Pirandello Scholarship in the United States
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…
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Bordighera Press Poets at the Bryant Park Reading Room Series
Kinokuniya Bookstore 1073 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, USAFour Bordighera poets will be featured on Tuesday, March 17 in the Bryant Park Reading Room series, held indoors in winter. Marisa Frasca (Wild Fennel),…
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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…
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Symposium: Devotion, Artistry, and the Cult of St. Joseph
Xavier University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA, USAInterest 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…
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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 10036On 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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Singing the Songs of Sicily: Michela Musolino and Rosa Tatuata
Swinging Sixties Senior Center 211 Ainslie Street, Brooklyn, NY, USAMichela Musolino is an internationally recognized Sicilian American singer. The granddaughter of Sicilians who immigrated to America, she explores her own cultural roots through the…
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Italian/American Women Playwrights
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Join 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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