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Anthropologist Jason Pine will present his research on neomelodica, a musical form from Naples that combines traditional songs with contemporary stories of love, betrayal, loss,…
The Center for Italian American Studies and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities Present: The Neapolitan Presepio A Christmas Tradition That Endures in…
**UPDATED** Rocco Marinaccio will discuss the foodways associated with New York’s Italian immigrants in the early twentieth century. His focus is on the ways a…
The book’s title recalls a distance and, at the same time, the desire and power to overcome it. There was a time in the early…
Washed-up private investigator Eliot Conte would rather be teaching American literature and listening to opera than taking pictures of spouses in flagrante delicto. But he…
A political clash is growing in Italy after the dedication of a memorial to Fascist commander Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, a convicted war criminal. Graziani…
This book is a wonderful introduction of genuine Apulian food for the non-Apulian. Accompanied by a series of vignettes and descriptions of the culinary culture of…
Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros Onassis Visiting Scholar Professor of Mathematics, Urbanism & Architectural Theorist University of Texas at San Antonio TRADITION AND MODERNITY IN…
David Evanier, biographer of Bobby Darin, Jimmy Roselli, and Joe Pantoliano, will present All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett (Wiley, 2011),…
From Ernest and Julio Gallo to Francis Ford Coppola, Italian Americans have shaped the history of California wine. But what role did a small group…
James Periconi will discuss his book — with essays by Robert Viscusi, Francesco Durante, and Martino Marazzi — which catalogues the Italian-language book-publishing industry that…
In celebration of 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States. Co-sponsored by the IHCC-NY.