Italians in the Far West - Fase One
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The George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies, CSU Long Beach
in collaboration with
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles
is pleased to present
Italians in the Gold Rush and Beyond
A Multimedia Oral History Project
Sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome, the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles, the University of Florence and California State University Long Beach, “Italians in the Gold Rush and Beyond” is an extensive project based on the history of Italians on the West Coast from the beginning of the Gold Rush Era (1848) up to the present. The project intends to recover this important historical heritage and to document it via an on-line database. This presentation will illustrate both the larger scope of the project and the specifics of the field research completed by the scientific team of the University of Florence last September in Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona. The conference will include a multimedia presentation and the screening of a short documentary on this research.
About the project director
Alessandro Trojani received his BA in 1973 in Computer Science at the University of Pisa. After working as analyst and designer for Geo Information Systems, he specialized on informatics applied to cultural communication via new www-networks technologies. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florence, where he teaches “19th-century North America History” in the Dept. of Political Science, “Visual Networks in Digital Environments” in the Dept. of Education, and “Basic Informatics Applied to GIS” in the Dept. of Architecture. Trojani created the project “Italians in the Gold Rush and Beyond”, and has been conducting his research on Italians on the West Coast since 1999. In Italy, he collaborates with the Ministry of Italians in the World for the development of a National Emigration Museum, as well as with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the enhancement of historical research in the field. He is also involved in West-Coast-based anthropological research supported by the National Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Florence.
Saturday, February 21
Karl W. Anatol Center, Library East 110 (CSU Long Beach campus)
http://daf.csulb.edu/maps/directions/index.html
For information, contact Teresa Fiore at tfiore@csulb.edu or Mihaela Martinescu at (562) 985-9321
