{"id":218131,"date":"2023-11-28T18:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/?p=218131"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T00:16:10","slug":"dr-teresa-fiore-keynote-speaker-at-rutgers-universitys-italian-graduate-student-conference-nov-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/2023\/11\/28\/dr-teresa-fiore-keynote-speaker-at-rutgers-universitys-italian-graduate-student-conference-nov-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Teresa Fiore Keynote Speaker at Rutgers University&#8217;s Italian Graduate Student Conference (Nov. 18, 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column two-thirds\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=fiorete\">Dr. Teresa Fiore<\/a> (Professor of Italian and Inserra Endowed Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies) was invited to give a keynote speech at the graduate student conference of the Italian Department of Rutgers University held on Nov. 17-18, 2023. This year, the topic of this bi-annual conference organized by the Italian Graduate Society was <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/italian-grad-society\/masks\/\">&#8220;Masks.&#8221;<\/a> Dr. Fiore&#8217;s keynote was titled &#8220;Masking as Re-Invention: Secrets and Lies in Italian-Language Texts about Migration and Adoption.&#8221; In exploring the works of such writers as Igiaba Scego, Amir Issaa, Esp\u00e9rance Hakuzwimana, and Nikolai Prestia, the talk brought together Fiore&#8217;s main research field, Migration Studies, and the new field she is now focusing on, Critical Adoption Studies (Dr. Fiore is currently teaching an Honors class titled &#8220;Narrating Adoption: Choice, Chance and Circumstance&#8221;). <\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-218148\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/2023\/11\/28\/dr-teresa-fiore-keynote-speaker-at-rutgers-universitys-italian-graduate-student-conference-nov-2023\/masks_flyer\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2023\/11\/masks_flyer.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/inserra-chair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2023\/11\/masks_flyer.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Conference Rutgers Masks\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/p><\/div><br \/>\nHeld at the Eagleton Institute of the Rutgers\u2019 Cook\/Douglass campus, the conference included papers on a wide array of topics from masking as forging in antiquity as well as today with AI; masking as an essential and ever-evolving part of Commedia dell&#8217;Arte; masking as hiding corruption in films about Fascism and Nazism; and masking as a folk tradition revisited in contemporary environment-conscious fashion, among others. The second keynote speaker for the conference was Prof. Ronald L. Martinez from Brown University whose talk was titled &#8220;Terence\u2019s Eunuch as Mask: Disguising\/Disclosing Carnal Desire in Petrarch and Boccaccio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Short url: tinyurl.com\/RUMasks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Held at the Eagleton Institute of the Rutgers\u2019 Cook\/Douglass campus, the conference included papers on a wide array of topics from masking as forging in antiquity as well as today with AI; masking as an essential and ever-evolving part of Commedia dell&#8217;Arte; masking as hiding corruption in films about Fascism and Nazism; and masking as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":218149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,13,17,18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20_chss-news","category-endowed-chairs-research","category-102_news-and-announcements","category-88_italian-news-and-events","category-teresa-fiore-research","category-197_modern-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218131"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218157,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218131\/revisions\/218157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}