• 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 10036

    Danielle 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, USA

    Pizza 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 10036

    This 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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