• The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism

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

    Philip Cannistraro, Queens College, and Gerald Meyer, Hostos Community College Radicalism has had a powerful but largely unacknowledged influence in the Italian American community. The…

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  • Linciati: Lynchings of Italians in America

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

    Heather Hartley, Pennsylvania State University Heather Hartley will present and discuss Linciati, her video about the story of prejudice and violence against Italian immigrants and…

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  • The Folk Sculpture of Detroit’s Silvio Barile

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

    John Cicala, Mount Saint Mary College Silvio Barile immigrated to Detroit from his native village of Ausonia (Campania) in the early 1950s. As a self-styled…

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  • Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America

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

    Thomas J. Ferraro, Duke University On the cover of Thomas Ferraro’s new book Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America (New York University Press),…

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  • The Buried Treasures of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales

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

    Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota Although most folklorists are aware of the significance of the Brothers Grimm collection of German folk and fairy tales that…

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  • The Mafia in the Mind of America: Attraction and Repulsion of a Media Image

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

    George De Stefano, Independent Scholar As evidenced in countless novels, films, and television portrayals, the mafia has maintained an enduring hold on the American cultural…

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  • Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel

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

    Nunzio Pernicone, Drexel University Carlo Tresca was one of the most fascinating figures of the American left, a charismatic Italian anarchist who became a folk-hero…

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  • The Tammurriata from Campania: Adaptations and Revivals of a Folk Tradition

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

    Jennifer Caputo, Wesleyan University Italy experienced its first folk music revival in the 1970s, when field recordings of the tammurriata or ballo sul tamburo (dance…

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  • Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America

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

    Diane Vecchio, Furman University Challenging long-held patriarchal assumptions about Italian women’s work in the United States, Diane Vecchio discusses the regional variation of Italian women’s…

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