2023-24 Events

This is What I Live For: A Conversation with Rapper Amir Issaa 
Thur Feb. 8, 2024 11:15am-12:30pm (Schmitt 125)

On the occasion of the publication of This is What I Live For, his memoir in a bilingual illustrated version, edited by Clarissa Clò, and the launching of a new album by the same title.

Introduced by Teresa Fiore

Organized and sponsored by the Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies in collaboration with the Italian Program at Montclair State University, as part of Black History Month.

The Spanish Colonial Revival Architecture of Montclair State University: A Student’s Video Production (NEWS ITEM)
Mon March 4, 2024 6pm
SCM (Screening Room 0001)

Panelists: Mar Arroyo Cabrera, Isaak J. Liptzin, and Frank Godlewski
Moderated by Teresa Fiore and Katia Paz Goldfarb

Organized and sponsored by the Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies  in collaboration with the Office for Hispanic Initiatives and the Alumni Office at Montclair State University.

The Politics of Memory: Remembering Laborers, Women, and Italian Immigrants Through Public Monuments
Thur. April 11, 2024  6:30 pm (in person)
SBUS (School of Business) 101

Panelists: Mary Anne Trasciatti and Richard Joon Yoo (other panelists to be announced)
Moderated by Teresa Fiore and Benjamin Nienass

Organized and sponsored by the Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies in collaboration with the Department of Political Science and Law at Montclair State University, as part of (an extended) Women’s History Month.

Italian or Italian Sounding? Are You Being Duped?: A Talk by Robert Campana
Mon. Oct. 2, 2023  6pm on Zoom

Organized and sponsored by the Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University in conjunction with the ITAL 345 Special Topics Class, “From Focaccia to Farinata: Italian Food Culture”) 

A Girl Returned: Film Screening and Q&A with Director Giuseppe Bonito

Thur. Oct. 5, 2023  5:30pm
Presentation Hall 1040 (School of Communication and Media)

Organized and sponsored by the Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies in collaboration with the Honors Program and the Department of Social Work & Child Advocacy at Montclair State University.

Stonebreakers: Film Screening and Q&A with Director Valerio Ciriaci and Cinematographer Isaak J. Liptzin 

Thur. Nov. 30, 2023  6pm
Presentation Hall 1040 (School of Communication and Media)

Organized and sponsored by the Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies at Montclair State University

Cooking Class at the Montclair Culinary Academy with Chef Karan Fischer
(especially designed for the students of the ITAL 345 Special Topics Class, “From Focaccia to Farinata: Italian Food Culture”)

Oct. 2023 Montclair Culinary Institute

Organized by Dr. Gina Miele (course instructor) and co-sponsored by the Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies and The Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America at Montclair State University