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Minicourse (Zoom) - 'Italian Mafia: Origins and Development in Italy' - 5 weeks
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MINICOURSE (Zoom): ‘Italian Mafia: Origins and Development in Italy” – A 5-week Lecture Series with optional four films
The Friends of the Madison Public Library will offer a Zoom 5-week minicourse, ‘Italian Mafia: Origins and Development in Italy’ by Dr. Gloria Pastorino, Professor Emerita, Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU). The minicourse will begin on Tuesday afternoon, January 20, and continue on January 27, February 3, 10 and 17, 2026 from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Each lecture is two hours for a total of 10 hours over five weeks.
The tuition is $95. To register, visit our website, www.friendsmadisonnjlibrary.org/minicourse-registration. For more information, email the Friends at minicoursesmadisonlibrary@gmail.com, or leave a message at 929-450-7940.
The minicourses are organized by the all-volunteer Friends of the Madison Public Library, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. All proceeds benefit the Madison Public Library.
These ZOOM lectures will look at the development of organized crime in Italy from its inception as Cosa nostra in Sicily in the 19th century to the current Sicilian Mafia, Neapolitan Camorra, Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta, and Sacra Corona Unita. We will analyze issues of power, political corruption, governmental connivance (national and international), and gender.
Although the term, ‘Mafia,’ is used worldwide to define any kind of organized crime, this minicourse will focus on Italy alone.
Prior to each of the last four lectures, an optional film will be available for streaming at home or for viewing at the Madison Public Library, 39 Keep Street, Madison, NJ.
Dr. Gloria Pastorino earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, a MA in English Literature from the University of New Mexico and a MA in Modern Languages from the University Institute of Modern Languages in Milan, Italy.