ITALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANADIAN STUDIES
1) President/Président: Prof. Oriana PALUSCI
2) # of Canadian Studies Centres/# des centres d’études canadiennes : Italian Association for
Canadian Studies (Associazione Italiana di Studi Canadesi- AISC)
3) # of Members / # des membres : 105
4) Website / SiteWeb : http://www.aiscan.net/
5) Activities / Activités :
--Undergraduate courses with a Canadian content at the following institutions : University of Turin, University of Genova, University of Pisa, University of Udine, University of Bologna, University of Naples L’Orientale’, University of Salerno, University of Calabria.
--Permanent Seminar on Canadian Studies for graduate and undergratuate students at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, held on Wednesday afternoons during the accedemic year (for programme see the Association website). The attendance to the Seminar grants students university credits.
---International Conference • Colloque International « Canada in the Making: 150 Years of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity / Le Canada en devenir: 150 ans de diversité culturelle et linguistique», Università della Calabria, 29 June/juin – 1 July/juillet 2017 (interdisciplinary Conference with 36 participants, many of which IASC members).
--Elena Lamberti is the Director of the Canadian and American Literature Portal www.canadausa.net. This portal is organised in collaboration with students of the University of Bologna and posts a series of critical essays on Canadian literature and culture. It has more than 30.000 visitors.
Papers delivered by AISC members at Conferences:
-- Oriana Palusci gave a paper on “Beyond Nostalgia? The Shifting World of Italo-Canadian Voices in Toronto”, at the Conference on Two Dynamic Paths on a Shared Road: Canadian-Italian Cooperation at 150 and 156, held at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Toronto (17 June 2017). -- Elena Lamberti, Key-note, “Mythmaking 2.0: Telling Stories, Making History”, Third International Scientific-practical Conference on Media Literacy, Media Ecology, Media Education: Digital Media for the Future, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, 20-22 April 2017 [Focus on the literary origins of the Toronto School of Communication]
6) Maximum of 10 Major Publications / Maximum de 10 publications majeures:
--O. Palusci, Elena Lamberti (eds.), Made in Canada. The Languages of the Media, Guernica Editions, 2018 (forthcoming)
-- Anna Mongibello, Indigenous Peoples in Canadian TV News. A Corpus-based Analysis of Mainstream and Indigenous News Discourses. Napoli: Paolo Loffredo , 2018 [ISBN 978 8899306000]. -Palusci, O. (ed.), Alice Munro and the Anatomy of the Short Story, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 [ISBN 9781527503533]
-- Codignola, Luca, Bruti Liberati, Luigi, (eds.) Storia del Canada. Dal primo contatto tra europei e indiani alle nuove influenze nel panorama politico, Milano, Bompiani, 2018. --Francesconi, Sabrina, "La traduzione intersemiotica: da “The Bear Came over the Mountain” di Alice Munro a "Away from her" di Sara Polley" in Paola Faini (a cura di), Terminologia, linguaggi specialistici, traduzione, Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2018, p. 141-154. - ISBN: 9788864581767 --Palusci, O. “Breathing and the Power of Evil in ‘Dimensions’”, in Alice Munro and the Anatomy of the Short Story, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, pp. 111-125 [ISBN 9781527503533] --- Palusci, O., “Plymouth Rocks and Christmas Turkeys: from Ecology to Metafiction in Two Short Stories by Alice Munro”, Caliban. French Journal of English Studies, 57, 2017, pp. 11- 20 [ISBN 978281070513].
-- Francesconi, Sabrina, "Barking (with) dogs: the Grammar System of Transitivity in Munro’s ‘Save the Reaper’ and ‘Floating Bridge", Caliban. French Journal of English Studies, 57, 2017, p. 69-84. -Amandine Bonesso, “Du fond de l’âme au bout du monde : les expériences extrêmes du voyage chez Marie de l’Incarnation (1599-1672”, in Isabelle Bour et Line Cottegnies (dir), Scénographie du récit de voyage et imaginaire viatique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), Paris, Hermann, 2017, pp. 235-249, ISBN : 9782705694678
-Elena Lamberti, “Printing a Film to Make It Resonate: Sorel Etrog and Marshall McLuhan’s Spiral, in Imaginations”, Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 8-3: Special Issue on Marshall McLuhan & the Arts, December 6 2017 [ISSN-1918-8439].
We are currently putting a bibliography of the publications by IACS members starting from 2010 on the Association website: http://www.aiscan.net/
7) Grants/Prizes awarded and received / Bourses/Prix offertes et reçues:
None
8) Research/ Recherches:
--PhD dissertation on Canadian TV Series; a number of undergraduate and graduate thesis on Canadian language, culture, literature, law, geography by IASC members in Italian Universities.
9) Upcoming activities and events / Activités & événements à venir :
--Internationl Conference, 25-26 October 2018 on “The invention of Italy as an imaginary homeland on the Canadian soil: storytelling, language, media”, University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ (Italy).
--5-6 December 2018, University of Trento (Italy) AISC International Conference on “Adaptation of Stories and Stories of Adaptation: Media, Modes, Codes”.