Italics: “Kento’s Memoir Resistance Rap in New York”
On this month’s episode, we spoke with Italian rapper Francesco “Kento” Carlo, an activist and blogger who lives in Rome but hails from Reggio Calabria.…
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Italics: “Kento’s Memoir Resistance Rap in New York”
On this month’s episode, we spoke with Italian rapper Francesco “Kento” Carlo, an activist and blogger who lives in Rome but hails from Reggio Calabria.…
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Italics: “Kento’s Memoir Resistance Rap in New York”
On this month’s episode, we spoke with Italian rapper Francesco “Kento” Carlo, an activist and blogger who lives in Rome but hails from Reggio Calabria.…
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Lecture “Bridging Gaps, Delimiting Borders: [Dis]tinguishing the Italian [/American] Writer”
Hunter College 695 Park Avenue New York NYThe Calandra Institute’s Dean, Anthony Julian Tamburri, bases this lecture on recent studies that suggest we rethink categories with regard to the Italian American writer…
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Assassins against the Old Order: Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siècle Europe
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Fraser M. Ottanelli University of South Florida The image of the anarchist assassin haunted the popular European imagination in the late nineteenth century. Fear spawned…
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Christopher Castellani reads from Leading Men (Viking, 2019)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In July of 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja…
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Book Presentation: Anthony Tamburri Reads from Un biculturalismo negato La letteratura “italiana” negli Stati Uniti
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò NYU 24 West 12th Street, New York, NY, USAThe author will appear in conversation with Peter Carravetta (SUNY Stony Brook) at Casa Italiana Zerilli – Marimò Together with a theoretical introduction, this volume…
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30 Years of Bordighera Press
Bordighera Press is internationally recognized as the foremost publisher of italianità in North America. Commemorating thirty years of publishing authors in the Italian diaspora, this event will…
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B.G. Firmani reads from Time’s a Thief (Doubleday, 2017)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In mid-1980s New York City, Francesca “Chess” Varani strikes up a volatile friendship with her capricious classmate Kendra Marr-Löwenstein. After graduating from Barnard, Chess finds…
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Third Annual Evening of Poetry
To commemorate National Poetry Month, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, and the journal Italian Americana are hosting their…
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Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945–1965
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Danielle Battisti University of Nebraska–Omaha In Whom We Shall Welcome (Fordham University Press, 2019), Danielle Battisti examines post–World War II immigration by Italians to the…
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Screening of Pizza Shop: An Italian-American Dream
Swinging Sixties Senior Center 211 Ainslie Street, Brooklyn, NY, USAPizza Shop: An Italian-American Dream (2017), 57 minutes Antony Osso, dir. Pizza Shop features brothers Carmine (Charlie) and Fiore (Fred) Osso, who emigrated from Belmonte…
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