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Calandra Annual Conference: The Bitter Bread of War
This interdisciplinary conference explores a wide range of topics concerning war from an Italian—broadly understood—perspective. As in the past, the Institute’s conference proposes an inclusive
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Calandra Annual Conference
Translation is a constant presence in the life of migrants, be it in the form of everyday exchanges within multilingual communities or through official contact
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Calandra Annunal Conference: Italy and the Pacific Rim
Critical interpretations of modern Italy’s histories of migration and mobilities are often set within the confines of the Mediterranean basin or along a transatlantic trajectory.
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Calandra’s Annual Conference, Eco Italie: Material Landscapes and Environmental Imaginaries
Calandra’s annual international conference will take place in person at the Institute on Friday, April 29, 2022 and Saturday, April 30, 2022. More information and
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Virtual Conference, Italian Borderlands: Restrictions, Breaches, Encounters
This year’s conference will be entirely virtual. Each weekday from April 5 to April 21, 2021, one presentation or panel will take place at 2pm
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Annual Conference—Italian Borderlands: Restrictions, Breaches, Encounters
Borders can be concrete parameters, and they can also be metaphorical markers. Either way, the border as a political, economic, cultural, and personal site, one
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Annual Conference: Corporeal Restrictions, Embodied Freedoms—Italian Interventions on the Body
The 1935 song “Faccetta Nera,” a paean to the Fascist imperialist enterprise in Africa, addresses the “little black face” that is the anonymous Abyssinian woman,
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Annual Conference: Eye-Centricity and the Visual Cultures of Italy and Its Diaspora
This interdisciplinary conference proposes to explore the visual cultures Italians have created, consumed, and been the subject of from early modernity to the contemporary “post-text”
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The Land of our Return: Diasporic Encounters with Italy
For Virgil’s Aeneas, Italy was “the land of our return” (in Robert Fagles’ 2006 translation), the place his ancestor Dardanus left generations earlier. The Aeneid
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Terre Promesse: Excursions Towards Italian Topographies
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s third annual conference is dedicated to the theme of cultural landscapes. The conference addresses issues concerning placemaking in
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