Ironies of Citizenship in Contemporary Italy
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…
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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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The Neapolitan Instrument Makers of New York
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Jayson Kerr Dobney, Metropolitan Museum of Art For more than a century, Italian Americans in and around New York City have produced a great variety…
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New York Longshoremen: Class and Power on the Docks
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036William 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…
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The Hellhound of Wall Street: Ferdinand Pecora and the Investigation of the Great Crash
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Michael 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…
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Italian Jews from Emancipation to the Racial Laws
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Cristina M. Bettin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Following the “Emancipation” of Italian Jews in the late nineteenth century, numerous youth movements, newspapers, and…
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Italian Immigrant Radical Culture
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Marcella Bencivenni, Hostos Community College Italian Americans possess a vibrant, if largely forgotten, radical past. In this presentation, Marcella Bencivenni, author of Italian Immigrant Radical…
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Singing, Nostalgia, and Local Migration in a French-Italian Border Village
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Cyril Isnart, Universidade de Évora The Alpine border village of Tende, once a part of Italy, has been a French commune since 1947. Piemontese migration…
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Mafia Movies: A Roundtable Discussion
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Dana 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…
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Appreciating Don DeLillo
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Paul 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…
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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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The Art of Making Do in Naples
Jason Pine, Purchase College, SUNYJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Anthropologist Jason Pine will present his research on neomelodica, a musical form from Naples that combines traditional songs with contemporary stories of love, betrayal, loss,…
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Italian-American Foodways and the Making of Modern New York
Rocco Marinaccio, Manhattan CollegeJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036**UPDATED** Rocco Marinaccio will discuss the foodways associated with New York’s Italian immigrants in the early twentieth century. His focus is on the ways a…
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