The final dinner was held on Saturday, December 10th, 2016, in the Horizon Room, Williams Center.
Video by Lori Deemer (Marketing, Fredonia)
First row (from left to right): Chiara De Santi, Samantha D., Melissa G., and Leah M.
Second row (from left to right): Chelsea M., Jessica B., Danielle K., Kathryn L., and Bridget C.
Third row (from left to right): Dean Messina (Director of the Dining Services at Fredonia), Richard S., Leah W., Brianna C., Joseph G., Molly K., Jenna M., and David E.
48th Annual NeMLA Annual Convention
Baltimore, MD: March 23-26, 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
Teaching Italian Culture through Film (Roundtable)
Courses on cinema are quite popular in higher education, as students live media-intensive existences and are increasingly fascinated by visual images. Teaching film has been approached in several publications by the Modern Language Association (MLA) with titles such as Teaching Film, edited by Lucy Fischer and Patrice Petro (2012). Furthermore, scholars have published extensively on film, producing monographs and edited volumes that can be adopted in a standard 15-week semester, and which often approach the subject thematically and through interdisciplinarity. In this way, instructors teaching Italian film have access to several volumes, from Millicent Marcus’s classic Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism (1987) to a more general survey edited by Giorgio Bertellini, The Cinema of Italy (2005), just to name a couple. The goal of this roundtable is to discuss different approaches toward teaching Italian culture through film to undergraduate students both in Italian and in English, evaluating thematic approaches and assessment as tools for successful classes.
SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16195
47th Annual NeMLA Convention
Hartford, CT: March 17-20, 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
Teaching Italian and Italian-American Film: Tools for Success in the Classroom (Roundtable)
Courses on cinema are quite popular in higher education, as students live media-intensive existences and are increasingly fascinated by visual images. The goal of this roundtable is to discuss different approaches toward teaching Italian and Italian-American film to undergraduate students both in Italian and in English, evaluating thematic approaches and assessment as tools for successful classes.
SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15634
Italian and Italian-American Documentary Film (Panel)
Reality can be signified in multiple ways, and the documentary is an art form well suited for representing reality, primarily in its ability “to convey to us the impression of authenticity” (Bill Nichols, Introduction to Documentary, 2001: xiii). Moreover, nowadays documentary film and narrative film are often united to create hybrid products such as the docufiction and the docudrama. This panel seeks to discuss documentary film through analysis of the work of Italian and Italian-American filmmakers, which have produced documentaries, docufictions, or docudramas.
SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15636
2015 AATI Conference
Siena, June 22-26, 2015
(1) Ciak, si mangia! Italian and Italian-American Food in Film (panel)
The prominent role of food in Italian and Italian-American culture is widely known, to the point of having been depicted in several films, both in the US and abroad, and of course including but not limited to Italy. Our panel welcome papers that discuss how Italian and Italian-American food is depicted in films by Italian and non-Italian directors from the silent era to the present, with particular attention to the relation of these depictions to social, cultural, and historical changes across time.
Please, send a 200 word abstract in English or Italian and a short bio by March 15 to the panel’s organizer, Chiara De Santi, State University of New York at Fredonia, desanti@fredonia.edu
(2) Francesco Nuti and His Career as Film Director, Actor, Screenwriter, and Producer: Tuscanness at Work (panel)
In the year Tuscan Francesco Nuti is turning sixty, this panel seeks to celebrate his career as film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. Any presentation dealing with one or more films that Nuti was directly involved with are welcome.
Please, send a 200 word abstract in English or Italian and a short bio by March 15 to the panel’s organizer, Chiara De Santi, State University of New York at Fredonia, desanti@fredonia.edu
(3) Linking Students to the Community: Attracting Students to Italian Programs via Civic Engagement (roundtable)
Nowadays, many language programs struggle to attract students to their Majors and Minors, reflecting the larger challenge that has been labeled the “crisis of the Humanities.” Could Civic Engagement (also defined as Service Learning) be a way to offer students a further specialization beyond Italian language and culture? Could linking students and the community be one way to “sell” our programs in the 21st century? This roundtable seeks proposals for a fruitful discussion on how civic engagement-related assignments might be used in our programs, which kind of service-learning has been successfully or unsuccessfully adopted in our Italian curriculum, how it can be assessed, and which kind of outreach activities have been utilized to connect programs to the community. Experiences from K-12 to university across countries and disciplines within Italian Studies are especially welcome.
Please, send a 200 word abstract in English or Italian and a short bio by March 15 to the roundtable’s organizer, Chiara De Santi, State University of New York at Fredonia, desanti@fredonia.edu
