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Session #5: Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 3:00 PM (Eastern)
Creative Writing Reading
Poets: Nicole Santalucia, English Department, Shippensburg University, Dante Di Stefano, and George Guida, Professor, New York City College of Technology

Session #6: October TBD
Title: "Queering the Italian Diaspora"
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Assistant Professor of Italian, World Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Domenico Beneventi, Associate Professor, Department of Arts, Languages and Literatures, University of Sherbrooke

Session #7: November  TBD
Title: "Italian-American Women Writers"

Sarah Salter, Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University, Corpus Cristi, and Jessica Jackson, Assistant Professor, Colorado State University; her recent book is Dixie Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South

Session #8: December TBD
Title: "Don DeLillo"
Bryan Santin, Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Concordia University Irvine, and Alan J. Gravano, Assistant Professor and Writing Center Director, Rocky Mountain University

The Italian American Studies Association  (IASA) mourns the death of George Floyd and the many who have lost their lives to police brutality before him.

IASA deplores and condemns the racial terror and violence that shape the lives of black and brown people and other marginalized communities in the United States, Italy, and around the world.

As scholars focused on the history and culture of Italians in the United States, we recognize that over the course of many decades Italian Americans have worked to overcome widespread anti-Italian discrimination and have come to enjoy the rights and privileges of being seen as white in America. Therefore, IASA values the contributions of all racial, ethnic, and religious groups to American society, and IASA stands in solidarity with social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, aimed at dismantling systemic racism that continues to hinder communities, criminal justice systems, educational institutions, places of employment, healthcare organizations, and housing practices in our country. Finally, IASA encourages members to support the right to peaceful assembly enshrined in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

In our roles as educators, researchers, and artists, we commit to vigorous and wholehearted participation in our democracy, both inside and outside of the classroom, and we stand with those who are demanding meaningful change.

This statement affirms our commitment to anti-racist practices in our work and interactions and our pledge to use our skills and resources to actively eliminate racism and advance the production of knowledge for social justice.