Conference Programme
Friday, 8th October
9:00-9:30 REGISTRATION
Venue: Function Centre (Building 11)
9:30-9:45 Welcome
A/Professor Gerry Turcotte (University of Wollongong)
Deputy High Commissioner for Canada Gaston Barban
9:45-10:45 Keynote Address 1
Session Chair: A/Professor Gerry Turcotte (University of Wollongong)
Professor Joseph Pivato (Athabasca University)
‘Cosmic Ear: Calabrian Writers in Canada’
10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15-13:00 Minorities in the Italian Context
Session Chair: Dr Anne Collett (University of Wollongong)
1. Mr Gianfranco Cresciani (Italian-Australian historian)
‘A clash of civilizations? The Slovene and Italian minorities and the problem of Trieste from Borovnica to Bonegilla’
2. Dr Franco Manai ( University of Auckland)
‘Italian writers in exile during the fascist era: the case of Emilio Lussu’
3. Ms. Serena Scordo (Universita per Stranieri “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria)
“The literature of migration to America: the case of Francesco Perri”
13:00-14:30 LUNCH
Faculty of Arts Building (Building 19, Room 1064)
14:30-16:15 Socio-psychological Issues
Session Chair: Professor Adrian Vickers (University of Wollongong)
1. Dr. K.L. Chowdhury
(Medical Director, Shriya Bhat Mission Hospital, Durga Nagar Jammu, India)
‘Health trauma of displaced Kashmiris’
2. Dr. Carmelo Pollicina (Co.As.It., Sydney)
‘A psychodynamic study of the prevalence and peculiar features of mental disorders in a cohort of Italian-Australians undergoing counselling’
3. Mr. Michele Sapucci (Co.As.It., Sydney)
‘Dealing with second generations’
17:00-19:00 Keynote Address 2*
Venue: ItSoWel, 21 Stewart St., Wollongong
Session Chair: A/Professor Gaetano Rando (University of Wollongong)
Welcoming remarks: Cav. Salvatore Chiodo, Honorary Vice Consul for Italy
Professor Pasquino Crupi
(Universita per Stranieri, “Dante Alighieri” di Reggio Calabria)
‘L’emigrazione nella letteratura calabrese con particolare riferimento all’Australia e alle Americhe’
Book Launch: Professor Pasquino Crupi & Professor Joseph Pivato
Emigrazione e letteratura Il caso italoaustraliano
(Pellegrini, Cosenza, 2004) by Gaetano Rando
Il diavolo nei primi secoli della letteratura italiana
(Pellegrini, Cosenza, 2004) by Annalisa Pirastu
*Please be advised that the proceedings for this session will be in Italian
19:30 CONFERENCE DINNER
Venue: International Centre, 28 Stewart St., Wollongong
Saturday, 9 October
Venue: Faculty of Arts Building (Building 19, Room G016)
9:00-10:45 Italian-Australian Narratives and Life Writing
Session Chair: Professor Joseph Pivato
1. Professor John Gatt-Rutter (La Trobe University)
‘Writing the life of an Italian-Australian: Piero Genovesi’s Sebastiano Pitruzzello – l’uomo – la famiglia – l’industria [Sebastiano Pitruzzello: the man, his family, his company]’ (2003)
2. A/Professor Rita Wilson (The University of Melbourne/Monash University)
‘Cultural (re)locations: narratives by contemporary Italian-Australian women’
3. Ms Jessica Carniel (The University of Melbourne)
‘Identities made in the kitchen taste the best’: Consumption an the denial of Italian-Australian ethnicity as food in Capaldo’s Love Takes you Home’
10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15-13:00 Diaspora and Identity
Session Chair: Professor John Gatt-Rutter (La Trobe University)
1. Dr Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University)
‘Noi altri: Kitsch and the cultural politics of giants
2. Mr Francesco Ricatti (University of Sydney)
‘Sexual and ethnic identity in a migratory context; Letters to an Italo-Australian newspaper’
3. Associate Professor Gaetano Rando ( University of Wollongong)
‘Expressions of the Calabrian Diaspora in Calabrian-Australian literature’
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:45 Wollongong Perspectives of the Diaspora
Session Chair: Associate Professor Gaetano Rando
1. Dr Glen Mitchell ( University of Wollongong)
‘The migrant hostel and a nation's memory’
2. Dr Luisa Baldassari (Co.As.It., Sydney)
‘Language maintenance and language attrition among second generation Italian speakers in the Illawarra’
3. Ms Lucia Scioscia (Wollongong)
‘Italians in Wollongong: the community perspective’
15:45-16:15 COFFEE BREAK
16:15-17:45 A Writer’s Perspective
Session Chair: Dr Paolo Totaro
Writer Dr Venero Armanno will be speaking about his work and reading excerpts from his novels.
Sunday, 10 October
Venue: Faculty of Arts Building (Building 19, Ground floor room G016)
9:00-10:45 Multiculturalism and migration
Session Chair: Ms Annalisa Pirastu
1. Dr Paolo Totaro (Sydney)
‘Participation twenty-five years later’
2. Dr Ross Grainger (University of Wollongong)
‘ The Seiv X Tragedy and Australia's Victimological Culture'
3. Ms Francesca Matteini
(University of Western Sydney/Continuing Education, University of Sydney)
‘Intellectual Migration, the winds of change…’
10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:30 Literature and diaspora
Session Chair: Professor Joseph Pivato
1. Ms Annalisa Pirastu (University of Wollongong)
‘Katherine Susannah Prichard’s good migrant’
2. Ms Kimberley McMahon-Coleman (University of Wollongong)
‘Indigenous Diaspora and Literature’
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:30 Personal Memoirs of the Diaspora
Session Chair: Associate Professor Gaetano Rando
1. Mr Pino Bosi (Melbourne)
‘ Australiacane fifty years later’
2. Mr Peter Tesoriero (Sydney)
‘The Aeolian Diaspora – as illustrated by the wanderings of my ancestors, their relatives and friends, over the past 130 years’
