This professional and academic meeting is held every year in Winter-early Spring, the best time to be in Florida. Our guests are invited to share their research about Italy, seen as a fluid space where identities cross and new encounters are shaped.

It is a symposium. We stress the Greek root syn: together. Speakers aim to commit to the whole program and listen to each other to compare ideas. Everyone gets richer from a syn- event, a synchronic, sympathetic, synergetic confrontation. It is organized by the FAU Italian Studies Program, in collaboration with the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (New York) and the FAU Initiative for the Study of the Americas, under the patronage of the Consulate General of Italy in Miami.