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e-congresso
No. 186 / November 20, 2005
e-congresso is the online newsletter of the National Congress of Italian Canadians – Toronto District (NCIC – TD), an added feature of www.canadese.org, the website serving the Italian Canadian community from coast to coast to coast since December 11, 2000. Your comments are invited—at info@canadese.org
Ordine al Merito-Young Achievement Awards Dinner The 2005 edition of the Ordine al Merito/Young Achievement Awards was a gala success, with some three hundred people in attendance, to salute RCMP Chief Superintendent (Retired) Ben Soave and Mary Nicole Corriero (see details below). On behalf of the honourees, the board of directors of the NCIC – TD thanks all those whose support and attendance made the event such a success.
About Pirandello’s Enrico IV Domenico Pietropaolo, Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto, cordially invites you to a public lecture by Donato Santeramo of Queen’s University, on Pirandello’s Enrico IV: The Perfect Theatrical Machine, on Thursday, November 24, 2005 4 pm, Madden Auditorium, Carr Hall, 100 St. Joseph Street, St. Michael’s College. A reception will follow. RSVP (acceptances only) to 416-926-2345 or email: italian.studies@utoronto.ca. Everyone is welcome.
FROM EARLIER EDITIONS
About Our Ordine al Merito Award Winner A thirty-five year veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) who retired with rank of Chief Superintendent, Ben Soave has been decorated by the Canadian and foreign governments for his outstanding achievements in the fight against organized crime and terrorism. Mr. Soave, who joined the RCMP in 1970, spent more than fifteen years in foreign service (from 1979 to 1996), acting as the RCMP Liaison Officer and Attaché at Canadian Missions in Singapore, Lima, and Rome, with responsibilities for high-risk regions in South East Asia, South America, Europe and the Middle East.
In 1996 he returned to Canada and assumed command of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU) in Toronto, an elite organization that targets the highest levels of internationally organized crime. Under his leadership, the CFSEU exposed and dismantled one of the most notorious branches of the Sicilian Mafia, a crime group that had frustrated law enforcement efforts on three continents for decades. From 2001 until his retirement, Ben was also responsible for the Toronto based Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET), created in the aftermath of 9-11, to investigate, disrupt, and expose criminal extremist groups, ultimately to prevent terrorist attacks.
Mr. Soave is active in a wide variety of community and charitable events and is a strong advocate of interaction and consultation with communities at risk. He is much in demand, both domestically and internationally, as a speaker, regarding the threat posed by organized crime and criminal extremism. He is a member of the Executive Advisory Committee for the Association of Certified Forensic Investigators (ACFI); member of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police (OACP); a Director and Treasurer of the Universal Youth Foundation, a registered not-for-profit organization which provides educational assistance to children in Africa and developing countries; a Director of the Villa Charities, a registered not-for-profit organization providing long term care facilities for seniors; and president of Soave Strategy Group Inc.
Chief Superintendent (Retired) Ben Soave was invested by the Governor-General of Canada as an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces, and in 2000 the President of the Republic of Italy proclaimed him a "Knight Officer of the Order of Merit". He has also been awarded two personal RCMP Commissioner’s Commendations, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal, the RCMP Long Service Medal, and numerous community and professional organizations’ awards.
Join us on November 18 (see below) when we honour this outstanding Italian Canadian!
About Our Young Achievement Award Winner On November 18, Nicole Corriero will receive the NCIC – TD’s Young Achievement Award, and a quick look at just the highlights of her resume give an excellent indication of why she is our honouree. A cum laude graduate of Harvard University in 2005, with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology, she is now a candidate for both a Doctor of Jurisprudence (from the Un iversity of Detroit’s Mercy Faculty of Law), and a Bachelor of Legal Letters (from the University of Windsor). While at Harvard, she received Magna honours for her senior thesis on the sociology of fist fights in hockey. And that’s just her academic record!
Nicole was for four years a member of the varsity women’s hockey team at Harvard, and from 2004 to 2005, its captain. Her excellence as an athlete is doubly reflected in her receipt of the Mary Paget Prize, awarded to a Harvard senior for outstanding contribution to female athletics at Harvard; and in the Sarah Devens Award, presented to the New England hockey player demonstrating leadership and commitment both on and off the ice; and in thirteen other awards and distinctions she has earned in her athletic career. And that’s not all…
Nicole has served as a grade school tutor, as co-chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe College Foundation for Women’s Athletics, as a lector at St. Paul’s Church, and as a volunteer at both the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Homeless Shelter. Currently she is a volunteer with Windsor Community Legal Aid, a member of the American and Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Associations, and of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity.
Join us on November 18 (see above) when we honour this outstanding young women for her many achievements to date, and the promise she hold for many future distinctions in the years ahead.
Call For Papers The Canadian Society for Italian Studies will hold its next annual Spring conference in conjunction with the 75th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences from Saturday May 27 to Monday, May 29, 2006, at York University, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Proposals are invited for individual papers, complete sessions, or panel discussions, which may be presented in Italian, English, or French. The title with a 150-word abstract should be sent to the session chair indicated below not later than January 9, 2006. Further enquiries may be addressed to the general program organizer, Olga Pugliese (pugliese@chass.utoronto.ca). N. B. Presenters must be members of the CSIS and also register for the Congress (see the website at www.fedcan.ca
Regular sessions include the following:
Middle Ages and Renaissance / Medioevo e Rinascimento Chair: Cristina Perissinotto, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa, Arts Hall Rm. 123, 70 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5; Tel. (613) 562-5800 x 2550; Fax (613) 562-5138; cperissi@uottawa.ca
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Sei-Settecento Chair: Rosalind Kerr, Drama Department, FAB 3-146, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G-2C9; Tel. (780) 492-8737; Fax: (780) 492-9156; rosalind.kerr@ualberta.ca
From Romanticism to verismo /Dal romanticismo al verismo Chair: Sandra Parmegiani, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, The University of Western Ontario, University College, Rm. 260, London, ON N6A 3K7. Tel. 519 661-2111 x 87018; Fax (519) 661-4093 x 84093; sparmegi@uwo.ca
Early Twentieth-century Literature & Culture / Letteratura e cultura del primo ‘900 Chair: Stefano Giannini, Department of French, Italian & Spanish, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4; Tel. (403) 220-5304; Fax. (403) 284-3634; giannini@ucalgary.ca
Contemporary Literature & Culture / Letteratura e cultura contemporanea Chair: Eugenio Bolongaro, Department of Italian Studies, McGill University, 688 Sherbrooke St. W., Suite 0425, Montreal, PQ H3A 3R1. Tel (514) 398-4400 x 09454; Fax: (514) 398-1748; eugenio.bolongaro@mcgill.ca
Second-Language Acquisition & Pedagogy / Acquisizione e didattica della lingua seconda Chair: Marina Frescura, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto ON M3J 1P3; Tel. (416) 736-5016 x 88735; Fax (416) 736- 5483; frescura@yorku.ca
Historical and Descriptive Linguistics / Linguistica storica e descrittiva Chair: Jana Vizmuller-Zocco, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto ON M3J 1P3; Tel. (416) 736-5016 x 88735; Fax: (416) 736-5483; jvzocco@yorku.ca
Italian Canadian Studies / Studi italo-canadesi Chair: Gabriele Scardellato, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto ON M3J 1P3; Tel. (416) 736-5016; Fax (416) 736 5483; gpscar@yorku.ca
Special sessions will be held on the following topics:
The City: A Festival of Knowledge / Convivio sulla città Chair: Daria Valentini, Stonehill College, 320 Washington Street, Easton, MA 02357, USA; Tel. (508) 565-1267; dvalentini@stonehill.edu
The Renaissance City / La città rinascimentale – joint session with the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies Chair: Konrad Eisenbichler, Victoria College (NFH 308), University of Toronto, 73 Queen’s Park Cres., Toronto, ON M5S 1K7. Tel. (416) 585-4486; Fax (416) 585-4584; konrad.eisenbichler@utoronto.ca
Reading and Writing Space: Cities, Landscapes and Images in Modern Poetry / Spazio e scrittura: Città e paesaggi nella poesia moderna Chair: Slavica Grujicic, c/o Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto, Carr Hall, 100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1J4; slavica.grujicic@utoronto.ca
History and Politics / Storia e politica Chair: Roberto A. Ventresca, Department of History, King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario, 266 Epworth Avenue, London, ON N6A 2M3; Tel. (519) 433-3491 x 4370; Fax (519) 433-0353; rventres@uwo.ca
Translation: Theory and Practice / La traduzione: teoria e pratica Chair: Enrico Vicentini, c/o Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto, Carr Hall, 100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1J4; Tel. (home): (416) 461-2644; Fax: (416) 396-2371; enrivice@yahoo.com
The general theme of the 2006 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is "The City: A Festival of Knowledge". For additional information contact Dr. Enrico Vicentini, Vice-President – Canadian Society for Italian Studies, c/o Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto, Carr Hall, 100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4, Canada Tel. (home): (416) 461-2644 – FAX (school): (416) 396-2371
NCIC – TD Annual General Meeting This year’s AGM took place on Monday, September 19, and saw the reelection of Jason Sordi as president for another term. Other officers include First Vice President Robert Sacco, Second Vice President Domenico Servello, and Third Vice President Carlo Filippazzo. Congratulations to one and all!
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