Christopher Castellani reads from Leading Men (Viking, 2019)
In 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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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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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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Annual Conference: Eye-Centricity and the Visual Cultures of Italy and Its Diaspora
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This interdisciplinary conference proposes to explore the visual cultures Italians have created, consumed, and been the subject of from early modernity to the contemporary “post-text”…
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The Legacy of Louise DeSalvo
In 1996, Louise DeSalvo, acclaimed modernist scholar and Virginia Woolf biographer, published the memoir Vertigo, “the unlikely narrative of how a working-class Italian American girl…
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Exhibition Opening of Goombarooch Resignified: Works by John Avelluto
Visual artist John Avelluto revels in mash-ups of sounds, images, products, and ideas where Italy and the United States converge. His multimedia work plays with…
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Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Teresa Fiore Montclair State University By examining Italy’s long history of worldwide emigration in light of the country’s own colonial legacies and the contemporary transnational…
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Italics: NIAF Annual Gala and NOIAW Luncheon 2019
This episode of Italics takes us to Cipriani 42nd Street for the National Italian American Foundation’s 2019 New York Gala and to the St. Regis…
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