John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Film Screening & Book Launch This presentation features Maria Mazziotti Gillan reading from her latest collection of poetry, Ancestor’s Song, and a screening of Kevin…
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Reading and Book Signing with 2013 Winner: Joelle Biele, Broom 2013 First Runner-Up: Marisa Frasca 2012 Winner: Joanne Monte, The Blue Light of Dawn Hosted…
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
The Peasant and the Priest: A documentary by Esther Podemski Film screening followed by Q&A with the director and discussants. The Peasant and the Priest…
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
In Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, actor John Turturro takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily. While exploring the island’s…
Nearly every country is affected by migration. No society can consider its future without factoring in the effects of human mobility. Yet too often men and women cannot…
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Co-sponsored with ILICA (Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance), this panel will discuss the new phenomenon of the “Under 40” Italian in the United States, a new…
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
During the two-week period surrounding January 27, the “giorno della memoria,” a annual series of events is scheduled for remembering Italy and the Holocaust. The…
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
This event is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. Waiting for Yesterday details political scientist Michael Parenti’s youth in the 1940s in New York City’s East…
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
Anthony Julian Tamburri’s volume Re-reading Italian Americana: Specificities and Generalities on Literature and Criticism (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) examines the current state of Italian-American…