by Anthony J. Tamburri

Cari Amici, we look forward to seeing you this Friday when we shall celebrate the career of one of Italy's and Italian America's great writers.

GIOSE RIMANELLI: 90 YEARS - An American Celebration

20 February 2015 * 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street - New York, New York 10036

This symposium celebrates the sixty-plus years of Giose Rimanelli's literary and cultural contributions to narrative, poetry, criticism, and the visual arts. Through his work over the years, Giose has left an indelible mark on both the Italian and Italian/American cultural landscapes. His creative writing has spurned discussions about the craft, namely the how and why one writes. His essays have enlightened us about a series of writers and thematics that lie at the base of much discussion still alive today with regard to literary production and interpretation.

While Giose debuted in Italy with his novel Tiro al piccione, much of his cultural production work was done here in North America. For that reason, we wanted to honor our adoptive son in what has been his home for the past six decades.

Luigi Bonaffini * Romana Capek-Habekovic * Peter Carravetta * Luigi Fontanella * Fred Gardaphe * Sabrina Infante * Mark Pietralunga * Sante Matteo * Antonio Vitti * Maria Rosaria Vitti-Alexander

PROGRAM
9:00 AM * COFFEE
9:15 AM * OPENING COMMENTS
9:30 AM

SESSION 1
Maria Rosaria Vitti-Alexander* "Marco come Narciso: osservazioni sull'uso della
prima persona nel romanzo Tiro al piccione di Giose Rimanelli"
Mark Pietralunga* "Giose Rimanelli's Tiro al piccione and the Return to the
Beginning"
Antonio Vitti* "Da Tiro al piccione una rilettura dell'autobiografismo nelle opere
di Giose Rimanelli"

11:00 AM

SESSION 2
Romana Capek-Habekovic* "Mnemosyne and Childhood in Giose Rimanelli's
La stanza grande"
Sabrina Infante* "Con gli occhi chiusi; lo stato ipnagogico in due romanzi di
Giose Rimanelli"

12:15 PM * LUNCH BREAK

1:30 PM
SESSION 3
Peter Carravetta* "Existence, Migration, Mythistory in Rimanelli's Later Works"
Luigi Bonaffini* "La poesia dialettale di Giose Rimanelli"
Luigi Fontanella* "Playing with words 'a quattro mani'"

3:00 PM
SESSION 4
Sante Matteo* "Flesh Made Word"
Fred Gardaphe* "Mas(que)culinities in the Writings of Giose Rimanelli"

4:15 PM
SESSION 5
Q&A

RECEPTION
5:00 PM

John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
Queens College, CUNY
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor
New York, NY 10036
212-642-2094 - [email protected] - www.qc.edu/calandra