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The 50th Annual IASA Conference
November 2 to November 4, 2017
Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC
“Faith, (Ir)reverence, and the Italian
Diaspora: Fifty Years of Italian
American Studies”
In Collaboration with the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF)
Image Credit: Center for Migration Studies of New York
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The Italian American Studies Association would like to extend its most heartfelt gratitude
to all those who assisted in making this conference a success.
The IASA Conference Committee
Jessica Femiani, Chair
Rose De Angelis
Alan J. Gravano
Lisa Marie Paolucci
Anthony D. Mitzel
Special Thanks to
Andrea Bartlett, NIAF Director of Events
Program Cover Photo, Other Photos, and Letter Thanks to
Frank Cavaioli
Alexandra de Luise, IASA Secretary
Mary Brown, Archivist/Bibliographer
Center for Migration Studies of New York
Interns: Taylor Smith, Rachel Morton, & Frances Fynan
For Identifying AIHA Members in the Photos a Special Thanks to
Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University
Fred L. Gardaphé, Queens College, CUNY
John Paul Russo, University of Miami
Anthony Julian Tamburri, Queens College, CUNY/John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
For Screening Antonino D’Ambrosio’s Frank Serpcio a Special Thanks to
Stanislao G. Pugliese, Professor of History and Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of
Italian and Italian American Studies, Hofstra University
Hofstra University
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Thursday, November 2
Arrival
2:00-5:00 PM: Registration
Exhibit Hall A
2:00-5:00 PM: Executive Council Meeting
Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
6:15-6:45 PM: Graduate Student Meet & Greet
Maryland Room B & C
Jessica Femiani, Binghamton University
Alan Gravano, IASA President, Rocky Mountain University
6:45-7:00 PM: Opening Remarks
Maryland Room B & C
Alan Gravano, IASA President, Rocky Mountain University
Samuele F. S. Pardini, Elon University
7:00-8:00 PM: Keynote Address
Maryland Room B & C
Robert Orsi, Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies,
Northwestern University
“The Dangers of Italian Americans Reading (Besides Going Blind)”
8:00-10:00 PM: Reception
Maryland Room B & C
Hosted by IASA
Dinner on Your Own
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Friday, November 3
8:30AM-4:30 PM Registration
(Convention Registration Desk)
7:30-9:00 AM Coffee Service
(Exhibit Hall A Hallway)
8:00-9:15 AM
Session 1: “Ethnographic Studies”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
Chair: Rose De Angelis, Marist College
Michele Deramo, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, “Me, I’m from the
Mezzogiorno: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Memory, Migration, and Imagined
Communities”
Joanne Milner, Independent Scholar, “Family History: Foundation of Faith”
Session 2: “Historical and Political Examinations of Immigration/Emigration of the Italian
Diaspora”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2
Chair: Michael Buonanno, State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota
Patrizia Fama Stahle, College of Coastal Georgia, “Pope Leo XIII, Bishop Scalabrini, and
Italian Americans”
Frank Salamone, Iona College, “Before and After in Italian American Religious History:
Pre and Post War Immigrants”
Laura Buonanno, Buffalo State University, SUNY, and Michael Buonanno, State College
of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, “The Italian American Influence on U.S. Immigration
Policy: The Role of the Family in Unification in Contemporary Immigration Reform”
Session 3: “Revisiting John Fante and Italian Women in Film”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 3
Chair: Dennis Barone, University of Saint Joseph
Francesco Chianese, Independent Scholar, “God Swearing and Father Blaming:
Blasphemy and Assimilation in John Fante from Wait Until Spring, Bandini to The
Brotherhood of the Grape”
Giuliana Muscio, University of Padua, “Censoring Italian Women’s Religious Practices:
The Miracle, The Rose Tattoo, Full of Life and Film Censors”
Dennis Barone, University of Saint Joseph, “The (Italian) American Mercury: Mencken's
Publication (Sacred and Profane) of Cautela, Fante, and Turano”
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9:30-10:45 AM
Session 4: “Devotional Aids, Letters, and Religious Ideology”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
Chair: Alexandra de Luise, Queens College, CUNY
Alexandra de Luise, Queens College, CUNY, “Written Devotionals for Guiding the
Parish: The Church of the Holy Rosary, Washington DC”
Janet Michello, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, “The Sociocultural Aspects of
Religious Ideology of Italian American Catholics and Catholics in Southern Italy”
Lisa Ferrante-Perrone, Bucknell University, “Letters as Lifelines for Early Italian
Americans”
Session 5: “Memoir”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2
Chair: Rose De Angelis, Marist College
Kathy Curto, Sarah Lawrence College and Montclair State University, “Cutlets
and Candles: Food, Grief, Faith, and My Italian American Experience”
Cinzia Marongiu, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, “Border-crossing Madonna:
Religious images and Multi-Ethnic Coalition in Kym Ragusa’s The Skin between Us”
Rose De Angelis, Marist College, “The Faithful and the (Ir)Reverent: Religion and the
Italian American Experience”
Session 6: “Canadian Italian Experience from WWII and Internment to Muslim Canadians”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 3
Chair: Joanne DeTore, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Jan Marta, University of Toronto, “Faith as Identified and Source of Resilience: Italian
Canadians in WWII and Muslim Canadians in the 21st Century”
Jessica Leonora Whitehead, York University, “The Italian-Canadian Internment: The
Case of the Mascioli Brothers of Timmins, Ontario”
Session 7: “Religions of the Self in Italian American Narrative”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 4
Chair: George Guiida, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
George Guida, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, “Self, Soul, and Satire:
Salvatore Scibona’s The End and the Limits of Identity in Italian American Fiction”
Marie D’Amico, Independent Scholar, “Women’s Selfhood in Maria Messina’s Fiction”
Joanna Clapps Herman, Manhattanville College, “My Numi”
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11:00-12:15 PM
Session 8: “Italy: from the Veneto to Firenze to Napoli”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
Chair: Alexandra de Luise, Queens College, CUNY
Gloria Nardini, Independent Scholar, “Un Presepio Napoletano a Firenze: Combined
Italian Belief Systems”
Teresa Fava Thomas, Fitchburg State University, “The Experience of War and
Occupation in The Italian Veneto”
Lawrence Squeri, East Stroudsburg University, “Italian Americans: Not Fully Arrived”
Session 9: “What Ever Happened to Little Italy: Part I”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2
Chair: Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College
Teri Ann Bengiveno, Las Positas College, “Little Italy San Jose: From the Valley of the
Heart’s Delight to the Arch of Silicon Valley”
Dominic Candeloro, Loyola University, Chicago, “Chicago’s Little Italies: Past and
Present”
Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College, “The Italians of Brooklyn Revisted”
Session 10: “This Panel Is Brought to You by the Number 13 and the Letter M (for Malocchio):
Religion, Superstition, and Magic in Italian America”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 3
Chair: Fred Misurella, East Stroudsburg University
Sarah Annunziato, University of Virginia, “The Good Witch of the South: Tomie
dePaola's Strega Nona and the Tradition of Female Healers in Italian American
Communities”
Francesco Fiumara, Southeastern Louisiana University, “Amulets and Crucifixes and
Candles, Oh My: How Social Workers Viewed Italian American Religious Traditions and
Superstitions in 1930s New England”
Lucia G. Harrison, Southeastern Louisiana University, “You're Not in Sicily Anymore:
How Immigrants and Their Descendants Adapt Italy's Religious Traditions to Life in a
Louisiana Town”
12:15-2:15 PM Lunch
Screening of Frank Serpico (Documentary)
Introduction: Stanislao G. Pugliese, Hofstra University
Location: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
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2:30-3:45 PM
Session 11: “Pasolini, Fellini, and The Sopranos”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
Chair: Jonathan Cavallero, Bates College
Pietro Bocchia, University of Notre Dame, “How Religion Shapes Revolution: Pier Paolo
Pasolini’s Reception of the American New Left”
Claude Barbre, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, “Faithful Disbelief,
Trickster Spirituality, and the American Sublime in Federico Fellini’s Films “
Jonathan Cavallero, Bates College, “Putting Faith in the Visual: Television, Authorship,
Gender, and The Sopranos”
Session 12: “Creative Writing: Poetry, Fiction, and Memoir”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2
Chair: Joanne DeTore, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Joane DeTore, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, “Curses, Spells, and Catholic
Recovery: A Collection of Poetry”
Steve Villano, Independent Scholar, “The Tightrope Italian Americans Tread When
Organized Crime Touches Us” excerpt from Tightrope: Balancing a Life between Mario
Cuomo and My Brother
Fred Gardaphé, Queens College, CUNY, “Alter Boys” excerpt from Blood Stains: A
Memoir
Session 13: “Dagoes, Darkies, and 20th Century Modernity: Two Encounters”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 3
Chair & Moderator: Thomas J. Ferraro, Duke University
Presenter: John Gennari, University of Vermont, Soul and Flavor: Italian America at Its
African American Edge
Presenter: Samuele F. S. Pardini, Elon University, In the Name of the Mother: Italian
Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce
Springsteen
4:00-5:15 PM
Session 14: “Newspapers, Inter-Colonialism, and Globalism in Italian American Studies”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
Chair: Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, State College of Florida
Sarah Salter, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, “Faith, Health, and the Allure of
Consumer Mysticism”
Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, State College of Florida, “Inter-Colonialism and its
Integration into Italian American Studies”
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Rocco Mesiti, Western New England University, “Italy’s New Diaspora: The Cultural
and Ecclesiastic Practices of New Immigrants”
Session 15: “What Ever Happened to Little Italy: Part II”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2
Chair: Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College
Salvatore LaGumina, Nassau Community College, “Suburban Little Italies on Long
Island: Four Generations Later”
Anthony Mitzel, Università di Bologna, University College London, “The Ephemerality
of Little Italy in Youngstown, Ohio: Brier Hill or Coalburg?”
Danielle Oteri, Art Historian, “A Taste of Arthur Avenue in The Bronx”
Session 16: “(Ir)Reverent in More Ways than One: Narrators Navigating the Perils of Being
Italian American, Catholic, and Female”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 3
Chair: Maria Giura, Independent Scholar
Brenda DeMartini-Squires, Dutchess Community College
Maria Giura, Independent Scholar
Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Purchase College, SUNY
5:30-6:45 PM
Session 17: “Page, Stage, and Screen in Italian American Studies”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
Chair: Colleen Ryan, Indiana University Bloomington
Colleen Ryan, Indiana University, Bloomington, “Scripting Identities, Shaping Lives:
Italian American Theater across the Decades”
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, “Gendering, the Body, and
Politics in Gay Italian American Theater”
Maria Protti, Independent Scholar, “The Dies Irae: A Lineage of Gregorian Chant, Verdi,
Spaghetti Westerns, and Horror”
Session 18: “Writing Faith and the Italian American Writer’s Irreverence”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2
Chair & Moderator: Jessica Femiani, Binghamton University
Susan Scutti, Creative Writer
Jessica Femiani, Binghamton University
Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College
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Session 19: “Psychology to Psychological: Faith to Daughters and Fathers”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 3
Chair: John Gennari, University of Vermont
Karen De Luca Stephens, Independent Writer/Screenwriter, “Faith and Skepticism from
Father to Daughter”
Lorraine Mangione, Antioch University, New England, “Italian American Daughters and
Dads: Relationship to Spirituality and Religion”
7:00-8:15 PM Keynote Roundtable Follow-up
Session 20: “Orsi Roundtable”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
Chair: Samuele F. S. Pardini, Elon University
Thomas J. Ferraro, Duke University
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa
Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin, Madison
9:00 PM Farewell Banquet
(Omni Hotel)
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Saturday, November 4
8:00-12:00 Registration
(Convention Registration Desk)
7:30-9:00 AM Coffee Service
(Exhibit Hall A Hallway)
8:00-9:15 AM
Session 21: “The Routledge History of Italian Americans: A Roundtable”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
Chairs: William J. Connell, Professor of History and Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair
in Italian Studies, Seton Hall University, and Stanislao G. Pugliese, Professor of History and
Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies, Hofstra
Peter Carravetta, Alfonse M. D’Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies,
Stony Brook University
John Gennari, Associate Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies,
University of Vermont
Jerome Krase, Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Giuliana Muscio, Professor of History of Cinema, Emerita, University of Padua
James Periconi, Independent Scholar (Foremost non-institutional collector of Italian
language American imprints)
Robert Viscusi, Professor of English and Executive Officer of the Wolfe Institute for the
Humanities, Brooklyn College, CUNY
9:30-10:45 AM
Session 22: “Teaching The Godfather Films”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
Chair: Alan J. Gravano, Rocky Mountain University
Presenter: Benjamin Lawton, Purdue University
Respondent: Ryan Calabretta-Sadjer, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Respondent: Alan J. Gravano, Rocky Mountain University
11:00-12:15 PM
Session 23: “Teaching Italian American Studies: A Roundtable Approach”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
Moderator: Ryan Calabretta-Sadjer, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Laurie Buonanno, Buffalo State University (SUNY)
Jonathan Cavallero, Bates College
Lina Insana, University of Pittsburgh
Stanislao G. Pugliese, Hofstra University
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12:15-1:00 PM Lunch & Graduate Student Meet & Greet
(Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 4) Alan Gravano, IASA President
Michele Fazio & Jessica Femiani, EC Members
1:00-2:15 PM Business Meeting & Presentation of Awards
2017 Book Award Winner: Camillia Trinchieri
2017 IASA Memorial Fellowship Winner: TBA
2017 IASA Conference Travel Subsidies: TBA
(Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 4)
2:30-3:30 PM
Session 24: “Bridging the Gaps: From Teaching ‘Commercial Italian’ to Living It: A
Roundtable”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
Chair: Ryan Calabretta-Sadjer, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Enza Antenos, Montclair State University
Lyn Scolaro, Prospect High School (Illinois)
Gabriella Mileti, NIAF
Session 25: “Reflections on Calabria Symposium and Diaspora Summer Program”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 2
Chair: Robert Oppedisano, Independent Scholar
Francesco Chianese, Independent Scholar
Jessica Femiani, Binghamton University
Fred Gardaphé, Queens College (CUNY)
Patrizia Stahl, College of Coastal Georgia
3:45-4:45 PM
Session 26: “Past IASA (AIHA) Presidents Panel”
Room: Exhibit Hall A: Roosevelt Room 1
Chair & Moderator: Michele Fazio, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
Dominic Candeloro (1985-88)
Jerome Krase (1993-96)
Fred L. Gardaphé (1997-2000)
Josephine Gattuso Hendin (2009-10)
George Guida (2011-14)
Alan J. Gravano (2015-Present)
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5:30 PM: NIAF Reception
(Marriott Foyer)
7:00 PM: NIAF Gala Dinner
(Marriott Ballroom)
10:00 PM: NIAF After Party
(Marriott Mezzanine)
Sunday, November 5
10:30-11:30 AM Catholic Mass in Italian
(Holy Rosary Church)
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9th Annual AIHA Conference in Washington, DC 1976
Back Row: Robert Severino, Rudolph J. Vecoli, Salvatore LaGumina, Elena Agarossi, Humbert S. Nelli, Jean Scaparci, Fanco Cerase, A. William Salamone, Enio di Nolfo
Front Row: Luciano Iorizzo, Emilia Morelli, Giorgio Spini, Raimond Luraghi, Clara Lovett
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14th Annual AIHA Conference St. Paul, Minnesota 1981
Back Row: Rudolph J. Vecoli, Francis X. Feminella, George Pozzetta, Phyllis Martinelli, Ernest E. Rossi, Dominic Candeloro
Front Row: Teresa Cerasuola, Helen Barolini, Gary Mormino, Frank Cavaioli, Carlo Ferroni
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39th Annual AIHA Conference Orlando, FL 2006
Back Row: Michael Di Virgilio, George Guida, Fred L. Gardaphé, Stanislao Pugliese, Stefano Luconi, Frank Cavaioli
Middle Row: Angelo Tripicchio, Angela Danzi, Dominic Candeloro, Frank Alduino, Anthony Tamburri
Front Row: Maria Elisa Ciavarelli, Dawn Esposito, Mary Jo Bona, Salvatore LaGumina, Jerome Krase, Edward Maruggi
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Casa Italiana of Columbia University 1931
Front Row: Angelo Lipari, Dino Bigongiari, Counsel General Grossardi, Angelo Patri, Leonard Covello
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Call for Papers
The 51st Italian American Studies Association Conference
Loyola University, Chicago
Hampton Inn Chicago North Loyola Station / 1209 W. Albion Ave. / Chicago,
IL 60626
October 18-20, 2018
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018
Upload/submit proposals to Submittable:
https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit
For inquiries, please contact the conference committee