The enormous successes of Italians in the American Labor Movement during it's most important and formative years never seem to get the credit deserved.

It seems unfortunate that the results of this Symposium will not be available on the Internet.The Titles of the Eight Sessions follow, with a list of the Prominent Participants, then for those who may want to attend, the detailed Program.
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Symposium: Italian Labor-American Unions:
FROM CONFLICTS TO RECONCILIATION TO LEADERSHIP
When: October 31-November 2, 2003

Center for Italian Studies in collaboration with Stony Brook University's Office
of the Provost, the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education, the
Center for Study of Working Class Life, and the History Department.
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Session I  -  Film Screening: VENDETTA:
Introduction and Discussion with Richard Gambino, author of the book, Vendetta.
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Session II The Unsung Heroes of the Italian American Labor Movement from A to Z
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Session III -
(A) Italian Immigrants Promote Cause of Labor: Long Island Case Studies
(B)With the Body in the United States, but with the Heart and Mind in Italy:
the Inconsistencies of  the Italian American Labor Movement in the Interwar Years
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Session IV, Radicalism and the Shaping of Ethnic Identity:
Italian American Anti-Falangist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
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Session V -From Anarchism to Mainstream and Labor Journalism
F.D. Roosevelt and the Ethnic Labor; An Italian Case Study:Luigi Antonini
Egidio Clemente and La Parola del Popolo
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Session VI - US-Italian Trade Unions: Globalization and Other Common Interests Giustizia, The Official Italian Language Organ of the ILGWU
A New Kind of Unionism? Italian CISL, ICFTU and Intern'l Relations of Labor
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Session VII  - Italian Women Fight Back:
Gender and Transnational Labor Radicalism in the US
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Session VIII  "Tony Mazzocchi's Legacy for the U.S. Working Class"
"Reflections on Tony Mazzocchi and the Labor Party
"Tony Mazzocchi's Journey from Italian-American Family to American Labor Leader"
"Tony Mazzocchi and Union Democracy: The OCAW in the 1960s"
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Prominent Participants:
Richard Gambino, author of the book, Vendetta;
Mario B. Mignone, Director, Center for Italian Studies,  Stony Brook University;
Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, New York State Legislature;
Guglielmo Epifani, Secretary General,  CGIL;
Carmelo Cedrone, UIL Director, International Department;
Rudolph J. Vecoli, Director, IHRC, University of Minnesota;
Sal LaGumina, Nassau County Community College;
Stefano Luconi, University of Florence;
Giuseppe Massara, University of Rome;
Fraser M. Ottanelli, University of South Florida;
Martino Marazzi, University of Milan;
Ludovico Michele Caminita, Journalist, Writer, and Political Activist;
Guido Tintori, University of Milan;
Paolo Giordano, Loyola University, Chicago;
Luigi Angeletti, Unione Italiana del Lavoro;
Bénédicte Deschamps, Université Paris;
Andrea Ciampani, LUMSA, University of Rome;
Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli, New York State Legislature;
Savino Pezzotta, Secretary General CISL;
Donna Gabaccia, University of Pittsburgh;
Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto;
Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College;
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Thanks to H-ITAM. Dominic Candeloro, Editor
 

Symposium: Italian Labor-American Unions:
From Conflicts  to Reconciliation to Leadership

WHEN: October 31-November 2, 2003

Center for Italian Studies  in collaboration with Stony Brook University's Office
of the Provost, the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education, the
Center for Study of Working Class Life, and the History Department.

Free and Open to the Public except for Optional Lunch, Saturday,

November 1, 2003 / See Luncheon Note Below
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Friday, October 31, 2003
Welcoming Remarks - 7:00 p.m.
Student Activity Center Auditorium, Stony Brook University
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Session I  -  7:15 p.m.
Film Screening: VENDETTA:
Introduction and Discussion with Richard Gambino, author of the book, Vendetta.

Saturday, November 1, 2003
Registration and Breakfast Coffee -  8:30-9:30 a.m.
Welcome -  9:30-10 a.m.
Student Activity Center Auditorium, Stony Brook University

Mario B. Mignone, Director, Center for Italian Studies,  Stony Brook University
Robert McGrath, Provost and Executive Vice President, Stony Brook University
Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, New York State Legislature
Richard L. Trumka, National Secretary and Treasurer,  AFL-CIO
Guglielmo Epifani, Secretary General,  CGIL
Carmelo Cedrone, UIL Director, International Department
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Session II  10:00 A.M. - 10:45 A.M.  Keynote Speaker

Rudolph J. Vecoli, Director, Immigration History Research Center,
University of Minnesota
Topic:The Unsung Heroes of the Italian American Labor Movement from A to Z
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Session III - 11:00 A.M. - 12 Noon

Sal LaGumina, Nassau County Community College
Italian Immigrants Promote the Cause of Labor: Long Island Case Studies

Stefano Luconi, University of Florence
With the Body in the United States, but with the Heart and Mind in Italy:
the Inconsistencies of  the Italian American Labor Movement in the Interwar Years
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Optional Lunch  12 Noon - 1:30 P.M.
University Club-Graduate Chemistry Building
Cost per person: $30.00; Advance Reservations Required.
Please call  (631) 632-7444.
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Session IV, 1:45 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Giuseppe Massara, University of Rome La Sapienza
Night Search

Fraser M. Ottanelli, University of South Florida
Radicalism and the Shaping of Ethnic Identity:
Italian American Anti-Falangist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
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Session V - 3:00 P.M. - 4:15 P.M.

Martino Marazzi, University of Milan
Ludovico Michele Caminita, Journalist, Writer, and Political Activist:

From Anarchism to Mainstream and Labor Journalism

Guido Tintori, University of Milan
F.D. Roosevelt and the Ethnic Labor; An Italian Case Study:Luigi Antonini

Paolo Giordano, Loyola University, Chicago

Egidio Clemente and La Parola del Popolo
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Session VI -4:30 P.M.-6:00 P.M.

Luigi Angeletti, Unione Italiana del Lavoro
US-Italian Trade Unions: Globalization and Other Common Interests
Bénédicte Deschamps, Université Paris
Giustizia, The Official Italian Language Organ of the ILGWU
Andrea Ciampani, LUMSA, University of Rome

A New Kind of Unionism? Italian CISL, ICFTU and International Relations of Organized Labor

Sunday, November 2, 2003
Stony Brook Manhattan Site
401 Park Avenue South between 27th and 28th Streets, 2nd floor,
(212) 683-9555
Registration and Welcome Coffee-8:30 A.M.

Eli Seifman, Director, Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education,
Stony Brook University

James Staros, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Stony Brook University
Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli, New York State Legislature
Savino Pezzotta, Secretary General CISL
Ned Landsman, Chairman, History Department, Stony Brook University
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Session VII  -  9:30 - 10:45 A.M.

Panel Discussion: Co-sponsored by SUSB's Department of History

Italian Women Fight Back: Gender and Transnational Labor Radicalism in the US

Chair, Donna Gabaccia, University of Pittsburgh
Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto
Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College
Caroline Waldron Merithew, University of Dayton
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Session VIII  11:00 A.M.- 12:15 P.M.

Panel Discussion:
Co-sponsored by the Center for Study of Working Class Life

"Tony Mazzocchi's Legacy for the U.S. Working Class"
"Reflections on Tony Mazzocchi and the Labor Party
"Tony Mazzocchi's Journey from Italian-American Family to American Labor Leader"
"Tony Mazzocchi and Union Democracy: The OCAW in the 1960s"

Closing Reception hosted by the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO