Category: News
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Tribute to Robert Viscusi Published
Bordighera Press has just published this volume of essays, a Festschrift for beloved colleague and friend of the Calandra Institute Robert Viscusi (1941–2020). In it
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Calandra’s Olivia Tursi Wins Italian Writing Prize
The Calandra Institute’s Olivia Tursi, LCSW-R, MA, has won the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s II Micro Story Contest, sponsored by the college’s Modern Languages
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Connecting Despite the Pandemic: Calandra Conversations
With the COVID-19 pandemic, venues that devote resources to public programming, like the Calandra Institute, have had to switch things up a bit. These more
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Italics: Mark Rotella
Host Anthony Tamburri interviews Mark Rotella, the author of Amore: The Story of Italian American Song and Stolen Figs and Other Adventures in Calabria, as
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Conversation with Consul General of Italy in New York Francesco Genuardi
Calandra Dean Anthony Julian Tamburri sat down for a Zoom conversation with Consul General Francesco Genuardi, a dear friend of the Institute’s, about COVID-19 and
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Conversation with Italian Ambassador Armando Varricchio
On April 24 Calandra’s Dean Anthony Julian Tamburri had a conversation with Italy’s ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Armando Varricchio, about the plan
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Book Presentation of Future: il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi
On February 4, 2020, at the Calandra Institute was a presentation of Future: il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi, edited by Igiaba Scego. The
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New Episode of Italics: Who Are the “Real” Italians?
Our latest episode of Italics is up now. Click here to watch. In the studio with us this month are Dr. Stefano Albertini, clinical professor
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Frank Serpico Screening in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
On Wednesday night, September 18, 2019, Dr. Joseph Sciorra joined filmmaker Antonino D’Ambrosio to screen D’Ambrosio’s 2017 documentary film Frank Serpico at the Swinging Sixties