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Submit to 57th Annual IASA Conference at Montclair University

57th Annual IASA Conference

Montclair State University

University Hall Conference Center

Nov. 6-9, 2025

Call for Papers

Submit by Monday, April 21, 2025

Intersecting Transitalia in Communities: Nation(s), Transnation(s), Neighborhood(s)

Conference Theme: The theme of this year’s conference is community in the Italian diaspora, historically and in the present day. The programs and panels of this conference will explore how, historically, Italians have worked in building their local communities and how they have attempted (successfully or not) to bridge (linguistic, cultural, etc.) gaps across communities throughout the country or even the world. 

The conference committee welcomes individual papers and full panels that engage with the diversity within and between communities, broadly defined, within the diaspora. The conference is open to scholars from all disciplines, creative writers and artists, translators, and members of the surrounding Montclair communities. 

The conference committee will consider proposals that do not specifically address but may complement this year’s conference theme. Organized panels should feature no more than three presenters (or creative writers or artists, as the case may be), not including the chair and respondent. All presentations are limited to 15-20 minutes based on the number of people on the panel.

Proposals should include a 250-word abstract for each paper and a 75-word bio for each participant, including chairs and respondents, and for all participants in a proposed panel. Each participant’s name, affiliation, email, and preferred address should be listed. Please indicate if the presenter/panel requires AV equipment (each room has a computer, a projector, and speakers). The Conference Committee will send an email notification of acceptance for individual abstracts or proposed panels through Submittable by May 15, 2025.

Possible themes and topics include but are not limited to: 

  • Workers (e.g., Urban Industries, Coal Mining, Masonry, Railroad Lines)
  • Politics, Unions, and Anarchist groups
  • Italian American Protest (Civil Rights Movement)
  • Italy Made in America
  • Translation, Dialect, and Linguistic Perspectives
  • Italian ‘American’ Creative Voices (All Genres Welcome)
  • Italian Americans Youth Culture (Social Media, TikTok)  
  • Italian American Sports Figures and Contributions
  • Social Communities: Bocce, Caffes, Operas, Social Clubs
  • Newspapers and Other Print Cultures 
  • Religious Festivals and Traditions: Black Madonnas, San Gennaro, & Presepi
  • Italian Americans and Native Americans (Alliances and Common Ground) 
  • Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods (Black and Italian; Hispanic and Italian)
  • Multilingual Communities and Pedagogies (Heritage Learners, Romance Language Speakers)
  • Labor Museum in Haledon (Botto House)
  • Società di Mutuo soccorso
Submit to Italian American Studies Association Distinguished Service Award

Process:

  1. Candidates must be current members of the IASA.
  2. Nominators submit materials to Submittable.
  3. No self-nominations will be accepted.
  4. Nominators submit the nomination form presenting the candidate and explaining the individual’s qualifications.
  5. Nominators submit three letters of support in addition to their own explanation of candidate qualifications housed on the nomination form.
  6. Nominators submit a current curriculum vitae of the nominee, to be obtained directly from the nominee with the nominee’s consent. While containing the typical information, the CV should also clearly indicate the following,
    1. Service to the IASA (type and years), highlighted in yellow.
    2. The number of years the candidate has been a member of the IASA, highlighted in yellow.
    3. Participation in or presence at IASA conferences, highlighted in yellow.


Timeline:

• Applications may be submitted year-round to Submittable.

• Nominations are received by the president.

• Judges (three board and two at large members) will review all nominations in September and will make a selection at that time.

• Award will be announced/presented at the annual October conference. 

 

Criteria:

• Successful nominees will have made a real and substantial contribution to the Italian American Studies Association or the greater Italian American community through publishing, activism, committee work, recruiting, fundraising, public relations or other such significant activity.

• Current officers and board members are eligible to be candidates for the award.

• Past winners are not eligible for nominations for three years following the year in which they won.

• Annual winners will receive a plaque from the IASA, conference registration paid for that year, and will be interviewed by Diasporic Italy.

 

Submit to Student Membership

Benvenuto. Thank you for your interest in joining the Italian American Studies Association. There has never been a more important time to join IASA. Your IASA membership will benefit your career as well as your profession. Benefits of membership include access to the IASA members' database (visible to all registered members only) and access to free PDF versions of AIHA proceedings on our website.

We are pleased to offer the student membership dues rate. Please complete the student verification form (https://www.italianamericanstudies.net/cpages/membership) in order for your registration to be processed. Please note, that your registration is not complete until this form is received by IASA (ryancm@indiana.edu) and confirmation of your student status is emailed back to you. You can fill out the form and upload it here in submittable, so that the process for your student membership can begin. 

Again, thank you for your interest and devotion to the interdisciplinary study of the culture, history, literature, sociology, demography, folklore, and politics of Italians in America.