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We are pleased to announce the full program for "Migrating in and out of Italy" workshop, the second meeting of the "Destination Italy" International Research Network run by Italian Studies at Oxford:
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FRIDAY 25th FEBRUARY
09.00-09.30 Registration
09.30-09.45 Welcome: Guido Bonsaver (Oxford), Grace Russo Bullaro (CUNY), Anthony Tamburri (Director, Calandra Institute)
09.45-11.00 Opening Session:
Teresa Fiore (Montclair): ‘Immigration in Italy as a Space Pre-Occupied by Italian Emigration’
Robert Viscusi (CUNY): ‘Migration as a Textual Condition’
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.30 Plenary Session: Representing Italian America
Mary Jo Bona (Stony Brook): ‘Narrative Resistance: Writers of Italian America’
Alessandra Senzani (CUNY): ‘Dreams and Disillusions: John Fante’s Oxymoronic Italo-Americana
Felice Beneduce (Columbia): ‘Tu vuo fa l'americano': Denial and Denigration of Italian-Americans in Italian National Cinema’
Loredana Polezzi (Warwick): ‘Re-translating migration: the construction of a letteratura italoamericana and the case of Cristo tra i muratori’
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.00 Parallel Session: (a) Migration and Mis-en-Scène
Vito Zagarrio (Roma Tre): ‘Directing the Migration, Migrating the Direction’
Paolo Russo (Oxford Brookes): ‘“E i killer sparano come nei film di Tarantino”: neo-neo noir and mis-en-scène in Gomorrah'
Raffaele Lampugnani (Monash): ‘The social mis-en-scène and social performance of migration from Italy in Mangiamele’s early films’
14.30-16.00 Parallel Session: (b) Beyond Italy
William Anselmi (Alberta): ‘Italy as image, displacement as migration: sites of reconstruction, beyond Canada’
Gerardo Papalia (La Trobe): ‘The negotiation of identities in Italian-Australian cinema’
Anita Pinzi (CUNY): ‘Albanian Self-Representation in Italian Cinema: Edmond Budina’s Lettere al vento’
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30 – 18.00 Plenary Session: Rethinking Stereotypes
Julia Heim (CUNY): ‘Simplifying Otherness: Rudy Guede and the Italian Media’
Giuliana Minghelli (Harvard): ‘Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship. Rereading Salah Methnani’
Gregory Pell (Hofstra): ‘Transcendence of Status and Borders: Can we make a positive film about negative stereotypes?’
18.00-19.00 Wine reception with buffet
19.00-20.45 Film screening: ‘Mar nero’ (Dir. Federico Bondi, 2008)
SATURDAY 26th FEBRUARY
09.30-10.45 Opening Session:
Millicent Marcus (Yale): ‘Federico Bondi’s Mar nero: Channeling the Geographic Unconscious’
Aine O’Healy (Loyola Marymount): ‘The Italian – Immigrant encounter in Cover boy and Goodmorning Amman’
10.45-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.45 Plenary Session: Narrating e/immigration
Clarissa Clò (SDSU): ‘Music and Migration in Film: Di madre in figlia and La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar’
Evelyn Ferraro (London): ‘Epistolary Passages: Narrating E/Immigration through Letter Writing’
Laura di Bianco (CUNY): ‘The Female Gaze on the Female Immigrant: Marina Spada’s Come l'ombra’
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 15.15 Plenary Session: Immigration to Italy
Andrea Pogliano (Piemonte Orientale): ‘L’immigrazione straniera sui settimanali italiani 1980-2009’
Shelleen Greene (Wisconsin-Milwaukee): ‘From Il Mulatto to Italy’s Obama: Mixed-Race Identity and the Italian Nation-State’
Riccardo Puglisi (Pavia): ‘Immigration: The Link between Media Coverage and Individual Attitudes. An Economist’s Perspective’
15.15-16.15 Concluding Session
Donatella Saroli (RAI Corporation): ‘Rai Med: A Public Broadcaster’s Window on the Mediterranean’
Anthony Tamburri (CUNY): ‘The Hyphenated Italian American’
Respondent: Peter Carravetta (Stony Brook)
16.15-16.30 Closing Remarks
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This event is free of charge, but registration is compulsory. Please e-mail: [log in to unmask] by the 17th February 2011.
Further details are available on our website: http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk/research/migration_project/workshops
Workshop organized by Italian Studies at Oxford, with thanks to the John D. Calandra Institute, the City University of New York and the Leverhulme Trust.
Italian Studies at Oxford
An Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Italy at the University of Oxford
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies
12 Bevington Road, Oxford OX2 6LH
http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk/
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