Conference Update
We thank you all for supporting the Italian American Studies Association annual Conference. As you can imagine, much time, work, and organization has been put forth in planning this event. At this time, however, we must consider the safety of all involved and postpone our main event for 2020. The entire committee is disappointed by this decision; nonetheless, the current public health situation in the US left the committee no other option.
On a positive note, the annual conference in Pittsburgh has been rescheduled for October 21-23. 2021.
Thanks again for supporting the Italian American Studies Association. We hope to see you in Pittsburgh in 2021.
The IASA Annual Conference Committee,
Lina Insana
Melissa Marinaro
Nancy Caronia
Anthony D. Mitzel
The 53rd Annual IASA Pittsburgh Conference October 21-23. 2021
Mining the Diaspora: Italian-American Materialities, Archaeologies, and Intersections
Submit Proposal
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Individual presentation, paper, or talk.
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Panel session or workshop, featuring multiple presenters.
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Performance, reading, or screening of creative work.
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Proposal title and a brief (250-word description)
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Suggested topic category (see list above)
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Brief biographical statement, affiliation, and e-mail
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Technology needs, if any.
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Materiality of diaspora
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archives: material, visual, digital-born, conceptual
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artifacts, cultural production (broadly understood), and folk materiality
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images: photographic, cinematic, and otherwise
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oral histories, written personal histories, family histories
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spaces and places, including structures, infrastructures, and negative spaces
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community and institutional structures
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commodities, marketplaces, and other transactional spaces
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tools of the trade/s
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philanthropy: its products, its structures, and its intersections with labor, cultural production, power structures, inter-ethnic dynamics
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2. Archeology of labor
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tools of the trade/s
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infrastructure
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labor narratives
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labor activism
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industry growth and decline
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migrant/itinerant labor/ers
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structures of labor power, internal and external to the community
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science and technology
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narratives of Italian-American identity as embedded and differentiated in urban, suburban, or rural landscapes
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3. Ethnic intersections
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Inter-ethnic marriage and other familial configurations
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Labor sites (e.g., coal mines, steel mills) as sites of multi-ethnic and multi-racial collaboration and community
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Structures of labor power, internal and external to the community
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Cosmopolitanism and philanthropy that works across (elite?) ethnic and national groups
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Multi-cultural neighborhoods
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Commemorations and mappings of “little Italys” and other spaces identified with diasporic communities, whether currently visible or not
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Italian-American flight (and white) in the aftermath of the Civil Rights movement