Il CISIA ha partecipato all’organizzazione del convegno internazionale Multicultural Migrant Fictions: Italian-American, Jewish-American and Indian-American Literary Representations, che si è svolto il 10 e l’11 aprile 2017 presso la University of Georgia (Athens, USA).

Il programma è il seguente:

April 10

9:00-9:15        Opening remarks

Dorothy Figueira (UGA): “The Politics of Representation in Italian-American, Jewish-American, and Indian-American Fiction”

9:15-11:00      Contours of Immigrant Fictions: The Image of the Italian American – Part 1

Marina Camboni (Honorary President of the Center for Italian American Studies – University of Macerata, Italy): “Going Native: Identity and Identification in Robert Viscusi’s Ellis Island and Carole Maso’s Ghost Dance”

Valerio Massimo De Angelis (Coordinator of the Center for Italian American Studies – University of Macerata, Italy): “The Unfortunate Pilgrim: Marion Puzo’s Deconstruction of the American Myths of Migration”

Discussant: Thomas Peterson (UGA)

11:00-11:15    Coffee Break

11:15-1:15      The Image of the Italian in Italian-American Literature – Part 2

John Lowe (UGA): “Humor as Counterpoint and Engine in Di Donato and Binelli”

May Jo Bona (SUNY at Stony Brook): “Second-wave Daughters and their Italian (American) Mothers: Narratives in the Context of Mother-Daughter Studies”

Tatiana Petrovich-Njegosh (Center for Italian American Studies – Univerity of Macerata, Italy): Italy and Italian American Literature: Salvatore Scibona’s The End”

Discussant: Anne Williams (UGA)

1:30-2:45        Luncheon

3:00-4:30        The Representation of the Jew in Jewish-American Fiction – Part 1

Marta Skwara (University of Szczecin, Poland): “The Polish Factor in Jewish-American Writing. Three Cases: Sholem Asch, Isaack Bashevis Singer, Jerzy Kosinski”

David Schiller (UGA, emeritus): “Let’s All Be Americans Now: Ethnic Stereotyping and Nationalism in the Ragtime and WWI Era Songs of Irving Berlin and Al Plantadosi”

4:30-4:45        Coffee Break

4:45-6:00        The Instituting of Multiculturalism as a Key Component of a “Liberal Arts” Education – Part I

Fred Gardaphe (Queen’s College, New York): “Art of the State: The Politics of Multiculturalism in American Literary Studies; or, Who Hung the Rembrandt on the Multicultural Mural”

Interactive Roundtable Discussion: Dialogue between by Speakers/UGA Faculty/TA’s and UGA undergraduate students 

Chair: Jenny Webb, Managing Editor, Recherche littéraire/Literary Research

 7:30-10           Opening Reception

April 11

9:00-11:00      The Representation of the Jew in Jewish-American Fiction – Part 2

Doris Kadish (UGA, emerita): “Jewish Immigrants of the 1930s: Literature, Politics, and Religion”

Paolo Simonetti (Sapienza University, Rome): “‘Sounds like Jew Talk to Me’: Assimilaton and Alienation in Bernard Malamud’s The People”

Marjanne Gooze (UGA): “The Holocaust Memoir as American Tale: Ruth Klueger’s Still Alive”

Chair: Charles Byrd

11:00-11:15    Coffee Break

11:15-1:15      Indian-Americans as Model Minorities in Indian-American Fiction

Deepika Bahri (Emory): “Jhumpa Lahiri, the Bengali Indian American Writer”

Dorothy Figueira (UGA): “The Indian-American Male Writer: Curing Aids and Getting a Pulitzer. The Indian-American Female Writer: Quirky, Photogenic, and Brilliant”

Harish Trivedi (Delhi University, India): “Migration, Translation and Languages: India and the US, English and Hindi”

Discussant: Satish Kumar (UGA)

1:30-2:45        Luncheon

3:00-5:00        The Instituting of Multiculturalism as a Key Component of a “Liberal Arts” Education – Part 2

Ipshita Chanda (Jadavpur University, India): “Teaching Alterity”

nteractive Roundtable Discussion: Dialogue between by Speakers/UGA Faculty/TA’s teaching Asian-American Multicultural Classes and UGA undergraduate students

Chair: Jenny Webb (Recherche littéraire/Literary Research)          

7:00-10:00      Closing Reception