Dear Colleagues,
please consider submitting a proposal for the following session:
AATI International Conference
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
March 26-28, 2020
Documenting the Italian Diaspora
Organizers: Diana Iuele-Colilli (Laurentian University), Christine Sansalone (Laurentian University)
This session will feature research on how the various aspects and outcomes of Italian emigration throughout the world have been and continue to be documented and represented. We invite proposals dealing with historical, literary, cinematographic and other instruments of cultural memory and production. The topics are not limited to any specific time periods nor to any countries, and may include, for example,
-films from North America, Latin America, Australia, and so, that deal specifically with the Italian experience in the host country
-poetry, novels and plays that deal with the question of the existence of an Italian identity on the part of the Italian emigrants and their multigenerational descendants in the host country
-the linguistic acculturation of the Italian emigrants and their descendants
-painting, sculpture and other figurative arts as a means to represent the Italian experience in the host country
-work in the domain of history and the social sciences that focuses on the Italian emigration experience
Please send a 200-word abstract to Diana Iuele-Colilli ([log in to unmask]) and Christine Sansalone ([log in to unmask]) by December 1, 2019.