Salvatore Scibona reads from The End: A Novel (Graywolf Press, 2008)
A 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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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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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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Neapolitan Heart (2002), 92 min. Paolo Santoni, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In this film exploring the transnational aspects of the Neapolitan song, director Paolo Santoni journeys between Naples and New York profiling singers and songs both…
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Guido: An Italian-American Youth Style – A Colloquium with Donald Tricarico and Johnny DeCarlo
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In 1991, Professor Donald Tricarico, a sociologist at Queensboro Community College, CUNY, published his essay “Guido: Fashioning an Italian-American Youth Style” in The Journal of…
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Robert Zweig reads from Return to Naples: My Italian Bar Mitzvah and Other Discoveries (Barricade Books, 2008)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036As a boy in the 1960s, Robert Zweig, an American Jew of Italian and German descent, had the exceptional opportunity to spend his summer vacations…
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Showy and 5’2″: The World Famous Pontani Sisters (2004), 55 min. Rebecca Shapiro, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Third-generation Italian Americans Angie and Tara Pontani and “adopted sister” Helen Burkett began dancing together professionally during the late 1990s. As The World Famous Pontani…
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Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Angela Dalle Vacche, Georgia Institute of Technology .The Italian “diva film” of the silent era provided a forum for denouncing social evils and exploring new…
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Merica (2007), 65 min. Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini, and Francesco Ragazzi, dirs.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Merica investigates the complexities of migration and the migrant’s desire for national belonging using the parallel stories of Italian immigration to Brazil in the 1800s…
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Mike Cavallaro reads from Parade (With Fireworks) (Image Comics, 2008)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Mike Cavallaro’s comic is based on a family story that takes place during the Feast of the Epiphany in 1923 Calabria. Tensions are high between…
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