Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics, 1909-1944
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Artist and His Politics, 1909-1944 explores the politics of the leader of the Futurist art movement. Emerging in Italy in 1909,…
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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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Giuseppe Musolino: A Drama in Acts, by Giuseppe Morabito
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Alumni Association 899 10th Avenue, #623 New YorkDirected by Evan T. Cummings Translated by Francesco Meola and Evan T. Cummings Starring Francesco Meola and others TBA. Thursday, May 14, 2015, 6 p.m.…
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Daughters, Dads, and the Path through Grief: Tales from Italian America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The father-daughter relationship can be central to both the father and the daughter, yet there is a dearth of psychological research that attests to its…
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Exhibition Opening and Catalog Launch for 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 10036Reframing Italian America brings to light twenty-three historical photographs from the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s Bernard Titowsky Collection, an assemblage of over two…
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Symposium: L’oro di Napoli: All that glitters is gold!
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036“L’oro di Napoli: All That Glitters Is Gold!” Rich in art, literature, and culture, Naples is often associated only with the negative attributes of a…
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“An Evening in Lazio”: Celebrating the Calandra Institute with Dean Tamburri
Piccolo Fiore Ristorante 230 E. 44th Street New YorkLazio is a region of central Italy bordered by the Tyrrhenian Sea, traversed by the waters of the Tiber River, and characterized by mountains and…
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Mary Jo Bona reads from I Stop Waiting for You (Bordighera Press, 2014)
Louisa Calio reads from Journey to the Heart Waters (Legas, 2014)
George Guida reads from The Sleeping Gulf (Bordighera Press, 2015)This event features three poets coming together to read from their latest works. Maria Mazziotti Gillan has called Mary Jo Bona’s I Stop Waiting for…
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Annual CUNY Faculty and Staff Reception for Italian Heritage and Culture Month
CUNY-wide, co-sponsored by ILICA Italian Language Inter Cultural Alliance. Featuring an ILICA Conversation: “How Do Cultural Differences Play into Global Networking?” For more information, please…
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Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City
Leonard Library 81 Devoe Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesFolklorist Dr. Joseph Sciorra of the Calandra Italian American Institute will present his recent book Built with Faith, a 35-year ethnographic study documenting how artistry…
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An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians, by Paul Moses, Brooklyn College, CUNY
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Starting in the nineteenth century, Irish Americans and Italian Americans found themselves at odds: in the Catholic Church, on the waterfront, at construction sites, and…
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Calabria guerriera e ribelle (Calabria, Warrior and Rebel)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Book presentation by author Giampiero Mele. Sponsored by Coni-Italian National Olympic Committee USA. Contact Mico Delianova Licastro 631-566-0257.
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Poetry reading in English and Italian by author Victoria SurliugaJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Booksigning of Victoria Surliuga’s poetry volume apnea (Turin: disegnodiverso, 2015; Paola Gribaudo, publisher). Victoria Surliuga, Associate Professor of Italian at Texas Tech University, will read…
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