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  • March 2014

  • Mon 31

    Studying and Researching Abroad: A Panel Discussion with the President of the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro

    March 31, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Co-sponsored with the United Pugliesi Federation, the President (Rettore) of the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Professor Antonio Felice Uricchio, will join us…

    Free
  • April 2014

  • Wed 2

    Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives by Joseph Sciorra

    April 2, 2014 @ 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
    Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing NY 11367

    Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at…

    Free
  • Fri 4

    A “New” Southern Question: A Panel Discussion with Pino Aprile and Antonio Giordano

    April 4, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Pino Aprile, author of Il sud puzza (2013), and Antonio Giordano, co-author with Giulio Tarro of Campania, terra di veleni (2011), will discuss a new…

    Free
  • Wed 9

    Benessere Psicologico: Contemporary Thought on Italian American Mental Health Presentation

    April 9, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Benessere Psicologico: Contemporary Thought on Italian American Mental Health Dominick Carielli April 9, 2014 6:00-8:00 pm       Dominick Carielli and Joseph Grosso’s edited…

    Free
  • Wed 16

    Texan Italian Stories (2013-2014), four videos of 12-15 min. each
    Sergio Carvajal-Leoni, dir.

    April 16, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Texan Italian Stories is a short documentary series that explores the diverse history and culture of Italian-American Texans. Produced by Romina Olson and directed by…

    Free
  • Fri 25

    MAFIAs: Realities and Representations of Organized Crime

    April 25, 2014 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Click here to view the program flyer as a PDF (program is subject to change). Click here to view the conference poster as a PDF.…

    Free
  • May 2014

  • Thu 1

    Hostos Community College Covello Book Party, Reading, Discussion with Prof Gerald Meyer,Thursday, May 1

    May 1, 2014 @ 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
    Hostos Community College, 500 Grand Concourse Vito Marcantonio Room, B Building Room 115 Bronx NY 10451

    In celebration of diversity , Hostos members of The Italian American Faculty and Staff Council of CUNY present a book party, dramatic reading and discussion…

    Free
  • Wed 7

    Book Presentation: Frank Lentricchia’s The Dog Killer of Utica: An Eliot Conte Mystery

    May 7, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    “Dirty Harry of Literary Criticism” Frank Lentricchia launches book two of his new mystery series, featuring Eliot Conte, a PI who’s “part Mike Hammer and…

    Free
  • Thu 8

    Presenting Italoamericana: Italian-American Literature in the United States, 1880-1943
    Anthony Tamburri, Calandra Institute, Queens College, CUNY
    Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College, CUNY
    James Periconi
    Francesco Durante

    May 8, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    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…

    Free
  • Tue 13

    Grammar and Stereotypes: African American English in the Italian Translations of Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories, by Chiara Martini, Dottorato in Scienza del Libro e della Scrittura, Università per Stranieri di Perugia

    May 13, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Italian translations of African American English (as it appears in literary works by major authors of the twentieth century) seem to follow two main strategies:…

    Free
  • Thu 15

    Men of the Cloth (2013), 96 min.
    Vicki Vasilopoulos, dir.

    May 15, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

    Click here to see a trailer for the film. Starting in the mid-twentieth century, with the advent of ready-to-wear clothing and the industrialization of the…

    Free
  • June 2014

  • Thu 5

    LECTURE (Thursday, June 5): “Mind and Motivation in Learning Italian: What Happens in the Mind When a Person Learns Italian as a Foreign Language,” by Paolo E. Balboni, Ca’ Foscari University in Venice

    June 5, 2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
    Istituto Italiano di Cultura 686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, United States

    The topic pertains to the field of neurolinguistics, but it will be dealt with from the teacher’s perspective. Teachers have to help students to acquire…

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