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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED Donald Tricarico, Queensborough Community College, CUNY From Saturday Night Fever to Jersey Shore, Italian American youth in New York City…
Davide Ceriani Rowan University This presentation focuses on the role Italian opera had in forming an Italian American cultural and ethnic identity during the mass…
Giorgio Bertellini University of Michigan In the post–World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, consumerism, and the democratic expansion of civic rights, Italian-born star…
Richard Moss Harrisburg Area Community College This work analyzes the “New Ethnicity” of the 1970s as a way of understanding the United States’ political turn…
Maddalena Marinari Gustavus Adolphus College In the late nineteenth century, millions of Italians and Eastern European Jews left their countries to take advantage of the…
The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy, by Pamela Ballinger In The World Refugees Made (Cornell University Press, 2020), Pamela Ballinger…
Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Alyssa J. Maldonado-Estrada Kalamazoo College Every Saturday, a group of men can be found…
Italian Women in Basilicata: Staying Behind but Moving Forward during the Age of Mass Emigration, 1876–1914 Victoria Calabrese, Lehman College, CUNY This study examines the…
Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Mary Anne Trasciatti, Hofstra University On March 25, 1911, a fire…
Rosa Berland, The Edward E. Boccia Artist Trust This talk will examine the artist Edward E. Boccia’s (1921–2012) innovative approach to painting and the reception…
Massimo Di Gioacchino, New York University This event has been rescheduled for Thursday, May 4, 2023. The religious history of Italian Catholic immigrants in the…
Massimo Di Gioacchino, New York University The religious history of Italian Catholic immigrants in the United States (1876–1921) is in many ways a history of…