The Italian American Think Tank
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Mark Rotella In the years after World War II and before the advent of the Beatles, Italian-American performers captivated the American public with a smooth,…
Robert Garot, John Jay College In a world marked by increasing migration and globalization, the political and social rights of citizenship may not always be…
Jayson Kerr Dobney, Metropolitan Museum of Art For more than a century, Italian Americans in and around New York City have produced a great variety…
William Mello, Indiana University In the post-World War II era, dockworkers in New York fought an ongoing battle against shipping companies, local police, federal and…
Michael Perino, St. John’s University In the winter of 1933, the nadir of the Great Depression, Ferdinand Pecora took control of a bumbling United States…
Cristina M. Bettin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Following the “Emancipation” of Italian Jews in the late nineteenth century, numerous youth movements, newspapers, and…
Marcella Bencivenni, Hostos Community College Italian Americans possess a vibrant, if largely forgotten, radical past. In this presentation, Marcella Bencivenni, author of Italian Immigrant Radical…
Cyril Isnart, Universidade de Évora The Alpine border village of Tende, once a part of Italy, has been a French commune since 1947. Piemontese migration…
Dana Renga, The Ohio State University Portrayals of the Italian and Italian-American Mafias have differed markedly over time and across multiple cultures–from The Godfather Trilogy…
Paul Giaimo, Highland Community College Unlike the majority of American academic critics, Paul Giaimo, author of Appreciating Don DeLillo: The Moral Force of a Writer’s…
Michael 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…
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,…