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  • March 2020

  • Tue 17
    March 17, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Bordighera Press Poets at the Bryant Park Reading Room Series

    Kinokuniya Bookstore 1073 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, USA

    Four Bordighera poets will be featured on Tuesday, March 17 in the Bryant Park Reading Room series, held indoors in winter. Marisa Frasca (Wild Fennel),…

    Free
  • Wed 18
    March 18, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Book Presentation: The Discovery of the Possible, by Eugenio Colorni

    The panelists will discuss the first two volumes of Eugenio Colorni’s writings published by Bordighera Press: Critical Thinking in Action: Excerpts from Political Writings and…

    Free
  • Fri 20
    March 20, 2020 @ 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

    Symposium: Devotion, Artistry, and the Cult of St. Joseph

    Xavier University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA, USA

    Interest in and devotion to St. Joseph the Carpenter—the Virgin Mary’s husband and Jesus’s foster-father—has been present among Christians since the earliest centuries of the…

    Free
  • Tue 24
    March 24, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Celebrating the Genius of Dante: Poet, Philosopher, Political Thinker

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

    On the occasion of the 699th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Inc. (IHCC-NY, Inc.),…

    Free
  • Thu 26
    March 26, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

    Singing the Songs of Sicily: Michela Musolino and Rosa Tatuata

    Swinging Sixties Senior Center 211 Ainslie Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Michela Musolino is an internationally recognized Sicilian American singer. The granddaughter of Sicilians who immigrated to America, she explores her own cultural roots through the…

    Free
  • Tue 31
    March 31, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Italian/American Women Playwrights

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

    Join us for a fun and exciting evening of theater by Italian/American Women Playwrights. Featured are Denise Chiarella’s Nike and Mona; Nicole Pandolfo’s My Father…

    Free
  • April 2020

  • Mon 6
    April 6, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Nadina LaSpina Reads from Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride

    Such a Pretty Girl charts Nadina LaSpina’s life from her childhood in Sicily to her adolescence and youth in the United States to her activism…

    Free
  • Wed 15
    April 15, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Creating the New Right Ethnic in 1970s America: The Intersection of Anger and Nostalgia

    Richard Moss Harrisburg Area Community College This work analyzes the “New Ethnicity” of the 1970s as a way of understanding the United States’ political turn…

    Free
  • Fri 24
    April 24, 2020 @ 8:00 am – April 25, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

    Annual Conference—Italian Borderlands: Restrictions, Breaches, Encounters

    Borders can be concrete parameters, and they can also be metaphorical markers. Either way, the border as a political, economic, cultural, and personal site, one…

    Free
  • May 2020

  • Mon 4
    May 4, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965

    Maddalena Marinari Gustavus Adolphus College In the late nineteenth century, millions of Italians and Eastern European Jews left their countries to take advantage of the…

    Free
  • Wed 13
    May 13, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Joanna Clapps Herman Reads from When I Am Italian: Quando sono italiana

    “My Italian village in America was in Waterbury, Connecticut.” With this sentence, Joanna Clapps Herman raises this book’s central question: To what extent can a…

    Free
  • April 2021

  • Mon 5
    April 5, 2021 @ 2:00 pm – April 21, 2021 @ 3:30 pm

    Virtual Conference, Italian Borderlands: Restrictions, Breaches, Encounters

    This year’s conference will be entirely virtual. Each weekday from April 5 to April 21, 2021, one presentation or panel will take place at 2pm…

    Free
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The Italian American Think Tank

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New York, NY 10036

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