The Italian American Think Tank
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Edited by Laura Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra NOTA BENE: This event will not be held at the Calandra Institute. Speakers: Laura E. Ruberto Berkeley City…
Award-winning historian Marcia Gallo (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) will discuss the lives and times of three barrier-breaking women of the sixties: Kitty Genovese, Diane…
A round-table conversation exploring the ways political economies, cultural influence, and national boundaries affect the individual, their movement, and society at large. The conversation will…
Kento’s memoir Resistance Rap is a sort of literary road movie, an episodic travelogue mapping the author’s journey as an Italian rapper and political activist.…
Please join us for a book presentation by Adriana Trigiani at the Swinging Sixties Senior Center in Brooklyn, co-sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian…
Kento’s memoir Resistance Rap is a sort of literary road movie, an episodic travelogue mapping the author’s journey as an Italian rapper and political activist.…
This conference will take place at the Calandra Institute January 17 and 18, 2019. This is a most important topic; it speaks to a plethora…
This conference will take place at the Calandra Institute January 17 and 18, 2019. This is a most important topic; it speaks to a plethora…
1938 Diversi sets out to describe what the implementation of those laws meant for Italian Jews and how the population, both Jewish and non-Jewish, reacted…
The Calandra Institute’s Dean, Anthony Julian Tamburri, bases this lecture on recent studies that suggest we rethink categories with regard to the Italian American writer…
To commemorate National Poetry Month, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, and the journal Italian Americana are hosting their…
Pizza Shop: An Italian-American Dream (2017), 57 minutes Antony Osso, dir. Pizza Shop features brothers Carmine (Charlie) and Fiore (Fred) Osso, who emigrated from Belmonte…