Terre Promesse: Excursions Towards Italian Topographies
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s third annual conference is dedicated to the theme of cultural landscapes. The conference addresses issues concerning placemaking in…
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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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Le Ragazze di Trieste (2008), 45 min. Chiara Barbo and Andrea Magnani, dirs.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In the years following World War II, the city of Trieste was under the control of the Anglo-American Allied Military Government as both the Italian…
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Ricordati di noi! (2007), 26 min. Paul Tana, dir.
Ho fatto il mio coraggio (2009), 50 min. Giovanni Princigalli, dir.John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036These two films look at post-World War II Italian immigration to Montreal and the ways in which it is remembered. Ho fatto il mio coraggio…
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Penny Arcade presents Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews (MIT Press, 2009)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Penny Arcade (born Susanna Ventura) emerged in the 1980s as a primal force in the New York art scene and an originator of what has…
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From Gangsters to Gangstas: African Americans, Italian Americans, and the Culture of Crime
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Kimberly Sims, American University The idea that there is a similarity between Italian-American and African-American criminality dates back to the late nineteenth century and persists…
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Salina doc Fest
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Presentation of the Festival dei Popoli
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Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College At the turn of the twentieth century, Italian Americans led and participated in some of the period’s most volatile labor strikes.…
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Mary Caponegro reads from All Fall Down (Coffee House Press, 2009)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Mary Caponegro’s experimental fiction blurs the line between fantasy and reality. In these stories of love and healing gone awry, we visit Rome and a…
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Zampogna: The Soul of Southern Italy (2010), 82 min. David Marker, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In a journey through Southern Italy, Italian American David Marker explores the zampogna, a Southern Italian bagpipe historically considered a shepherd’s instrument. Traditionally made by…
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