September 11 Revisited: Silvia Tessitore’s Eleven in September
Silvia Tessitore, Eleven in September Published in Italian, Eleven in September is a novel-reportage of post September 11 through testimonials of those who experienced that…
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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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Triangle Fire Open Archive
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Reading the Open Archive Triangle Fire Open Archive Contemporary scholars read objects from the Triangle Fire Open Archive to understand the significant…
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Readings from Sweet Lemons 2: International Writings with a Sicilian Accent (Legas, 2010)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The follow-up volume to the successful 2004 anthology, Sweet Lemons 2 features a diverse array of poetry and prose by writers of Sicilian background. While…
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Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Michael Schiavi, New York Institute of Technology East Harlem native Vito Russo (1946-1990) was a gay and AIDS activist best known as the author of…
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Reimagining White Ethnicity: Expressivity, Identity, Race
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Free -
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Reconciliation: Photographs by S. Billie Mandle
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036New York Foundation for the Arts Artists & Audiences Exchange Program Photographer and 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship recipient S. Billie Mandle…
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Living with the Sacred: The Home Altar as Ex-voto
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Kay Turner, Brooklyn Arts Council/New York University Using Italian-American and Mexican-American examples from her research on Catholic women’s domestic altar traditions, folklorist Kay Turner will…
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Joseph Salvatore reads from To Assume a Pleasing Shape (BOA Editions, 2011)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In his debut story collection, Joseph Salvatore presents characters damaged and yet dignified, yearning for something that they seem unable to identify, much less to…
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Le Mamme di San Vito (2010), 65 min.; Gianni Torres, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In Bràs, one of the poorest districts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Nursery of San Vito provides day care and medical care for approximately 120…
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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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