The Italian Program of the U of A will be hosting the 2023 Italian American Studies Association annual conference. The keynote speaker will be Jack Halberstam of Columbia University. We encourage all faculty and graduate students to consider submitting a proposal. Date: Oct. 26-28. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville - Graduate Hotel. Submission Deadline: April 15. Submit a proposal

Call for Papers: Rereading the Italian Diaspora Across Time, Place and Space; Intersections and Explorations of Queer & Other Identities. Considering Antonio Gramsci, Gayatri C. Spivak and other post-colonial critics' theories on the subaltern, this year's Italian American Studies Association's conference theme explores Italian Americana and "otherness" in its many manifestations.