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  • March 2014

  • Mon 31
    March 31, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Studying and Researching Abroad: A Panel Discussion with the President of the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Co-sponsored with the United Pugliesi Federation, the President (Rettore) of the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Professor Antonio Felice Uricchio, will join us…

    Free
  • April 2014

  • Wed 2
    April 2, 2014 @ 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm

    Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives by Joseph Sciorra

    Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing NY 11367

    Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at…

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  • Fri 4
    April 4, 2014 @ 6:00 pm

    A “New” Southern Question: A Panel Discussion with Pino Aprile and Antonio Giordano

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Pino Aprile, author of Il sud puzza (2013), and Antonio Giordano, co-author with Giulio Tarro of Campania, terra di veleni (2011), will discuss a new…

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  • Wed 9
    April 9, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Benessere Psicologico: Contemporary Thought on Italian American Mental Health Presentation

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Benessere Psicologico: Contemporary Thought on Italian American Mental Health Dominick Carielli April 9, 2014 6:00-8:00 pm       Dominick Carielli and Joseph Grosso’s edited…

    Free
  • May 2014

  • Thu 1
    May 1, 2014 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

    Hostos Community College Covello Book Party, Reading, Discussion with Prof Gerald Meyer,Thursday, May 1

    Hostos Community College, 500 Grand Concourse Vito Marcantonio Room, B Building Room 115 Bronx NY 10451

    In celebration of diversity , Hostos members of The Italian American Faculty and Staff Council of CUNY present a book party, dramatic reading and discussion…

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  • Wed 7
    May 7, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Book Presentation: Frank Lentricchia’s The Dog Killer of Utica: An Eliot Conte Mystery

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    “Dirty Harry of Literary Criticism” Frank Lentricchia launches book two of his new mystery series, featuring Eliot Conte, a PI who’s “part Mike Hammer and…

    Free
  • Tue 13
    May 13, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Grammar and Stereotypes: African American English in the Italian Translations of Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories, by Chiara Martini, Dottorato in Scienza del Libro e della Scrittura, Università per Stranieri di Perugia

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Italian translations of African American English (as it appears in literary works by major authors of the twentieth century) seem to follow two main strategies:…

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  • June 2014

  • Thu 5
    June 5, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    LECTURE (Thursday, June 5): “Mind and Motivation in Learning Italian: What Happens in the Mind When a Person Learns Italian as a Foreign Language,” by Paolo E. Balboni, Ca’ Foscari University in Venice

    Istituto Italiano di Cultura 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, United States

    The topic pertains to the field of neurolinguistics, but it will be dealt with from the teacher’s perspective. Teachers have to help students to acquire…

    Free
  • Thu 12
    June 12, 2014 @ 6:00 am – 8:30 pm

    I giovani italiani di NY 2 – Young Italians in New York 2 (Thursday, June 12)

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    This symposium will continue the discussion begin during the first encounter of “I giovani italiani” di NY. Panleists will come from a variety of professions…

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  • Tue 17
    June 17, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    BOOK PRESENTATION (Tuesday, June 17): Re-reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (Fairleigh Dickinson UP 2014), by Anthony Julian Tamburri

    Istituto Italiano di Cultura 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, United States

    Divided into three sections, the first deals with the general situation of Italian/American literature and its reception both in the United States and in Italy.…

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  • Wed 25
    June 25, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    BOOK PRESENTATION (Wednesday, June 25): My Two Italies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014), by Joseph Luzzi

    Istituto Italiano di Cultura 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, United States

    A poignant personal account from a child of Calabrian peasants whose lifelong study of Italy unveils the mysteries of this Bel Paese, “Beautiful Land,” where artistic…

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  • September 2014

  • Mon 29
    September 29, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Book Presentation: “My Fault” by Margherita Grassini Sarfatti

    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    THE UNPUBLISHED MEMOIR OF MUSSOLINI’S LONGTIME LOVER WITH NEW REVELATIONS ABOUT THE FASCIST PERIOD My Fault. Mussolini as I Knew Him, translated, edited, and with…

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The Italian American Think Tank

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New York, NY 10036

Phone: (212) 642-2094
Email: calandra@qc.cuny.edu

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