Date/Time
Sunday 05/02/2021
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Categories
Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 2 PM
“A casa” with the Museo
A series of (virtual) talks and conversations with leading scholars of Italian American history and culture
#2 The Italian American Experience: The Archive as Classroom
Evelyn Ferraro in conversation with Lina Insana
The exploration of the Italian American Experience(s) in University-level Italian Studies classes offers an excellent opportunity for students to develop historical knowledge, and critically reflect on individual and collective identities. The Italian American Experience can be introduced into the classroom through multiple methodologies, including collaborations that bring together students, faculty, archives, libraries and other local institutions.
The Museo presents a conversation with Professor Lina Insana on how archives can become spaces of active learning and fruitful collaborations, offering a more experimental approach to the study of Italians in places such as Pittsburgh, PA, and Santa Clara, CA.
Lina Insana is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Arduous Tasks: Primo Levi, Translation, and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony (U of Toronto Press, 2009) and is completing a manuscript entitled Charting the Island: Sicilian Position and Belonging from Unification to the European Union. Her work–spanning fields such as Translation Studies, Holocaust Studies, Italian American Studies, Migration Studies, and Geocriticism–has appeared in MELUS, Italica, Italian American Review, and Annali d’Italianistica, among other journals and edited volumes. She is currently working with a team of undergraduate students to discover the origins and funding history of Pittsburgh’s Columbus monument.
Evelyn Ferraro is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Santa Clara University. Some of her scholarly work on migration narratives in North America has appeared in Italia senza frontiere/Borderless Italy, a thematic issue of California Italian Studies; Quaderni d’italianistica; and the special issue on the Jewish experience in NeMLA Italian Studies. Her current research project investigates memory and space in Italian American narratives in California. She is a Book Review Editor for Altreitalie, an International Journal of Studies on Italian Migrations in the World based in Turin, Italy
Free for Museo Members and Santa Clara University and University of Pittsburgh students
$10 for Non members
Photo: Annibale Giovanni Ferrari in his first shop in Oakland, circa 1919. Courtesy of A.G. Ferrari Foods
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