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April 27–29, 2023
JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE
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Italy and the Pacific Rim
Critical interpretations of modern Italy’s histories of migration and mobilities are often set within the confines of the Mediterranean basin or along a transatlantic trajectory. Such neat accounts serve to highlight the nation’s narratives of colonization and linear notions of migration to North and South America. This path, for instance, has long undergirded studies of
California Italian Studies Vol. 11
EPISTEMES OF CONTAGION: TOUCH, CONTACT, DISTANCE
Co-editors: Cristiana Giordano, Rhiannon Welch
Open Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/ismrg_cisj/11/1
From the introduction:
“This volume of California Italian Studies is dedicated to Italy and the Epistemes of Contagion: Touch, Contact, Distance. […] Long before it became ground zero for the coronavirus in the West (only to be clamorously eclipsed by the UK and US), the thought of contagion had persistently inspired cultural production in Italy. From Boccaccio to
Title: "Marching on Rome: Contesting the Eternal City through the Centuries"
Location: Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York City
Date: October 28, 2022
October 28, 2022 marks the centenary of Mussolini’s March on Rome and the Fascist accession to power. Yet the Fascists were not the first, nor the last, to stage a symbolic assault on the Eternal City; indeed, marches on Rome have been a mainstay of Italian political life for centuries. For figures as diverse as Julius Caesar, Cola di Rienzo, Petrarch, Charles V, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Umberto Bossi and Beppe Grillo, the Urbs Caput Mundi