• The Crescent City Lynchings: Reconstructing the 1891 New Orleans Lynching

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

    Tom Smith After a sensational trial, eleven Italian Americans acquitted in the murder of New Orleans police chief David Hennessy were killed in the largest…

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  • “Fade to White”: Colonial Mulattoes in Cinema and Literature of Fascist Italy

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

    Rosetta Giuliani-Caponetto, University of Connecticut In 2006, Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi proclaimed, “We don’t want Italy to become a multiethnic, multicultural country. We are…

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  • Rosario Candela: An Immigrant Architect in New York

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

    Andrew Alpern When Rosario Candela (1890-1953) left Palermo to come to America with his father, he was an 18-year-old laborer with virtually no knowledge of…

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  • Competing Understandings of Media in the History of Anti-defamation

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

    Laura Cook Kenna, George Washington University Since at least the 1950s, some Italian Americans have organized anti-defamation campaigns to respond to unflattering, often mafia-inflected, representations…

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  • Lost Boys, Recovered Memories: Lorenzo Carcaterra’s Sleepers

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

    Christopher Wilson, Boston College In 1995, New York writer Lorenzo Carcaterra stunned audiences with a memoir entitled Sleepers, which told the story of the author…

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  • Cesare Lombroso and the Science of Criminology

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

    Mary Gibson, John Jay College Cesare Lombroso is widely-known as the “father of criminology,” but the Italian context of his life and thought is generally…

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  • Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema

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

    Angela Dalle Vacche, Georgia Institute of Technology .The Italian “diva film” of the silent era provided a forum for denouncing social evils and exploring new…

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  • Entering through the Golden Door: Cinematic Representations of a Mythical Moment

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

    Yiorgos Kalogeras, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Yiorgos Kalogeras will discuss how Elia Kazan’s America-America (1963) serves as an archetype for two recent films dealing with…

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  • “The Power of What Comes After”: Italian-American Death Talk

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

    Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University Mary Jo Bona, author of By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America (SUNY Press,…

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