Mediated Ethnicity: Italian Americans and the Cinematic Experience
A Symposium and Film Series, presented by: The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, and the Department of Communication Studies, Weissman School of…
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Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue New York NY 10010
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Little Kings (2003), Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno
Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue New York NY 10010Free -
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Mac (1992), John Turturro
Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue New York NY 10010Free -
Narrating Race and Italianità: Language and Text in the Construction of Race and Italian Americans
Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing NY 11367A Symposium Presented by: The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute and the Catholic Newman Center Thursday, May 4, 2006, 10 AM-1 PM The Catholic…
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Ciao America (2002), Frank Ciota
Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue New York NY 10010Free -
Christopher Castellani reads from his novel The Saint of Lost Things
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In his new novel, The Saint of Lost Things (Algonquin Books, 2005), Christopher Castellani explores the ties that bind in an Italian neighborhood in Wilmington,…
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Tenor Madness: Joe Lovano’s “Viva Caruso” and the Italian Jazz Diaspora
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036John Gennari, University of Vermont Tenor saxophonist and jazz composer Joe Lovano’s 2002 recording “Viva Caruso” features small combos and a 12-piece chamber ensemble performing…
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Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Special Guest Presentation Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College In his new book Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (SUNY Press, 2006), Robert Viscusi…
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Donna Jo Napoli reads from The King of Mulberry Street
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In 1892, a nine-year-old Jewish boy from Naples named Beniamino is smuggled aboard a cargo ship bound for America by his unemployed and impoverished mother. …
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Inventing Little Italy
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Donna Gabaccia (University of Minnesota) Most settlements of Italians around the world were not called “Little Italy.” The phrase seems to have been invented in…
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Sacco and Vanzetti (2006), 80 min., Peter Miller, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036NOTE: The film will be screened in partnership with the Gotham Center, CUNY Graduate and will be held in the Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate, 365…
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Closing Time: Storia di un Negozio (2006), 30 min., Veronica Diaferia, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Located at the corner of Mulberry and Grand Streets, E. Rossi & Co. was one of the Italian American community’s oldest and most well-known stores…
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