L'Italo-Americano

L'Italo-Americano THURS DAY,   MARCH  7,   2013 PAGE  17 California Interdisciplinary Consortium of Italian Studies' Conference 2013 The University of California, Berkeley, is presenting the 2013 California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies conference, which will be held at UC Berkeley on March 8th and 9th, 2013. This year, the conference is devoted to the large umbrella theme "All Things Trans." The idea is to create a venue for work in recording migrant testimonies and narratives. In 2012, with a group of migrants, media operators and researchers, he set up an Archive of Migrant Memories (AMM) in Rome to support migrant rights and agency through audio-visual productions. Currently, together with local Associations and a network of Ngos, Universities and Professor Alessandro Triulzi, founder of the Archive of Migrant Memories in Rome on areas of inquiry, objects of study, and theoretical approaches that scholars have felt it necessary to identify as moving across, through, over, to the other side of, or beyond existing areas, objects or approaches by adopting the prefix "trans." Such work includes transnational, trans-disciplinary, trans-historical, or trans-species approaches; studies that take translation, transgender, transitoriness, trans-sexuality, transference, transaction, or transition as their focus. A sampling of topics might include: the 'global turn' and its impact on Italian studies and on the humanities; the age of discovery and the first globalization; translating cultures in an expanding world; the history of media and the transmission of cultures across national, linguistic and social borders; transnational bodies and alliances; new approaches to interdisciplinarity in Italian Studies. Keynote speaker of the CICIS Conference 2013 will be Alessandro Triulzi, founder of the Archive of Migrant Memories in Rome, talking about "Recording And Sharing Migrant Voices In Contemporary Italy." Among the special guest speakers will be Italian professor Valerio Ferme (Santa Clara University), Francine Masiello (UC Berkeley), Laura Ruberto (Berkeley City College), Paola Splendore (Roma Tre), Diego Pirillo (UC Berkeley), Cristiana Giordano (UC Davis), JoAnne Ruvoli (UCLA), Renata Redford (UCLA). Alessandro Triulzi is Professor of Sub-Saharan African History at the Università di Napoli 'L'Orientale.' He has published extensively on twentieth-century Ethiopian history, colonial memory and postcolonial violence. Since 2007 he has been involved Museums, he is promoting a Museum of Migrations at Lampedusa based on material and immaterial presence and passage of peoples crossing the Mediterranean. Triulzi's recent publications include: Dopo la violenza. Costruzioni di memoria nel mondo contemporaneo (Naples, Representation of Italian-Chinese cultural integration in San Francisco 2005); Il ritorno della memoria coloniale (afriche & orienti, 1, 2007); L'Archivio delle memorie migranti, book + dvd of Come un uomo sulla terra (Rome, 2009); Colonia e postcolonia come spazi diasporici. Attraversamenti di memorie, di identità e confini nel Corno d'Africa (co-ed with Uoldelul Chelati Dirar, Silvana Palma, Alessandro Volterra, Rome, 2011); Long Journeys. African Migrants on the Road (co-ed. R. McKenzie, Leiden, in press). Professor Triulzi's talk on Friday, March 8th at 5:00 p.m. at Wurster Hall Auditorium will be followed by the screening of "Soltanto il mare" (2010), an Italian documentary directed by Dagmawi yimer, Fabrizio Barraco, and Giulio Cederna, and produced by Asinitas, Archivio Memorie Migranti, and Sandro Triulzi. Part of the documentary was shot in Lampedusa during 2010, during a limited period in which there were no arrivals of migrants. It was completed during the course of 2011, when the island was again at the center of political debates in the national media because of new inflows. The documentary critically juxtaposes two different perspectives on immigration: that of director and protagonist Dagmawi yimer, who originally arrived in Italy by way of Lampedusa as a migrant in 2006, and that of the local inhabitants, the lampedusani. The California Interdisciplinary Consortium of Italian Studies (CICIS) was established in 2001 to bring together faculty, students, and independent scholars from around the state interested in Italy. CICIS' mission is to foster interdisciplinary and transnational research related to Italian studies in California, and to convene conferences where this research can be promoted, undertaken, presented, and discussed. The organization is open to UC faculty and graduate students as well as scholars and researchers from other California research institutions, and independent scholars residing in California. CICIS maintains a list-serve and holds meetings to discuss shared concerns and to organize annual conferences. For the full program of activities of the CICIS Conference 2013 visit http://www.cicis2013 berkeley.com/program.html CONSOLATO GENERALE D'ITALIA SAN FRANCISCO Console Generale: Mauro Battocchi Segreteria: Anna Clara Maselli (segr.sanfrancisco@esteri.it) 2590 Webster StreetSan Francisco, CA 94115 Telefono: (415) 292-9200 Fax: (415) 931-7205 E-mail: it.sanfrancisco@esteri.it ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA Direttore: Paolo Barlera 814 Montgomery Street San Francisco, California 94133 Tel.: 415 788 7142 Fax: 1 415 788 6389 Email: contact.sanfrancisco@ esteri.it COM.IT.ES. - COMITATO DEGLI ITALIANI ALL'ESTERO President: Romana Bracco 870 Market Street, Suite 815San Francisco, CA 94102 Telephone: (415) 398-5312 Fax: (415) 398-3345 Email: SanFranComites@aol.com MUSEO ITALO AMERICANO Managing Director: Paula Bagnatori 204 Bay St # C, San Francisco, CA(415) 673-2200 Phone: (415) 673-2200 Fax: (415) 673-2292 E-mail: sfmuseo@sbcglobal.net ITALIAN AMERICAN SOCIAL CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO Manager: Julie Clima 25 Russia Ave.San Francisco, CA 94112 Phone: 415.585.8059 Fax: 415.585.8060 Email: info@iascsf.com SAN FRANCISCO ITALIAN ATHLETIC CLUB President: Al Cipollina Administrator: Rich Baldoni-Denney 1630 Stockton St., San Francisco, CA 94133 General Information: (415) 781-0165 Fax: (415) 781-0167 Office: (415) 781-0166 (Office hours are 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. M-F, Pacific Time), email: administration@sfiac.org ORDER SONS OF ITALy IN AMERICA State President: Maria Fassio Pignati State Recording Secretary: Arlene Nunziati (Rlene49@pacbell.net) 5051 Mission Street San Francisco, California 94112-3473 Phone: (415) 586-1316 Fax:(415) 586-4786 Email: sonsofitalyca@aol.com IL CENACOLO - ITALIAN CULTURAL CLUB President: Jim Boitano Membership Chair: Ronald Derenzi (membri@ilcenacolosf.org) Post Office Box 475119 San Francisco, CA 94147-5119 Email ilpresidente@ilcenacolosf.org ITALIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION President: Ken Borelli 425 No. Fourth StreetSan Jose, CA 95112www.iahfsj.org Phone: 408-293-7122. Fax: 408-293-7154. Facebook: Italian American Heritage Foundation ITALIAN COMMUNITy SERVICES President: Luigi E. Pinotti Executive Director: Anna Maria Pierini (ampierini @italiancs.com) 678 Green Street, San Francisco, Ca 94133 Tel. (415)362-6423 Fax (415) 362-6423 E-mail info@italiancs.com - www.italiancommunityservices.org ITALIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION OF THE EAST BAy President: Vince Cortese 5321 Claremont Ave. Oakland, CA 94618 Tel. (925) 679-1047, (650) 222-6641 Financial Secretary: Richard J. Vannucci 5072 Elrod Dr. Castro Valley, CA 94546-2418 Tel. (510) 581-9139

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