ITALIAN STUDIES AT OXFORD
In collaboration with
CENTER FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES
(Verona – Italy)
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 4.30-6.30pm (UK time)
Pembroke College (Oxford) – Harold Lee Room, and online via MS Teams
This workshop will see the discussion of four, brief position papers which will be available online as of 3 November. The papers will be introduced by their authors, and then discussed by four experts in the field. Everybody will be welcome to join the conversation.
Chair: Renato Camurri (Verona)
Speakers:
Jessica Barbata Jackson (Colorado State)
Before the Lynchings: Reconsidering the Experience of Italian Immigrants in Post-Civil War Louisiana
Guido Bonsaver (Oxford)
Migration Between Sicily and Louisiana: Why It Matters
Lauren Braun-Strumfels (Cedar Crest College) and Clara Zaccagnini (Roma Tre)
‘Middlemen without Morals’?: Assessing the Role of Italian Emigration Agents in New Orleans in the Early Twentieth Century
Alice Gussoni (Oxford)
Agents of Migration between Sicily and Louisiana: A Key Factor?
Discussants: Brian A’Hearn (Oxford) – Donna Gabaccia (Toronto) – Stefano Luconi (Padua) – Matteo Pretelli (Naples – L’Orientale)
*Drinks will follow – All welcome*
Please email italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk to book your place in person or online and to receive the link to the position papers
