Roundtable: Giovanni Arrighi: Growth, Public Institutions, and Culture
This 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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Istituto Italiano di Cultura 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, United States
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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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Bordighera Poetry Prize: Reading and Book Signing & 25 Years of Bordighera Press
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Book presentation of the 2013 winner, Joelle Biele, Broom, translated into Italian by Irene Marchegiani. The Bordighera Poetry Prize is been generously sponsored by the…
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Book Presentation: Italoamericana: Italian-American Literature in the United States, 1880-1943 Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College, CUNY; James Periconi, Periconi LLC; Anthony Tamburri, Calandra Institute, Queens College, CUNY
Istituto Italiano di Cultura 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, United StatesItaloamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880–1943, edited by Francesco Durante (Fordham University Press, 2014), brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of writings by…
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Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo, Edvige Giunta and Nancy Caronia
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Monday, December 1 Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta’s edited collection, the first book to focus on an Italian-American woman writer, places Louise DeSalvo at the…
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“Serata siciliana” – Book presentations and readings
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Join us for an evening of Sicilian culture through language and literature. Readers will include: Gaetano Cipolla; Marisa Frasca; Nino Provenzano; Frank Polizzi; Louisa Calio; Stanley Barken. Moderator: Anthony Julian Tamburri…
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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 10036CLOSING FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2015 Exhibition opening: Thursday, September 18, 2014, 6pm On view: September 19, 2014–January 9, 2015 Gallery hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm Italian Americans,…
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The Psychological Challenges of Immigrant Life
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This event is dedicated to an exploration of how the immigrant experiences may negatively impact mental health. The event will include members of the creative…
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A CUNY TV presentation: “The Island of Roses, A Tragedy in a Paradise,” a film by Rebecca Samonà (2008)
NB: This is a CUNY TV broadcast. We thank Robert Isaacson for finding time in CUNY TV’s schedule to share this film with greater New…
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New Documents on the Deportation of the Jews of Rhodes. The Discovery of the Carabinieri Collection in the Dodecanese State Archive
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In 2011 the police in Rhodes, (Greece) contacted the Dodecanese State Archive concerning the discovery in a basement of a large collection of Italian documents.…
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A CUNY TV presentation: “The Island of Roses, A Tragedy in a Paradise,” a film by Rebecca Samonà (2008)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The Island of Roses, A Tragedy in a Paradise, by Rebecca Samonà, 2008 (Italian with English subtitles). Produced by L’Altravista. Presented in collaboration with Centro Primo Levi…
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A Great Conspiracy against Our Race: Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Free