Modern Italy Seminar

Schedule of Speakers, Fall 2011/Spring 2012

All events take place at 6:30 in the 5^th floor conference room of the Italian Academy unless otherwise indicated.

Oct. 14. Valentina Pagliai

American University

Working title: “Everyday Forms of Racism in Italy”

Nov. 11. Fred Gardaphe

Queens College, CUNY

Working title: “What’ya mean I’m funny? Ball-busting Humor and Italian American Masculinities.”

Dec. 9. Rebecca Bauman

Recent Columbia University PhD

“Representations of Fascism in 1970s Italian Film.”

Feb. 10. Mariagrazia Rossilli,

University of Parma,

“European Gender Policies in Italy”

Mar. 9. Marcella Bencivenni,

Hostos Community College

Working title: “Transatlantic Radical Culture; Italy and the United States, 1890-1940”

Apr. 13. Stanislao Pugliese

Hofstra University

Presentation to focus on Silone or Naples