Arturo Giovannitti – Poet And Trade-Unionist
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…
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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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Italics: The Italian-American Magazine
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This week, join us for the November 2012 edition of ITALICS. ITALICS meets with leaders of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, sponsors of the NYC…
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Italics: The Italian-American Magazine
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This week, join us for the November 2012 edition of ITALICS. ITALICS meets with leaders of the Columbus Citizens Foundation, sponsors of the NYC…
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Happy Holidays and Buona lettura! Book Sale at the Calandra Institute
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Check 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)…
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The Art of Making Do in Naples
Jason Pine, Purchase College, SUNYJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Anthropologist Jason Pine will present his research on neomelodica, a musical form from Naples that combines traditional songs with contemporary stories of love, betrayal, loss,…
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The Neapolitan Presepio A Christmas Tradition That Endures in the Italian American Community
BROOKLYN COLLEGE LIBRARY 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn 11210The Center for Italian American Studies and the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities Present: The Neapolitan Presepio A Christmas Tradition That Endures in…
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Italian-American Foodways and the Making of Modern New York
Rocco Marinaccio, Manhattan CollegeJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036**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…
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Book Presentation: Incontri cinematografici e culturali tra due mondi edited by Antonio Carlo Vitti
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The 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…
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Book presentation of THE ACCIDENTAL PALLBEARER by Frank Lentricchia
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Washed-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…
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REHABILITATING WAR CRIMINALS. THE MONUMENT TO RODOLFO GRAZIANI
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036A political clash is growing in Italy after the dedication of a memorial to Fascist commander Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, a convicted war criminal. Graziani…
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From Bread and Tomatoes to Zuppa di Pesce “Ciambotto”: Memories of Apulian Cuisine (Bordighera Press, 2013)
Rossana del ZioJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This 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…
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Tradition and Modernity in the Development of Athens and Rome
Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing NY 11367Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros Onassis Visiting Scholar Professor of Mathematics, Urbanism & Architectural Theorist University of Texas at San Antonio TRADITION AND MODERNITY IN…
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