Month: January 2016

Migrant Marketplaces: Consuming Italian Ethnic Identities, 1880-1940

Elizabeth Zanoni is Assistant Professor of History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and the 2015/2016 Culinaria Research Project Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at University of Toronto Scarborough. She is interested in the history of international migration, gender, and consumption, and the interdisciplinary fields of food and mobility…Continue Reading Migrant Marketplaces: Consuming Italian Ethnic Identities, 1880-1940

Dancing on the Hyphen, Trying Not to Fall Off: Narrating and Consuming Italian American Identities

[gview file=”https://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/files/2016/02/22112015.pptx” height=”400px” width=”600px” save=”0″] Anthony Julian Tamburri is the Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) and Distinguished Professor of European Languges and Literatures. His research interests lie in literature, cinema, semiotics, interpretation theory, and cultural studies. He has divided his intellectual work evenly between Italian and Italian/American studies,…Continue Reading Dancing on the Hyphen, Trying Not to Fall Off: Narrating and Consuming Italian American Identities

Identity and subjectivity in Italian migrations

[gview file=”https://www.transnationalmodernlanguages.ac.uk/files/2016/01/Venice-Identity-x-video.ppt” height=”400px” width=”600px” save=”0″] Maddalena Tirabassi, Fulbright, is the Director of the Altreitalie Center on Italian Migration, Globus et Locus and editor of the journal Altreitalie. She is vice-president of AEMI (European Migration Institutions); she is in the advisory Board of the MEI (National Italian Museum on Emigration, Foreign Affaire Ministry), and past consultant…Continue Reading Identity and subjectivity in Italian migrations

Migrations of Memories: Visuality and Subjectivity in Historical Perspective

Liliana Ellena is Research Associate at the European University Institute in Fiesole (Italy) as part of the ERC Research Project “Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond“. She has been Research Fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen (Germany) and more recently has taught cultural history and women’s and gender history at…Continue Reading Migrations of Memories: Visuality and Subjectivity in Historical Perspective

Tutto il mondo è paese : researching subjectivities from Italy in Global Historical Perspective

Donna R Gabaccia is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. From 2005-2012 she directed the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.  She is author of many books and articles on transnational gender, class, and labor (From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and Immigrant Life in the United States, Indiana University…Continue Reading Tutto il mondo è paese : researching subjectivities from Italy in Global Historical Perspective

Detours to the Self: How to Run Away from your Subjectivity and Find It at Your Doorstep

Shaul Bassi is associate professor of English language and literature. He graduated from the University of Venice, studied at Berkeley and Liverpool, and earned his Ph.D. from the Universities of Pisa and Florence. He was assistant professor of English at Ca’Foscari (2000-2007). His research, teaching and publications are divided between Shakespeare, postcolonial theory and literature…Continue Reading Detours to the Self: How to Run Away from your Subjectivity and Find It at Your Doorstep

Workshop on mobility and human subjectivities – Venice

  Barbara Spadaro (TML Team) Transforming methodologies and disciplinary frameworks. A workshop on mobility and human subjectivities Summer School Transnational Italian Studies – Venice, 20-21 September 2015 This workshop has brought together scholars whose innovative work on ideas of mobility has challenged disciplinary boundaries and methodological frameworks, opening new and exciting ways of furthering the…Continue Reading Workshop on mobility and human subjectivities – Venice

Alberto Di Lorenzo

In this interview Alberto Di Lorenzo speaks about his experiences in moving between Ethiopia, Eritrea and Italy. He was born in 1954 and attended the Scuole italiane in Addis Ababa until 1968, after which he attended the liceo scientifico in Asmara, boarding at the Collegio La Salle of the Fratelli Cristiani. Finishing his schooling in…Continue Reading Alberto Di Lorenzo

Alberto Varnero

  In this recording, Alberto Varnero talks about his experience of working in the construction industry in Ethiopia from the late 1960s and about the world of work in Ethiopia as it has been lived by many members of the Italian community in the decades since the end of the Second World War. The Ing….Continue Reading Alberto Varnero

Linguistic and Cultural Interchange Workshop – Warwick

Naomi Wells (TML Team) Linguistic and Cultural Interchange: Policies and Practices, University of Warwick, February 2015 Beginning a dialogue around sites of linguistic and cultural exchange, the first TML workshop brought together local and international policy-makers, practitioners and experts to share their experiences from both their personal and professional practices.   Introduction by Loredana Polezzi…Continue Reading Linguistic and Cultural Interchange Workshop – Warwick