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  • February 2002

  • Thu 7
    February 7, 2002 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    ‘They are just like us!’: Alterity and Politics in the National Press in Post-Unification Italy

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

    Peter Carravetta, Queens College Prof. Peter Carravetta of Italian and Comparative Literature at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center looks at the perception and…

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  • March 2002

  • Thu 7
    March 7, 2002 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Al servizio di due padroni: Generoso Pope’s Il Progresso, Mussolini, Roosevelt, and the Coming of World War II

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

    Stefano Vaccara, CUNY Graduate Center Stefano Vaccara is a Ph.D. student in History at the Graduate Center Cuny and an editor and columnist at America…

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  • April 2002

  • Thu 11
    April 11, 2002 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Caricature and Surrealism: The Portrayal of Italians in Argentinean Tango Lyrics

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

    Ana Cara, Oberlin College Folklorist Ana Cara is the Chair of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College and has published a book on Jorge Luis Borges’…

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  • May 2002

  • Thu 2
    May 2, 2002 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    A Matter of Life and Death: Italian American Domestic and Cemetery Landscaping Practices

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

    Joseph Inguanti, Southern Connecticut State University Joseph J. Inguanti is an Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Connecticut State University.  His research interests include…

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  • September 2002

  • Mon 16
    September 16, 2002 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Parigi o cara: Terrorism, Exile, and Escape in Contemporary Italian Cinema and Fiction

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

    Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island, CUNY Giancarlo Lombardi will examine the role Paris plays in recent cinematic and literary texts about Italian terrorism.  Paris…

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  • October 2002

  • Thu 31
    October 31, 2002 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    The Godfather’s Silences

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

    Christian Messenger Chris Messenger is the author of The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became “Our Gang” (2002) and Professor of English at…

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  • February 2003

  • Wed 19
    February 19, 2003 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    At the Crossroads: Italian Women, Race, and Urban Politics in New York City, 1930-1950

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

    Jennifer Gugliemo, William Paterson University In the post-World War II period, Italians in New York came to signify the quintessential blue-collar white ethnic conservative, as…

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  • March 2003

  • Thu 6
    March 6, 2003 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Bronx Miracle: Joseph Vitolo, Jr., Our Lady of the Universe, and Roman Catholic Devotion

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

    John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame History professor John McGreevy of the University of Notre Dame will speak on the experience of Joseph Vitolo,…

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  • Wed 12
    March 12, 2003 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power, 1890-1945

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

    Thomas Guglielmo, University of Notre Dame Thomas Guglielmo, Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, will explore Italians’ encounters with race in Chicago and…

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  • April 2003

  • Thu 10
    April 10, 2003 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Buona Vendetta Social Club: Calabrian ‘Malavita’ Songs and the Media.

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

    Goffredo Plastino, University of Newcastle Calabrian “malavita” songs represent a long musical tradition that is distributed regionally vis-à-vis cassette recordings.  Recently, this local music has…

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  • Thu 17
    April 17, 2003 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    The Many Meanings of St. Gerard Maiella: Devotional Practices, Symbolic Polyvocality, and Marginality and Difference in Greater Newark, New Jersey

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

    Peter Savastano, Seton Hall University Peter Savastano earned his Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Drew University in Madison.  Savastano, a native of Newark, belongs…

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  • May 2003

  • Wed 14
    May 14, 2003 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Language and Italian Immigrant Experience in Farfariello’s ‘Italglish’ Theater

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

    Nancy C. Carnevale Nancy C. Carnevale, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, will speak on the early twentieth century stage performer, Eduardo Migliaccio, aka Farfariello,…

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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

The Italian American Think Tank

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New York, NY 10036

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Email: calandra@qc.cuny.edu

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