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Click here for full exhibition catalogue. In conjunction with the “Neapolitan Postcards” conference , the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute presents “Chist’è New York:…
In The Lost Recipes of Hoboken, Laura Schenone undertakes a quest to retrieve her great grandmother’s ravioli recipe. In lyrical prose and delicious recipes, Schenone…
Vincent Schiavelli, the subject of this film, was born in Bushwick, Brooklyn and raised by his grandparents, immigrants from the town of Polizzi Generosa (Palermo…
For Virgil’s Aeneas, Italy was “the land of our return” (in Robert Fagles’ 2006 translation), the place his ancestor Dardanus left generations earlier. The Aeneid…
Rosetta Giuliani-Caponetto, University of Connecticut In 2006, Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi proclaimed, “We don’t want Italy to become a multiethnic, multicultural country. We are…
Having taken a young Chinese woman under her wing, wife, mother, and respected teacher Emma Perotti finds herself on trial for the young woman’s murder.…
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…
Andrew 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…
Michael 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…
Chippers 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…
An 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…
Laura 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…