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  • October 2019

  • Fri 18

    Language Teaching Development Workshop

    October 18, 2019 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

    Language Teaching Development Workshop: CLIL, Content and Language Integrated Learning La stoffa dell’Italia: Leonardo, l’arte, e la scienza del tessile e della moda. The Fabric…

    Free
  • Sat 19

    Italics: A View from the Bridge and Calandra Celebrates 40 Years!

    October 19, 2019 @ 7:30 am – 8:00 am

    On this episode Dr. Joseph Sciorra interviews Claire Beckman, the producing artistic director and lead actress in A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller’s play…

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  • Sun 20

    Italics: A View from the Bridge and Calandra Celebrates 40 Years!

    October 20, 2019 @ 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm

    On this episode Dr. Joseph Sciorra interviews Claire Beckman, the producing artistic director and lead actress in A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller’s play…

    Free
  • Tue 22

    “Dove il sì suona: A Journey through the Italian Language”: Symposium and Opening of Exhibit

    October 22, 2019 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

    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,…

    Free
  • Mon 28

    Il Signor Jackson (2018), 40 minutes

    October 28, 2019 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    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…

    Free
  • Tue 29

    Lecture: “From Berlusconi to Conte, 25 Years of Crisis of the Republic in the European Context”

    October 29, 2019 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    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…

    Free
  • November 2019

  • Wed 6

    Juliet Grames Reads from The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna (Ecco, 2019)

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

    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…

    Free
  • 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…

    Free
  • 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…

    Free
  • 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…

    Free
  • 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…

    Free
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