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 [...]

The May newsletter of the Italian American Writers Associaiton is now available at www.iawa.net. Filled with news for reads and writers about writers, books, poems, essays, stories, and other publicaitons, as well as events, opportunities, and resources for writers,  the newsletter also kicks of the monthly Poetry and Prose Features and Open Mic [...]

This year’s IASA conference theme, Italian-American Identity Politics, 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:  to combat anti-Italian American [...]

IASA is pleased to announce that the 2013 conference will be held at the New Orleans Marriott, from October 3rd to October 5th. A call for proposals will go out within a few days. Please watch for it in your mailbox, on Facebook, or here on the website. and in your email. The deadline for proposals is likely to be either June 15th or July 1st, so get [...]

The new 2 CD set Paese Mio Bello is the first collection of its kind, featuring 44 historic Italian-American recordings, 40 of which have been previously unreleased, at least since the original 78rpm records were issued. The selections were recorded between 1915 and 1939 and vary from traditional rural folk recordings to elegant divas singing the popular [...]

 Laura E. Ruberto presents the bilingual version of the memoir Such Is Life/Ma la vita e' fatta cosi' (Bordighera, 2010) by Leonilde Frieri Ruberto on Monday, May 6, 2013 from 6-8 PM at the Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh..

The Department of Italian at Georgetown University together with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington D.C. invites proposals for a conference titled Teaching Italian Culture. The one-day conference will take place on October 19th 2013 during the Italian Language Week as part of a series of events celebrating the Year [...]