SESSON I
SESSON II
SESSON III
 
Saturday 15 May
9:30-10:30
KEYNOTE: Luca Codignola (Università di Genova: “Unlikely Allegiances: Pre-Italian Migrations from Italy to North America.”
 
Saturday 15 May
11:00 - 12:30
CHAIR: Luca Codignola. Pasquale Fiorino (Iona College, Univ. of Windsor), "The Holy See and Italians in Canada: From the Voyage of Gaetano Bedini to the Creation of the Apostolic Delegation in Ottawa." Matteo Sanfilippo (Università di Viterbo, Viterbo), "La Delegazione Apostolica ad Ottawa e gli Italiani in Canada nel Novecento." Filippo Salvatore (Concordia Univ., Montreal), “Under the Shadow of the Vatican: Pius IX, Monsignor Ignace Bourget and the Risorgimento in French Canada.” Luigi Bruti Liberati, (Università di Milano), "Mario Duliani and La Città Senza Donne: A Reappraisal" CHAIR: Mauro Buccheri. Licia Canton (Université de Montréal, Montréal), “Italian Canadian Literature: Our Women, Our Writers.” Lianne Moyes, “Intertextuality and Self-translation in the Poetry of Mary di Michele.” Domenic Beneventi, “The Language of Memory and Desire: Mary di Michele and Gianna Patriarca.” CHAIR: Maria Cioni. Ivana Barbieri, Angela Capozzolo, Maria Cioni, Maria Coletta McLean, Valerie Sovran Mitchell, Francesca Schembri, Carrie-Ann Smith: “Reality Programming: Memoirs of Italian-Canadian Experiences”

Saturday 15 May
12:30 - 2:00
LUNCH
Saturday 15 May
2:00 - 3:30
CHAIR: Gabriella Colussi Arthur. Jana Vizmuller Zocco (York Univ.), “Seven Best-kept Linguistic Secrets of Italian Canadians.” Frances Giampapa, (Toronto/OISE), “Italian Canadian Youth and the Discourses on Identities and Language in the Italian Canadian World.” Alberto Di Giovanni (Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana, Toronto), “Giovani italo-canadesi: prospettive e strategie per il futuro.” CHAIR: Gabriele Scardellato. Sara Angelucci, photography, video (Toronto), Carlo Cesta, sculpture (Toronto) , Tonia Di Risio, video and installation (Halifax), and Carmelo Arnoldin, sculpture (Toronto), "Who's Your Nonno(a)?: Four Visual Artists and the Idea of Italian-ness." CHAIR: Isabella Colalillo Katz. Sonia D’Agostino, Isabella Colalillo Katz, and Gianna Patriarca, “Women in Between: Writing, Culture, and Memory.”

Saturday 15 May
4:00 - 5:30
CHAIR: Mauro Peressini. Angel Mota (Univ. de Montréal, Montréal), “Nino Ricci et l’invention d’une ville imaginaire italo-canadien.” Lise Hogan (U. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.), “Inside Stories: Confrontations with the Challenge of Displacement.” Anna Carlevaris (Concordia Univ., Montreal), “In the Shadow of Heroes: Public Art by Italians in Montreal in the 1930s.”

Saturday 15 May
6:00 - 7:00
SPECIAL PRESENTATION: Television mini-series of the Lives of the Saints, participants will include author Nino Ricci and Jerry Ciccoritti, the director of the film.
 
Saturday 15 May
8:00 - 10:00
CONFERENCE BANQUET (NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE) Roberto Martella (grano Restaurant, Toronto), Vincenzo Liberatore, Len Pennachetti (Cave Springs), Dwan Ashok, and Kurt Waldell session on Italian-Canadian food, wine, and other influences will be presented as part of the conference banquet.

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