ILICA Annual Conference and Reception
This year’s conference topic is “Similarities and Synergies.” Co-sponspred by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute and John Jay College. For more information, please…
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John Jay College CUNY Moot Court, 524 West 59th Street New York
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ILICA Annual Gala
Queens Museum New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona NYAnnual Gala of the Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance. Contact: president@ilica.org, 718-262-2687
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“Meet the Archives:” Reframing Italian America: Historical Photographs and Immigrant Representations
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The Calandra Institute’s current exhibition Reframing Italian America brings to light 23 photographs from the Bernard Titowsky collection, images and artifacts of extraordinary value to…
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Imagined Places and Fragile Landscapes: Italian American Presepi in New York City
Joseph Sciorra, John D. Calandra Italian American InstituteMunson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute 310 Genesee Street Utica NY 13502Reception and book signing follows in the Edward Wales Root Sculpture Court. In New York and across the U.S., Italian Americans hold dear the cultural…
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Author and Activist: The Daniela Gioseffi Story
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Preview screening of this documentary-drama on the life and work of Daniela Gioseffi, who became an author struggling to fight for civil rights in the…
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Mark Chiusano reads from Marine Park: Stories (Penguin Books, 2014)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Marine Park—in the far reaches of Brooklyn, virtually train-less and tourist-free—finds its literary chronicler in Mark Chiusano. Chiusano’s stories delve into family, boyhood, sports, drugs,…
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A New Life with Bianca (Bordighera Press, 2015)
Frank PolizziJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Frank Polizzi will provide an overview of his new book of sonnets, A New Life with Bianca, highlighting the important influences on this project. There will…
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Way Down in the Hole (2010), 40 min.
Alex Johnston, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Way Down in the Hole tells the harrowing story of Colorado’s Ludlow Massacre. In April 1914 a group of coal miners and their families were…
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The Story of My People (Bordighera Press, 2015)
Mario MignoneJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The Story of My People is a moving immigrant autobiography framed in the historical and cultural context of the 1960s and 70s. Reading this book one is…
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Mare Nostrum: prospettive di un dialogo tra alterità e mediterraneità (Bordighera Press, 2015)
Antonio C. Vitti & Anthony Julian Tamburri, eds.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This collection of essays contributes to the fundamental mission of the Mediterranean Centre for Intercultural Studies—founded in 2012 and located in Erice, Sicily—with the specific…
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Book Presentation: Joey Nicoletti and Gil Fagiani
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036We are delighted to present two books of poetry. Joey Nicoletti’s Reverse Graffiti (Bordighera Press) has been hailed as a collection of “powerful, heartfelt poems…
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Renzo De Felice’s The Jews in Fascist Italy: An Historical Appraisal
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036On the occasion of the paperback reprint of Renzo De Felice’s The Jews in Fascist Italy, this panel will explore the genesis of the book…
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