Book Presentation: Dr. Joseph Sciorra’s Built with Faith
Over the last 130 years, Italian American Catholics in New York City have developed a repertoire of sacred spaces in their homes and neighborhoods. These…
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The Graduate Center, Martin E. Segal Theater 365 Fifth Avenue New York 10016-4309
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Three Poet Laureates: Lorraine LoFrese Conlin, Maria Lisella, and Robert Savino
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This event will bring together three Italian American New York poet laureates—each originally hailing from Jamaica, Queens—for an evening of verse and conversation. Poet Laureates…
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Panel on Migration Emigration, Migration, and Self-Determination: Italians, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans in Search of an American Dream.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Panel on Migration Emigration, Migration, and Self-Determination: Italians, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans in Search of an American Dream. Deans and Directors of the John D.…
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Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
Westchester Italian Cultural Center One Generoso Pope Place Tuckahoe, New York 10707Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora Presented by Joseph Sciorra, with Phyllis Capello, Rosette Capotorto, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Lucia Grillo, Maria…
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Book Presentation by Anthony Julian Tamburri
Center for Italian Studies Frank Melville Memorial Library, Room E4340 Stony Brook 11794Dr. Joseph Tromba Lecture Series Event: Book Presentation by Anthony Julian Tamburri, Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures & Dean of the John D.…
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MONTEDORO (2014), 88 min. Antonello Faretta, dir. (in Italian with English subtitles)
Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street New York NY 10016Film Screening MONTEDORO (2014), 88 min. Followed by Q&A with director NOTA BENE: This event takes place at: Elebash Recital Hall THE GRADUATE CENTER,…
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Fighting Paisanos (2013), 52 min.
Marco Curti, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036During World War II, while some Italian Americans were deemed “enemy aliens,” more than 500,000 Italian Americans served in the U.S. military. The documentary Fighting…
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We Have Not Forgotten: April 6, 2016, Marks Seven Years Since the L’Aquila Earthquake
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Breaking Bread in L’Aquila was published on April 6, 2010, on the first anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the Abruzzo region. Releasing the book…
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New York’s Italian Exile Press and the Civil War
Bénédicte Deschamps, Paris Diderot UniversityJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The events of Risorgimento Italy provoked political migrations. In the United States, Risorgimento exiles played an essential part in the birth of the Italian American…
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Book Presentation: Peter Carravetta & Richard Milazzo
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The evening is dedicated to a presentation of two books of poetry. The event will be moderated by Rolando Perez, poet, critic, Hispanist (Hunter College/CUNY). Richard Milazzo, poet,…
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Annual Conference: Migrating Objects: Material Culture and Italian Identities
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This interdisciplinary conference focuses on material culture in the contexts of Italy, its colonies, and its diasporic communities. Material culture, broadly defined, includes all objects…
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Book Presentation: We The Italians: Two flags, One heart. One hundred interviews
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Editor Umberto Mucci presents his landmark book. This book is a selection of the best 100 interviews conducted through four years by the author, either…
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