Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies
2018-2019 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 .
Abstracts are available at http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/studies-in-modern-italy/
September 7, 2018
Peter Schneider, Fordham University, “Convivial Occasions: Mafia Cultural Production
and the Mafia-State Intreccio.”
Respondent: Jason Pine, Purchase College
October 12, 2018
Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson College, and Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University, “Social Catholicism as Pastoral Edutainment: Vocations, Avocations, and the Winx Club.”
Respondent: Jacqueline Reich, Fordham University
November 9, 2018
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Parallel Ambiguities:
Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma, Tosca, and the Recasting of History in Post-Fascist Italy.”
Respondent: Rebecca Bauman, Fashion Institute of Technology
December 7, 2018
Michael Blim, CUNY Graduate School, and Oriol Vallès Codina, The New School, “The New Geography of Italian Economic Inequality.”
Respondent: Jillian Cavanaugh, Brooklyn College
February 1, 2019
Erica Moretti, Fashion Institute of Technology, “Maria Montessori’s White Cross: Rehabilitating War-Stricken Children to Prevent War.”
Respondent: Mary Gibson, John Jay College
March 1, 2019
David Aliano, College of Mount Saint Vincent, “Tourist Encounters with Italy’s Changing Political Landscape: From Fascism through Reconstruction.”
Respondent: Silvana Patriarca, Fordham University
April 5, 2019
Noa Steimatsky, Sarah Lawrence College, “The World’s War on the World’s Stage: Cinecittà 1942-1950.”
Respondent: David Forgacs, New York University
May 3, 2019
Peter Carravetta, Stony Brook University, “The Italian Differentia: Can There Be Philosophy Without History?”
Respondent: Silvia Benso, Rochester Institute of Technology
