September 29, 2012 * 10AM to 4:30PM
Lang Recital Hall, North Building
Hunter College, East 68th St.
(between Park and Lexington Avenues)
Finding Joseph Tusiani:
The Poet of Two Lands
This symposium takes its name from the documentary on Joseph Tusiani made in 2011 by Sabrina DiGregorio. A major voice in American and Italian letters, Tusiani has dedicated his professional life to the creation, promotion, and promulgation of Italian Studies in the United States. An international award-winning poet, he writes in four different languages (English, Gargano Dialect, Italian, Latin) and has published his work worldwide.
10,00 AM Opening Comments
Paolo Fasoli, Chair, Romance Languages, Hunter College
Joseph Sciame, President, Italian Heritage & Culture Committee
Riccardo Viale, Director, Italian Cultural Institute, New York
Natalia Quintavalle, Consul General of Italy to New York
10,30 AM Re-reading Joseph Tusiani
Maria C. Pastore Passaro
"La poesia inesplorata di Joseph Tusiani"
John T. Kirby
"Tusiani and Neo-Latin"
Luigi Bonaffini
"Tusiani, Writer and Translator of Dialect Poetry"
Paolo Giordano
"Tusiani's American Odyssey"
Luigi Fontanella
"Joseph Tusiani and His Poetry in Gradiva"
12,30 PM Lunch break (Lunch provided)
1,30 PM Film Viewing
Finding Joseph Tusiani: The Poet of Two Lands
Dir. Sabrina Digregorio. Atena Films, 2011. (80 min.)
3,00 PM Tavola Rotonda
Conference Participants and Filmmaker
4,00 PM Presentation of the Leonardo da Vinci Award
This symposium is co-sponsored by the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee NY, Inc. and Atena Films
Conference Coordinators
Giuliana Ridolfi & Anthony Julian Tamburri
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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor
New York, New York 10036
(Between 5th and 6th Avenues)
Free and open to the public. RSVP by calling (212) 642-2094. Please note that seating is limited and we cannot reserve seats.
For further information see our Web site at www.qc.edu/calandra.
