A State-of-the-Art conference on multicultural migrant fictions will be held April 10-11 in Room 227 of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.
Open free to the public, the international conference specifically deals with Italian-, Jewish- and Indian-American immigrant literatures. It focuses on how this literature represents these various immigrant populations and on how these ethnic groups have been commodified and marketed in American culture.
Featured speakers include Marina Camboni, Valerio De Angelis and Tatiana Petrovitch Njegosh from the University of Macerata in Italy; Paolo Simonetti of Sapienza University of Rome; Marta Skwara of the University of Szczecin in Poland; Harish Trivedi from the University of Delhi in India; Deepika Bahri of Emory University; Mary Jo Bono of the State University of New York, Stony Brook; and Fred Gardaphe of the City University of New York.
UGA speakers include Doris Kadish, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Romance languages and women’s studies; David Schiller, associate professor emeritus in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music; Marjanne Gooze, associate professor of Germanic and Slavic studies; Dorothy Figueira, Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature; and John Lowe, the Barbara Methvin Professor of English.