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In Leaving Story Avenue, Paul LaRosa details his life journey from childhood in a Bronx housing project to working at the New York Daily News…
Award-winning filmmaker, Anton Evangelista, will present Umberto E, the heart-warming documentary of a ninety-year old Italian immigrant’s vivid recollections of Italy and the United States…
Symposium One hundred years ago, on November 23, 1912, Arturo Giovannitti, a trade-unionist originally from the Region of Molise in Italy, defended himself before a…
This week, join us for the November 2012 edition of ITALICS. ITALICS meets with leaders of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, sponsors of the NYC…
This week, join us for the November 2012 edition of ITALICS. ITALICS meets with leaders of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, sponsors of the NYC…
Check out our books at the Calandra Institute. Give the gift of culture! You’ll accomplish two things: (1) you’ll give a unique gift, and (2)…
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…