Category: From the Dean
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Academic Year 2025-26
Queens College begins the 2025-26 academic year on Tuesday, August 26. With it, we are launching a new suite of programs at the Calandra Institute!
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Calandra Institute Summer Office Hours
The Calandra Italian American Institute’s offices at 25 West 43rd Street, Floor 17, will be closed on the following Fridays, observing CUNY’s summer hours: August
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Italian Diaspora Summer Studies Seminar
The Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar™ is a three-week summer program that takes place at Roma Tre University. It is designed to introduce participants (primarily
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Exhibition Extended through April 2024: “A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists”
“A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists” currently on view at the John D Calandra Italian American Institute in Midtown Manhattan, will run
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Pete Panto Tombstone: Article in New York Times
Dear Friends, By now you may have already seen that in the Saturday, July 9, edition of the New York Times, Helene Stapinski—best-selling author and freelance
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Robert Viscusi 1941–2020
Our dear friend Robert Viscusi passed away on January 19, 2020. On Tuesday, January 18, 2022, we came together, a dozen of us in person
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Message from the Dean on COVID-19 and Civil Unrest
Dear Friends, We currently inhabit a time in which we struggle on the one hand with nature—that is, the deadly virus that has ravaged many
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Joseph Tusiani: January 14, 1924—April 11, 2020
With the passing of Joseph Tusiani, we have lost a treasure of a man, a wonderful human being, and a great cultured individual. Joseph came
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An Exciting Autumn at the Calandra Institute
As people turn their thoughts to the new academic year ahead of us, I want to share with you some highlights of what will be
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Greetings and Fall Preview
As the summer begins to wind to a close, and people turn their thoughts to the new academic year ahead of us, I want to