The Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar™ is a three-week summer program that takes place at Roma Tre University. It is designed to introduce participants (primarily doctoral students and professors but also non-academic cultural and community leaders) to cultural studies of the Italian diaspora from a variety of academic perspectives and to foster development of individual projects responding to the materials covered in the series of seminars in literature, film, and the social sciences.
The IDSSS is open to graduate students and professors from colleges and universities worldwide as well as others pursuing professional lives dedicated to Italian America and the Italian diaspora. Given the ever-expanding dialogue between the major Italian American organizations (e.g., those of the Italian American Leadership Forum) and academic institutions, we encourage leaders and administrators of the former to consider attending. Conversations between community groups and academics with shared goals of understanding and communication have proven to be fruitful and enlightening.
The Seminar is a collaborative program between the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute/Queens College of The City University of New York and the Roma Tre University. Professors from these two institutions and others will comprise the teaching faculty. This will be the eighth year of the Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar.
The program will accept up to twenty participants for the 2025 summer program. The dates for this year are from June 9–27, 2025. Fellowships of $1,500 per participant are available upon acceptance. Click here for the Application forms