Odyssey in Rome (2005), 86 min. Alex Grazioli, dir
Odyssey in Rome documents director Abel Ferrara’s attempt to finance and produce his film Mary (2005), a modern re-imagining of the life of Mary Magdalene…
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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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Rosario Candela: An Immigrant Architect in New York
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Andrew Alpern When Rosario Candela (1890-1953) left Palermo to come to America with his father, he was an 18-year-old laborer with virtually no knowledge of…
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Michael J. Agovino reads from The Bookmaker: A Memoir of Money, Luck, and Family from the Utopian Outskirts of New York City (HarperCollins, 2008)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Michael Agovino grew up in the Bronx’s Co-op City. His Italian-American father, a buttoned-up union man who moonlighted as a bookmaker and gambler, was dogged…
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Chippers (2008), 52 min. Nino Tropiano, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Chippers tells the story of Dublin’s well-established community of four thousand Italians, all coming from Casalattico in Lazio, who have owned fish and chip shops…
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John Giorno reads from Subduing Demons in America: The Selected Poems of John Giorno, 1962-2008 (Soft Skull Press, 2008)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036An innovator of poetry and performance, John Giorno’s career spans fifty years and is intertwined with contemporaries such as Andy Warhol, William S. Burroughs, and…
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Competing Understandings of Media in the History of Anti-defamation
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Laura Cook Kenna, George Washington University Since at least the 1950s, some Italian Americans have organized anti-defamation campaigns to respond to unflattering, often mafia-inflected, representations…
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The Tree of Life (2008), 76 min. Hava Volterra, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Hava Volterra of Los Angeles tries to come to terms with her father’s death by traveling to Italy, the land of his birth, to trace…
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Salvatore Scibona reads from The End: A Novel (Graywolf Press, 2008)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036A small, incongruous man receives an excruciating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea. It is August 15, 1953,…
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Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven (2009), 74 min. Andrew Rossi, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Sirio Maccioni came to America as a waiter on a cruise ship. He rose through the ranks of New York’s finest restaurants and opened Le…
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Lost Boys, Recovered Memories: Lorenzo Carcaterra’s Sleepers
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Christopher Wilson, Boston College In 1995, New York writer Lorenzo Carcaterra stunned audiences with a memoir entitled Sleepers, which told the story of the author…
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Cesare Lombroso and the Science of Criminology
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Mary Gibson, John Jay College Cesare Lombroso is widely-known as the “father of criminology,” but the Italian context of his life and thought is generally…
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Maria Laurino reads from Old World Daughter, New World Mother: An Education in Love and Freedom (W.W. Norton, 2009)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Few books have discussed feminism through the prism of Italian-American identity. In Old World Daughter, New World Mother, Maria Laurino seeks to reconcile her upbringing…
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