This year’s annual, two-day conference seeks to build on the growing literature dealing with language and migration as it concerns Italy and the diaspora. Click…

Click here to view the program flyer as a PDF (program is subject to change). Click here to view the conference poster as a PDF.…

The Italian family has been a quintessential subject for scholarly research and creative work in Italy and among various diasporic communities, with matters relating to…

This interdisciplinary conference focuses on material culture in the contexts of Italy, its colonies, and its diasporic communities. Material culture, broadly defined, includes all objects…

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,…

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”…

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…

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.…

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…

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…