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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, Lecturer in Italian
 

Conferences and Workshops

Presentations:

  • American Association of Teachers of Italian; Chair & Organizer: Bridging the Gap: Technology in the L2/FL Classroom. Strasbourg, France. May 2013.
  • American Association of Teachers of Italian; “iExploring Intermediate Italian.” Strasbourg, France. May 2013.
  • Modern Language Association: “Looking through the Glass in I cento passi (2000): Felicia Impastato as Seen by Lacan.” Boston, MA. January 2013.
  • Modern Language Association; Chair & Organizer: Italian Cinema: Death or Rebirth? – A New Look at Contemporary Cinema. Boston, MA. January 2013.
  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages; “The Fourth Gaze – Women Contemplating being Woman in La bestia nel cuore (2005).” Philadelphia, PA. November 2012.
  • South Central Modern Language Association; “Feminist (Re)Awakenings in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Calderon.” San Antonio, TX. Nov. 2012.
  • “A Film Symposium on the New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema.” Indiana University Bloomington, Dept. of French and Italian. Round Table Presentation: “The Use of Cinema in the Italian L2 Classroom;” A Comparative Study of Pinocchio in the Elementary Italian Curriculum. April 2012.
  • “A Film Symposium on the New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema.” Indiana University Bloomington, Dept. of French and Italian. Presentation: “Tutti a tavola! Food as Aphrodisiac in Ferzan Ozpetek’s Gay Trilogy.” April 2012.
  • Modern Language Association: “The Queering of the Rainbow: Color, Class, and Sexual Identity in La finestra di fronte. Seattle, WA. January 2012.
  • Modern Language Association: Round Table on Italian Cinema. Seattle, WA. January 2012.
  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages; “Connecting Worlds with the E-Portfolio: In Pursuit of Better Assessment.” Denver, CO. November 2011.
  • South Central Modern Language Association: “Re-Defining Neorealism: The ‘Eyes’ of Innocence.”  Hot Springs, AR. Oct. 2011.
  • Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference: “Private Lives, Public ‘Stories’: The Autobiographical Feminist Awakening of Italy, Silbilla Aleramo.” Auburn University; Sept. 2011.
  • American Association of Teachers of Italian; Presentation: “The Sicilian Girl: Fairy Tale or Feminist Awakening.”  Erice, Italy; May 2011.
  • “A Film Symposium on the New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema.” Indiana University Bloomington, Dept. of French and Italian. Presentation: “Lucy/Luce: La vera protagonista di Nuovomondo (2006). April 2011.
  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages; “Telling Tales in the 21st Century: Digital Storytelling.” Chair: Claire Bartlett (Rice Univ). Boston, MA. November 2010.
  • American Association of Teachers of Italian; Presentation: “Felicia Impastato: True Protagonist of I cento passi (2000); Lecce, Italy; May 2010.
  • “A Film Symposium on the New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema.” Indiana University Bloomington, Dept. of French and Italian. Presentation: “The Queering of the Rainbow: Color, Sexual Identity, and Class in Le fate ignoranti (2001). April 2010.
  • “Sex, Sexuality, & Gender” Conference at the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary; Paper entitled: “Pasolini and the Sacred: Franciscan Spirituality through Sexuality in The Gospel According to Matthew (Il vangelo secondo Matteo) and The Theorem (Teorema); April 2010.
  • Da ‘Sodoma’ a ‘Gomorra’: Framing Crisis and Rebirth in Italian Cinema from the 1970s to the 2000s. University of Warwick, England. Presentation:“The Queering of the Rainbow: Color and Sexual Identity in Hamam (1997); Jan. 22-24, 2010.
  • American Association of Italian Studies; presenter & panel organizer “Italy: A Country of Immigration or Emigration, a Cinematic Prospective”; Presentation: “New Societies: The Homosexual as ‘Migrant’ in Ferzan Ozpetek’s ‘Gay Trilogy’”; May 2009.
  • American Association of Italian Studies; Presentation: “Sicilian Satire as Seen through the Non-Sicilian’s Lens: The Female as Satirized in Germi’s Divorzio all’italiana e Sedotta e abbandonata”;  May 2008.
  • SUNY New Paltz Department of Foreign Languages; Presenter & Organizer:“Web 2.0 Technologies” — Adapting the Classroom to the ‘Net-IGenerations’; April 2008.

Participation/Professional Development:

  • American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages/American Association of Teachers of Italian; attendee; November 2009.
  • Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies Montaigne Symposium:”Montaigne-Shakespeare: Biographical and Editorial Crossroads”; attendee; March 2009.
  • “Italians in the Americas” at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College/CUNY; attendee; April 2008.
  • Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: “The Igeneration: Turning Instruction Inside Out;” attendee; March 2008.
  • “Immigration and Italian Culture” by Dacia Maraini at Vassar College; November 2007.
  • Reconstructing Womanhood Symposium in Honor of Hazel Carby’s 20th Anniversary in publishing this work; attendee; November 2007.
  • American Association of Teachers of Italian; attendee; October 2007.
  • “Girlhood The Challenge and Promise of Growing Up Female”; Woman’s Studies Conference at SUNY New Paltz; attendee; October 2007.
  • American Association of Teachers of Italian; attendee; November 2006.
  • Total Physical Response Storytelling; participant; August 2005.
  • “Tolerance in the Classroom” by Linda Lantieri; participant; March 2005.
  • American Association of Teachers of Italian; attendee; November 2005.