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The
range of presentations at the Conference will be broad in both timeframe and
fields. There will be the expected sessions on Dante, Renaissance, Romanticism
and Verismo, 20th-century poetry and cinema,
linguistics and translation, as well as a session on The Renaissance City.
Particularly
interesting sessions will also be devoted to Italian-Canadian studies that will
touch upon the literary and cinematographic production of Italian-Canadian
authors and the history of the Italian community in
Of great importance for the Italian-Canadian community will also
be the roundtable on teaching Italian in
There will also be three Multidisciplinary sessions, with
participation of the Association of Canadian Jewish Studies and the Canadian
Association of Hispanists. These sessions will
explore and discuss - the experience of Italian,
Hispanic and Jewish immigrants in the city.
The first two afternoon sessions will examine Jewish, Hispanic and Italian
communities in Canadian cities, while the third - evening - session will delve
on urban immigration issues in
The first of these sessions, will include Steven
Hayward, author of "The Secret Mizvah of Lucio
Burke", about the Italian and Jewish communities in
The early afternoon session will feature Stanislao Carbone (director of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western
Canada), who will talk about the encounter between Jews and Italians in the history
of the city of
The last session of the day will be about urban
immigration. Professor Shaul Bassi,
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A FESTIVAL OF ITALIAN KNOWLEDGE
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The 2006 Spring conference of the Canadian Society for Italian
Studies - founded in 1972 and with a current membership of about 150 - will
take place May 27 to 29 at
According to the
general organizers, the Congress will be the largest ever among these annual
meetings sponsored by the Government of Canada. About 8,000 people are expected
to participate in meetings of some 80 academic societies, including the
Canadian Society for Italian Studies, devoted to studying the Italian and
Italian-Canadian languages, literatures, histories and cultures. The conference
on Italian Studies will feature over 70 presentations.
There will be
several scholars of history, literature, and architecture from
The range of
presentations will be broad in both timeframe and fields. There will be the
expected sessions on Dante, Renaissance, Romanticism and Verismo,
20th-century poetry and cinema, linguistics and translation, as well as a
session on The Renaissance City, organized jointly with the Canadian Society
for Renaissance Studies and sponsored by the Canadian Federation for the
Humanities and Social Sciences. Particularly interesting sessions will also be
devoted to Italian-Canadian studies that will touch upon the literary and
cinematographic production of Italian-Canadian authors and the history of the
Italian community in
Saturday, May 27,
will see an evening session devoted to the cultural contribution of the Italian
community in Toronto and sponsored by the Elia Chair of York University, with
the participation of Italian-Canadian movie directors, artists and writers such
as Jerry Ciccoritti, Antonio D'Alfonso,
Alessandra Piccione, Sergio Navaretta, Sara Angelucci, Carlo Cesta, and
Carmelo Arnoldin.
One of the main
general sessions of the conference, made possible by funding from the Canadian
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, will be held in English by
Professor Matteo Sanfilippo from Rome on Images of
Canadian Cities in Italy: Then and Now, Sunday, May 28, at 11 am.
Of great
importance for the Italian-Canadian community will also be the roundtable on
teaching Italian in Canada's high schools and universities, to be held on the
Sunday afternoon, with teachers from various Ontario universities, chaired by
Professor Ernesto Virgulti from Brock University (St.
Catharines), with the principal of Dante Academy
(Toronto), Angela Nadin Piscitelli.
A special event,
sponsored by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences,
the Canadian International Development Agency, and Istituto
Italiano di Cultura of
The first two
afternoon sessions will examine Jewish, Hispanic and Italian communities in
Canadian cities, while the third - evening - session will delve on urban
immigration issues in
The first of
these sessions, devoted to the literature on the immigrant experience, will
include an intervention by Steven Hayward, from
The early
afternoon session on Canadian museums will feature Dr. Mauro Peressini of the Ottawa Museum of Civilizations, who three
years ago was the curator of the exhibition Presenza:
A New Look at Italian-Canadian Culture, as well as Stanislao
Carbone (director of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western
Canada), who will talk about the encounter between Jews and Italians in the
history of the city of Winnipeg. They will be followed by a discussion on
language and identity with the participation of sociologist Leo Davids,
The last session
of the day will be about urban immigration. Professor Shaul
Bassi, from Venice's Ca' Foscari
University, will talk on the Jewish Ghetto of Venice; Professor Julio Torres-Recinos, from the University of Saskatchewan, on
immigration from Central America; and historian of Canada Luigi Bruti-Liberati, from the State University of Milan, on
immigration to Milan and the situation of Chinese children in the elementary
schools of that city. This last session of the conference will close with
Professor Matteo Sanfilippo (
The full program
can be consulted on the websites of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies
(CSIS) (www.uwo.ca/modlang/italian/CSIS/index.htm) and of the Canadian
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (www.fedcan.ca/congress2006).
Further information can be obtained from :
CSIS President
Olga Zorzi Pugliese
(pugliese@chass.utoronto.ca 416 585-4589) or
Vice President
Dr. Enrico Vicentini (enrivice@yahoo.com 416
461-2644).
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