August 2013 Draft of Program for Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference

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Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference:  The Italians

November 8-9, 2013

Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor

 Sponsored by the

Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage

 Friday November 8

9:00 Opening Session and Welcome

  • Dr. Mark Bosco, S.J. CCIH Director

  • President Michael Garanzini, S.J.

  • Senator Renato Turano

  • Silvio Marchetti or Italian Consul General

  • Joanne Spata (Casa Italia)

 9:30 Italians and Catholicism in the Late 19th Century

Anthony Cardoza, LUC

10:00 An Overview of Italian Neighborhoods and Churches in Chicago

Dominic Candeloro, Casa Italia

10:30 Chicago Italians and the Concordat of 1929:  Remembering the Work of Peter D’Agostino

Elfriede Wedam, LUC

11:00 “The Right of Man to Migrate”:  Catholic Social Thought and the Italian American Immigration Reform Movement, 1952-1965.

Danielle Battisti, University of Nebraska, Omaha.

11:30 Italian-American Literature of Chicago and Catholicism

Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University

Respondent:  Gloria Nardini, University of Illinois, Chicago

12:30 Lunch Banquet (McCormick Lounge)

2:00 Calabrese Immigrants to Chicago

Giuseppe DeBartolo, University of Calabria, Arcavacata

2:30 Catholic Education and Assimilation

Al Gini, LUC

3:00 Italians Americans and the Chicago Area Project

Robert Lombardo, LUC

 3:30 Italian-American Religious Orders in the Development of Chicago Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Mother Cabrini and the Sisters of the Sacred Heart—-Ellen Skerrett

Father Luigi Giambastiani and the Servites—-Conrad Borntrager, OSM

The Scalabrinians—-Dominic Candeloro

4:30 Panel:  20th Century Italian-American Vocation Stories

Italian-American priests and nuns of Chicago

Fr. Pitzo

  • Fr. Belmonte

  • Fr. Dom Grassi

  • Fr. F?

  • Fr. C?

  • NUNS— 

5:30 Prosecco Reception

 

Saturday November 9

 9:00 Coffee Welcome

CCIH Director

9:30 Italian-American :

  • Fred Gardaphe’, Queens College

Susana Cavallo, LUC/John Felice Rome Center

  • Cristina Lombardi-Diop, LUC

  • Wiley Feinstein, LUC

  • Samuele Pardini, Elon Univeristy (Knock on Any Door)

11:00 Italian Catholic Culture in Literature:  Moderator:  Fred Gardaphe’

  • Tony Ardizzone

Tony Romano

Billy Lombardo

  • Frank Cicero

  • Anne Calcagno

  • Arthur Cola

 

12:30 Lunch Banquet:  (Palm Court)

1:30 Concurrent Sessions

I.  Parish History Round Table

  • San Rocco, Chicago Heights (Angelo Ciambrone, Former Mayor)

  • San Anthony of Padua, Roseland, CJ Martello

  • Assumption,

  • Our Lady of Pompeii,

 

II.  Contemporary Chicago Stories on Growing up Italian and Catholic

  • Loyola Students and Alumni:  Moderator, Anna Clara Ionta

3:00 Patron Saints and Religious Traditions

  • Feast of San Francesco di Paola

  • Santissima Maria Lauretana:

  • Our Lady of Mount Carmel

  • San Giovanni Bosco

 

4:30 Chicago Italian Catholicism for the 21st Century

Richard Fragomeni, Pastor of Our Lady of Pompeii

5:15 Concluding Remarks—Mark Bosco, S.J.

5:30 Sacred Liturgy in celebration of Italian American Heritage (MDS)

Fr. Garanzini, main celebrant. Assisted by Fr. August Feccia, CS

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Dominic Candeloro, 1401 Cleveland Avenue LaGrange Park, IL 60526 Candeloro@CasaItaliaChicago.org, dcandeloro@luc.edu 708-354-0952 Cell 847-951-910 http://tinyurl.com/candeloro 2012-13-Adjunct Prof. Italian American History, Loyola University Chicago 1981-present—Part-time volunteer program co-ordinator and librarian Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia 2001-2006 Executive Director, American Italian Historical Association 2005-----Co Director of the Exhibit “The Dream...per non dementicare” Archivio Centrale dello Stato-Roma 1995-2003 Special Assistant to the Mayor of Chicago Heights Director, Conferences/Workshops & Weekend College, Governors State University Adjunct Professor of History 1977-1982 Visiting Assistant Professor - History, University of Illinois, Chicago.and Director of the "Italians in Chicago" Project, $300,000 NEH Grant (1979-1982). 1976-1977 Visiting Assistant Professor - History, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign. Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, History. Dissertation: ,Louis Freeland Post: Carpetbagger, Singletaxer, Progressive." J. Leonard Bates, Advisor. B.A. Northwestern University, 1982-1983 Fulbright Research Fellowship, Italy.

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