The past few days, Prof. Arnold Cassola, Senior Fellow at the University of Malta, has been lecturing on Maltese migration in the first half of the 19th century at institutions in the USA.
His first stop was at Columbia University, New York where, at the invitation of Prof. Konstantina Zanou, and together with Gabriele Montalbano from the University of Bologna and Giuliano Fleri, from the Swiss National Science Foundation, he took part in a roundtable on Islands and Migration in the Central Mediterranean, in the framework of the course on Mediterranean Humanities.
Prof. Cassola's intervention centred on Maltese and Italians in contact in early nineteenth century Tunisia. His second stop was at Princeton, where he participated in the 39th International RAIS (Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies) Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, organized by the Princeton Theological Seminary, which houses the second biggest library in the world of religious books and manuscripts, after the Vatican Library in Rome.
The paper presented by Prof. Cassola here was entitled Early Maltese migration to Corfu (1815-1830). Prof. Cassola's extensive research on the Maltese in Corfu at the beginning of the 19th century will be published in book form in the near future.
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