Dr Gerardo Papalia [ 2/July/12 ]

Post date: Jul 1, 2012 12:39:01 PM

Jerry Guirguis interview Dr Gerardo Papalia Live from the studio of 96.5FM – Egyptian radio show [ Monday 2^nd July 2012 ].

6:30pm – Our 2nd special guest tonight is ;

Dr Gerardo Papalia

Italian Studies

School of Languages, Cultural Linguistics

Faculty of Arts

Monash University

Victoria 3800 Australia

+61 3 9905 9207

www.arts.monash.edu.au/italian

Subject : Italians in Egypt, starting from 1820’s till 1950’s.

Gerardo Papalia is a reserach associate at Monash University where he is currently conducting research as well as teaching in Italian studies.

He is also an Honorary Research Fellow in Italian Studies at La Trobe University. In addition to these roles, Gerardo Papalia also works as Collections Administrator at the Italian Historical Society of Melbourne, where he regularly both conducts and supervises research projects in collaboration with institutional stakeholders and post-graduate students.

Gerardo Papalia holds a Ph.D. from La Trobe University in contemporary history for a thesis on cultural, economic and political relations between Italy and Australia during the Fascist era. He has published extensively on Italian migrant culture in Australia with a particular focus on diaspora identities and hybridity.

Jerry Guirguis

Presenter

96.5FM – Egyptian radio show

0400 718 817

www.innerfm.org.au

CD copy of this interview can be requested by email to: [ JerryGuirguis@bigpond.com ]