Geraldine Ferraro: The Italian American Woman Who Made History
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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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September 11 Revisited: Silvia Tessitore’s Eleven in September
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Silvia Tessitore, Eleven in September Published in Italian, Eleven in September is a novel-reportage of post September 11 through testimonials of those who experienced that…
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Triangle Fire Open Archive
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Reading the Open Archive Triangle Fire Open Archive Contemporary scholars read objects from the Triangle Fire Open Archive to understand the significant…
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Readings from Sweet Lemons 2: International Writings with a Sicilian Accent (Legas, 2010)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The follow-up volume to the successful 2004 anthology, Sweet Lemons 2 features a diverse array of poetry and prose by writers of Sicilian background. While…
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Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Michael Schiavi, New York Institute of Technology East Harlem native Vito Russo (1946-1990) was a gay and AIDS activist best known as the author of…
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Reconciliation: Photographs by S. Billie Mandle
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036New York Foundation for the Arts Artists & Audiences Exchange Program Photographer and 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship recipient S. Billie Mandle…
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Living with the Sacred: The Home Altar as Ex-voto
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Kay Turner, Brooklyn Arts Council/New York University Using Italian-American and Mexican-American examples from her research on Catholic women’s domestic altar traditions, folklorist Kay Turner will…
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Joseph Salvatore reads from To Assume a Pleasing Shape (BOA Editions, 2011)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In his debut story collection, Joseph Salvatore presents characters damaged and yet dignified, yearning for something that they seem unable to identify, much less to…
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Lampedusa: cronache dall’isola che non c’é
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Two years ago Italy as a whole became aware of Lampedusa because of the landings of thousands of people from the coasts of North Africa.…
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Finding Joseph Tusiani: The Poet of Two Lands
Hunter College 695 Park Avenue New York NYThis symposium takes its name from the documentary on Joseph Tusiani made in 2011 by Sabrina DiGregorio. A major voice in American and Italian letters,…
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Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come l’Italia fece fuori il pi� grande clarinettista del jazz (I am Tony Scott. The story of How Italy Got Rid of the Greatest Jazz Clarinetist)
Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) Theater 2, 199 Chambers Street New York NY 10036Tony Scott (Anthony Joseph Sciacca, June 17, 1921 – March 28, 2007) was a jazz clarinetist known for an interest in folk music around the world. Born…
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Giornate Dell’Immigrazione: Italiani e Italianitá Oltre Confine
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This panel will examine the current situation of Italian emigration in all of its many facets, from a historical perspective of more than one hundred…
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