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Enemy Aliens-Lecture
Gloria Ricci Lothrop; Professor Di Stasi

Saturday, June 30, 2001 from 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Sala Rossellini, IIC - - Free admission
As the final stage of the grant which he received from CCLPEP (California Civil Liberties Public Education Program), Lawrence Di Stasi will appear at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura with Dr. Gloria Ricci Lothrop and representatives from the Japanese American community in a panel discussion of the civil liberties violations endured by both Italian American and Japanese American communities during World War II.
The series of panels--which will include similar symposia in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Santa Cruz--is intended to open the field of comparative studies of those affected during the wartime, with particular emphasis on the plight of those branded "enemy aliens" in both communities.
Taking off from the series of essays and personal accounts in DiStasi's forthcoming book, Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of the Italian American Evacuation and Internment during World War II, the symposium will seek to shed new light on the perils to which a variety of immigrant populations are exposed in times of national emergency and hysteria.
Copies of the Di Stasi's book, which includes Dr. Lothrop's essay "Unwelcome in Freedom's Land," will be available at the event on June 30.
Lawrence DiStasi is Project Director of the exhibit Una Storia Segreta, and current president of the American Italian Historical Association, Western Chapter.

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