• UMBERTO E

    Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue New York NY 10010

    Award-winning filmmaker, Anton Evangelista, will present Umberto E, the heart-warming documentary of a ninety-year old Italian immigrant’s vivid recollections of Italy and the United States…

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  • Arturo Giovannitti – Poet And Trade-Unionist

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

    Symposium One hundred years ago, on November 23, 1912, Arturo Giovannitti, a trade-unionist originally from the Region of Molise in Italy, defended himself before a…

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  • Italics: The Italian-American Magazine

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

      This week, join us for the November 2012 edition of ITALICS. ITALICS meets with leaders of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, sponsors of the NYC…

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  • Italics: The Italian-American Magazine

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

      This week, join us for the November 2012 edition of ITALICS. ITALICS meets with leaders of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, sponsors of the NYC…

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  • Happy Holidays and Buona lettura! Book Sale at the Calandra Institute

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

    Check out our books at the Calandra Institute. Give the gift of culture! You’ll accomplish two things: (1) you’ll give a unique gift, and (2)…

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  • The Art of Making Do in Naples
    Jason Pine, Purchase College, SUNY

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

    Anthropologist Jason Pine will present his research on neomelodica, a musical form from Naples that combines traditional songs with contemporary stories of love, betrayal, loss,…

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  • Book presentation of THE ACCIDENTAL PALLBEARER by Frank Lentricchia

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

    Washed-up private investigator Eliot Conte would rather be teaching American literature and listening to opera than taking pictures of spouses in flagrante delicto. But he…

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  • REHABILITATING WAR CRIMINALS. THE MONUMENT TO RODOLFO GRAZIANI

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

    A political clash is growing in Italy after the dedication of a memorial to Fascist commander Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, a convicted war criminal. Graziani…

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  • Tradition and Modernity in the Development of Athens and Rome

    Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing NY 11367

      Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros Onassis Visiting Scholar Professor of Mathematics, Urbanism & Architectural Theorist University of Texas at San Antonio TRADITION AND MODERNITY IN…

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