Presentation: New Italian Migrations to the United States
June 15, 2018, at 15:00
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università di Trieste
Via Lazzaretto Vecchio n. 8, room 6, 2nd floor
Free and Open to the Public
in collaboration with
Associazione Italo Americana FVG / American Corner Trieste
in collaboration with
Associazione Italo Americana FVG / American Corner Trieste
Speakers:
JOSEPH SCIORRA, Director for Academic and Cultural Programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (New York).
Author of "Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City" (University of Tennessee Press, 2015), which received the Italian American Studies Association 2016 book awards. Co-editor of "Neapolitan Postcards: The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), "Reframing Italian America: Historical Photographs and Immigrant Representations" (John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2015), and "Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora" (University of Mississippi Press, 2014
LAURA E. RUBERTO, Professor of Humanities, Berkeley City College (Berkeley, CA)
Teaches film studies courses and interdisciplinary liberal arts courses that focus on cultural studies, material culture, aesthetics, and media.
Her research includes work on material culture, Italian American culture, Italian film, and cultural theories of transnational migration. She is the author of "Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women’s Work in Italy and the U.S. (Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2007/2010) and the co-editor of "Italian Americans and Television", special issue of Italian American Review, Spring, Volume 6, Number 2, 2016.