The Neapolitan Instrument Makers of New York
Jayson Kerr Dobney, Metropolitan Museum of Art For more than a century, Italian Americans in and around New York City have produced a great variety…
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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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Cricket Cup (2006), 49 min. Diego Liguori and Massimiliano Pacifico, dirs.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In the late 1970s, Sri Lankan immigrants began coming to Naples, often to find employment as domestic workers. The community is now large and well-established,…
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Joanna Clapps Herman reads from The Anarchist Bastard: Growing Up Italian in America (SUNY Press, 2011)
“I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century.” With that, Joanna Clapps Herman concisely describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing…
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New York Longshoremen: Class and Power on the Docks
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036William Mello, Indiana University In the post-World War II era, dockworkers in New York fought an ongoing battle against shipping companies, local police, federal and…
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The Artists of IAVANET: An Exhibition by the Italian-American Visual Artists’ Network
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Exhibition opening Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 6 pm Roundtable discussion Monday, May 9, 2011, 6 pm On view April 12-June 10, 2011…
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Pauline Spatafora reads from Dear Sister: Letters Home to Sicily from Wartime America (Reed & Quill Press, 2009)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Following the death of her sister Teresa in 1938, Anna La Camera left Paradiso, a hamlet of Milazzo (Messina province), Sicily, and set sail on…
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Ferlinghetti (2009), 82 min. Christopher Felver, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The bestselling poet in modern literature, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has also been a catalyst for numerous literary careers and an influential counterculture figure. In 1953, he…
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The 3Fs in Italian Cultures: Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and Film
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The 3Fs in Italian Cultures Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and Film In the second half of the twentieth century, food, fashion, and film became…
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The Hellhound of Wall Street: Ferdinand Pecora and the Investigation of the Great Crash
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Michael Perino, St. John’s University In the winter of 1933, the nadir of the Great Depression, Ferdinand Pecora took control of a bumbling United States…
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Terra Sogna Terra (2011), 50 min. Lucia Grillo, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The fruit and vegetable gardens behind suburban houses in the New York City metropolitan area offer tantalizing entries into Italian-American horticultural knowledge and skills. The…
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Anthony Di Renzo reads from Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen (SUNY Press, 2010)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In Bitter Greens, Anthony Di Renzo reflects on Italian food, American culture, and globalization. Despite the inclusion of six recipes, the book is not an…
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Migrating Towers: The Gigli of Nola and Beyond
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute is happy to present a photographic exhibition from the collections of the Museo Etnomusicale I Gigli di Nola…
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