PrintThe Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
The Herbert H.Lehman Center for American History
Interuniversity Center for European-American History and Politics (CISPEA)
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies
The University Seminar on the City, Columbia University
jointly sponsor the
international conference
A WORLD ON THE MOVE:
Emigration and Immigration
In Europe and the Americas
Thursday- Saturday, April 23-25, 2009
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies
At Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, N.Y. 10027
For information contact:
www.columbia.edu/cu/lehmancenter
Pre-registration suggested (seating is limited):
THURSDAY APRIL 23, 2009
2:00 pm Welcome
Barbara Faedda, Acting Director, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies
Opening Remarks
Michael T. Ryan, Columbia University
Session I: Two Aspects of Jewish Migration
2:15-3:45 pm
Chair: Owen Gutfreund, Barnard College, Columbia University
Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University: Jewish Immigrants, Financial Failure and the Reshaping of American Capitalism, 1914-1930
Hasia Diner, New York University: “Our Newest Immigrants”: Holocaust Survivors and the Work of American Jewry on Their Behalf
Discussion
4:00-5:30 pm Plenary session
Speaker: Jacques Toubon
Chair of the Advisory Committee of the National Center for the History of the Immigration, Paris; Member of the European Parliament; Former Minister for Culture and Justice in France
European Immigration Policies Through the Lens of History
5:45-7:00 pm Public Reception at the Italian Academy
FRIDAY APRIL 24, 2009
Breakfast 8:30-9:00 am
Session II: Perspectives on Italian Immigration
9:00-10:30
Chair: Maurizio Vaudagna, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Donna Gabaccia, University of Minnesota: Immigrants, Neighborhoods, and Urban Tourism in New York: The Case of Little Italy
Simone Cinotto, “Piero Bairati” Center in European-American Studies and University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy: One Third of a Nation: Public Housing and Cultural Pluralism in Italian Harlem, 1934-1950
Discussion
Session III: The Future of Immigration in the Age of Globalization
The Immigrant Republic in the 20th Century
10:45-12:45
Chair: Philip Kasinitz, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University: Empire City: The Immigrant Role in Defining New York
Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, New York University: Global Vertigo and the End of Migration
Claudio Remeseira, Columbia University: Hispanic New York and the Redefinition of a Hemispheric Identity
12:45-1:45 Lunch break
Session IV: The Economic View: Laborers and Entrepreneurs
1:45-3:30 pm
Chair: Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
Nancy Green, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France: Sweatshops and Elite Migrants: Two Examples Beyond the Industrial/Postindustrial Divide
Jan Rath, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The City and Immigrant Enterpreneurship
Discussion
3:30-3:45 Break
Session V: Immigration and Exclusion
3:45-5:45
Chair: Adam McKeown, Columbia University
John Foot, University College of London: Foreign immigrants in Milan: representations, exclusions, memories and politics
Mae Ngai, Columbia University: Chinese exclusion and the racialized immigrant interpreter
Barbara Faedda, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies: Emerging Trends: Immigration Law and Lawyers in Italy
Discussion
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2009
Breakfast 8:30-9:00 am
Session VI: The View from the Americas
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Chair: Jaime Rodriguez, St. John’s University
Jose Moya, Barnard College, Columbia University: European Immigration and Socioeconomic Development in the Americas
Claudio W. Lomnitz, Columbia University: US-Mexico Border and the Origin of “the Mexican race”, c. 1900
Discussion
10:30-10:45 break
VII. Roundtable for All Particpants: The Future of Immigration in the Age of Globalization
10:45-12:00
Moderator: Lisa Keller, Purchase College, SUNY
Closing Comments: Kenneth T. Jackson
Saturday Afternoon
Bus Tour
1:30-8:00 pm
Harlem, Flushing, Steinway and Astoria
Visit to the Panorama of NYC
Reservations required; seating limited