The Italian American Think Tank
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“Italian Americans of a new generation are discovering their homeland, and they could not ask for a better guide than Mark Rotella.” — Gay Talese…
Jim Burgwyn, West Chester University This paper will discuss Italy’s military counterinsurgency program to counter the Yugoslav Partisan uprising during the Italian occupation of the country…
Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto This talk will consider how two intertwined international movements helped to shape the lives of two defiant but starkly different…
Michael Miller Topp, University of Texas at El Paso Although the question of their guilt or innocence is still unresolved over 75 years after Nicola…
Peter Carravetta, Queens College This paper addresses the shaping of Italian national political debate from the first defeat of the Italian colonial venture in Africa…
Clarissa Clò, University of California in San Diego Clarissa Clò will examine Italian American and African American relations in New York during the 1930s from…
Laura Biagi, New York University In the 1960s and 1970s, the folk revival movement in Italy involved literature, cinema, music, and dance. It was a…
Dominique Padurano, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Using photographs, advertisements, and other texts from popular culture sources, Ph.D. candidate Dominique Padurano will trace the ways in which…
Anthony Julian Tamburri, Florida Atlantic University The past thirty years, especially, constitute a fertile period of any sort of cultural, critical discourse with the advent…
Beverly Gage, Yale University On September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn cart exploded at the corner of Wall and Broad streets in New York, killing 39…
Eugenia Paulicelli, Queens College Fascism in 1930s Italy dominated more than just politics – it spilled over into modes of dress. Mussolini’s regime choreographed people’s…
Gil Fagiani fell in love with East Harlem in the 60s. As a young, idealistic, activist his passions led him to work in an antipoverty…