Please check: http://www.iohi.org/aiha/index.html ("AIHA 2005 Preliminary Conference Program") for further details and ongoing updates. Times and dates subject to change without notice. Registration and pre-payment of conference fee required (see: "Conference Registration & Payment").

Wednesday, November 2, 2005

*8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Joseph Sciorra, lecture: "The Watts Towers of Los Angeles and La Festa dei Gigli of Nola: A Shared Tradition"
(Istituto Italiano di Cultura, IIC, Westwood)

Opening, Ann Lomax Wood and Luisa Del Giudice: Lomax in the Salento photographic exhibition (IIC)

 

Thursday, November 3, 2005

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Conference Registration, Doubletree Hotel Lobby

1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
1) Oral History Research workshop: Teresa Barnett, UCLA Oral History Program, Doubletree
2) Sound and Visual Archives: the IOHI Collections
John Vallier, UCLA Ethnomusicology Archives

* 3:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Dance & Music Workshop: Puglia, Sicily, Sardinia
(Enzo Fina & Roberto Catalano), St. Alban's Church, Westwood

2:30 – 5:30 p.m.
AIHA Executive Council meeting, Doubletree

5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Concurrent Panels

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Conference Registration, Doubletree Hotel Lobby

8:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Concurrent Panels
(includes: *Poets to Prose: Readings by Italian/American writers of So. California)

 

Friday, November 4, 2005
(Doubletree Hotel, Westwood)

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Conference Registration, Doubletree Hotel Lobby

9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Welcome & Plenary session: "What Makes Oral History Different"
Prof. Alessandro Portelli, Università La Sapienza, Rome

10:15 – 10:30 p.m.
Coffee break

10:30 – 12:00 a.m.
Concurrent Panels

12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
AIHA General Business Meeting, Doubletree

12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Western Regional Chapter Members Luncheon, Lounge. No-host lounge for WRC members to meet and greet.

1:15 – 2:45 p.m.
Concurrent Panels

2:45 – 3:00 p.m.
Coffee break

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Concurrent Panels

4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
AIHA Business Meeting

* 5:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Music & Dance Workshop: Rhythm is the Cure
(Alessandra Belloni), St. Alban's Church

8:00 p.m.
Musicàntica in concert: UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Westwood

9:30 – 10:30 p.m.
An Evening with the Dark Mother (Performances and Readings, Moderator: Louisa Calio)

 

Saturday, November 5, 2005
(UCLA, Royce Hall)

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – 10:30
Concurrent Panels

10:30 – 10:45
Coffee break

10:45 – 12:15
Concurrent Panels

12: 15 – 1:00
Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Plenary Session:
– Geoffrey Symcox, "Rediscovering Columbus: Recent Research and the Repertorium Colombianum."
– Commemoration of Phil Cannistraro

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Concurrent Panels

3:30 – 3:45 p.m.  
Coffee break

3:45 – 5:15 p.m.  
Concurrent Panels

5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Traditional Dance Workshop: Northern & Central Italy, and Sardinia
(Marie DiCocco & Celest DiPietropaolo), St. Alban's Church

8:00 p.m.
Closing Reception: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Westwood

 

Sunday, November 6, 2005

* 8:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Cultural & Historic Tour: "Chi Siamo:  Italians of Los Angeles," (with Prof. Gloria Ricci Lothrop) – departure from Doubletree Hotel at 8:30 sharp, LAX airport drop-off at approx. 1:00 p.m.; return to Doubletree by 1:30 p.m. (includes lunch)

time TBA
Opening of the exhibition Carnaval! (Carnival traditions from around the world, including Italy), at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

 

* Festival event

N.B.  Most festival events are free and open to the general public.  Some events are by advance payment only (dance & music workshops, tour; see: "Conference Registration and Payment").  Space is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.  Times and dates subject to change without notice.  Please check  this page for festival program updates.