Columbia University Modern Italian Studies Seminar

2009-2010 Program

All lectures take place at 6:30 pm

in the 5^th floor seminar room

Columbia University

The Italian Academy

for Advanced Studies

1161 Amsterdam Avenue

New York, NY 10027

September 11, 2009

Daniela Del Boca, Università di Torino

“Italian Families on Their Own: Surviving an Inefficient Welfare System”

October 9, 2009

Romy Golan, CUNY Graduate Center

“Eclipses/Mirror-Images: Italian Art in the 1960s”

November 13, 2009

Renato Camurri, Università di Verona

“A Forgotten Generation: The Exile of Italian Intellectuals to United States during the Interwar Years”

December 4, 2009

Federico Finchelstein, New School for Social Research

“Exporting Fascism”

February 12, 2010

David Aliano, College of Mount Saint Vincent

“Between Two Worlds: Negotiating Italian Identity in Argentina during the Interwar Years”

March 12, 2010

Gilles Pecout, Ecole normale superieure de Paris

"Inventing the Mediterranean in 19^th Century Italy: From Gioberti to
Crispi, a Transnational Approach to the National Italian Agenda.”

April 9, 2010

Ernest Ialongo, Hostos Community College, CUNY

"Filippo Tommaso Marinetti:  The Futurist as Fascist, 1929-1944."