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The First Gaze: The Italian Who Invented Cinema 15 Sep, 2025 21:09 PM
A remarkable piece of Italian film history is now freely available to audiences everywhere.Filmmaker Stefano Anselmi, together with producer Daniele Baldacci, has announced that their documentary L’italiano che inventò il cinema - released internationally as The First Gaze - can now be freely watched and shared by anyone.
Celebrating Italian-Canadian Voices: Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli’s Product of Italy 15 Sep, 2025 20:09 PM
We are delighted to spotlight Product of Italy, Made in Canada: An Immigrant’s Love Letter to Food, Family, and Resilience (Latitude 46 Publishing, Fall 2025) by award-winning author Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli.
The Zoryan Insitute’s Dispersions Podcast. Season 3, Episode 2: Expectations of Motherhood: You can’t just leave it at the airport. 19 Apr, 2024 18:04 PM
Expectations of Motherhood: You can't just leave it at the airport!
History Lives Here – Guelph Public Library 27 Jan, 2022 07:01 AM
Written by: Kyra Bates
Patterns of Nostos in Italian Canadian Narratives ~ edited by Gabriel Niccoli 27 Apr, 2021 19:04 PM
The articles in this volume study the manner in which patterns of nostos, of journeying and returning, in Italian Canadian narratives are both identified and deployed. The contributions span from diaspora and postcolonial studies to cultural sociology and anthropology, from literary criticism and semiotics to the history of immigration, from high ranking diplomacy to creative writing and documentary photography, and from comparative literature to translation.
Italian-Canadian Narratives Showcase is an initiative born in 2019 under the guidance and support of ICAP (Italian-Canadian Archives Project), a national network dedicated to securing the Italian-Canadian contribution to Canada’s evolving narrative, past and present. ICNS displays Italian heritage projects across Canada. The material presented here comes from public and private archives, university students’ work, local Italian-Canadian clubs and associations. The projects showcase the history and the role of Italian migrants in Canada from the late 19th century to the present.
The University of Guelph provides an Open Access repository for the Italian-Canadian Narratives Showcase project.
Contacts: Sandra Parmegiani (sparmegi@uoguelph.ca) and Sharon Findlay (sfindl01@uoguelph.ca)