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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…
On July 31, 1937, seventeen-year-old Elmo Melosi, an Italian American from suburban California, boarded the ocean liner Conte di Savoia in New York City for a nine-day…
Stefano Morello, Graduate Center, CUNY This event was rescheduled from its original Feb. 23 date because of inclement weather. This listing reflects the updated timing.…