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SUMMARY:Dante Society Lecture\, URI Professor Catherine Sama The 'Women of the Villas': Collaboration between Italian Partisans and the Office of Strategic Services during WWII
DESCRIPTION:URI Professor Catherine Sama\n\nWomen in Action: Collaboration between Italian Partisans and the Office of Strategic Services during WWII\n\n\n\nProfessor Catherine Sama is the head of the Italian program at the University of Rhode Island. She enjoys teaching a wide range of courses at URI\, from Italian language & culture classes to advanced courses in Italian literature and film. Specific areas of focus include early modern Italian women writers\; Italian dramatic cinema from Neorealism to the present\; genocide in Italian literature & film. Her research projects are dedicated to bringing Italian women's voices from the past into the present: whether for eighteenth-century writers and artists or partisans during World War II.  Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Association for University Women.  \n\nHer new research project centers on the activities of Italian partigiane from the Veneto region who collaborated with the United States Office of Strategic Services to end nazi-fascist control of Italy.  This talk will explore the actions\, dilemmas\, fears\, and hopes of individual women and men involved in this fight\, as seen through the primary sources Sama has collected thus far: interviews with the partisans and OSS agents\; military documents now declassified\, including radio messages transmitted from behind enemy lines\; private letters and papers\; and interviews with descendants on both Italian and American sides. Her goal is to create a limited series podcast in order to bring these stories to a broad audience.  \n\n...
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>URI Professor Catherine Sama</strong></span><br />\nWomen in Action: Collaboration between Italian Partisans and the Office of Strategic Services during WWII</div>\n\n<div style="text-align:justify"><br />\nProfessor Catherine Sama is the head of the Italian program at the University of Rhode Island. She enjoys teaching a wide range of courses at URI\, from Italian language &amp\; culture classes to advanced courses in Italian literature and film. Specific areas of focus include early modern Italian women writers\; Italian dramatic cinema from Neorealism to the present\; genocide in Italian literature &amp\; film. Her research projects are dedicated to bringing Italian women&rsquo\;s voices from the past into the present: whether for eighteenth-century writers and artists or partisans during World War II.&nbsp\; Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Association for University Women.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<br />\nHer new research project centers on the activities of Italian <em>partigiane</em> from the Veneto region who collaborated with the United States Office of Strategic Services to end nazi-fascist control of Italy.&nbsp\; This talk will explore the actions\, dilemmas\, fears\, and hopes of individual women and men involved in this fight\, as seen through the primary sources Sama has collected thus far: interviews with the partisans and OSS agents\; military documents now declassified\, including radio messages transmitted from behind enemy lines\; private letters and papers\; and interviews with descendants on both Italian and American sides. Her goal is to create a limited series podcast in order to bring these stories to a broad audience.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</div>\n\n<div style="text-align:justify">...</div>\n
LOCATION:Westerly Library & Wilcox Park Auditorium\, 2nd floor. 44 Broad Street Westerly\, RI 02891
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