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Laura E. Ruberto, Berkeley City College This talk considers the material legacies of surveillance, restrictions, and imprisonment of different groups of people on US soil in…
Elena Bellina, New York University Most Italian POWs imprisoned by Western Allies were captured in Africa during the early stages of World War II and…
The Piccirilli Factor is a feature-length documentary exploring the legacy of the Piccirilli Brothers, Italian American sculptors who significantly contributed to shaping New York City’s…
Book presentation of Italian Americans on the Page: Revisiting the Classics and Exploring New Voices with editors Ryan Calabretta-Sajder and Alan J. Gravano. Moderated by Fred L.…
Award-winning actor and playwright Frank Ingrasciotta performs excerpts from his acclaimed solo play Blood Type: RAGU, which was published this year. The 2009 off-Broadway production…
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED This novel is told from the perspective of the irrepressible yet lonely Christina, an Italian American teen in 1960s Catholic…
Marcella Hazan changed the ways we cook and experience Italian food. A disabled woman, trained in natural sciences and biology, Hazan never cooked until she…
A Quindecennial Celebration of the relaunched Italian American Review! The first iteration of the Italian American Review (IAR) dates to 1951; it was reestablished as an academic journal and eventually…
Giovanni Braico, New York University Arbëresh people migrated from various regions of the Balkans, including parts of present-day Albania, the Peloponnese, Epirus, and Attica, to…
On Friday, March 13, at 5:00 pm, Senator Francesca La Marca and Deputy Christian Di Sanzo will be at the Calandra Institute. Unfortunately, Deputy Andrea…
Moving beyond tales of Southern Italian poverty and deprivation, The Tomb of the Divers weaves an immigrant yarn about small-time artists and crooks who, over the…
She Got Balls! (2022), 20 minutes, Cheryl Hess, dir. A chef’s vegan entry in an annual meatball contest sparks conflict as a South Philadelphia neighborhood grapples…