Joseph Luzzi reads from My Two Italies
Monday, September 22 Luzzi creates a personal portrait of Italy that leaps past clichés, delving into why Italian Americans have complicated relationships with the “old…
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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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Book Presentation: “My Fault” by Margherita Grassini Sarfatti
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036THE UNPUBLISHED MEMOIR OF MUSSOLINI’S LONGTIME LOVER WITH NEW REVELATIONS ABOUT THE FASCIST PERIOD My Fault. Mussolini as I Knew Him, translated, edited, and with…
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Book Presentation: Ellis Island by Robert Viscusi. Discussants Anthony Tamburri and Joseph Luzzi
Istituto Italiano di Cultura 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, United StatesIn an epic poem whose structure corresponds to the hours in a year, Viscusi (Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing) portrays a…
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Joanna Clapps Herman reads from No Longer and Not Yet
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Thursday, October 2 Most of these stories take place on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, in the shops, hallways, and parks that reveal this well-known neighborhood…
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Italian Identity: The Next Generation
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 1003610am-1pm at the Calandra Institute, hosted by Prof. Anthony J. Tamburri and Dr. Anthony Miele, featuring Prof. Pino Aprile, Prof. Massimo Vedovelli, Prof. Donna Chirico,…
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Symposium and Signing Ceremony with the University of Calabria
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In signing an agreement of student and faculty exchange, along with teaching and research collaboration, the two institutions will celebrate this joint venture with a two-hour symposium on various themes…
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Dolores DeLuce reads from My Life, a Four Letter Word: Confessions of a Counter Culture Diva
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Thursday, October 9 Dolores DeLuce, “a five-foot diva in six-inch heels,” takes us on the bumpy ride from a bleak New Jersey childhood through her…
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Book presentation: “The Four Corners of Palermo” by Giuseppe Di Piazza
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The Four Corners of Palermo By Giuseppe Di Piazza, translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar A noir and sensual page-turner that cracks open the Mafia’s secret world through…
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Sabato Rodia’s Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development, Luisa Del Giudice, Independent Scholar
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Wednesday, October 29 The Watts Towers — a complex of multistoried structures decorated in pique assiette — were created over the course of three decades…
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Roundtable: Tutta la Famiglia: A Photographic Exhibition of Community Life in Gloucester, Massachusetts, by Paul Cary Goldberg
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In conjunction with the exhibition Tutta la Famiglia, we present a roundtable discussion with photographer Paul Cary Goldberg and residents of Gloucester: Caffé Sicilia owners…
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Roundtable: Giovanni Arrighi: Growth, Public Institutions, and Culture
Istituto Italiano di Cultura 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, United StatesThis round table will discuss the work and leagcy of Giovanni Arrighi. Panelists to be announced. Nota Bene: This event takes place at the Italian…
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Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women’s Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora, Edvige Giunta and Joseph Sciorra
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Thursday, November 13 For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music.…
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