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Lampedusa: cronache dall’isola che non c’é
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Two years ago Italy as a whole became aware of Lampedusa because of the landings of thousands of people from the coasts of North Africa.…
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Jonathan Galassi reads from Left-handed: Poems (Knopf, 2012)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Left-handed, a new book of poems by Jonathan Galassi, chronicles in three sections the painful yet liberating transformation the poet underwent when he discovered, as…
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Painting Rules (2012), 30 min.
Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno, dir.
The Poetry Deal: A Film with Diane di Prima (2011), 27 min.
Melanie La Rosa, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036These two films present Italian-American artists and focus in particular on their relationships with their creative works. Painting Rules provides an engaging look at the…
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Finding Joseph Tusiani: The Poet of Two Lands
Hunter College 695 Park Avenue New York NYThis symposium takes its name from the documentary on Joseph Tusiani made in 2011 by Sabrina DiGregorio. A major voice in American and Italian letters,…
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Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come l’Italia fece fuori il pi� grande clarinettista del jazz (I am Tony Scott. The story of How Italy Got Rid of the Greatest Jazz Clarinetist)
Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) Theater 2, 199 Chambers Street New York NY 10036Tony Scott (Anthony Joseph Sciacca, June 17, 1921 – March 28, 2007) was a jazz clarinetist known for an interest in folk music around the world. Born…
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Columbus Day Legacy (2011), 27 min.
Bennie Klain, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Columbus Day Legacy explores the conflict between the two communities that have the closest connection to the eponymous federal holiday: Italian Americans and Native Americans.…
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Giornate Dell’Immigrazione: Italiani e Italianitá Oltre Confine
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This panel will examine the current situation of Italian emigration in all of its many facets, from a historical perspective of more than one hundred…
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Film: 18 IUS Soli
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Documentarian Fred Kuwornu’s film 18 IUS Soli recounts the experience of young adults born and raised in Italy but with origins in other parts of…
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Michael Corleone’s Tie: Ambiguity in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972)
Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue New York NY 10010Dr. Anthony Julian Tamburri, Professor and Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute/Queens College CUNY will present a lecture and slide presentation dealing…
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Symposium–On a Different Shore: Defining “Italians” Italian Identity in the 3rd Millennium
Queens College, City University of New York 65-21 Main St, The Choral Room, Aaron Copeland School of Music Flushing NY 11367Students and faculty are invited to a constructive dialogue with four contemporary authors from Italy and four Italian-American authors to discuss the transformation of Italy…
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Symposium–On a Different Shore: Defining “Italians” Italian Identity in the 3rd Millennium
John Jay College CUNY Moot Court, 524 West 59th Street New YorkILICA will host a constructive dialogue with four contemporary authors from Italy and four Italian-American authors to discuss the transformation of Italy and Italian culture…
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