Lucca , Italy

June 29- July 21, 2006
HIST 439/550
3 History credits (undergraduate, graduate or audit)

"Tutto il mondo e paese: Italian Emigration" is a three-week summer study program for undergraduate and graduate college students co-sponsored by Bridgewater State College (MA), the University of Florence (Italy), and the cultural office of the city government of Lucca (Italy). This three-credit course will treat the phenomena of exploration, emigration, and cultural continuity, change and exchange for Italians who went abroad from the Middle Ages to the present. Students will learn about the human dimensions of Italian emigrants' experiences in classes and through readings on the economic and cultural motivations for emigration, the experiences of individuals and families who emigrated to the Americas, Asia, and Australia, the conditions of their passage, the new communities ("Little Italies") they created melding Old and New World cultures, and the effects of occasional repatriation on recent Italian culture. In addition to formal class sessions at the historical library "Agora" in Lucca , students will visit a number of museums, libraries, emigration organizations, and archives in Tuscany and other parts of northern Italy . Course-related field trips include visits to Florence , Pisa , and San Marino . Students will enjoy two days and nights in Venice to tour the cosmopolitan city which was a major embarkation port for crusaders, merchants and adventurers. An overnight excursion to the picturesque mountains of the Garfagnana in Tuscany will include visits to villages heavily affected by emigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to relevant monuments, and to museums of emigration and of peasant ethnography where students will witness first hand the ways of life and the crafts emigrants from the Italian countryside carried with them to distant destinations.

HIGHLIGHTS

Faculty Leader: Dr. Luci Fortunato Dr. Luci Fortunato, professor of History at Bridgewater State College, received her doctorate in European History form Boston College in 1989. Her areas of scholarly research and interest focus on Italian social, cultural, religious, and women's history and literature from the Renaissance through the Risorgimento. She has conducted programs for students abroad since 1975, including the Bridgewater-at-Oxford History program and the Bridgewater-in-Lucca program.

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L'Italia degli Emigranti/ Italian Emigration Bridgewater State College Università degli Studi di Firenze Comune di Lucca/ Bridgewater State College and the University of Florence, Italy 29 giugno-21 luglio 2006
June 29-July 21, 2006
1-2 luglio
1-2 July		 Gite locali a Lucca Orientation to Lucca
3 luglio - lunedì
3 July-Monday		 Italiani alla scoperta di mondi diversi Italians and the discovery of different worlds since the Middle Ages
4 luglio - martedì
4 July - Tuesday		 L'emigrazione religiosa nell' Età Moderna Religious emigration in the Early Modern Era
5 luglio - mercoledì
5 July - Wednesday		 L'emigrazione culturale nell'Europa del '700 Cultural emigration within Europe in the eighteenth century
Pomeriggio/Afternoon Gita: Firenze Trip: Florence
6 luglio - giovedì
6 July - Thursday		 Emigrazione politica dell'800 Nineteenth-century political emigration
7 luglio - venerdì
7 July - Friday		 L'emigrazione culturale dalla Prima al termine della Seconda guerra Mondiale Cultural emigration from World War I to the end of World War II
Pomeriggio/Afternoon Partenza per Venezia e San Marino Afternoon leave for Venice/San Marino
8-9 luglio sabato/domenica
8-9 July Saturday - Sunday		 Venezia/San Marino Venice San Marino
10 luglio - lunedì
10 July - Monday		 L'Italia delle colonie Italian colonialism
11 luglio - martedì
11 July - Tuesday		 "Fuga di cervelli": un problema storico ancora attuale 'Brain Drain'-an historical and contemporary issue
12 luglio - mercoledì
12 July - Wednesday		 L'emigrazione per necessità: perché gli italiani partivano Emigration and necessity : why Italians left Italy
13 luglio - giovedì
13 July - Thursday		 L'Emigrazione lucchese verso il Nord America Lucchese emigration to North America
14 luglio - venerdì
14 July - Friday		 Verso altri mondi: come si affronta il viaggio e le nuove realtà Toward other worlds : facing the voyage and new realities
15-16 luglio
15-16 July		 Gita Garfagnana Trip: Garagnana
17 luglio - lunedì
17 July - Monday		 Modelli di vita e permanenza delle tradizioni italiane all'estero Models of life and the persistence of Italian traditions abroad
18 luglio - martedì
18 July - Tuesday		 Tornati a casa: abitudini e modelli di vita importati al luogo di origine Coming home : customs and ways of life reimported to Italy
19-20 luglio
19 - 20 July		 Gita : Pisa Trip : Pisa/free time
Other activities
[Dates TBA]		 Visita presso l'Associazione Lucchesi nel Mondo Visit to the Association of the Lucchesi in the World
Visita Biblioteca di Stato di Lucca - modalità del viaggio Visit to the State [National] Library in Lucca - ways of travel
Visita Coreglia - Museo della Statuina e dell'Emigrazione Visit to the Museum of figurine making and emigration in Coreglia Antelminelli
Montefegatesi come esempio di paese d'emigranti. Monumento pagato dagli emigranti (fam. Carli) Visit to Monteegatesi as an example of an emigrant village. View Risorgimento monument funded in part by emigrants of the Carli and other families
Firenze - Fiesole: Museo dei missionari in Oriente Visit to Florence and to the Museum of missionaries to Asia in Fiesole
Visita Fondazione Cresci per la Storia dell'Emigrazione Visit to the Fondazione Cresci for the History of Emigration
San Marino: museo dell'Emigrazione Visit to the Emigration museum in San Marino
Balestra e Corteo storico della Festa di San Pellegrino Crossbow contest and Historical Parade of the Feast of San Pellegrino

N.B. Specific dates within the program and lecture topics are subject to change.