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Thursday, November 13 For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music.…
Book presentation of the 2013 winner, Joelle Biele, Broom, translated into Italian by Irene Marchegiani. The Bordighera Poetry Prize is been generously sponsored by the…
Italoamericana: 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…
Monday, 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…
Join 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…
CLOSING 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,…
This event is dedicated to an exploration of how the immigrant experiences may negatively impact mental health. The event will include members of the creative…
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…
In 2011 the police in Rhodes, (Greece) contacted the Dodecanese State Archive concerning the discovery in a basement of a large collection of Italian documents.…
The 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…
Giose Rimanelli: 90 Years. An American Celebration This symposium celebrates the sixty-plus years of Giose Rimanelli’s literary and cultural contributions to narrative, poetry, criticism,…