Children and Youth in Italy and the Italian Diaspora

annUaL ConferenCe
april 24–25, 2015
Bambini
ragazzi
giovani
Children and Youth in Italy
and the Italian Diaspora
Photo: Stephen nessen
John D. Calandra Italian american Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, manhattan
for more InformaTIon:
212.642.2094 or www.qc.edu/calandra
Bambini, Ragazzi, Giovani: Children and Youth in Italy and the Italian Diaspora
Program (subject to change)
Thursday, April 23, 2015
6–8 pm: Welcome and reception
Searching for the Culturally Conscious in Children’s
Fiction with Italian-American Characters, Lisa
Paolucci (Columbia University)
History’s Children: Exploited, Abandoned,
Saved La Galleria
Little Aliens of a Beaten Race: Immigrant
Newsboys and Newsgirls in the United States,
1880s–1920s, Vincent DiGirolamo (Baruch
College, CUNY)
Talking with Spartaco (Bob) Schirru in Milan,
Illinois, Luc Nemeth (Independent Scholar)
A Haven in East Harlem: Home Garden
Settlement/Haarlem House/LaGuardia Memorial
House, LuLu LoLo Pascale (Playwright)
4:30–5:45 pm
Film and Literature between Italy and the
USA Conference Room
The Children Are Watching Us: Youngsters and
Parents in Italian Neorealist Cinema, Frank P.
Tomasulo (Pace University)
From Wise Children to Wise Italian/American
Men: Children in the Narratives of Tony Ardizzone,
Fred Gardaphé, and Mary Caponegro, Carla
Francellini (University of Siena)
Internal Journeys from Childhood to Adulthood
in Elena Ferrante’s Novels, Fred Misurella (East
Stroudsburgh University)
Antonio Campobasso and His “Brothers” and
“Sisters”: The Plight of Black Soldiers’ Biracial
Children in Postwar Italy, Stefano Luconi
(University of Padua)
Friday, April 24, 2015
Italian-American Memoirs La Galleria
9:30–10:45 am
Running from Ozone: How the Mafia Drove Me to
Psychological Approaches Conference Room
Grad School, Caroline Pari-Pfisterer (Borough of
Manhattan Community College, CUNY)
Career Counseling with Italian-American College
Students Using a Cultural Formulation Approach,
It’s a Free Country, but the Freedom Wasn’t Free,
Dominick Carielli (John D. Calandra Italian
Joseph Cosco (Old Dominion University)
American Institute, Queens College, CUNY)
The Iron Shoes, Phyllis Capello (Author)
Italian-American Fathers and Daughters: A
1:30–2:45 pm
Psychological Narrative of Childhood and
Adolescence, Lorraine Mangione (Antioch
Keynote to be announced
University New England) and Donna DiCello
3–4:15 pm
(Yale Medical School)
Sociological Approaches Conference Room
11am–12:15 pm
Fitting In and Acceptance: Challenges Faced
Little Gendered Bodies Conference Room
and Strategies Adopted with Peers from
Conflicting Portrayals of Growing Up Female
Childhood through Early Adulthood in Italy, the
in Nineteenth-Century Italy: The Case of Anna
United States, and Abroad, Jane McCall Politi
Zuccari, in arte Neera, Lisa Downward (Marist
(Independent Scholar)
College)
Italian-American Identity: Results from a Study
Out of Unknown Bodies, Carmela Delia Lanza
of New York’s Italian-American Youth Population,
(University of New Mexico, Gallup)
Rosemary Serra (University of Trieste)
Bodies in Trans(l/n)ation: Mapping Children’s
Italian-American Youth Culture: Some Theoretical
Desire and Pain in Melania Mazzucco’s Vita, Eva
Considerations, Donald Tricarico (Queensborough
P. Sañudo (University of Oviedo)
Community College, CUNY)
Children in Italy La Galleria
Pedagogical Case Studies La Galleria
Saturday,
April
25,
2015
Suffer the Children: The Mafia’s “Code of Honor”
Rev. Pasquale Codella and La Scuola Dante in
and the Murder of Italian Youth, Lion Calandra
Waterbury, Connecticut, Michael S. Genovese
9:30–10:45 am
(Journalist)
(Italian Genealogical Group)
Italian Lessons: Three Cases of Assimilation
The Dilemmas of Second-Generation Immigrants Efforts Conference Room
The Italianization of John Cabot as a Paradoxical
in Italy, Robert Garot (John Jay College, CUNY)
Source of Pride for Italian-Canadian Youth, Krysta
Molding Italy’s Newest Children: Language
Pandolfi (York University)
Chinese Youth in Contemporary Italian Cinema,
Education in Alto Adige, 1919–1929, Eden K.
Mary Ann McDonald Carolan (Fairfield University) McLean (Auburn University)
The Depiction of Italian Youth and Culture
in Foreign-Language Textbooks, Angelyn
1:30–2:45 pm
Students of Empire: Naturalization and Education Balodimas-Bartolomei (North Park University)
of Italian Youth in Tunisia, Sarah DeMott (New
Keynote Conference Room
4:30–5:45 pm
York University)
Imagining and Designing the Future in Italy
The Influence of Grandparenting on
Growing Up “Fascist,” Marisa Giorgi (The Ohio
(1977–2014): Children’s Participation in Urban
Personal Development Conference Room
State
University)
Planning, Raymond Lorenzo (The Umbra Institute
Perugia)
Family Memory and Its Thrust toward the Future,
11 am–12:15 pm
Rossana del Zio (Journalist)
3–4:15 pm
Colonial Pursuits and Racial Paradigms
Caring for the Caregiver, Carmen Morano (Hunter
Conference Room
Literary Representations Conference Room
College, CUNY)
Youth, Racism, and Violence Onscreen in Fascist
Escape from Modernity: Frances Hodgson
Italy, AnneMarie Tamis-Nasello (Fashion Institute The Role of Grandparents in Developing and
Burnett’s Italian Children, Leonardo Buonomo
Maintaining an Ethnic Identity in Post-Immigrant
of Technology, SUNY)
(University of Trieste)
Generations, Kathryn Alessandria (West Chester
Testimonial Literature: Grazia Arnese Grimaldi
La Merica for Children: Luigi Capuana and Gli
University)
and 13,000 Italian-Libyan Children and Youth
Americani di Rabbato, Chiara Mazzucchelli
Forgotten by History, Rosario Pollicino (University
(University of Central Florida)
of Western Ontario)