Bordighera Press: New Book Series Saggistica
Bordighera Press will launch its new book series, Saggistica, which already includes five published titles in 2011. The series is dedicated to critical studies on…
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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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The Italian Brothers: A Documentary of World War II
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The Calandra Institute presents Paolo Mastrolilli’s novel, The Italian Brothers: A Documentary Novel of World War II. Author and Publisher will present.
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Italian-American Students in New York City, 1975-2000; edited by Nancy Ziehler
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The Calandra Institute presents, Italian-American Students in New York City, 1975-2000, edited by Nancy Ziehler. Drs. Nancy Ziehler and Jerome Krase will present.
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Votive Offerings in Edible Media
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Diana Fane, Brooklyn Museum Diana Fane discusses examples of edible ex-votos from Southern Italy and Mexico, regions in which Christian and pre-Christian traditions frequently co-exist:…
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Mulberry St. (2009), 87 min.; Abel Ferrara, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Bronx-born director Abel Ferrara has captured the streets of New York City in several of his feature films, including King of New York (1990) and…
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Appreciating Don DeLillo
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Paul Giaimo, Highland Community College Unlike the majority of American academic critics, Paul Giaimo, author of Appreciating Don DeLillo: The Moral Force of a Writer’s…
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Homage to Alfredo de Palchi
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The evening is dedicated to a celebration of Alfredo de Palchi’s poetry. The recent publication of Una vita scommessa in poesia. A Life Gambled in…
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Geraldine Ferraro: The Italian American Woman Who Made History
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Free -
September 11 Revisited: Silvia Tessitore’s Eleven in September
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Silvia 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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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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