N.B. Times and dates subject to change without notice. Please check this page for ongoing updates. Events marked in red relate to the IOHI multimedia festival: Italian Los Angeles, Celebrating Italian Life, Local History, and the Arts in Southern California, October 23 - December 4, 2005. For more information on entire festival program, visit this page.
Locations:
Istituto Italiano di Cultura (IIC): 1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024, Tel. (310) 443-3250 Doubletree Hotel Westwood: 10740 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024, Tel. (310) 475-8711 St. Alban's Episcopal Church: 580 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024, tel. (310) 208-6516 UCLA Armand Hammer Museum: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024, tel. (310) 443-7000 UCLA: Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles 90095
Wednesday, November 2
8:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
8:00 p.m. Lecture: "The Watts Towers of Los Angeles and La Festa dei Gigli of Nola: A Shared Tradition," Joseph Sciorra, Calandra Institute, CUNY
9:00 p.m. Exhibition opening: Anna Lomax Wood, Luisa Del Giudice: Alan Lomax in the Salento; Ethnographic Photographs from the 1960s (November 2-11)
Thursday, November 3
1:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Doubletree and St. Alban's Church
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Conference Registration, Doubletree Hotel Lobby
1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Workshop: "What, Why and How of Oral History," by Teresa Barnett (Director, UCLA Oral History Program), including "Sound and Visual Archives: Italian Collections at UCLA" by John Vallier (UCLA Ethnomusicology Archives), Doubletree Hotel
2:30 - 5:30 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting, Doubletree Hotel
3:00 - 5:30 p.m. Dance & Music Workshop (Enzo Fina & Roberto Catalano): "Traditional Music of Mediterranean Italy (Apulian frame drum, Sardinian benas, and more)," St. Alban's Church
Thursday, November 3
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Doubletree
Italians of Los Angeles
Chair: William Issel, San Francisco State University
Gloria Ricci Lothrop, California State University, Northridge (Emerita)
"Chi Siamo: The Italians of Los Angeles - A Multimedia Presentation"
(slide projector)
Kenneth H. Marcus, University of La Verne
"Italian Involvement in Music Traditions of Los Angeles, 1880-1940"
Letizia Argentieri, San Diego Mesa College
"The Friulana Who Seduced Hollywood"
The Building of Urban Spaces and Neighborhoods
Chair: Adele Maiello, Università di Genova
Julie Anderies, University of Denver
"Albino Abbiati: Cultural Pioneer in Denver"
(LCD projector)
Adele Maiello, Università di Genova
"Italian Builders in Columbus, OH: Values and Identity"
Richard Scott Jones, University of Connecticut
"How Yankeetown Became 'Little Italy'"
(LCD dataprojector?)
Omertà of Tongue in Hand: Creative Writers on Italian-American Communication in Talk and Gesture (Reading and Roundtable)
Chair: Fred Misurella, East Stroudsburg University
Rita Ciresi, University of South Florida
Joanna Clapps Hermann, Manhattanville College
Fred Gardaphe, SUNY Stony Brook
George Guida, New York City College of Technology
Re-Tracing Family Memories: Autobiography, Family Narrative, and Poetry
Chair: Paul Giaimo, Highland Community College, Illinois
Paul Giaimo, Highland Community College, Illinois
"Storied Memories: Family Narratives and the Trasnmissions of Italian American Culture in the LaMonica Family 180 Putnam Street, West Haven Connecticut USA"
(CD player?)
Joan Vardaro McMillan, San José State University
"I Due Principi (The Two Princes) (from an Italian American Childhood Memoir)"
Kristine Massari, Independent Scholar
"The Italian American Extended Family: A Fertile Source of Oral History"
Thursday, November 3
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Doubletree
Conference Registration, Doubletree Hotel Lobby
Thursday, November 3
8:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Doubletree
Italian American Writers of Southern California (Reading)
Chair: Mary Bucci Bush, California State University, Los Angeles
Dan Fante
Mary Bucci Bush
Ken Scambray
Father Frank Desiderio
Carla Tomaso
Women: Omissions, Transmissions, Transformations
Chair: Laura E. Ruberto, Vista Community College, Berkeley
Marie Saccomando Coppola, MALIA (Italian American Women Writers Collective)
"A Missing Link between Italian and Italian American Women"
(LCD projector)
Roseanne Giannini Quinn, Santa Clara University
"'Where Was This Voice Coming From?': Transgression and Imagination in the Contemporary Literary Memoir by Three Italian American Women Writers (Louise DeSalvo, Carole Maso and Sandra M. Gilbert)"
Maria Giura, State University of New York at Binghamton
"The Transmission of Female Identity from First Generation Women to Their Daughters or Granddaughters in Four Italian American Narratives"
RoseAnna Mueller, Columbia College, Chicago
"Courage Is a Woman:
Contemporary Writings by Women of Italian Descent"
Festival, Ritual, Reclamation
Chair: Sabina Magliocco, California State University, Northridge
Augusto Ferraiuolo, Boston University
"Boston's North End"
Lina N. Insana, University of Pittsburgh
"Strega Nona's Ethnic Alchemy: Stregheria, Magic Pasta, and That Amazing, Disappearing 'n'"
Sabina Magliocco, California State University, Northridge
"In Search of the Roots of Stregheria"
(Slide projector, LCD dataprojector)
Oral Expressions: Proverb, Folktale and Narrative
Chair: Gina M. Miele, Montclair State University
Joseph Ricapito, Louisiana State University, Baton
"The Wisdom of Proverbs: Proverbs in Italian and Pugliese Dialect (from Giovinazzo, Bari)"
Gina M. Miele, Montclair State University
"Italian Folktales of Luigi Capuana and Italo Calvino: Tra oralità e scrittura"
Giuseppie Di Blasi, Università di Catania
"Intrasententially Italian: Code-Switching in Rita Ciresi's Sometimes I Dream in Italian"
Friday, November 4
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Doubletree
Conference Registration, Doubletree Hotel Lobby
Friday, November 4
9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Doubletree
Welcome & Plenary Session: "What Makes Oral History Different" Prof. Alessandro Portelli, Università La Sapienza, Rome
Friday, November 4
10:15 - 10:30 a.m.
Doubletree
Coffee break
Friday, November 4
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Doubletree
Californians' Mediterranean Fascination
Chair: Gloria Ricci Lothrop, California State University Northridge (Emerita)
Bill Deverell, USC-Huntington Institute for California and the West, Director
"The Mediterranean Coast of Los Angeles"
Merry Ovnick, California State University Northridge
"Architectural Aspects of Neo-Mediterraneanism as Outgrowth of Silent Film Culture"
(two slide projectors with remote control/extension cord + screen)
Phil Rundel, University of California Los Angeles
"The Native and Introduced Aspects of California's Mediterranean Clime"
Anthea Raymond, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California
"Venice at 100: An Imagined Mediterranean Remembered Now"
(CD Player, NTSC VCR, slide projector, LCD projector)
Authenticity and Storytelling in Motley, Fante, and Bryant
Chair: JoAnne Ruvoli, University of Illinois at Chicago
Michael A. Antonucci, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Italian-American Character in African American Literature: Willard Motley’s Knock on Any Door"
Jessica Maucione, Washington State University
"John Fante’s Ask the Dust: A Writer’s Künstlerroman and Depression Era Literary Naturalism"
JoAnne Ruvoli, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Books, Memory and Working-Class Storytelling: Dorothy Bryant's Miss Giardino, Ella Price’s Journal, and The Test"
Narrating Musical Experience: Italian Traditional Musicians Speak
Chair: Luisa Del Giudice, Italian Oral History Institute
Roberto Catalano, Musician (Musicàntica)
"'Purtamunnilla 'a casa, 'Nzinu': A Southern Italian Musical Adventure in Los Angeles"
(CD player)
John La Barbera, Musician (I Giullari di Piazza)
"New York-Italy-New York: A Journey of Experiences with Southern Italian Traditional Music from the Early 1970s to the Present Day"
(cassette player, CD player, VCR NTSC)
Celest G. DiPietropaolo, Musician and Independent Scholar
"An Italian-American's Acquisition and Appreciation of Italian Traditional Music"
(cassette player, CD player, VCR NTSC)
Community/Academic Bridges: Promise and Problems (Roundtable) Sponsored by the AIHA/ Western Regional Committee
Chair: Adele Negro, AIHA/Western Regional Committee President
Teri Ann Bengiveno, Las Positas College
Richard Vannucci, AIHA/Western Regional Committee Treasurer
William Cerruti, California Italian American Task Force Chair
Varieties of Religious Experience
Chair: Linda Mercadante, The Methodist Theological School in Ohio
Michael J. Eula, El Camino College, CA
"Is Italian American History Simply Catholic, or Even Christian?"
Linda Mercadante, The Methodist Theological School in Ohio
"My Conversion and Aspiration: Comparative Case Studies of Italian American Protestants I"
Charles J. Scalise, Fuller Theological Seminary
"My Conversion and Aspiration: Comparative Case Studies of Italian American Protestants II"
Friday, November 4
12:00 - 1:15 p.m.
Doubletree
AIHA General Business Meeting
AIHA/Western Regional Chapter Members Luncheon
(No-host lunch for WRC members to meet and greet)
Friday, November 4
12:00 - 1:15 p.m.
Doubletree
Lunch
Friday, November 4
1:15 - 2:45 p.m.
Doubletree
The California Italian American Project: A Plan for an Educational Web Site Documenting the Original Italian Communities in California (Roundtable) Sponsored by the AIHA-Western Regional Committee
Chair: Kenneth Scambray, University of La Verne
Lawrence Di Stasi, AIHA/WRC Curator/Newsletter Editor
"The Way We Were: Richmond's Italian Community"
John Buffo, Pittsburg Historical Society
"Pittsburg, CA: The Transformation of a Sicilian Fishing Village"
Kimber Quinney, California State University San Marcos
"Tracing the History of Italians in San Diego"
Jennifer Lagier, Hartnell College
"Presentation of sample CIAP Web site"
(cable for Internet connection, video projector and screen)
Italian American Heritage: Preservation and Advocacy
Chair: Dominic Candeloro, AIHA Executive Director
Frank de Santis, Order of Sons of Italy
"Sons of Italy Lodges: Culture/Language Preservation and Social Justice Advocacy"
Joseph M. Conforti, SUNY, Old Westbury
"The Future of the Past"
Eugenio Frongia, California State University Chico
"Memory and Anticipation: End-0f-the-Millennium Letters to my Grandchildren"
Italian/American "Stories": Different Perspectives
Chair: Alessandra Senzani, Florida Atlantic University
Stefania Lucamante, Catholic University of America
"Oral Narratives and the Written Word: Melania Mazzucco's Vita"
Anthony Julian Tamburri, Florida Atlantic University
"Frank Sinatra and Notions of 'Tolerance': The House I Live In"
Joseph Sciorra, John Calandra Institute, Queens College, CUNY
"Locating Memory: Longing, Place, and Autobiography in Vincenzo Ancona's Sicilian Poetry"
Performing Style: Memory and Meaning in the Music of 20th-Century Italian Americans
Chair: Christine Zinni, State University of New York at Buffalo
Frank A. Salamone, Iona College, NY
"Italian Jazz"
(CD player)
Raya Then, Independent Lecturer
"Italian Americans and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra"
(DVD player)
Christine Zinni, State University of New York at Buffalo
"An Accordion Story: Crosscurrents of Music in Western New York State"
(DVD player)
Readings from Edward Albert Maruggi's Italian Heart, American Soul: An Anthology
Chair: Edward Albert Maruggi, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York (Emeritus)
Angela Danzi
Louisa Calio
Salvatore LaGumina
Friday, November 4
2:45 - 3:00 p.m.
Doubletree
Coffee break
Friday, November 4
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Doubletree
Italians of California
Chair: Paola Sensi-Isolani, St. Mary's College of California
Mary Lucido Budris, Monterey Peninsula College
"'The Silver Harvest': An Oral History of the Italian Americans Who Fished for Sardines in the Monterey Bay"
Marilyn Longinotti Geary, Independent Oral Historian, San Francisco
"Marin County Oral Histories: Italian Americans Voice the Past "
(LCD dataprojector, including amplification + CD player)
Ernesto R. Milani, Ecoistituto della valle del Ticino, Cuggiono, Italy
"Il Corriere del Pomeriggio of San Rafael, Marin County, California"
Edward Maruggi, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York (Emeritus)
"Italian American Contributors to the California Wine Industry"
Orality and Orature in Italian and Italian American Experiences
Chair: Franco Mulas, Università di Sassari
Louisa Calio, Writer
"Artistic Sources of My Work: Memory, Murmurings-Submerged Oralities, Spirit Encounters and Other Ways of Knowing"
Rob Marchesani, Psychoanalist, New York
"Psychoanalytic Sources and the Production of a Written Text"
Franco Mulas and Maria Paola Malva, Università di Sassari
"The Power of Storytelling in the Growth of Female Characters"
Museums and the Depiction of Italian American Identity
Chair: A. W. Cafarelli
Samuel J. Patti, Pittsburgh
"Bequeathing Italian American Heritage: Small Businesses and the Preservation of Culture"
A. W. Cafarelli
"Archiving History: Museums and the Representation of Culture"
Nicolas P. Ciotola, Western Pennsylvania Historical Society
"Material Culture, Oral Culture: Selection and Interpretation of Museum Artifacts"
(LCD dataprojector)
Food Preparation, Presentation, and Representation
Chair: Giovanna P. Del Negro, Texas A&M University
John Allan Cicala, Mount Saint Mary College
"Changing Preparation Styles of an Immigrant Sicilian Ceremonial Dish"
(LCD dataprojector)
Michael Di Virgilio, Independent Scholar
"The Performance of the Alms-Seeking Ritual of Sant'Antonio Abate in 1920s in Western Pennsylvania"
Maria Teresa Fiumerodo, University of California Los Angeles
"Made in Italy: Representing Italian Identity in the Commercialization of Foodways" (LCD projector)
A Poetry Reading
Chair: Rachel Guido deVries
Peter Covino Rachel Guido deVries
Sandra Gilbert
George Guida
Donna Masini
Vittoria Repetto Robert Viscusi
Friday, November 4
5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
St. Alban's Church
Music & Dance Workshop: Alessandra Belloni: "Rhythm is the Cure"
Friday, November 4
8:00 p.m.
UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Westwood
Musicàntica in Concert
Friday, November 4
9:45 - 10:30 p.m.
Doubletree
An Evening with the Dark Mother
(Performances and Readings)
Moderator: Louisa Calio
Louisa Calio
Readings from "She Is Everywhere. An Anthology in Womanist/Feminist Spirituality"
Chickie Farella
"Mex-Italo Love: A Letter to Pablo from Mother Maria" (a performance piece)
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
"Dark Wheat and Red Poppies: An Essay on How We Know We Know"
Discussion
Saturday, November 5
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
UCLA
Breakfast
Saturday, November 5
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
UCLA
Italians and Italian Americans: Perceptions and Misperceptions
Chair: Steven J. Belluscio, Borough of Manhattan Community/CUNY
Anthony D. Cavaluzzi, Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, New York
"The Second Immigration: Italian Intellectuals in 20th Century America"
Salvatore LaGumina, Nassau Community College (Emeritus)
"Earthquake in Messina: Impact on American-Italian Interaction"
Laura E. Ruberto, Vista Community College, Berkeley
"The Return of the Zio d'America" (VCR NTCS and cassette player)
Blending Genres: Methodological Explorations in Working with Memory
Chair and Respondent: Teresa Barnett, UCLA Oral History Program
Edvige Giunta, New Jersey City University
"Finding Dorotea: A Memoir of Sicilian Women"
Nancy C. Carnevale, Montclair State University
"My Paesani, Myself: A Self-Reflexive Approach to the Oral Narratives of Italian Immigrant Women"
Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori, University of Pittsburgh
"Speaking (in) Memory"
Italian Americana Presents Its Authors (Reading)
Co-Chairs: Carol Bonomo Albright and John Paul Russo
Ned Balbo
Rita Ciresi
Paola Corso
John Paul Russo
Stefano Luconi
Fascism: Propaganda and Responses outside Italy
Chair: Salvatore Salerno, Independent Scholar
David Aliano, CUNY Graduate Center
"The Contention of Identity: Italian Fascist Propaganda Initiatives in Latin America and the Anti-Fascist Response, 1922-1945"
Marcella Bencivenni, Hostos Community College
"Allegories of Anti-Fascism: The Cartoons of Fort Velona"
(overhead projector)
Bill Issel, San Francisco State University
"'Still Potentially Dangerous in Some Quarters': Sylvester Andriano, Catholic Action, and Un-American Activities in California"
Language and Cultural Identities
Chair: Edward Tuttle, University of California Los Angeles
Edgar Radtke, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
"Remembering the Past to Save One's Identity: Language and Identity Attitudes of Northern Italian Emigrants in the Rio Grande Do Sul State (Brazil)"
(cassette player, CD, overhead projector)
Marilyn Anania, Millikan High School, Long Beach
"Italian/English Bilingualism: Did It Ever Exist?"
Italian/American Cinema: Formal Re-presentations
Chair: Stefania Lucamante, Catholic University of America
Jacqui May, Florida Atlantic University
"Listening to Cinema: Music in the Films of Martin Scorsese"
(VCR and TV)
Chiara Mazzucchelli, Florida Atlantic University
"Peasant or Dandy: A Foucaldian Reading of Michael Cimino's The Sicilian"
Alessandra Senzani, Florida Atlantic University
"Storytelling as a Laughing Matter? Scorsese's Expressionist Humor"
Saturday, November 5
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
UCLA
Coffee break
Saturday, November 5
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
UCLA
Italian American-ness in Literature: From Individual Authors to Anthologies
Chair: Teresa Fiore, California State University Long Beach
Steven J. Belluscio, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY "Garibaldi La Polla's The Fire in the Flesh: Desire and Italian-American Art"
Martino Marazzi, Università Statale di Milano
"Forgotten Atlantis: Italian American Literature from the Little Italies, 1880-1920"
Francesco Durante, Corriere del Mezzogiorno
"Nation and Ethnos: What's Italian in Italian American Literature?"
Generational and Cultural Crossing: From Oral History to Memoir
Chair and Respondent: Edvige Giunta
Rosette Capotorto
"We'll See If She'll Talk"
Peter Covino, University of Utah
"He Dyes His Hair You Know"
Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Purchase College, SUNY
"Assignment 13: Compare and Contrast Two of Your Relatives"
Traditional Music and Dance in Contemporary Diasporas
Chair: Roberto Catalano, Musician (Musicàntica)
Natalie Marrone, Western Michigan University
"Translation and Transmutation: The Salentine Pizzica in Postmodernist Choreography"
(VCR NTSC)
Mary Ciuffitelli, Malia: A Collective of Italian American Women
"A Familiar Voice I Never Heard: Discovering and Promoting Pizzica in the US"
(LCD videoprojector)
Peter Dorato, University of New Mexico (Emeritus)
"The Neapolitan Song: An Italian Tradition and its Impact in the US"
(CD player and overhead projector)
Do the Films We Watch, Watch Us? Hollywood and Italian American Culture
Chair: Josephine Gattuso Hendin, New York University
Dawn Esposito, St. John's University
"Looking toward Home: Visions of Italy in the American Cinema"
Elizabeth Messina, Fordham University
"Stereotypes and Self Image: Italian Americans in Popular Culture"
Josephine Gattuso Hendin, New York University
"The Virgin Mary at the Movies: Religion and Italian American Film" (cassette player and DVD player)
What Is Italian American Poetry? (Roundtable)
Chair: George Guida
Sandra Gilbert
Mary Jo Bona
Donna Masini Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Christopher Arigo
Italian American Identity between Construction and Negotiation
Chair: Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College CUNY (Emeritus)
Anna Ferro, Università di Milano-Bicocca
"Cultural Intersections and Intermittent Ethnicities: Portrait of a Group of Young Italian Americans in Boston"
Lawrence Baldassaro, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Oral History of Italian Americans in Major League Baseball"
James Periconi, Independent Scholar
"Lorenzo Da Ponte: Leader of the Italian Colony in New York and Prototypical Italian American"
Saturday, November 5
12:15 - 1:00 p.m.
UCLA
Lunch
Saturday, November 5
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
UCLA
Plenary session: "Rediscovering Columbus: Recent Research and the Repertorium Colombianum," Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA
Commemoration of Phillip Cannistraro
Saturday, November 5
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
UCLA
Branching out into the Community: Grass Roots and Genealogical Resources for Scholars of Italian America
Chair and Respondent: Vincenza Scarpaci, University of Oregon (Courtesy Faculty)
Dominic Candeloro, AIHA Executive Director
"Italians in Chicago Ad Infinitum: A Quarter Century of Public History"
Paul Paolicelli, WKBW TV Journalist and Author
"The Role of the Journalist in Recording Oral History and Cultural Perceptions"
Barbara DiNucci Hendrickson, Ohlone College, California (Emerita)
"DiNucci-Vellani: A Family History in Word and Image: A Resource for Scholars"
(LCD)
Alisa Zahller, Colorado Historical Society
"Reconstructing Italy in Colorado: Life Stories to Learn from" (cassette tape player and LCD projector)
Oral History Research: Methodologies and Applications
Chair: Clarissa Clò, San Diego State University
Alessandro Trojani, Università di Firenze
"Italians in the Gold Rush and Beyond Project"
Marisa S. Trubiano, Montclair State University
"Homeward Bound: Stories from the Italians of Montclair Oral History Project" LCD dataprojector (or overhead as an alternative)
Clarissa Clò, San Diego State University
"Experimental Ethnography and Digital Archives in 'America's Finest City': A Pedagogical Proposal for the Study of San Diego's Italian History and Communities" (LCD dataprojector and Internet connection)
Stories from the Ancestors, Past and Present (Reading)
Chair: Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Director, SUNY Binghamton
Mary Bucci Bush
Diane di Prima
Maria Mazziotti Gillan Rachel Guido deVries
The War Experience
Chair: Lawrence Di Stasi, AIHA/WRC Curator/Newsletter Editor
Stefano Luconi, Università di Padova e Università di Pisa
"Oral Histories of Italian Americans in the Great Depression: The Politics and Economics of the Crisis"
Nancy Schiesari, University of Texas at Austin
"Behind Enemy Lines: the OSS and the Italian Resistance in World War II"
(VCR NTSC)
Franco Alduino, Anne Arundel Community College
"Enrico Fardella: A Sicilian General in the Union Army"
Bénédicte Deschamps, Université Paris 7
"Turncoat on the Airwave: Lisa Sergio from Radio Roma to Antifascism (1932-1945) "
Truth, Dare, Consequences, Promise or Repeat? (A Reading-Performance)
Chair: B. Amore, Visual Artist
Fred Gardaphe, SUNY, Stony Brook
"'Moustache Pete is Dead, Evviva Baffo Pietro!' Italian American Oral Tradition Preserved in Print"
Jim Periconi, Independent Scholar
"The Music of Storytelling"
(CD player)
Mary Jo Bona, SUNY, Stony Brook
From "I Stop Waiting for You"
B. Amore, Visual Artist
"A Twice Told Tale – Oral Histories and Art from the Tenement Museum and Ellis Island, NY "
(Slide projector + screen)
Musical Crossings
Chair: Francesco Spagnolo, University of California Santa Cruz
Giovanna P. Del Negro, Texas A&M University
"'The Aphrodite of the Accordion': The Music and Stand-up Comedy of Judy Tenuta"
(VIDEO NTSC)
John Gennari, University of Vermont "Tenor Madness: Joe Lovano's Viva Caruso and the Italian Jazz Diaspora"
(CD player)
Francesco Spagnolo, University of California Santa Cruz
"Sephardic Songlines: Psalm 29, Italians and Jews in America" (CD player, LDC dataprojector, Internet connection, audio via stereo mini pin)
Saturday, November 5
3:30 - 3:45 p.m.
UCLA
Coffee break
Saturday, November 5
3:45 - 5:15 p.m.
UCLA
Nurturing Italianità: Nourishing Italian American Identity
Chair: Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger, SUNY Stony Brook
Respondent: Mary Jo Bona, SUNY Stony Brook
Michele Fazio, SUNY Stony Brook
"Race and Storytelling in Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Story of Luca Brasi"
Jennifer-Ann DiGregorio Kightlinger, SUNY Stony Brook
"Tomato Leaves and Dandelions: Threads of Italianità in Carole Maso's Ghost Dance"
Yvonne Mattevi, CUNY Graduate Center
"The Identity of Language"
Antonietta Gliubizzi, SUNY Stony Brook "Storytelling and Religion in Tony Ardizzone's In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu and in Mario Puzo's The Godfather"
The Italian American Way of Death (Open Mike)
(Oral participation invited from the audience regarding their remembrances of wakes, funerals, etc.)
Chair: Carol Bonomo Albright, University of Rhode Island
Commentator: John Paul Russo, University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida
Italians in Hollywood, Theatre and Radio
Chair: Emelise Aleandri, Producer and Artist
Joyce C. Polistena, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
"Frank Capra's (Italian) American Dream: Resisting Regionalism and Realism"
(lectern or half-lectern; LCD dataprojector with extra speakers)
Kirby Pringle, California State University Northridge
"Gino Corrado: Waiting on Hollywood"
Emelise Aleandri, Producer and Artist
"Italian American Radio Programs of the '30s and '40s"
From Oral Sources to Written and Visual Resources
Chair: Salvatore LaGumina, Nassau Community College (Emeritus)
Rocco Caporale, St. John's University, New York (Emeritus)
"The Italian American Academician"
Robert Viscusi, The Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College, CUNY
"The Oral History of Writing in a Basement in the Village"
Joan Saverino, Historical Society of PA
"Mapping Memories in Stone: Italians and the Transformation of a Philadelphia Landscape"
(slide projector)
Our African Black Mother and a Just, Not Violent, World
Chair: Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, California Institute of Integral Studies
Chickie Farella, Performance Artist and Independent Scholar
"Brutalization of the Human Race: Submerged Oralities, Assaults, Awakenings, Memory Jogs, and Miracles"
Naomi Lombardi Plager, Clinical Psychologist
"Dancing in the Underworld: The Quest for Wholeness (Stories, Recipes, and Legacies Handed Down to the Daughters)"
(LCD for Powerpoint slide show)
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, California Institute of Integral Studies
"The Future Has an Ancient Heart. Legacy of African Migration Paths in Sardinia, Sicily, and Tuscany "
Bordighera Press Authors (Reading)
Chair: Anthony Julian Tamburri, Florida Atlantic University
Giuseppe Ricapito, Louisiana State University
From Florentine Streets and Other Poems (1997)
Gerry LaFemina, Frostburg State University
From The Parakeets of Brooklyn (2005)
Fred Misurella, East Stroudsburg University
From Lies to Live By (2005)
Jennifer Lagier, Hartnell College
From Second-class Citizen (2000)
Italian Translation of Work by Italian American Poets
Chair: Maria Elisa Ciavarelli, Rowan University
Reading in Italian: Maria Elisa Ciavarelli
Reading in English: Albert Tacconelli
Saturday, November 5
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
St. Alban's Church
Dance & Music Workshop: "Traditional Dance Workshop: Northern & Central Italy, and Sardinia" with Marie DiCocco & Celest DiPietropaolo
Saturday, November 5 8:00 p.m.
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Closing dinner reception
Sunday, November 6 8:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Doubletree
Cultural & Historic Tour: "Chi Siamo: Italians of Los Angeles," with Prof. Gloria Ricci Lothrop, (includes lunch). Departure from Doubletree Hotel at 8:30 a.m. sharp, LAX airport drop-off at approx. 1:00 p.m.; return to Doubletree by 1:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 6 4:00 p.m.
Remo Music Center 7308 Coldwater Canyon Ave.
N. Hollywood, CA 91605
(818) 982-0461 $12.00 (at the door, no prepayment required)
Closing Concert: Tarantelle e canti d'amore (Tarantelle and love songs), with Remo artist and tambourine virtuosa Alessandra Belloni and Renaissance guitar (chitarra battente) virtuoso and composer John La Barbera. They are co-founders of the New York-based Italian music and theatre company I Giullari di Piazza and co-recipients of the first IOHI Award, 2005. Performance includes Belloni and women dancers performing Southern Italian ritual dances such as the tammorriata (a Campanian dance in honor of the Black Madonna), and the pizzica tarantata, the Apulian tarantella as ritual trance dance, once used to heal the mythic spider's bite.
