INTERNATIONAL Symposium "italy in Transit"
An annual professional and academic meeting held in Boca Raton in winter (the best time to be in Florida). Guests share their research about Italy seen as a fluid space where identities cross and new encounters are shaped.
A symposium (from syn: together) because speakers commit to the whole program and listen to each other to compare ideas and venture outside their comfort zone. Everyone is enriched in a diverse synchronic, synergetic, sympathetic interaction.
Organized by the FAU Italian Studies Program under the patronage of the Consulate General of Italy in Miami . Supported by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (New York), the FAU Initiative for the Study of the Americas, the Italian Cultural Institute in Miami, Sardinia Film Commission and European Union .
Ongoing proposal acceptance (email). No registration fee. Hospitality for our guests may be available thanks to our generous local friends.
Tentative date for the X Symposium is February 6-7, 2026.
2025
Read about the 2025 Symposium it in Strade Dorate. Full program for the three evenings dedicated to Women and Spirituality in the Early Forms of Musical Theater.
Speakers Collage 2025
(Partial) Audience Collage 2025
PAST EDITIONS
2024
R ead about the 2024 Symposium in Strade Dorate
Group portrait 2024
2023
Read about it Parchi Letterari and in Miami Italian Scientific Community
2022
Recordings of almost all sessions are available: Friday plenary session A Portrait of italian America . Saturday session 1 Italian Culture in High Schools; session 2 Literature in Transit; session 3 Cultural Crossings; session 4 Mario Mignone Session on Italian American Studies; session 5 dedicated to Anthony Riccio, Italian Magical Realism with surprise performance by the historic Circo Zoppè; session 6 Michele D. Serra New Italian Film Series, Magical Realism in Italian Cinema, with filmmaker Marco Bonfanti.
2022 Group Portrait
2021
Recording of Friday night session. minute 1'-23' Greetings / 24'-1h29' Marco Bonfanti and Anna Godano / 1h'29-end Italians in the Americas and Beyond.
Recording Saturday first part: 1-13' Greetings / 13'-1h31' Exploration Through Study / 1h31'-2h54' Long Distance Collaborations / 2h54'-4h31' Mario Mignone Session on Italian American Firsts / 4h32'-end I World Summit of Italians in Transit (Brazil; beginning of Iceland). [We have to use Zoom? Let's use it to its full potential and connect Italians across 24 time zones!]
Recording Saturday second part: I World Summit of Italians in Transit (Iceland, South Africa, New Zealand, Mars, Hawaii). This I Summit is particulary striking: Italian voices from the corners of the world explain their research from Iceland ants to the mission to Mars.
2020
Below, group pictures of the IV Symposium in 2020 - right before COVID closures. Write-up of the event in "La Voce," Canada's leading Italian American magazine; and the bag hand-printed by FAU Printing Club with Philippe Apatie's photograph.
2019
Program 2019
Write-up of the 2019 Symposium in "We The Italians." Photos from 2019 edition with the greetings by Italian Consul General Cristiano Musillo, and reception at the Living Room Theaters.
2018
2017