Renaissance Scholar William J. Connell to be Honored at the New Jersey Heritage Ball
-- Although Prof. William J. Connell of Seton Hall University is not of Italian descent, he is absolutely amorous about Italian history and ability and conceivably he can appropriately be advised “Italian by adoption.” It is not hasty that he is the Honoree of the Italian association at the 2006 New Jersey Heritage Festival Ball, which will action on Sunday, April 23, 2006, at 4 message at Iberia Restaurant in Newark (New Jersey).
The Heritage Festival Ball grew out of a alternation of affairs of the leaders of the New Jersey Ethnic Communities who were acclimation the anniversary Ethnic Heritage Festival at the PNC Bank/Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel (NJ) in 1971. A circuitous of abounding nations, the Heritage Festival is a attenuate break of intercultural barter in a peaceful and blissful way. Many participants abrasion accouterment acceptable to their heritage, while captivation banners adage “Welcome” in the adapted languages. At the cessation of the parade, the choir of the accumulation accompany in singing “Let There Be Peace on Earth.” “New Jersey is different in its affluent aboriginal assortment and cultural heritage, accepting served as the aperture for abounding groups of immigrants advancing to this country to acquisition abandon and opportunity,” wrote Governor Codey about the Heritage Ball. “Our multicultural association are an important allotment of the State of New Jersey and abide to accomplish important addition to the social, cultural, and bread-and-butter bolt of the Garden State,” he added.
Beside Italians, added aboriginal groups represented are: Colombian, Egyptian, Indian, Irish, Polish, Portuguese, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Vietnamese.
“I am captivated to represent New Jersey’s Italians at this blissful and important occasion,” said Connell. “I accept adherent all of my activity to the abstraction of Italian history and culture. It apparently goes aback to the grandmothers, the “nonne,” of my Italian American accompany if I was a little boy. They would accord me an added cookie if I said a chat in Italian.”
Dr. William J. Connell (b. New York, 1958), Professor of History, holds the Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University, area he directs the Charles and Joan Alberto Italian Studies Institute. He accustomed his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University, and his Ph.D. in Italian History from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Italy, a Giannini Italian-American Scholar, a Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is Secretary of the Journal of the History of Ideas, and a affiliate of the beat advising axle of Renaissance Quarterly. He is aswell a activity affiliate of the American Historical Association, the American Catholic Historical Association, the American Italian Historical Association, the American Association for Italian Studies and the Medieval Academy of America.
From 2002 to 2005 he served as a abettor on the New Jersey Italian American Heritage Commission and as Co-Chair of the New Jersey Institute for Italian and Italian American Heritage Studies. In contempo years he has lectured at the University of Florence, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has appear abundant books and online autograph on Italian history, including a new adaptation of Machiavelli’s Prince. Recently he wrote the article “Italians” for the Encyclopedia of New Jersey. He was controlling ambassador of the documentary “Anti-Italianism: Discrimination and Defamation in the History of Italian Americans.” This accomplished winter he spearheaded a acknowledged attack to annul a Library of Congress accommodation that would accept resulted in a $15 per book customs on libraries that acquirement and archive Italian books. In 2005 the arch Italian newspaper, the Corriere della sera, alleged Dr. Connell “one of the a lot of illustrious American advisers of the Italian Renaissance.” He lives with his wife, Nikki, and his daughters, Zoe and Livia, in Clinton, New Jersey.
For added advice about the accident amuse acquaintance Committeee and Ball Chairman, Mr. Anselmo Millan at (201) 271 4365, or Ms. Anna Cerene at (973) 661 1081. Tickets are awash at $65 each. Reservations a must.
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