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Scientific Advisory Board

Gabriele Boccaccini
Scientific Advisory Board Chair
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Italian-Jewish Studies sessions

logo AAIS Two days of Italian-Jewish studies sessions organized at the American Association of Italian Studies, in collaboration with ISSNAF. The meeting will be held at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Click here for the program.

Zenit: publications to learn more about Italian research

Zenit Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore,in a partnership with Gruppo 2003 and the participation of prominent ISSNAF members, announces the new series Zenit.

Its focus will be the work and impact of Italian researchers worldwide.

Visiting Positions for the Study of the History of Italian Jewry

Visiting Positions for the Study of the History of Italian Jewry The Centro di DocumentazioneEbraicaContemporanea (CDEC), with the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF), offers to University students, graduate students , researchers and Faculty from the US and Canada the exceptional opportunity to access CDEC’s outstanding collection of information, primary sources, books and studies available in its library and archives (which contain both paper and photographic records dealing with the contemporary period), on the history of Italian Jewry.

From INSMLI -- A Letter of Appreciation


INSMLI President Senator Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, former (9th) President of Italy	Prof. Claudio Dellavalle INSMLI VicePresident

Gabriele Boccaccini * earns recognition from INSMLI President, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, former President of Italy, and INSMLI Vice president Claudio Dellavalle, for promoting the INSMLI-ISSNAF initiative which is already producing visible results and closer links between contemporary history scholars from North America and Italy.

Study of Contempory History in Italy

issnaf-insmli The National Institute for the History of the Liberation Movement in Italy (INSMLI), with the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF), offers to University students, graduate students , researchers and Faculty from the US and Canada the exceptional opportunity to access INSMLI’s outstanding collections of information, primary sources, books and studies available in its libraries and archives (which contain both paper and photographic records), on the XXth century history of Italy.

INSMLI-ISSNAF Fellowship Awarded To Stanislao Pugliese

Stanislao Pugliese a Distinguished Professor of Italian and Italian American Studies at Hofstra University (New York), is the recipient of the first INSMLI-ISSNAF visiting Fellowship at the INSMLI center in Naples (Istituto Campano per la Storia della Resistenza, dell'Antifascismo e dell'Età contemporanea "Vera Lombardi") for the Fall 2010 semester. Professor Pugliese is the author, editor or translator of a dozen books on Italian and Italian American studies.

His most recent book, Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone, was the winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, nominated as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the USA, and recently awarded the Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano per Italianistica (the Flaiano International Prize for Italian Studies, issued by the Cultural Association Ennio Flaiano in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Cultural Institutes worldwide).