Inserra Chair
Image from Le Sorelle Macaluso event with a group people lined up on stage sitting in chairs.

2017-18 Events

Spring 2018


Macerata

Opera at the Arena Sferisterio of Macerata
  • A panel with scholars and experts from the opera theater sector: Elena Di Giovanni (University of Macerata, Italy), Manuela V. Hoelterhoff (Pulitzer Prize winner for Music Criticism), Francesca Campagna (New York City Opera). Moderated by Teresa Fiore (Montclair State University) and with the participation of a Montclair State student intern at the 2017 Macerata Opera Festival, Rosanna Coviello
    (Wed. February 7, 2018- 6:00 p.m., Italian Cultural Institute, New York)
    In collaboration with MIA (Marchigiani in America) and ISSNAF (Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation)

Fall 2017

Karin Coonrood


Venice as a Metaphor of the World: Otherness, Immigration, and Religion in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and in Today’s World
  • Panel with Theater Director Karin Coonrod and Alessandro Cassin of the Centro Primo Levi, NY (Tue. Sept. 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Alexander Kasser Theater)
    Event in connection with the presentation of the play at the Kasser Theater



Critical Made in Italy Part 3: Cinema – What Italian Language(s) Does Italian Film Speak?
  • Panel with Linguist Giuseppe Antonelli and Titling Expert Jerome Rudes  (Mon. October 16, 2017 – 6:30-8:30 p.m., Lecture Hall 101, Feliciano School of Business)
    Event in connection with the 2017 Week of the Italian Language in the World



Sicily as a Theater of the World: A Conversation with Playwright and Director Emma Dante
  • Multiple Award Winning Playwright, Theater and Film Director Emma Dante in Conversation with Teresa Fiore, Inserra Chair (Wed. November 15, 2017 – 6:30-8:30 p.m., Lecture Hall 101, Feliciano School of Business)
    Event in connection with the presentation of Dante’s Le Sorelle Macalusoat the Kasser Theater

Book Presentation: Pre-Occupied Spaces. Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies by Teresa Fiore (Fordham UP 2017) 

  • Panel with the author and Montclair State colleagues Nancy Carnevale from the History Department, Stephen Ruszczyk from the Sociology Department and Tony Spanakos, Chair of the Department of Political Science and Law (Mon. Dec. 11, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Lecture Hall 101, Feliciano School of Business)