[B900] Notizie/E - Convegni

Sun Sep 12 12:19:13 CEST 2004

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    BOLLETTINO '900 - Notizie / E, agosto 2004

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SOMMARIO:

- University of Wollongong (Australia)
   "Minorities and Cultural Assertions
   Literary and Social Diasporas"
   Wollongong, 8-10 October 2004.
- Universite Paris X - Nanterre
   "Giornata di studio su Italo Calvino"
   Nanterre, 13 novembre 2004.

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The School of English Literatures, Philosophy & Languages
in The Faculty of Arts
at the University of Wollongong (Australia)
and the Centre for Canadian-Australian Studies
are hosting an international conference on

"Minorities and Cultural Assertions
Literary and Social Diasporas"

Wollongong, 8-10 October 2004

The conference will focus on the literary aspects of
the Italian diaspora with keynote addresses by Professor
Pasquino Crupi (Universita' per Stranieri "Dante
Alighieri", Reggio Calabria, Italy) and Professor
Joseph Pivato (Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada).

Provisional Conference Programme:

Friday 8 October
Functions Center

9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:00 Opening:
His Excellency Gaston Barban,
High Commissioner for Canada
10:00-11:00 Keynote address 1
Chair:
Professor Joseph Pivato (Athabasca University)
*Cosmic Ear: Calabrian Writers in Canada*
11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:30-13:00 Session 1 - Minorities in the Italian context
Chair:
Mr Gianfranco Cresciani (Italian Australian historian)
*A clash of civilizations? The Slovene and Italian
minorities and the problem of Trieste from Rapallo
to Bonegilla*
Dr Franco Manai (University of Auckland)
*Italian Writers in Exile during the fascist Era:
the Case of Emilio Lussu*
13:00-14:30 Lunch: Faculty of Arts lunchroom

14:30-16:30 Session 2 - Socio-psychological issues
Chair:
Dr K. L. Chowdhury (Medical Director, Shriya Bhat
Mission Hospital, Durga Nagar Jammu, India)
*Health trauma of displaced Kashmiris*
Dr Carmelo Pollicina (Co.As.It., Sydney)
*A psychodynamic study of the prevalence and peculiar
features of mental disorders in a cohort of
Italian-Australians undergoing counseling*
Mr Michele Sapucci (Co.As.It., Sydney)
*Dealing with second generations*

17:00-19:30 Keynote address 2
Venue: ItSoWel, 21 Stewart St, Wollongong
Chair:
Please note: the proceedings for this session
will be in Italian
Presentation: Dr Antonio Verde,
Consul General for Italy (awaiting confirmation)
Keynote address: Professor Pasquino Crupi
(Universita' per Stranieri "Dante Alighieri" di
Reggio Calabria)
*L'emigrazione nella letteratura calabrese con
particolare riferimento all'Australia e alle Americhe*
Book launch: *Emigrazione e letteratura.
Il caso italoaustraliano (Pellegribi, Cosenza, 2004)
by Gaetano Rando
20:00 Conference dinner:
International Center, 28 Stewart St, Wollongong

Saturday 9 October
Faculty of Arts Building 19 Room G016

9:00-11:00 Session 3 - Italian Australian narratives
and life writing
Chair:
Professor John Gatt-Rutter (La Trobe University)
*Writing The Life Of An Italian Australian: Piero
Genovesi's "Sebastiano Pitruzzello - l'uomo - la
famiglia - l'industria" (Sebastiano Pitruzzello -
the man, his family, his company) (2003)*
Associate Professor Rita Wilson (The University of
Melbourne / Monash University)
*Cultural (re)locations: narratives by contemporary
Italian Australian women*
Ms Jessica Carniel (The University of Melbourne)
*"Identities made in the kitchen taste the best":
Consumption and denial of Italian Australian
ethnicity as food in Capaldo's "Love Takes You Home"*
11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:30-13:00 Session 4 - Diaspora and identity
Chair:
Dr Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University)
*Noi altri: Kitsch and the cultural politics
of giants*
Dr Thomas Argiro (Tunghai University, Taiwan)
*Radicalism and Italian American Identity: Text
and Context*
Mr Francesco Ricatti (University of Sydney)
*Sexual and ethnic identity in a migratory context.
Letters to an Italo-Australian newspaper*
13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Session 5 - Wollongong perspectives
of the diaspora
Chair:
Dr Glenn Mitchell (University of Wollongong)
*Migrant hostels and memory* (awaiting specific
title/abstract)
Dr Luisa Baldassari (Co.As.It., Sydney)
*Langage maintenance and language attrition among
second generation Italian speakers in the Illawarra*
16:00-16:30 Coffee

16:30-18:30 Session 6
Writer Venero Armanno presented by Dr Paolo Totaro

Sunday 10 October
Faculty of Arts Building 19 Room G016

9:00-10:30 Session 7
Chair:
Dr Paolo Totaro (Sydney)
*Participation twenty-five years later* (awaiting
specific title/abstract)
Dr Cath Ellis (University of Wollongong)
(awaiting title/abstract)
Ms Francesca Matteini
*Intellectual Migration, the winds of change*
10:30-11:00 Coffee

11:00-12:30 Session 8
Chair:
Ms Annalisa Pirastu (University of Wollongong)
(awaiting title/abstract)
Ms Kimberley McMahon-Coleman (University of
Wollongong)
*Indigenous Diaspora and Literature*
12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Session 9 - Personal memoirs of the diaspora
Chair:
Mr Pino Bosi (Melbourne)
*Australia cane fifty years later*
Mr Peter Tesoriero (Sydney)
*The Aeolian diaspora - as illustrated by the wanderings
of my ancestors, their relatives and friends over
the past 130 years*

15:00-16:30 Session 10 - Calabrian literature in
Italy and abroad
Chair:
Ms Serena Scordo (Universita' per Stranieri
"Dante Alighieri" di Reggio Calabria)
(awaiting title/abstract)
Associate Professor Gaetano Rando (University of
Wollongong)
*Expressions of the Calabrian diaspora in Calabrian
Australian literature*

16:30 Conference close

Email: grando at uow.edu.au
Fax: +61 02 42214282
conference web page:
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/minoritiesconf

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Universite Paris X - Nanterre
"Giornata di studio su Italo Calvino"
Nanterre, 13 novembre 2004.

La prossima giornata di studio del C.R.I.X. verra'
dedicata all'opera di Italo Calvino (13 novembre 2004).

Universite Paris X - Nanterre
Salle des conferences, Hall du Bat. B

Informazioni: mh.caspar at wanadoo.fr

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