The Land of our Return: Diasporic Encounters with Italy
For Virgil’s Aeneas, Italy was “the land of our return” (in Robert Fagles’ 2006 translation), the place his ancestor Dardanus left generations earlier. The Aeneid…
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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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Terre Promesse: Excursions Towards Italian Topographies
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s third annual conference is dedicated to the theme of cultural landscapes. The conference addresses issues concerning placemaking in…
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Hybrid Moments: Independent Music in Italian America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036How is it that an Italian-American grandmother’s gesture against the evil eye became the internationally recognized symbol for heavy metal music? What does the “Frank…
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The 3Fs in Italian Cultures: Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and Film
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The 3Fs in Italian Cultures Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and Film In the second half of the twentieth century, food, fashion, and film became…
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