IMMIGRATION SERIES

A WORLD ON THE MOVE:
Emigration and Immigration
In Europe and the Americas

Thursday - Saturday, April 23-25, 2009

For information contact:
www.columbia.edu/cu/lehmancenter
Pre-registration suggested (seating is limited):
lehmancenter@columbia.edu


THURSDAY APRIL 23, 2009
2:00 pm Welcome: Barbara Faedda, Acting Director, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies
Opening Remarks: Michael T. Ryan, Columbia University
Session I: Two Aspects of Jewish Migration
2:15-3:45 pm
Chair: Owen Gutfreund, Barnard College, Columbia University
- Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University: Jewish Immigrants, Financial Failure and the Reshaping of American Capitalism,1914-1930
- Hasia Diner, New York University: "Our Newest Immigrants": Holocaust Survivors and the Work of American Jewry on Their Behalf

Discussion

4:00-5:30 pm Plenary session
Speaker: Jacques Toubon
Chair of the Advisory Committee of the National Center for the History of the Immigration, Paris; Member of the European Parliament; Former Minister for Culture and Justice in France

European Immigration Policies Through the Lens of History
5:45-7:00 pm Public Reception at the Italian Academy

FRIDAY APRIL 24, 2009
Breakfast 8:30-9:00 am

Session II: Perspectives on Italian Immigration
9:00-10:30
Chair: Maurizio Vaudagna, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
- Donna Gabaccia, University of Minnesota:Immigrants, Neighborhoods, and Urban Tourism in New York: The Case of Little Italy
- Simone Cinotto, "Piero Bairati" Center in European-American Studies and University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy: One Third of a Nation: Public Housing and Cultural Pluralism in Italian Harlem, 1934-1950

Discussion

Session III: The Future of Immigration in the Age of Globalization
The Immigrant Republic in the 20th Century
10:45-12:45
Chair: Philip Kasinitz, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University: Empire City: The Immigrant Role in Defining New York
- Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, New York University: Global Vertigo and the End of Migration
Claudio Remeseira, Columbia University: Hispanic New York and the Redefinition of a Hemispheric Identity

12:45-1:45 Lunch break

Session IV: The Economic View: Laborers and Entrepreneurs
1:45-3:30 pm
Chair: Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University
- Nancy Green, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France: Sweatshops and Elite Migrants: Two Examples Beyond the Industrial/Postindustrial Divide
- Jan Rath, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The City and Immigrant Enterpreneurship

Discussion

3:30-3:45 Break

Session V: Immigration and Exclusion
3:45-5:45
Chair: Adam McKeown, Columbia University
- John Foot, University College of London: Foreign immigrants in Milan: representations, exclusions, memories and politics
- Mae Ngai, Columbia University: Chinese exclusion and the racialized immigrant interpreter
- Barbara Faedda, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies: Emerging Trends: Immigration Law and Lawyers in Italy

Discussion

SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2009
Breakfast 8:30-9:00 am

Session VI: The View from the Americas
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Chair: Jaime Rodriguez, St. John's University
- Jose Moya, Barnard College, Columbia University: European Immigration and Socioeconomic Development in the Americas
- Claudio W. Lomnitz, Columbia University: US-Mexico Border and the Origin of "the Mexican race", c. 1900


Discussion

10:30-10:45 break

VII. Roundtable for All Particpants: The Future of Immigration in the Age of Globalization
10:45-12:00 p.m.
Moderator: Lisa Keller, Purchase College, SUNY
Closing Comments: Kenneth T. Jackson

Saturday Afternoon
Bus Tour
1:30-8:00 pm
Harlem, Flushing, Steinway and Astoria
Visit to the Panorama of NYC
Reservations required; seating limited

Jointly sponsored by
The Herbert H.Lehman Center for American History
Interuniversity Center for European-American History and Politics (CISPEA)
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies
The University Seminar on the City, Columbia University