in the Making of New Orleans Gerald T. McNeill, Southeastern Louisiana University, and Melissa Puglia McNeill, Stuart Hall School for Boys

The Making of Little Italies in the Appalachian Hill Towns of West Virginia Victor A. Basile,

Independent Scholar 12:15–1:30 PM Lunch on your own

1:30–2:45 PM CONFERENCE ROOM

Gardening and HARVESTING Chair: Joseph Sciorra, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

Memories of Repasts (film) Karina S. Ramirez, The New School Media Studies Program

Gardens of the Mind: Memory, Ecology, and Justice in the Story of Tullio Inglese Patricia Klindienst, Independent Scholar

Terra sogna terra (film) LUCIA GRILLO, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

1:30–2:45 PM LA GALLERIA

Narrated Landscapes Chair: Rosangela Briscese, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

“La Brigantessa: The Life of a Female Brigand” Rosanna Micelotta-Battigelli, Author “Mirage” Paola Corso, Western Connecticut State University

“U Bizz’ di Creanza: A Piece of Politeness” Joanna Clapps Herman, Manhattanville College

3–4:15 PM CONFERENCE ROOM

Sacred Spaces Chair: Dominick Carielli, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

To Struggle for a Place at the Table: Italian-American Protestants in Italy Dennis Barone, St. Joseph College

The Role of the Holy Place: Memory and Nostalgia in Italian Jews Who Emigrated in Israel After World War II Cristina Bettin, Ben Gurion University

Vernacular Exegesis of the Gentrifying Gaze: Saints, Hipsters, and Public Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Joseph Sciorra, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

3–4:15 PM LA GALLERIA

Mapping metaphors Chair: James Periconi, Italian American Writers Association

The Place and the Action: The Metaphor of the Square According to the Social Enterprise Paola Melone, Institute of the National Research Council

Performing Nostalgia in Caterina Edwards’ Homeground and Marco Micone’s Deja’ l’agonie Simone Lomartire, Leeds Metropolitan University

Continental Drift: Mapping a European Italy Vincent Della Sala, Università degli Studi di Trento

4:30–5:45 PM CONFERENCE ROOM

Little Italies Chair: Christine Gambino, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

Imagined Little Italies Stefano Luconi, Università degli Studi di Padova

America’s Little Italies as Visually Contested Terrains Jerry Krase, Brooklyn College/CUNY

Re-Membering the Neighborhood: Creating Community with Food Exchange Dana David, Pace University

Saturday, April 24, 2010 9–9:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:30–10:45 AM CONFERENCE ROOM

Re-Mapping Italian America Chair: Anthony Tamburri, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

America as Garden of Plenty and Hell on Earth: Pre-and Post-Immigration Images of the Promised Land and their Relation to Italians of the Great Migration Joseph J. Inguanti, Southern Connecticut State University

From the Nostalgia of Origins to Creating Home: Making Place at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School, New York City, 1923-1940 Francesca Canadé Sautman, Hunter College/CUNY Italian

America: Beyond the Imagined Nation Ottorino Cappelli, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”

11–12:15 PM CONFERENCE ROOM

Architecture Abandoned, Reclaimed, Re-Imagined Chair: Donna M. Chirico, York College/CUNY Il Borgo Fortificato: Culture, Traditions, Life John C. Russotto, Independent Scholar, and M. Gabriella Gasbarre, Italian American Community Club of Rochester

Vernacular Architecture of the Alto Molise John Caserta, The Design Office

Preserving History in the Old Neighborhood: Saving the Our Lady of Loreto Church, East New York, Brooklyn Marilyn Ann Verna, St. Francis College, and Mario Toglia, Calitri American Cultural Group

11–12:15 PM LA GALLERIA

CREATIVE Spaces Chair: Fabio Girelli-Carasi Brooklyn College/CUNY

Tales of a West End Italian Boy Nicola Battigelli, Author

Terra Promessa (film) Antonino D’Ambrosio, La Lutta NMC Architettura Sonora/Applied Acoustics Lorenzo Brusci, Sound and Experience Design

12:15–1:30 PM Lunch on your own
1:30–2:45 PM CONFERENCE ROOM

Contested Landscapes/Contested Readings Chair: Ottorino Cappelli, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”

Speaking of Place: Campanilismo as Linguistic Practice in Northern Italy Jillian R. Cavanaugh, Brooklyn College/CUNY

Re-imagining the Colonial Landscape: Notions of Faith, Healing, and Prestige in Goffredo Alessandrini’s Abuna Messias AnneMarie Tamis, New York University

Segni italiani nelle strade americane MADDALENA TIRABASSI, Centro Altreitalie/Globus et Locus

1:30–2:45 PM LA GALLERIA

Land in Literature Chair: Fred Gardaphé, Queens College, CUNY

The Transnational Origins of Antonio Stoppani’s Il bel paese Erica Moretti, Brown University

Paradise from Mud and Stone: Visions of Italy in the Work of Ignazio Silone and Iris Origo Fred Misurella, East Stroudsburg University

Place and Narrative as Real and Metaphysical Catalysts in Fiction Gioia Timpanelli, Author

3–4:15 PM CONFERENCE ROOM

Points South and West II Chair: Joseph Sciorra, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

A Northern Southern Italian of the Eastern Western United States: A Topographical Analysis of John Fante’s Fiction Jim Cocola, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Piedmont on the Pacific: Labor, Race, and Place and the Origins of Italian Winemaking in California Simone Cinotto, University of Gastronomic Sciences

“Il Fuoco di Minonga”: The 1907 Mine Disaster, the Landscape of Coal, and the Making of Transnational Italian Identity in West Virginia Joan Saverino, The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

4:30–5:45 PM CONFERENCE ROOM CLOSING KEYNOTE

Gastronomic Utopias, Promised Land LUISA DEL GIUDICE, Independent Scholar

All presentations are free and open to the public. SEATING IS LIMITED. For further information see our Web site www.qc.edu/calandra or call (212) 642-2094. The Calandra Institute is a university institute under the aegis of Queens College. #