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Tarry Hum, Queens College, and Jerry Krase, Brooklyn College This collaborative presentation emphasizes a political economic approach to ethnic enclaves and argues that the role…
“A love song to the wounded world” is how Maria Mazziotti Gillan described Maria Terrone’s first book of poetry, The Bodies We Were Loaned. Terrone’s…
Fred Misurella’s Lies to Live By (Bordighera, 2005) dissects contemporary America by focusing on Italian Americans from various walks of life, especially as they relate…
A symposium presented by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. This seminar, with accompanying music and video, explores the social changes occurring in contemporary…
“I Build the Tower” is the story of the life and work of Sabato “Sam” Rodia, the Italian immigrant who designed and single-handily built in…
Sabina Magliocco, California State University-Northridge When Italians came to North America, they brought with them a panoply of vernacular healing traditions, from herbal cures to…
How does a film about Catholic clergy abuse not descend into depression? It helps when the victim doesn’t act like one but uses his own…
Ilaria Serra, Florida Atlantic University “Immigrants left behind sweat and tears, but no memories,” wrote the Italian scholar Giuseppe Prezzolini, in his search for first-person…
Incomodo. Goffo. Brutto. Spiacevole. Mary Cappello’s immigrant grandfather traced these Italian words in the letters he wrote to her but never sent, words that speak…
A symposium presented by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. October 25, 2007 1-5PM Student Union Building, Room 301 Queens College Admission: Free “Italian-American…
During World War II more than 51,000 Italian soldiers were brought to the United States as prisoners of war. Camilla Calamandrei’s documentary Prisoners in Paradise…
“Luigi Fontanella moves between countries as an Italian who has lived in the United States for many years but returns often to his native land.…