“Dove il sì suona: A Journey through the Italian Language”: Symposium and Opening of Exhibit
With this title we allude to a famous verse of Dante’s Divina Commedia («Le genti del bel paese là dove ’l sì suona», Inf. XXXIII,…
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Il Signor Jackson (2018), 40 minutes
Anton Evangelista, dir. Award-winning filmmaker Anton Evangelista travels from the Bronx to Italy and back in presenting Il Signor Jackson, a story of African American…
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Lecture: “From Berlusconi to Conte, 25 Years of Crisis of the Republic in the European Context”
During the Cold War the history of the Italian Republic was dominated by the centrality of the Christian Democracy in a proportional political system. The…
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Juliet Grames Reads from The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna (Ecco, 2019)
Juliet Grames’s novel tells the story of Stella Fortuna—beautiful and smart, insolent and cold—who is considered an oddity in her Calabrian village. Stella uses her…
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Defining Italian American Identity in the United States through Opera during the Mass Migration Period
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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The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America
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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Giuseppe Prezzolini in New York: Promotion and Propaganda of Italian Language and Culture in the USA 1930-1940
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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Book Presentation of Future: il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi
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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Joanne Mattera Reads from Vita: A Memoir: Growing up Italian, Coming Out, and Making a Life in Art
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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Vado verso dove vengo (I’m Going Where I Came From)
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…
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Italics: Women’s History Month
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…
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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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