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The Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University hosted the US component of a two-series international conference, “The Challenge of Migration in Europe and the United States: Comparing Policies and Models of Reception,” November 2 through November 4 at various locations on campus.
The conference was offered with support from Richard T. Nasti, chairperson for the Center for Italian Studies Advisory Council.
The program included presentations by judges, prosecutors, journalists, religious and labor representatives, and scholars. Discourse and analysis continued on the causes, behavior and effects of both voluntary and forced migration across Europe and North America that were formerly intiated in the European counterpart of this conference, held in Agrigento, Sicily, in June 2017.
The conference proceedings will soon be available on this website in video form and also will be published as an offering in the Forum Italicum Filibrary series.
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Professor Helmut Norpoth of Stony Brook University's Department of Political Science, in his talk, “Change Trumps Experience,” historically traced and justified his prediction that the electoral pendulum was poised to bring about a “change election” in US/2017 and how the strong populist wave of disapproval with government in Washington especially helped Donald Trump achieve victory.
