Hi everyone,
I am delighted to invite those who are currently conducting
research and living in Rome and Lazio, to take part in the following two-day conference:
Emigration/Immigration in South Italy
(1880/2015).
The conference will
take place at the beautiful medieval castle of Minturno (nine stops by train
from Roma Termini) on October 16-17 (5: 30 pm).
The event is open to everyone, and is free of charge.
The conference will include an award ceremony for the
categories of poetry/essay/ writing and painting focused on the subject of Emigration/Immigration,
and scholars, journalists and politicians will
present papers to a wide audience.
My own talk (“Departures”:
Italian intellectuals and mass emigration, 1880/2015) looks at Italian
emigration to the US and Britain from 1880 to today, with particular emphasis
on Fascism in Italian communities abroad. Existing volumes have explored the immigration
of uneducated Italians, their professional involvements and political attitude towards
Italy from the end of nineteenth century to the outbreak World War II. Some
secondary literature together with my PhD, also offer information about the
presence of Italian intellectuals in Britain during those years.
My
presentation offers a systematic historical survey of both Italian intellectual
and mass-emigration to Britain, starting with the anarchist emigration at the
end of the 1800s and continuing up to the recent so-called ‘fuga di cervelli’
(‘brain drain’). It will include: 1) an outline of the features and differences
of Italian intellectual and mass-emigration; 2) an emphasis on emigrants’ disappointment towards
Italian economic and cultural policies as reasons for leaving the motherland,
and 3) connections between immigrants in the British economy and local cultural
circuits, between idealisation and reality.
I look forward to seeing you at the castle!
Best wishes,
Tamara
Dr Tamara Colacicco,
Dottore di Ricerca in Italian Studie
Department of Modern Languages and European Studies
University of Reading (United Kingdom)
Whiteknights
RG6 6AA
Selected publications
“” Pecore bianche e
pecore nere (Roma: Il mio libro, 2014);
“” Scoprì una notte la
luna (Napoli: Monetti e Ragusa Editori, 2015);
“” L’emigrazione
italiana in Inghilterra (The Italianist, 35, 1, 2015: 157-170)