Travelling Theater, Travelling Languages
Performances by Teatro della Ginestra and Francesco Foti, moderated by Lucia Grillo (Calandra Institute). Part of the “In Scena Italian Theater Festival NY.”
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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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Lo Studio dei Nipoti: Four Artists. September 12, 2013 through January 10, 2014
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The Calandra Institute presents an exhibition by Lo Studio dei Nipoti (“The Studio of the Grandchildren”), a nonprofit artist collective for U.S. artists of southern…
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Workshop on “Intercomprehension” and Multilingualism: Teaching Italian to Romance Language Speakers
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Introduction and objectives of the workshop This workshop intends to introduce both the high-school and college teacher of Italian to new methodologies in teaching the…
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Italian Identity in the Third Millennium
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This symposium is a continuation—a sort of inter-mission—of the last three symposia ILICA has sponsored on the topic. After two events last fall and a…
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Book Presentation: Italian Signs, American Politics, edited by Ottorino Cappelli
Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing NY 11367Italian Signs, American Politics: Current Affairs, Historical Perspectives, Empirical Analyses. Ottorino Cappelli, editor. This book analyses intra-ethnic elections in the United States, in the circumstance of…
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Domenica Ruta reads from With or Without You: A Memoir (Spiegel & Grau, 2013)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Domenica Ruta’s With or Without You is a lyrical memoir about a chaotic childhood in a working-class town, the power—and sometimes stranglehold—of a mother-daughter relationship,…
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“Made by Italians” The Economic and Social Impact of Italian Immigration to the United States: New Perspectives
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The aim of this conference is to expand the range of investigations into the complex material and economic relationship between the United States and Italy…
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Paese Mio Bello: An Exploration of Early Italian-American Music
Todd Cambio, Fraulini Guitar CompanyJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In the early twentieth century, U.S. recording companies began producing records of music from the traditions of various recent immigrant groups. These recordings included folk…
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Symposium: “Italian Emigration: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This panel will discuss both the history and current state of Italian emigration as seen from both the Italian and Italian-American Perspective. Panelists include: Dott.…
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Book Presentation: Cosa Grigia: Una nuova mafia invisibile all’assalto dell’Italia
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036From “cosa nostra” to “cosa grigia”! This book analyzes the ever growing influence that organized crime continues to have on Italian society. Author Giacomo Di…
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Christopher Castellani reads from All This Talk of Love (Algonquin Books, 2013)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036All This Talk of Love, the third novel in Christopher Castellani’s series about the Grasso family, is a moving and engaging depiction of family history…
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Book Presentation: Paradigm: New and Selected Poems 1947-2009. By Alfredo de Palchi.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Book Presentation: Paradigm: New and Selected Poems 1947-2009. By Alfredo de Palchi. Translated from the original Italian by Barbarba Carle, Michael Palma, Sonia Raiziss, John…
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