CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Unless otherwise indicated all sessions will take place at:

Hotel Du Parc,

Viale Umberto I, 6

64032 Atri, Teramo

Tel: +39.085 87 02 60

info@hotelduparc.it

Thursday, June 10

3:00 p.m. Registration

5:00-6:30 Tour of the Town

6:30 p.m. Welcome

Alberto Di Giovanni, Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana

Nazario Pagano, Presidente del Consiglio Regionale dell’Abruzzo

Gabriele Astolfi, Sindaco Comune di Atri

Angela De Lauretis, Assessore alla Cultura Comune di Atri

Peter Egyed, Consigliere, Relazioni esterne, Ambasciata del Canada

Jim Zucchero, Vice-President Association of Italian Canadian Writers (AICW)

7:00-7:10 Introduction of Keynote Speaker

Jim Zucchero, Vice-President AICW

7:10-7:50 Keynote Address

Translating Home

Oriana Palusci, Università di Napoli 'L'Orientale'

8:00 p.m. DINNER

Friday, June 11

SESSION 1

8:30-9:40 Panel: Translating the Diaspora and Publishing Across Borders

Connie Guzzo McParland, Guernica Editions

Norberto Lombardi, Editor, Cosmo Iannone

Michael Mirolla, Guernica Editions

Laura Ferri, translator

SESSION 2

9:40-11:00 Chaired by Linda Morra, Bishop’s University

Transcultural Creative Non-Fiction: Caterina Edwards’s Finding Rosa and Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Honey and Ashes. Finding the Way Home Through Narrative

Maria Tognan, Università di Udine

Jane Urquhart in Tuscany: a lover of landscape and art journeying and returning to the “kingdom of ‘other’”

Laura Ferri, Siena-Toronto Centre

Nino Ricci’s Mythopoiesis: Where Has He Gone?

Maria Giuseppina Cesari, Università di Macerata

11:00-11:20 COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 3

11:20-1:00 Moderated by Elena Lamberti, Università di Bologna

Migration to Exile: The Paradox of Exodus

Ernesto Livorni, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Who speaks for the children of immigrants?

John Calabro, Toronto

Past and Present, Migration and Identity in Gianni Amelio’s film Lamerica

Ernesto Virgulti, Brock University

James Franceschini: Case Study of a Wrongfully Interned Canadian

Frank Giorno, Toronto

1:00 -2:30 LUNCH

Launch of Reflections on Culture: An Anthology of Creative and

Critical Works

Eds. Licia Canton, Venera Fazio and Jim Zucchero

SESSION 4

2:30-4:00 Moderated by Licia Canton, Accenti Magazine

Ways of Writing Home

Jim Zucchero, King’s University College / University of Western Ontario

Garibaldi’s Pants / Garibaldi’s Oranges and Garibaldi’s Biscuits

Peter Oliva, Calgary

Aritha van Herk, University of Calgary

4:00-5:15 BREAK

SESSION 5

5:15-6:15 Readings moderated by Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni

Giovanni Costa, Quebec City, from È un gioco di foglie / C’est

un jeu de feuilles /It’s a Playing of Leaves

Osvaldo Zappa, Vancouver, from Giovanni’s Journey

Filippo Salvatore, Montreal, from Terre e Infiniti

Nino Famà, University of Waterloo, excerpt from novel-in-progress

6:15-6:30 BREAK

SESSION 6

6:30-7:30 Readings moderated by Elena Lamberti, Università di Bologna,

Centro Studi Canadesi “Alfredo Rizzardi”

Domenic Cusmano, Montreal, Homecoming

Darlene Madott, Toronto, Entering Sicily

John Calabro, Toronto, from The Cousin

Linda Morra, Montreal, My Husband Lives in My Garage (Accenti Magazine Award)

8:00 Dinner and Dance Troupe

Saturday, June 12

SESSION 7

9:30-10:30 Film: The Last Rite by Gina Valle

Presented by Frank Giorno

10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 8

11:00-1:00 Moderated by Marisa De Franceschi

Travel Writing My Way Home

Maria Lisella, Italian American Writers’ Association, New York

Poesie sull’emigrazione calabrese in Canada

Antonio Corea, Albi (CZ)

Translation As a Vehicle to Write My Way Home

Gil Fagiani, Italian American Writers’ Association, New York

Gianna Patriarca, Poetry in Reverse: On the experience of being

translated into Italian

Darlene Madott, Toronto

Before You Leave

Delia De Santis, Bright’s Grove, Ontario

La giacca di Delia De Santis

Traduzione e lettura di Gabriella Iacobucci

Connie Guzzo McParland Interviews Gabriella Iacobucci on Translation

1:00- 2:15 LUNCH

SESSION 9

2:15-3:45 Chaired by Lilla Crisafulli, Università di Bologna

La traversata. Racconto e rappresentazione del viaggio di emigrazione oltreoceano. Storie, memorie, voci

Michele Campanini, Università di Siena

Tra Scozia e Italia: identità, differenza e poetica interculturale in William Sharp

Annalisa Bonomo, Università di Catania ed Enna

Prove d’armonia nella produzione poetica di Corrado Mastropasqua

Filippo Salvatore, Concordia University

3:45-5:00 BREAK

AICW AGM

5:00-6:30 Chaired by Darlene Madott

SESSION 10

6:30-8:00 Readings moderated by Elena Lamberti, Università di Bologna

Marisa De Franceschi, Windsor, Ontario, from Random Thoughts

Traduzione di E. Bedon e E. Marchese / Lettura in italiano di Licia Canton

Frank Giorno, Toronto, from Arrivederci, Plastic-Covered Couch

Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni, Toronto, Selected Poems

Anna Fornari, Treviso, from “Precaria” – a memoir-in-progress

Alberto Mario DeLogu, Montreal, Lettura in italiano

8:00 DINNER

Sunday, June 13

9:30 Departure by bus: The conference will be held in Roccamorice.

Everyone is welcome to join the bus tour.

SESSION 11

11:15-1:00 Moderated by Alberto Di Giovanni (Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana), Toronto, and Daniela D’Alimonte (Associazione Culturale Abruzzo Canada), Pescara

Italian Canadian Voices Anthology

Liliana Biondi, Università dell’Aquila

Sweet Lemons Volume 2: Discovery and Memory Anthology

Delia De Santis, Bright’s Grove, Ontario

The Writer’s Best Friend: Diary of an Editor

Licia Canton, Accenti Magazine

Closing Remarks: Alberto Di Giovanni, Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana,

and Jim Zucchero, Vice-President AICW

1:00 Lunch

After lunch: departure for Caramanico

6:00 p.m. Bus returns to Hotel du Parc

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Licia Canton, Montreal, Accenti Magazine

Alberto Di Giovanni, Toronto, Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana

Venera Fazio, Bright’s Grove, ON, President AICW

Connie Guzzo McParland, Montreal, Guernica Editions

Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni, Toronto, Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana

Pasquale Verdicchio, University of California at San Diego

Publicist

Frank Giorno fgiorno@rogers.com

Media Spokesperson

Licia Canton

cantonli@cusmano.com

514-826-9290 (mobile)

Publications by conference participants and on Italian Canadian writing will be available for purchase during the conference.