italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
The Stony Brook Center for Italian Studies presents
Symposium
Italian Labor-American Unions: From Conflicts to Reconciliation to
Leadership
offered in collaboration with
Stony Brook University's Office of the Provost
Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education
Center for Study of Working Class Life
Department of History
Friday, October 31, 2003-Student Activity Center Auditorium
Welcoming Remarks
Session I - 7 p.m.- Film Screening: Vendetta, and Discussion with Richard
Gambino, author of the book, Vendetta.
Saturday, November 1, 2003-Student Activity Center Auditorium
Registration and Breakfast Coffee - 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Welcome - 9:30-10 a.m.
Session II 10:00 A.M. - 10:45 A.M.
Keynote Speaker: Rudolph J. Vecoli, Director, Immigration History Research
Center, University of Minnesota
Session III - 11:00 A.M. - 12 Noon
Chair: Ted Jacobsen, Secretary, New York City Central Labor Council,
AFL-CIO
Cosimo Palagiano, University of Rome, "La Sapienza": The Voyage Hope and
the Working Conditions of Italian Immigrants in the USA
Sal LaGumina, Nassau County Community College: Italian Immigrants Promote
the Cause of Labor: Long Island Case Studies
Optional Lunch 12 Noon - 1:30 P.M.-University Club-Graduate Chemistry
Building - Cost per person: $30.00; Advance Reservations Required. Please
call (631) 632-7444.
Session IV, 1:45 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
Chair: John J. LaValle, Supervisor, Town of Brookhaven
Stefano Luconi, University of Florence: With the Body in the United States,
but with the Heart and Mind in Italy: the Inconsistencies of the Italian
American Labor Movement in the Interwar Years
Fraser M. Ottanelli, University of South Florida: Radicalism and the
Shaping of Ethnic Identity: Italian American Anti-fascist Volunteers in the
Spanish Civil War
Jerry Krase, Brooklyn College: Representations of Italians at Work
Session V - 3:00 P.M. - 4:15 P.M.
Chair: Ned Landsman, Stony Brook University
Martino Marazzi, University of Milan: Ludovico Michele Caminita,
Journalist, Writer, and Political Activist: From Anarchism to Mainstream
and Labor Journalism
Michele De Gregorio, Queens College (CUNY): Italian-American Labor Unions
During the New Deal: The Case of Local 89 (Antonini)
Guido Tintoni, University of Milan: F.D. Roosevelt and the Ethnic Labor; An
Italian Case Study: Luigi Antonini
Concurrent Sessions-4:30 P.M. - 5:45 P.M.
Session VI -A
Chair: Nicholas Spilotro, NYC Labor Council, Liaison to the Italian
American Community
Bénédicte Deschamps, Université Paris 7, Giustizia, The Official Italian
Language Organ of the ILGWU
Andrea Ciampani, LUMSA, University of Rome: A New Kind of Unionism? Italian
CISL, ICFTU and International Relations of Organized Labor
Luigi Angeletti, Unione Italiana del Lavoro : US-Italian Trade Unions:
Globalization and Other Common Interests
Session VI-B
Chair: to be announced
Marcello Saija, University of Messina: Italian Workers and Italian Mutual
Aid Societies
Paolo Giordano, Loyola University, Chicago: Egidio Clemente and La Parolo
dal Popolo
Giuseppe Massara, University of Rome La Sapienza: Night Search
Sunday, November 3, 2003 -Stony Brook Manhattan Site
Registration and Welcome Coffee-8:30 A.M.
Session VII - 9:30 - 10:45 AM
Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World
Panel Discussion: Co-sponsored by SUSB's Department of History
Chair, Donna Gabaccia, University of Pittsburgh
Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto
Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College
Caroline Waldron, Merithew, University of Dayton
Session VIII 11:00 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Study of Working Class Life
Tony Mazzocchi's Legacy for the U.S. Working Class
Chair: Michael Zweig, Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life:
Reflections on Tony Mazzocchi and the Labor Party
Les Leopold, Director of the Labor Institute and Biographer of Tony
Mazzocchi: Tony Mazzocchi's Journey from Italian-American Family to
American Labor Leader
Stanley Aronowitz, City University of NY; Region 8 Organizing Director:
Oil, Chemical, Atomic Workers Union,1964-1968: Tony Mazzocchi and Union
Democracy: The OCAW in the 1960s
Closing Remarks - 12:30 P.M.
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Charles Franco
Department of European Languages
Stony Brook University
www.stonybrook.edu/eurolangs/
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