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Diaspore Italiane: Italy in Movement
A Symposium on Three Continents Australia Melbourne * April 2018 / New York * November 2018 / Genova * June 2019.

The second part of the symposium, “Transnationalism & Questions of Identity,” took place in New York City * November 1-3, 2018, at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. The conference explored ideas of identity building, claiming, maintaining, and maiming in the twenty-first century. Transnational contexts show cultural identities in motion as they react, adapt, and develop in reciprocal contact in reaction to changing notions of the individual nation in the world today. Transnational subjects, who, within varying degrees of structural constraint, navigate, evaluate, and negotiate different cultural options, emerge as the potentially rational agents of these changes. In parallel, cultural identities emerge as historical constructs affected by contemporary acts and this-worldly constructs of the human imagination.