Newsletter settimanale del Queer Caucus dell’American Association of Italian Studies (13 Gennaio 2024)
Queer Caucus
Buongiorno/Buon pomeriggio,
Qui di seguito troverete una serie di informazioni riguardanti: eventi, CfP/bandi, opportunità di lavoro e formazione.
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che è possibile sostenere il Queer Caucus dell’AAIS
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Eventi
· Il 13 gennaio 2024, a partire dalle ore 18,30, avrà luogo l’evento intitolato Quisquilie sull’editare ai margini: con Lay0ut Magazine, Federico Sacco e Luca Locati Luciani. Dove? Via Giuseppe Arimondi, 3, Roma Smistamento, TWM Factory, primo piano.
· Sabato 13 gennaio alle ore 18.30 il Circolo di Cultura Omosessuale Mario Mieli (Roma) ospiterà la presentazione del libro Sono stata anch’io bambina - Dialoghi con Elena Gianini Belotti, di Roberta Ortolano e Samanta Picciaiola.
· Il 15 gennaio 2024, alle ore 18.00, Felicia Logozzo e Liana Tronci (docenti di Glottologia e Linguistica, Unistrasi) parleranno di Questioni di genere: femminili di professione e scritture inclusive su https://www.unistrasi.it/1/78/2431/Eventi_LIVE.htm
· Il 16 gennaio 2024, dalle 16 alle 17 (fuso orario UK) avrà luogo l’evento Drag Through the Gardiner Collection per info e registrazione cliccate qui.
· Il 19 gennaio 2024, a partire dalle ore 18.00, avrà luogo presso Ex Ospedale San Giacomo (Via Carriona 52, Carrara) la presentazione del volume L’ipotesi neocattolica: Politologia dei movimenti anti-gender di Massimo Prearo.
· Il 19 gennaio 2024, a partire dalle 19.00, Virginia Niri presenterà presso L'ornitorinco, via di Camaldoli 10r, Firenze il suo libro Giochi di dolore. BDSM e sessualità dissidente.
· Il 20 gennaio 2024, a partire dalle ore 17, presso l'Approdo Centro Ascolto LGBTQ+ (nei locali del Cred e Ciaf, 2 piano, Livorno) Massimo Prearo parlerà di Attualità, Politica e Movimenti Anti-Gender e Anti-LGBTQIA+ in Italia.
· Il 25 gennaio 2024, a partire dalle ore 20.00 (Eastern Time), avrà luogo l’evento online John Boswell & Not a Tame Lion: Dialogue with Craig Bettendorf & Ralph Hexter. E’ possibile registrarsi qui.
· Fino al 14 Febbraio 2024 presso il Museo Novecento di Firenze avrà luogo la mostra dal titolo: MAPPLETHORPE VON GLOEDEN. BEAUTY AND DESIRE.
· Il 17 febbraio 2024, a partire dalle ore 18.00, avrà luogo presso la Biblioteca Civica C.V. Lodovici (Piazza Antonio Gramsci 2, Carrara) la presentazione del volume Il Gender. Dieci interventi sul sessuale e sul politico di Lorenzo Bernini.
· Per conoscere gli eventi organizzati presso le Librerie Antigone di Milano e Roma cliccate qui.
CFP/Bandi
Chiasmi: Contested Bodies in Italian Studies annual Harvard-Brown Graduate Student Conference
April 5–6, 2024, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
On behalf of the graduate students of the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University and the Italian Section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, we are pleased to announce the fifteenth edition of Chiasmi – Graduate Students conference. Bodies, like the very field of Italian studies, are interdisciplinary texts. But what is a body? And what does it mean to the identity that it helps constitute? The conference Contested Bodies in Italian Studies seeks to expand on and problematize the conceptions of bodies as they apply to and construct our society, literature, and scholarship.
We are accepting contributions from disciplines such as Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Gender Studies, Race Studies, Art History, History, Literature, Philosophy, Environmental Humanities, and Media Studies as long as they have a connection with the realm of Italian culture.
Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes (approximately 8-10 pages of double-spaced text) and may be in Italian or English. Please send an abstract (no longer than 300 words) with the title of your paper, your name, affiliation, contact information (including telephone and e-mail address), and technical equipment needed as a Microsoft Word file attachment to chi...@brow.edu. Please format subject line “[Last name] - Chiasmi 2024.” Submission deadline: January 31, 2024, 23:59 EST
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AAIS 2024-Call for Conference Sessions
The American Association for Italian Studies invites members to help shape the intellectual trajectory of the next annual conference by proposing panels and roundtables for AAIS 2024.
The conference will take place in person at the Istituto Sant’Anna in Sorrento, Italy Thursday through Sunday, June 6-9.
In consultation with the Conference Subcommittee, which includes representatives from the Association’s three Caucuses, we have taken some measures that we hope will allow us to engage with issues and currents in North America, where the Association is located, and which intersect, refract, and illuminate currents in Italian Studies that are not limited to a contemporary frame or context.
The Call to Conference for AAIS 2024 maintains the Association’s historical practice of accepting pre-constituted panels and proposals from members and, at the same time, proposes several themes that also engage with our Sorrento geo-location.
AAIS 2024
Keynote Theme: “Diasporic Italies, Diasporic Italians”.
Keynote co-presenters in dialogue with this theme and each other: author Claudia Durastanti (Un giorno verrò a lanciare sassi alla tua finestra, A Chloe, per le ragioni sbagliate, Cleopatra va in prigione, La straniera) and Professor Edvige Giunta (New Jersey City University).
Suggested topics for panels and roundtables.
In addition to the AAIS practice of inviting proposals for panels and roundtables, members are especially encouraged to consider proposing panels (either fully constituted or by way of a call) that address the following, transhistorical themes:
- Diasporic Italies, Italians in Diaspora
- Migratory mobilities: human and posthuman
- Mediterranean Intersections and Iterations
- Biopolitics and Body Politics 2024: Surrogacy
- Coastal Contingencies: Peninsulas, Archipelagos, Islands, Chains
- The Southern Question in a Transhistoric Frame
- Disabled, enabled: abilities in Italian Cultural Studies
- Environmental and Ecological Interactions
A broad conference call to disciplines within IS
Aligned with the mission of the AAIS, conference organizers invite members to propose panels that approach Italian Studies through interdisciplinary and intersectional lenses representing a broad array of approaches and historical contexts.
We encourage participation from colleagues working in, but not limited to, fields such as
African and African American Studies. Geography
Anthropology History and Intellectual History
Art, Art History & Visual Arts Literary Theory
Architecture Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Classics Music
Comparative Studies Performance and Theater
Critical Race Studies Philosophy
Digital Humanities Political Science
Environmental Studies Queer Studies
Gender Studies Women’s Studies
Film and Media
Conference Awards
- The Graduate Student Travel Award is open to all graduate students. Six awards of $500 will be awarded via an application process that will be advertised. Deadline: March 1, 2024.
- The 2024 AAIS Book Prize is already open for submissions. Categories: Literary and Cultural Studies; Visual Studies (including Art History, Film and Media); History Society, and Politics (including Intellectual History and Philosophy); and First Book. Submission deadline: January 15, 2024. Awards announced at the banquet, June 8, 2024. For information, contact Nicoletta Marini-Maio (mar...@dickinson.edu).
Please note: any author submitting a book for prize consideration must be a member in 2023 (the year in which the book was published) and 2024 (the year in which the award will be made). No book will be submitted to the jury by an author who does not meet these criteria.
- The Women’s Studies Caucus (WSC) Award is open to ABD doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and adjunct faculty members who will present their research on any aspect of women’s and gender studies at the annual AAIS conference.
Continued Innovations, AAIS 2024
- Executive Council Conference Series III: “Critical Conversations in Transnational Italian Studies”
AAIS 2024 will feature, for the third time, a series, proposed, organized, and sponsored by the Executive Council that seeks to highlight expanded canonical parameters of research unfolding across myriad inter-related subfields in the humanities, the arts, cultural studies, and the social sciences. A specific objective of the ECCS is to contribute to field-wide initiatives increasing the representations of voices and viewpoints that have historically been under-represented in the Association, its events, and membership.
ECCS IIIis co-curated by Serena Bassi (Yale University), Loredana Polezzi (SUNY-Stony Brook), and Giulia Riccò (University of Michigan).
The Series will begin with an online Giornata di Studio available to all members and scheduled for Friday, March 29 which links to panels at our in-person June conference.
2. Conference App for the Program
As part of continued efforts to trim our carbon footprint, AAIS 2024 will continue using a web platform that manages the registration, and a Web/Phone App for the Program.
3. AAIS 2024 “State of Affairs”
The program will feature a “round-up” panel on the last day (Sunday, June 9) meant to take the pulse of what is heard, noticed, and perceived of the conference proceedings.
4.The 2024 AAIS Business Meeting will take place online Tuesday, June 17, 2024. All members are invited to attend. Action items are anticipated.
5. AAIS 2024 continues with the new practice, part of the Association’s efforts toward greater inclusion, of inviting graduate students at the PhD level (not only ABD) to participate. No supporting letter from the dissertation director is required.
MEMBERSHIP AND REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
PLEASE NOTE CHANGES
For panels, roundtable and individual proposals to be considered, your AAIS 2023 membership must be current and active.
- You will then be required to renew your AAIS membership by February 1, 2024 for the coming year.
- When you renew in 2024, your Association membership will be valid until January 31, 2025.
- Panels with participants who are not active members will not be accepted.
- All conference participants must register for the conference, and pay registration fees (different from membership dues).
Registration fees will be announced shortly.
Please note: Payments for both membership and conference registration fees will be processed online-only.
Please note: All correspondence must be addressed and submitted via the AAIS website LINK. Please do not write to the officers.
AAIS 2024: Deadlines at a glance
REVISED PRACTICE FOR CfP CIRCULATION
PLEASE READ:
- CfPs (for proposed panels and roundtable) will not be submitted to the conference committee for approval.
- CfPs must be posted directly to the dedicated page on the AAIS website: please go to the Member Center and click on the Listings tab to start posting.
- A weekly reminder about available CfPs will be sent to all members.
- January 21, 2024: All proposed abstracts due to panel and roundtable organizers with title, brief abstract (150-200 words), and short bio.
- February 1, 2024: All completed panels and roundtables due (please see below for proper formatting - to be submitted via the Member Center).
-February 1, 2024: All proposed Conference participants must have renewed and current, active membership (with paid membership dues).
-February 23, 2024: Organizers will receive notification of panel acceptances.
-April 5, 2024: Early Bird Conference Registration closes.
-May 3, 2024: All AAIS 2024 participants must have paid conference registration fees.
Please consult the LINK FOR GUIDELINES for complete norms for organizers, chairs, and speakers.
Use the following for each proposed panel or roundtable:
TITLE OF SESSION OF ROUNDTABLE
(IN CAPS)
Organizer: Name, Affiliation, email address
Chair (if different from Organizer): Name, Affiliation
Name, Affiliation, Title of presentation in quotation
marks for each session participant
Name, Affiliation for each roundtable participant
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Please consider sending an abstract for the panel “Queer Southern Crossings,” as part of the next American Association for Italian Studies Conference (6–9 June 2024, Sant'Anna Institute, Sorrento). As analysed by various scholars (Dickie 1999; Moe 2006; Schneider 1998), the Italian Unification in the nineteenth century heightened a process of othering regarding the Mezzogiorno, relegating it to a role of subalternity compared to the more ‘advanced’ and ‘modern’ North. Following the footsteps of Franco Cassano’s Southern Thought (2012), today there is an epistemological change regarding the South and its representations (Ferrante 2019; Polizzi 2022), one that in particular involves forms of non-normative gender identities and sexual orientations across different cultural forms. We invite papers from a variety of perspectives (cinema, literature, visual arts, sociology, history, anthropology), which explore the intersection between queerness, Southern Italy, and other elements, such as:
· Environment, the Mediterranean, Human and Nonhuman Representation, Collapse, Climate
· Homonationalism, Italianness, Southern Question
· Race, Racialisation, Racialised Individuals, Colourism
· Migration, Southern Diaspora, Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, Border Critical Thinking
· Social Movements and Human Rights
· Disability, Bodies, and Embodiment
· Material and Immaterial Cultures
· Religion, Beliefs and Rituals
· Feminist Anti-mafia Practice
· Families and Kinship
· Local Languages
· Class
Please send a title, an abstract of 150-200 words, and a short bio to Valentina
Amenta (valentin...@uniroma1.it), Dr Francesca Romana Ammaturo
(f.amm...@londonmet.ac.uk), and Alice Parrinello (alice.pa...@stx.ox.ac.uk) by January 21, 2024.
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Panel proposto per la AAIS 2024
Migration, Belonging, and Citizenship
on Screen
organized by Giovanna Faleschini Lerner and Eleanor Paynter
for the 2024 American Association for Italian Studies conference
Over the last decade, a number of filmmakers have significantly expanded the body of cinematic works that explore and respond to shifts in both migration trends and public and political discourses about transnational migration to Italy (e.g. Jonas Carpignano, Giulia Ciniselli, Matteo Garrone, Elia Mouatamid, Andrea Segre, Dagmawi Yimer). Their work increasingly spotlights the extent to which experiences of border crossing are linked to longer-terms questions of citizenship, diaspora, and belonging. These connections have also come to the fore in work by scholars and activists who insist that global issues of migration and asylum are not distant or external concerns, but fundamentally Italian questions (e.g. Romeo 2023, Hawthorne 2022, Smythe 2017, Stanley 2015).
For this roundtable, we invite short interventions centering intersectional readings of films that take up experiences of border crossing and notions of belonging via stories of migrants and first- and second-generation Italians.
We are interested in papers that focus not only on stories about the journey to Italy, but also works about reception, labor, and (re)settlement more broadly. In prioritizing intersectional readings, we are concerned with questions of voice, self-representation v. representation of others’ experiences, as well as how films portray lived experiences and entangled issues related to race, gender, class, language, and religion. Proposals might focus on works of, for example, participatory cinema, documentary projects, or feature films that center these themes.
More information on the conference is available here.
Please send a brief abstract (200 words), title, and a short bio to Giovanna Faleschini Lerner (gle...@fandm.edu) and Eleanor Paynter (eleanor...@brown.edu) by Jan. 15, 2024. We anticipate having interventions pre-circulate among participants a week before the AAIS conference. This roundtable is sponsored by the Critical Race, Diasporas, and Migrations Caucus.
Contact Email
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Panel proposti per AAIS 2024
Breaking Barriers: Women Pathbreakers
Pathbreakers push the boundaries of what is known or accepted, leaving a lasting impact on their respective fields and inspiring future generations. This panel aims to shine a spotlight on the remarkable contributions of Italian women in any time period to the fields of medicine, science, politics, education, arts, and literature. It will emphasize their extraordinary journeys, exploring the challenges they faced, the barriers they shattered, and the enduring impact they left on Italian society and beyond. We look forward to receiving your compelling contributions that help illuminate these often-overlooked stories.
Violence against Women: Raising Awareness through Journalism, Protest, and Art
This round table invites proposals for brief position papers (ca. 5 minutes) that examine current conversations about femicides and violence against women in today’s Italy from a variety of perspectives including legal, activist, journalistic, narrative, and artistic. Who is doing what and what is left to do? What feminist transnational networks are mobilizing? How are the arts intervening in these debates?
Women and Activism in Italy
This panel invites presentations on female activism in Italy throughout the centuries. What practices do we consider activist? What goals did women articulate and which ones did they meet? We encourage contributions that explore Italian women’s activism in diverse areas, including labor struggles, environmental issues, reproductive rights, and racial justice, among others, and from interdisciplinary perspectives.
Please indicate the title of the
session and submit an abstract ca. 200 words with a short bio to Claudia
Karagoz at claudia...@slu.edu by January 24, 2024.
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Dal 3 al 6 giugno 2024 si terrà all'Università di Cagliari la Terza conferenza internazionale della Rivista "Scuola Democratica" che ha come titolo "Education and/for Social Justice".
Insieme al prof. Giuseppe Burgio e alǝ dottorǝ Ale Santambrogio dell'Università degli Studi di Enna "Kore" è stato presentato un panel dal titolo "Queering pedagogy. Contributions and challenges of pedagogical and educational research on gender, sexuality and sociocultural normativities" https://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/panels-203/.
La scadenza della call è fissata al 10 febbraio 2024 nella quale, quest'anno, si possono presentare anche interventi in italiano: https://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/.
Di seguito alcuni topics previsti dal panel:
- Queer pedagogy epistemologies.
- LGBTQIA+ subjectivity in education.
- Identity and desires fluidity in education.
- Subjectivation processes in developmental age and adult educators.
- Queer masculinities.
- Neurodivergent Subjectivities and Neuro Queer Theory.
- Intersectionality and queer knowledge.
- Educational research methodologies.
- Curriculum, teaching practice, and queerness.
- Adultism, adultcentrism, and queer pedagogy.
- Gender-based violence in education.
- Queer pedagogy and the deconstruction of cis-heteronormativity.
- Pedagogical and caring work in 0-6 educational services and at school.
- Political activism, education, and research.
- Pop pedagogy and queerization of cultural models.
- Ecology, anti-speciesism, and queer.
- Decoloniality, post-coloniality, and epistemologies of the South.
- Trans* pedagogies.
- Crip theory and education.
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‘Queer Experiences in the Holocaust’
Centre for Jewish Studies. University of Leeds
Organised by Dr Rosie Ramsden and Professor Helen Finch
Tuesday 16th April, 2024
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
How can we trace queer experiences during the Nazi genocide of European Jewry, 1933-1945, the Porajmos and the persecution of other minoritized subjects by the Nazis? In what form were persecuted subjects able to testify to their queer experiences, and how can we approach these sources? How can we account for the diversity of the way that queer experiences were expressed during and after the time of persecution, including the way that ethnicity, class, gender, religion and religiosity, nationality and language affected the recording of queer experiences? What silences have been produced by stigma, shame and homophobia, and how can we trace queer experiences despite these silences? What are the ethical implications of giving voice to silences in the historical record? What inclusive and non-hierarchical methods can scholars use to trace these experiences and to co-produce materials on queer experiences with wider communities outside academia, particularly queer communities and activist scholars? What might studies of queer experiences in the Holocaust reveal – about same-sex intimacy, queer desire, agency, experience, the intersections of queerness, gender, race, class, ethnicity, age, etc. - that can allow for a deeper understanding of the Holocaust to be realised?
This workshop seeks to explore the ways in which victims of Nazi persecution have testified to and have left traces of queer experience. This might include, but not be limited to:
· Queer experiences in video testimony
· Queer readings of Holocaust testimony, such as the interventions made by Amy Elman and Cheryl Hann about Anne Frank’s diary.
· Queer experiences in archival material
· Queer memoir and life writing
· Queer artworks
Recent years have seen a transnational growth of interest in researching queer experiences of the Holocaust. This includes the pioneering work of such scholars as Joanna Ostrowska, Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska and Lutz van Kijk (Erinnern in Auschwitz auch an sexuelle Minderheiten, 2020), Anna Hájková (Menschen ohne Geschichte sind Staub, 2021), W. Jake Newsome (Pink Triangle Legacies. Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust, 2022), Zavier Nunn (‘Against Anticipation, or, Camp Reading as Reparative to the Trans Feminine Past: A Microhistory in Nazi-Era Vienna.’ Gender and History (2023) 1-17), and Roseanna Ramsden (“‘Something Was Crawling All over Me’: Queer Fear in Women’s Holocaust Testimonies.” Holocaust studies 26.3 (2020): (401–415), and many others (see the online bibliography “Bibliography Sexuality and the Holocaust”,
https://sexualityandholocaust.com/bibliography-sexuality/). As well as these volumes and essays, individual biographies of queer-identifying subjects who were persecuted in the Holocaust have also recently appeared, including Jonathan Ned Katz, The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams (2021), and Raimund Wolfert, Charlotte Charlaque. Transfrau, Laienschauspielerin, “Königin der Broooklyn Heights Promenade (2021). Queer experience and persecution of queer activity during the Nazi period has also started to become reference and thematized by more mainstream media productions, including Transparent (Jill Soloway, 2014-2019), Nelly & Nadine (Magnus Gertten, 2022), Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate (Benjamin Cantu, 2023).
Common to all of these more recent texts is an attentiveness to intersectional issues (Crenshaw) and to the lived complexities of queer experiences during the Holocaust. These new areas of research are indebted to the pioneering work of scholars who researched queer history from the 1970s to the 1990s, such as Richard Plant (The Pink Triangle. The Nazi War against Homosexuals, 1986) or Claudia Schoppmann (Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich, 1996). They develop this earlier scholarship by drawing on fresh research as well as methodological perspectives such as critical race theory and intersectional feminism. They also seek to draw links between the persecution of queers during the Nazi period and the broader context of global homophobic persecution (e.g. Alexander Zinn (ed), Homosexuelle in Deutschland 1933-1969, 2020).
Inspired by – and seeking to build upon – the recent turn towards queer historiography in Holocaust studies, this workshop will focus on queer experiences of the Holocaust. It is particularly concerned both with how survivors have testified to these queer experiences, and how scholars can uncover their traces despite the ways they have been silenced, obscured, hidden and flattened by traditional discourses, and despite the fact that many of these traces are held in the archives of the perpetrators. We are also painfully aware that the time for speaking directly to queer survivors of the Holocaust has nearly run out. In an effort to foster intellectual exchange and reflection, we aim to bring together scholars working in different disciplines, methodologies (especially queer methodologies), and theoretical perspectives, and who analyse different types of evidence. The workshop seeks to advance interdisciplinary inquiries into queer history and memory of the Holocaust and, importantly, to facilitate the exploration of new ways to approach survivors’ testimonies to reveal the traces of queer experience within them.
We especially encourage contributions from postgraduate students and early career researchers. A publication is envisaged as an outcome of the workshop.
Please submit a brief abstract (max. 200 words) and a short biography to Dr Rosie Ramsden (r.ra...@leeds.ac.uk) or Professor Helen Finch (h.c....@leeds.ac.uk) by February 24th 2024.
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Sono aperte le iscrizioni a “Donne In Corto 2024” Concorso
di Cortometraggi Italiani di fiction a tematica lesbica e femminista, indetto
da Immaginaria International Film Festival per
promuovere la produzione delle filmmaker e registe italiane e la diffusione
delle loro opere.
Inviatei vostri lavori entro il 1° marzo 2024. Il Regolamento su: https://www.immaginariaff.it/concorso-2/
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Canadian Association for Italian Studies (CAIS)-Call for Papers: 2024 Conference, Orvieto, June 13-16, 2024
This year, the first two days of the conference sessions (Thursday June 13th and Friday June 14th) will be held online while on Saturday, June 15th and Sunday June 16th sessions will be held fully in person.
If your session is to be delivered online, ALL speakers will need to be online and all audience members will also access the session online.
If your session is to be delivered in person, ALL speakers will need to be in person. Audience members may access the session in person or remotely as we will reserve rooms with appropriate technology.
Moreover, no request to swap in-person sessions or presentations for online presentations or sessions will be accepted once the program is published.
Opening and Closing Remarks, Keynotes and the AGM will take place in hybrid format.
This year, while there is no conference theme per se, papers are welcome on all aspects of Italian Studies. In addition, on our website (https://canadianassociationforitalianstudies.org), you will find special sessions organized by the CAIS Executive.
The deadline for session proposals is March 3, 2024. To propose a session, please fill out the session proposal form and submit it to the conference organizers at the official CAIS email address: italian.stu...@gmail.com. Session proposals will be published on the CAIS website in the order in which they are received.
Proposals for individual papers should be sent directly to the session organizers using the paper proposal form. If you would like to propose a paper that cannot be housed in any of the planned panels, please submit the form directly to the conference organizers at this email address: italian.stu...@gmail.com.
Session organizers must consider all the paper proposals received up to the deadline of March 20, 2024. The announcement that a panel is closed can only be made after that date. Once the deadline has passed, all session organizers will submit the complete session proposal form for their session (or sessions). Please use one form for each completed session.
Members can present only one paper at the annual conference. Papers must be presented synchronously (live), and not be recorded. Moreover, no papers will be read in absentia. In addition, members can participate in one round table.
Session organizers are allowed to chair the session they organized. Members are allowed to chair and organize more than one session.
Please be reminded that if you submit a paper proposal to more than one session, you should notify all the organizers to whom you have made a submission.
If you fail to notify the session organizers, they will have the right to decide between themselves in which session the paper will be presented or if the paper will be excluded.
All participants must be members in good standing of CAIS. Membership must be current by April 24, 2024 in order for the member’s name to appear in the program and for the member to be allowed to present his/her work at the 2024 CAIS conference.
Conference Registration will open in March 2024. The deadline to register for the conference is April 14, 2024. In order to ensure proper planning and for purposes of catering and classroom/meeting reservations, no late registrations will be accepted.
Papers in sessions with four speakers should be no more than 15 minutes long to allow for discussion among session participants.
Papers in sessions with three speakers should be no longer than 20 minutes long to allow for discussion among session participants.
More details will follow about conference fees and logistics.
Job and MA/PhD Postings
The Department of Italian
Studies at the University of Toronto, one of the largest and oldest in
North America, is now accepting applications to its graduate programs (MA and
PhD) for the 2024-25 academic year. Accepted students are awarded competitive
funding packages.
With engaging undergraduate and graduate
programming, events, and extensive research initiatives, scholars affiliated
with the Department are surrounded by a vibrant academic community that
includes our award-winning faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate
students.
For more information, please contact the
Associate Chair Graduate at italia...@utoronto.ca
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Brown University accepting PhD program applications for 2024–2025. Department of Italian Studies
Join a vibrant, inclusive academic community of scholars engaged in the critical study of Italy as a transhistorical and transnational formation. Italian Studies at Brown is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to the study of Italian cultural identity through multiple perspectives and across geographical space and historical periods. Faculty and students in this department and affiliated researchers across Brown University focus on Italy globally through literary, historical, and art historical studies, anthropological and sociopolitical theory, the digital humanities, and the latest methodologies in language pedagogy.
Opportunities: In addition to graduate certificates in a variety of fields (including Teaching Methods, Collaborative Humanities, Digital Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Public Humanities) as part of their curriculum doctoral students in Italian Studies can complete a Master's degree in a discipline of their choice through the Open Graduate Education program. Financial information: Students admitted to the doctoral programs in Italian Studies are guaranteed six years of support, including a highly competitive stipend that includes summer funding, full tuition remission, health services fee, and health insurance.
Inquiries and contacts: Italian...@brown.edu; Prof. Massimo Riva, Director of Graduate Studies, massim...@brown.edu.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. The goal of the fellowship is to support the most promising Canadian and international new scholars in Italian Studies and assist them in establishing a research base at an important time in their careers. We encourage applications from candidates working on any aspect of Italian Studies, including Literature, Linguistics, Cinema, Diaspora Studies, History, Arts, Theatre, Media, Cultural Studies, and Pedagogy, as well as from candidates working on interdisciplinary and comparative subjects involving Italian Studies. One to two fellowships are available each year with application deadline in January with results announced in the Spring. Application deadline for 2024-2025 fellowships is 31 January 2024. For more information visit this website.
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Visiting Assistant Professor in French, Francophone and Italian Studies (Colby College, Waterville, ME)
Department of French and Italian Studies, one-year position, to begin September 1, 2024
PhD expected. The successful candidate will be part of an energetic department committed to providing the best education to talented undergraduates. We are seeking individuals able to teach French at all levels and Italian in the required language sequence. We especially value extensive experience, demonstrated effectiveness engaging with a diverse student body and a record of excellence in language instruction. Area open; however, preference given to candidates with training in second language instruction, pedagogy, digital humanities, and translation studies. This is a non-tenured and non-tenurable full-time position, with a teaching load of 5 courses per year. Candidates must have native or near-native fluency in French, Italian and English and a strong commitment to teaching French and Italian.
Applicants should submit the following: cover letter, curriculum vitae, three confidential letters of recommendation, a statement of teaching philosophy and research interests that should include evidence of a commitment to the value of diversity and experience with inclusive teaching, and two full sets of course evaluations, via Interfolio at the following link, https://apply.interfolio.com/135772. Review of applications will begin Feb 5, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled. Address all inquiries to Mouhamédoul Amine Niang (man...@colby.edu), Chair of French Search Committee.
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Lecturer in Italian (Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY)
Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, full-time appointment with an initial two-year term (renewable)
This position will be central to reinforcing and expanding education in Italian language and culture at Stony Brook. The position will involve language teaching at various levels, as well as contributing to the teaching of Italian cultures. Other responsibilities include enriching the minor in Italian American Studies, contributing to the overall development and coordination of the Italian curriculum, and collaborating with the Center for Italian Studies.
The salary is $65,000 plus location pay. Lecturers teach three courses per semester, hold office hours, serve on committees, and participate in curriculum development and assessment.
Please upload a cover letter, resume, statement of teaching philosophy, two sample syllabi for undergraduate courses in Italian language & Italian/Italian American culture, recent teaching evaluations, diversity statement, and at least two letters of recommendation on Interfolio using the following link:http://apply.interfolio.com/135923 All documents must be in English. Deadline: 1/8/2024; applications and/or additional documentation will not be accepted after this date.
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Lecturer in Italian (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN)
Department of French and Italian, full-time (10-month) non-tenure-track position, to begin Fall 2024
At Indiana University, lecturers are considered for promotion to senior lecturer after six years; senior lecturers may also be considered for promotion to the highest rank, teaching professor. We seek an individual with experience in teaching Italian language and culture and who is committed to a career of excellence in teaching. M.A. or Ph.D. required at the time of appointment. Excellence in teaching in a variety of formats and native/near-native Italian are essential.
Applicants should apply online at http://indiana.peopleadmin.com, including a cover letter; CV; teaching philosophy statement; sample teaching demo; evidence of teaching excellence (student evaluations, samples of syllabi, assessments and/or classroom activities displaying excellence in teaching and commitment to fostering inclusive and equitable classroom environment); three letters of reference. Applications received by January 8th, 2024, will be assured full consideration; however, the search will remain open until the position is filled. Queries can be sent to Dr. Karolina Serafin kser...@iu.edu.
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Resident Advisor (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH)
Italian Language Learning Community, Department of French and Italian, 2024–2025 academic year
Il Dipartimento di French and Italian, Dartmouth College, cerca un RESIDENT ADVISOR per la propria ITALIAN LANGUAGE LEARNING COMMUNITY (LLC) per l’anno accademico 2024-2025 (da inizio settembre 2024 a metà giugno 2025). L’ITALIAN LLC stimola gli studenti di italiano a Dartmouth ad esplorare la lingua e la cultura italiana oltre le classi, offrendo attività culturali, conferenze, serie di film, concerti, spettacoli teatrali, escursioni, e ore settimanali di conversazione. Recentemente trasformata in una struttura ibrida, permette agli studenti di vivere separatamente partecipando a eventi organizzati dal Resident Advisor.
Il candidato ideale per la posizione di Resident Advisor deve avere un forte interesse a promuovere l’apprendimento della lingua e della cultura italiana attraverso l’ideazione e la realizzazione di attività ed eventi culturali da realizzare in collaborazione con il Programma di Italiano e con altri uffici e dipartimenti presenti nel College. Stipendio: $11.250 totali. Contributo per il vitto: $6.000 ($2.000 per trimestre). Alloggio sul campus. Spese di viaggio coperte da/per l’Italia. Sponsorizzazione per il visto J1. Possibilità di seguire corsi a Dartmouth College come auditor.
Domanda: Da inviare via email a Ellissa Griffin [Ellissa....@dartmouth.edu] entro il 15 Gennaio 2024. I candidati selezionati per la prima fase di interviste saranno contattati entro la metà di febbraio 2024. Per informazioni contattare giorgio...@dartmouth.edu. https://tinyurl.com/45257u3c.
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The Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Allegheny College invites applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor position beginning August 2024 with the possibility of renewal. Specialization is open and we will look favorably on candidates with expertise in trans studies, disability studies, care feminisms, critical madness studies or feminist-queer approaches to mental health, feminist-queer approaches to critical feminist data studies, and/or digital feminisms & technologies. The department emphasizes BIPOC, intersectional and transnational approaches and the person in this position will teach core classes in the WGSS curriculum and a course in their specialization. The standard annual teaching load is six classes and professional development funds are available.
We especially encourage applications from candidates with a Ph.D. in Gender/Trans/Queer/Women’s/Feminist Studies. Well-qualified candidates with Ph.D. degrees in other fields such as and not limited to Disability Studies, Black Studies, Africana Studies, Ethnic Studies, American Studies, Health Studies, Health Humanities, Public Health, Digital/Data Studies, and Sociology are welcome to apply as long as they have a track record of specializing in women’s, gender & sexuality studies. ABD candidates with substantial teaching experience and who can demonstrate completed dissertation defenses by July 2024 will be considered. The successful candidate will demonstrate their commitment to undergraduate pedagogies while pursuing their research agenda and contributing to the learning community in the department.
Send application materials (cover letter, CV with contact information including email and telephone number, a one-page statement of teaching philosophy, and a list of three references) as a single PDF file to the Office of Human Resources, Allegheny College, 520 North Main Street, Meadville PA 16335 or by email to emplo...@allegheny.edu
Applicants should state in their cover letter how their teaching, research, service, and/or life experiences prepare them to advance Allegheny’s commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Review of applications will begin February 9, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled.
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The Department of Romance Languages at Williams College seeks to fill a one-year visiting faculty position in Italian for the 2024-2025 academic year to teach a 2-1-2 load, including three language courses (elementary and intermediate), one literature course, and a 4-week sustaining language course in January. Ph.D. preferred; native or near-native proficiency in Italian is required. A passion for teaching is a must. The successful candidate will have significant language teaching experience and innovative ideas for one upper-level course in translation on any aspect of Italian literature and culture. The candidate will also have a desire to work effectively, both inside and outside of the classroom, with a student population that is broadly diverse in every way. Our program is founded on close student-faculty interaction and strong mentoring, as well as vibrant scholarship. We provide visiting faculty with mentoring in teaching including participation in college’s professional development program for new faculty (First3) and support through the Rice Center for Teaching. Application deadline: January 10, 2024. Applications should include: CV, cover letter, and three reference letters. Cover letter should include a statement on the candidate’s commitment to working with a student population that is broadly diverse. All materials should be addressed to Leyla Rouhi, Chair, Department of Romance Languages, and must be submitted through Interfolio. Email applications will not be accepted. All queries should be directed to lro...@williams.edu. We welcome applications from members of groups traditionally underrepresented in the field. All offers of employment are contingent upon completion of a background check. Further information is available here: http://dean-faculty.williams.edu/prospective-faculty/background-check-policy/.
Position Begins July 1, 2024
Application Deadline January 10, 2024
Apply Online http://apply.interfolio.com/135011
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Visiting Lecturer (Mount Holyoke College, MA)
The Department of Classics and Italian seeks a full-time visiting lecturer in Italian beginning July 1, 2024
The successful candidate will teach five courses (three in the fall and two in the spring) of Italian language and literature/culture at all levels. The successful candidate must be able to teach in English and in Italian and will have a demonstrated record of strong teaching at the undergraduate level and experience mentoring students who are broadly diverse with regard to race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, and religion.
Please submit a cover letter, a resume, three statements concerning (1) teaching philosophy, (2) research interests, and (3) a statement about mentoring a diverse student body and contact information for three letters of reference by January 30, 2024. PhD or ABD required.
For questions, please contact Ombretta Frau, of...@mtholyoke.edu. View Details.
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Part-time Adjunct Instructor (University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA)
Department of World Languages and Cultures, two sections of Italian 1 and Culture (pending enrollment) beginning January 16, 2024
Under the guidance of the Italian program coordinator, the ideal candidate will enhance the student's learning experience by integrating a variety of methods and strategies into the teaching process and maintaining a student learning-centered environment. The University of Massachusetts Lowell is committed to increasing diversity in its faculty, staff, and student populations, as well as curriculum and support programs, while promoting an inclusive environment. The Department of World Languages and Cultures seeks candidates who can contribute to that goal. Instructors will be expected to attend a scheduled orientation in January.
Review of applications will begin immediately. This will continue to be an ongoing posting to develop a pool of applicants for openings as they arise. The position will close after an adequate number of qualified applications is received. This is a part-time, non-benefited, Union of Adjunct Faculty, Local 1596, UAW position. To apply, use the link: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/822/lowell/en-us/job/521616/faculty-parttime-world-languages-and-cultures.
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Part-time Instructor(s) of Italian (Syracuse University, NY)
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, teaching 4-credit section(s) of Italian II in the spring 2024 semester (appointment begins January 9, 2024)
Offer is contingent upon sufficient enrollment. The hiring rate of pay for the successful candidate will be determined based on their per-credit-rate-history within the hiring department.
Qualifications: Master’s degree; native or near-native fluency required. Experience in university-level teaching preferred.
For full consideration, in addition to completing an online application, please submit a curriculum vitae/resume, cover letter, and a list of names of three references at application portal: www.sujobopps.com/postings/102325. Feel free to direct any questions about the position to the Language Program Coordinator, Dr. Lauren Surovi (lesu...@syr.edu). Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian and Film Studies (Dickinson College, PA)
Italian Department and the Film & Media Studies Program, one-year, non tenure-track position beginning Fall 2024
We invite applications for a joint Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian and Film & Media Studies, with expertise in one or more of the following fields: Italian 20th and 21st century literature and culture, Italian film in a transnational frame, colonial and postcolonial Italian film, European film, gender and sexuality in Italian film and media, Italian television, film language and filmmaking techniques.
The ideal candidate, who will participate fully in the life of a vibrant Italian program and a growing Film and Media Studies program, can teach effectively at all levels of the curriculum, including Italian through film, or by other creative means of oral production (such as radio/TV programs, podcasts, etc.), Italian film and media interdisciplinary advanced courses, and a film studies introductory course. Demonstrated excellence in teaching and the ability to create inclusive learning environments for an increasingly diverse student body will be important characteristics of the successful candidate. Native or near-native fluency in Italian is required. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Italian or Film and Media Studies (or equivalent) in hand by time of appointment. Teaching load is 3-2.
Interested candidates should apply for this position electronically via https://jobs.dickinson.edu. Please submit CV, cover letter, the names and contact information of three reference letter writers, writing sample, and teaching philosophy statement. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until January 31, 2024. First-round interviews will be conducted via Zoom.
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Christ Church, St John’s College, Worcester College and the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages invite applications from suitably qualified candidates for an Associate Professorship or Professorship of Italian, to be appointed with effect from 1st September 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The successful candidate will be expected to engage in advanced study and research in Italian, and to give tutorials, classes, lectures, and supervision at both undergraduate and graduate level. Applications are particularly sought from those who have research interests in either nineteenth-century Italian Studies and/or in modern/contemporary Italian poetry. The appointee will be required to teach in both these areas.
The successful candidate will be required to give 24 hours of lectures or graduate classes per year, give individual graduate supervisions, participate in examining, and take part in Faculty and Sub-Faculty administration as instructed by the Chair of the Faculty Board. For the Colleges, the successful candidate will be required to give nine weighted hours of tutorial teaching a week averaged over the three terms (24 weeks) of the academic year, to take a lead in organising the tuition and pastoral care of students who are studying for degrees involving Italian in each of the three Colleges, to play a part in the annual admissions process for those courses; and to participate in the administrative work especially of the lead College, Christ Church
The ideal candidate will have a higher degree (doctorate or equivalent) in Italian. They will have higher education teaching experience, have the skills needed for successful tutorial and small group teaching to students of diverse abilities and backgrounds, and have achievement in a field of research relevant to the subjects being taught.
The post is offered on a permanent and full-time basis (37.5 hours per week) upon completion of a successful review (the review is conducted during the first five years). Combined University and College salary of £52,815-£70,918 per annum plus generous college housing provision, according to qualifications and experience. New appointments are usually made at the first point of the scale.
Further particulars, including instructions about how to apply, may be downloaded from www.chch.ox.ac.uk/vacancies. The deadline for applications is 12 noon on Monday 29th January 2024.
Christ Church is committed to equality and we value the diversity of our staff and students. It is our policy and practice that entry into employment and progression within employment will be determined only by criteria which are related to the duties of a particular post and the relevant salary scale. No applicant or member of staff will be treated less favourably than another because of their age, disability, ethnicity, marital or civil partnership status, parental status, religion or belief, gender, or sexual orientation.