Italian Identity in the Third Millennium
This 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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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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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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[s]comparse (2011), 62 min.
Antonio Tibaldi, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036An observational documentary, comparse deals with cinema, migration, fiction, and reality. It focuses on African immigrants living in Sicily who are brought to the island…
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The Legacy of Lena Spencer and Her Caffè Lena
Jocelyn Arem, Caffè Lena History ProjectJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Folklorist Jocelyn Arem will speak about the life and legacy of Lena Spencer, the co-founder of Caffè Lena, the oldest surviving folk-music coffeehouse in the United States.…
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Book Presentation at the Gotham Center for New York City History
The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City (University of Illinois Press, 2013)
Simone CinottoBaisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street New York NY 10016Looking at the Italian-American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives…
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