Cultural Exchanges Between Italy and the United States: ‘Italian’ Intellectuals in the U.S. / ‘Italian’ Intellectuals and the U.S."
Location: Center for Italian Studies, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3358
Speakers will trace the transatlantic journeys of Italian thinkers and cultural mediators such as Nicola Chiaromonte, whose correspondence with the New York intellectuals shaped wartime and postwar debates on politics and literature; Federico Patellani, the pioneering photojournalist linked to Italian Neorealism; early twentieth-century observers of America like Luigi Barzini Sr. and Vico Mantegazza; educator Peter Sammartino, founder of Fairleigh Dickinson University and editor of Atlantica Review; anti-fascist writer G. A. Borgese; and diplomat-journalist Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello. Their stories reveal a web of transnational mobility and cultural translation, showing how societal models, artistic currents, and political ideals moved back and forth across the Atlantic to transform both Italian and American intellectual life.
Day 1 Thursday, October 2, 2025, 4–6:15 PM
Opening Session with Ruggero Ranieri (Sorbello Foundation) & Keynote Lecture by Anthony Julian Tamburri (Calandra Institute)
Day 2 Friday, October 3, 2025, 8 AM–5:30 PM
This conference is hosted by the Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University, in partnership with the Romeyne Robert and Uguccione Sorbello Foundation, and co-sponsored by Ragusa Foundation for the Humanities, New York. Additional support provided by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY, and Università per Stranieri di Perugia, Italy.