Italian outside Italy. The situation in Canada, USA and the English-speaking world

Presentazione

An international symposium co-sponsored by CENTRO SCUOLA E CULTURA ITALIANA DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES, ST. GEORGE CAMPUS EMILIO GOGGIO CHAIR IN ITALIAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE STUDIES, U OF T MISSISSAUGA OFFICE OF VICE-PRINCIPAL, RESEARCH, U OF T MISSISSAUGA OCTOBER 22-23, 2010 For more information, please call 416-926-2345

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

DOMENICO PIETROPAOLO

MARTIN STIGLIO

ULLI KRULL

ALBERTO DI GIOVANNI

MICHAEL LETTIERI

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

SALVATORE BANCHERI

MICHAEL LETTIERI

TERESA LOBALSAMO

ADRIANA GRIMALDI

BRUNO MAGLIOCCHETTI
ADRIANA FRISENNA

Agenda

Friday, 22 October 2010

Charbonnel Lounge

81 St. Mary Street, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto

8.30 - 8.45

COFFEE

8.45 - 9:15

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

Salvatore Bancheri (University of Toronto)

Mark McGowan (Principal, Michael's College)

Domenico Pietropaolo (University of Toronto)

Martin Stiglio (Italian Cultural Institute)

9.15 - 10.15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1

Chair: Mirella Pasquarelli Clivio (University of Toronto)

Katerin Katerinov (Università per Stranieri di Perugia) - L'insegnamento della lingua e della cultura italiana nell'era digitale e della globalizzazione

10.15 - 10.30

REFRESHMENTS

10.30 - 12.15 SESSION 1

Chair: Luca Somigli (University of Toronto)

Massimo Vedovelli e Sabrina Machetti (Università per Stranieri di Siena) - Per una storia linguistica dell'emigrazione italiana nel mondo. La situazione del Canada e degli USA

Franco Pierno (University of Toronto) - La stampa "raminga". Appunti sulla lingua dei primi giornali italo-americani

Francesco Loriggio (Carleton University) - The Literary Relevance of Italian in Italian Canadian Literature

Joseph Pivato (Athabasca University) - Rejected Languages of Italian-Canadian Authors

12.15 - 1.30

LUNCH BREAK

1.30 - 2.45 SESSION 2

Chair: Bruno Magliocchetti (University of Toronto)

Adriana Frisenna (Istituto Italiano di Cultura) - L'italiano all'Istituto di Cultura di Toronto

Alberto DiGiovanni (Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana) - Teaching Italian in Elementary Schools: Maintaining the Mother Tongue

Anthony Mollica (Brock University), Biagio Aulino (York Catholic District School Board), Cosmo Femia and Damiano Femia (Toronto Catholic District School Board), Maria Ferlisi (Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board) - The Importance of Preserving and Promoting the Teaching of International Languages in Ontario

2.45 - 3.00

REFRESHMENTS

3.00 - 4.45 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

SESSION 3

Charbonnel Lounge

Chair: Pamela Arancibia (University of Toronto)

Antonio Franceschetti (University of Toronto) - Scrittori italo-canadesi di cose italiane

Francesca Mirti (Stony Brook University) - La lingua e le lingue di Giose Rimanelli in Detroit Blues

Lisa Fiorindi (University of Toronto) - Representing Italy's Modern Diasporas: Transnationalism and Heterogeneity in Caterina Edward's Island of the Nightingales

Anna Makolkin (University of Toronto) - Searching For Canadian Immigrant Self: Frank Paci's Italian Shoes

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SESSION 4

Brennan Hall 203

Chair: Ziba Ahmadian (University of Toronto)

Bruno Magliocchetti (University of Toronto) - Language Enrolment Patterns in Italian

Giuliana Salvato (University of Windsor) - Are Canadian L2 learners of Italian Nonverbally Competent?

Clara Sacchetti Dufresne (Lakehead University) - Talking Dance, Speaking Italian?

Claudio Cicotti (University of Luxembourg) - L'integrazione culturale e linguistica degli italiani in Lussemburgo e nella Grande Regione: 15 anni di lettere a Buona Domenica (1980-1995)

4.45 - 5.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2

Chair: Domenico Pietropaolo (University of Toronto)

Carla Marcato (Università di Udine) - Parole del cibo: italiano e dialetti nella terminologia gastronomica nordamericana

6.30 - 7:30

MEET THE ITALIAN CANADIAN POETS - POETRY READING

Istituto Italiano di Cultura

496 Huron Street

Chair: Jana Vizmuller-Zocco (York University)

reception will follow
(on invitation)

Saturday, 23 October 2010

8.30 - 9.00

COFFEE

9.00 - 10:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3

Chair: Franco Pierno (University of Toronto)

Nicoletta Maraschio (Accademia della Crusca) - Il ruolo dell'Accademia della Crusca nella promozione dell'Italiano all'estero

10.00 - 10.15

REFRESHMENTS

10.15 - 12:00 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

SESSION 5

Charbonnel Lounge

Chair: Adriana Grimaldi (University of Toronto)

Rachel A. Walsh (The University of Denver) - Oggi in TV: Italian Television and Intermediate Language Instruction

Francesco Fiumara (Southeastern Louisiana University) - News from the Boot(h) Community Outreach and Educational Objectives of an Italian - Language Radio Show in the USA

Anna De Fina (Georgetown University) - Language Repertoire and Usage in a Multigenerational Italian American Family: A Case Study

Luciana Fellin (Duke University) - Repertoires of Language and of Identity and Their Interplay in Multigenerational Italian American Families

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10.15 - 12:00 SESSION 6

Brennan Hall 203

Chair: Lisa Fiorindi (University of Toronto)

Giovanni Scarola (University of Toronto) - Problematiche legate all'esportazione e trapianto all'estero della lingua e/o dei dialetti d'origine con particolare riguardo al caso dell'italiano/italiese

Christine Sansalone (Laurentian University) - Una comunità in scena: teatro italo-canadese a Sudbury

Roberta Iannacito Provenzano and Jana Vizmuller-Zocco (York University) - Code switching e nuovo italiese nei post di Facebook

12.00 - 1.30

LUNCH BREAK

1.30 - 2.45 SESSION 7

Chair: Rachele Longo Lavorato (University of Toronto)

Anthony Cristiano (Ryerson University) - Language and Creativity: A Hybrid Work and Its Creator

Monica Stellin (U. of Waterloo) - Italian Mass Media and Press in Canada: The Location of Language and Culture

Wendy Marie Schrobilgen (McMaster University) - Exploring Aspects of Lexical Banalisation: The Integration of English Loanwords in Italian Internet Terminology

2.45 - 3.00

REFRESHMENTS

3.00 - 4.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 4

Chair: Salvatore Bancheri (University of Toronto Mississauga)

Giulio Lepschy and Laura Lepschy (University of London) - Il discorso degli emigrati in America nella letteratura italiana fra Otto e Novecento.

4.00 - 4.30

CONCLUDING REMARKS

Salvatore Bancheri (University of Toronto)

19.00

VISIT OF CASA DANTE AND SALA LEONARDO

Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana

Columbus Centre

901 Lawrence Avenue West

Dinner will follow

(on invitation)