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  • November 2019

  • Thu 14

    Defining Italian American Identity in the United States through Opera during the Mass Migration Period

    November 14, 2019 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Davide Ceriani Rowan University This presentation focuses on the role Italian opera had in forming an Italian American cultural and ethnic identity during the mass…

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  • Tue 19

    The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America

    November 19, 2019 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Giorgio Bertellini University of Michigan In the post–World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, consumerism, and the democratic expansion of civic rights, Italian-born star…

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  • December 2019

  • Thu 12

    Giuseppe Prezzolini in New York: Promotion and Propaganda of Italian Language and Culture in the USA 1930-1940

    December 12, 2019 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    In 1930 Giuseppe Prezzolini, one of the greatest Italian intellectuals of the twentieth century, arrived in New York, where he would remain until 1962. During…

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  • February 2020

  • Tue 4

    Book Presentation of Future: il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi

    February 4, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Future: il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi (Future Female Writers: Tomorrow Narrated by Today’s Voices) Edited by Igiaba Scego Eleven African/Italian authors speak of…

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  • Thu 20

    Joanne Mattera Reads from Vita: A Memoir: Growing up Italian, Coming Out, and Making a Life in Art

    February 20, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    In Vita: A Memoir, Joanne Mattera recounts her childhood in an Italian American family—the oldest of five and the only girl—as the repression of the…

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  • March 2020

  • Thu 5

    Vado verso dove vengo (I’m Going Where I Came From)

    March 5, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Vado verso dove vengo (I’m Going Where I Came From) (2019), 63 minutes Nicola Ragone, dir. Vado verso dove vengo offers a complex meditation on…

    Free
  • Tue 10

    Italics: Women’s History Month

    March 10, 2020 @ 9:30 pm – 10:30 pm

    In commemorating Women’s History Month, Italics brings to you a one-hour program dedicated to the writing of African Italian women in Italy with the presentation…

    Free
  • Wed 11

    Pirandello Scholarship in the United States

    March 11, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Through a presentation of two recent books by Giuseppe Faustini, Professor of Italian at Skidmore College, the panel will discuss the state of affairs of…

    Free
  • Tue 17

    Bordighera Press Poets at the Bryant Park Reading Room Series

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

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

    March 18, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    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

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

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

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

    March 24, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    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.),…

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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

The Italian American Think Tank

25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10036

Phone: (212) 642-2094
Email: calandra@qc.cuny.edu

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