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Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies

2016-2017 Season

 

All meetings take place in the Italian Academy of Columbia University (1161 Amsterdam Ave, NYC), 5th Floor Conference Room, beginning at 6:15 pm. All inquiries can be directed to the Chair of the Seminar, Dr. Ernest Ialongo at eialongo@hostos.cuny.edu .

 

 

September 9, 2016

Carl Ipsen, Indiana University, “Fumo: Italy’s Love Affair with the Cigarette.”

Respondent: Molly Tambor, Long Island University, Post

 

October 14, 2016

Meriel Tulante, Philadelphia University, “Fashion in the commedia all’italiana: An Uncomfortable Aspiration.”

Respondent: Stefania Benini, Philadelphia University

 

November 11, 2016

Lucia Re, University of California, Los Angeles, “Immigrant Writing and the Power of Fear.”

Respondent: Teresa Fiore, Montclair State University

 

December 9, 2016

Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan, “The Divo and the Duce: Illusions of Direct Democracy in 1920s Celebrity Culture.”

Respondent: Eugenia Paulicelli, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

 

February 3, 2017

Nina Valbousquet, Center for Jewish History, NYC, “The Catholic Church, Jewish Identity,
and the Forging of Antisemitism in Fascist Italy (1922-1943).”

Respondent: Natalia Indrimi, Primo Levi Center

 

March 3, 2017

Jonathan Mekinda, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Building the ‘House of Man’:

Design and the Modern Home in Milan, 1933-1957.”

Respondent: Emily Braun, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

 

April 7, 2017

Lilith Mahmud, University of California, Irvine, “Freemasonry’s Secret: Gender, Nationalism, and Conspiracy Theorizing in Italy.”

Respondent: Jane Schneider, The Graduate Center, CUNY

 

May 12, 2017

Alessandro Saluppo, Fordham University, “Paramilitary Violence and Fascism: Violent Imaginaries and Violent Practices of Squadrismo, 1921-1925.”

Respondent: Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University

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