To reserve your room at the New Orleans Marriott, at the special conference rate of $192, please contact the Marriott directly, by calling (504) 581-1000 or by visiting http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/msyla-new-orleans-marriott/. Be sure to mention that you are booking a room for the Italian American Studies Association conference. Direct and [...]

To reserve your room at the New Orleans Marriott, at the special conference rate of $192, please contact the Marriott directly, by calling (504) 581-1000 or by visiting http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/msyla-new-orleans-marriott/. Be sure to mention that you are booking a room for the Italian American Studies Association conference. Direct and [...]

To reserve your room at the New Orleans Marriott, at the special conference rate of $192, please contact the Marriott directly, by calling (504) 581-1000 or by visiting http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/msyla-new-orleans-marriott/. Be sure to mention that you are booking a room for the Italian American Studies Association conference. Direct and [...]

Summary A cogent and multi-generational recounting of the lives of major personalities and institutions that shaped the Italian American experience in Rochester, with attention to: World War II, entertainment, sports, music, educational institutions, politics, crime, marriage, and religion. The work focuses on how ethnic groups more or less successfully [...]

The June Newsletter of the Italian American Writers Association is now available at www.iawa.net. It's filled with news of books and authors, events and resources, opportunities and connections for writers and readers. IAWA's June kicks off Saturday, June 8, with its monthly Prose and Poetry Features and Open Mic, this month at The Sidewalk [...]

This year’s IASA conference, Italian American Identity Politics (New Orleans Marriott, October 3-5, 2013) examines the politics of the identifying term “Italian American” from multiple perspectives and in different time periods. The evocation of “Italian American” for political purposes and agendas has a varied history, [...]

Since the publication in 2008 of The Cultural Turn in the United States, scores of new cultural histories have appeared;  over the past five years, for example, American cultural historians have explored topics such as migration and diaspora, the cultural history of speechmaking, analyzed how Americans saw and heard the world [...]

Join the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles  at Hidden Voices: A Celebration of Italian American History in Southern California. The all-day IAMLA History Conference features  guest scholars presenting on Italian-American history and literature in Southern California; a children's educational workshop; and a Special Musical Performance [...]

Italy has long been defined by its contradictions. From the irreligious popes of the Middle Ages to the modern nation’s patchwork union, Italy has been seen as a nation of paradoxes and polarities.

"MAFIAs," the theme of 2014’s annual spring conference of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute is the first on the subject by this academic research institute. Running from April 24 to April 26 in New York, the conference will cover a broad variety of manifestations of organized crime throughout the world and over time. This [...]