Understanding Early Migration from Italy. The Case of Sicily and Louisiana
Thursday, 10 November 2022, 4.30-6.30 PM (UK time)
Pembroke College (Oxford) – Harold Lee Room and Online via MS Teams
Chair: Renato Camurri (Verona)
Spearkers:
Jessica Barbata Jackson (Colorado State)
Before the Lynchings: Reconsidering the Experience of Italian Immigrants in Post-Civil War Louisiana
Guido Bonsaver (Oxford)
Migration Between Sicily and Louisiana: Why It Matters
Lauren Braun-Strumfels (Cedar Crest College) and Clara Zaccagnini (Roma Tre)
‘Middlemen without Morals’?: Assessing the Role of Italian Emigration Agents in New Orleans in the
Early Twentieth Century
Alice Gussoni (Oxford)
Agents of Migration between Sicily and Louisiana: A Key Factor?
Discussants: Brian A’Hearn (Oxford) – Donna Gabaccia (Toronto) – Stefano Luconi (Padua) –
Matteo Pretelli (Naples – L’Orientale)
Please email italianstudies@area.ox.ac.uk to book your place in person or online and to receive the link
to the position papers
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