Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro
Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro ((2016), 71 min.Max Lewkowicz, dir.) chronicles the life of a man who played two roles during World…
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Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation Lecture Series: Donna Gabaccia
Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation Lecture Series “Sambuca: A Digital Return” Lecture by Donna Gabaccia University of Toronto Vast claims have been made for the…
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Book Presentation: Il dio di New York, by Luigi Fontanella
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036At the age of sixteen, Pasquale D’Angelo emigrated to the United States in 1910 from Abruzzo, Italy, looking for a better life in New York.…
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Presentation: “Nation-Building through Antisemitism: Fascist Italy and the Jew as Internal Enemy,” by Ernest Ialongo
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In 1938, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini introduced institutionalized antisemitism in his country with the Racial Laws and set in motion events that would culminate…
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Olivia Kate Cerrone reads from The Hunger Saint (Bordighera Press, 2017) Camilla Trinchieri reads from Seeking Alice: A Novel (SUNY Press, 2016)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This evening presents two books set in the post–World War II era. Hailed by Kirkus as “a well-crafted and affecting literary tale,” Olivia Kate Cerrone’s…
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Frank Serpico (2017), 95 minutes Antonino D’Ambrosio, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In 1971 patrolman Frank Serpico became the world’s most famous whistleblower, exposing rampant corruption in the New York City Police Department. Peter Maas’s best-selling book…
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New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 2: Art and Culture Since 1945, Laura E. Ruberto, Berkeley City College Joseph Sciorra, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States (University of Illinois Press, 2017) continues the critical conversation with its predecessor by exploring Italian immigration to the United…
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American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism, Saladin Ambar, Rutgers University
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Saladin Ambar’s American Cicero (Oxford University Press, 2017) traces Mario Cuomo’s rise through the rough-and-tumble world of New York City politics to become its liberal champion. A…
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Exhibition Opening of Italian Brooklyn: Photographs by Martha Cooper
In this collection of images, photojournalist Martha Cooper, well-known for her work on graffiti and the early days of hip-hop, documents Italian American vernacular expressive…
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Annual Conference: Corporeal Restrictions, Embodied Freedoms—Italian Interventions on the Body
The 1935 song “Faccetta Nera,” a paean to the Fascist imperialist enterprise in Africa, addresses the “little black face” that is the anonymous Abyssinian woman,…
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Global Tarantella: Reinventing Southern Italian Folk Music and Dances, Incoronata Inserra, Virginia Commonwealth University
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In Global Tarantella (University of Illinois Press, 2017) Incoronata Inserra ventures into the history, global circulation, and recontextualization of tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music…
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Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions: Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Edited by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder Noted as a ‘civil poet’ by Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini was a creative and philosophical genius whose works challenged generations…
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