Mary Cappello reads from Awkward: A Detour.
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…
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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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Recent Scholarship on Contemporary Italian-American Youth
Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing NY 11367A 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…
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Prisoners in Paradise (2003), 58 min. Camilla Calamandrei, dir.
Graduate School of Journalism 230 W. 41st Street, Room 308 New York NY 10036During 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…
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Luigi Fontanella reads from Land of Time: Selected Poems 1972-2003.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036“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.…
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Diversity’s Blind Spot: Catholic Ethnics on the Faculties of Elite American Universities
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Richard Alba, State University of New York-Albany In the United States, Italian Americans and other European groups from predominantly Catholic backgrounds provide a critical test…
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Saints and Sinners (2003), 80 min. Abigail Honor, dir.
Graduate School of Journalism 230 W. 41st Street, Room 308 New York NY 10036After living together for seven years in New York City, Edward DeBonis and Vincent Maniscalco decide to get married. But unlike many other gay couples…
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Vittoria Repetto reads from Not Just A Personal Ad
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Vittoria Repetto’s precise, compact, and colloquial cadences in the poems of Not Just A Personal Ad (Guernica Editions, 2006) assemble the reality of growing up…
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Education as if Citizenship Mattered: Leonard Covello and the Making of Benjamin Franklin High School
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Michael Johanek and John Puckett, University of Pennsylvania Leonard Covello, Benjamin Franklin High School’s founding principal (1934-1956), along with his professional allies Vito Marcantonio, Fiorello…
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Nine Good Teeth (2003), 80 min. Alex Halpern, dir.
Graduate School of Journalism 230 W. 41st Street, Room 308 New York NY 10036Nine Good Teeth unfolds through the stories of 103-year-old Brooklyn-born, Sicilian-American Mary Mirabito. In an intimate and often hilarious portrait, the fiercely independent and outspoken…
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“Il Fuoco di Minonga”: The 1907 Mine Disaster and the Making of Transnational Identity in West Virginia
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Joan Saverino, Historical Society of Pennsylvania On December 6, 1907, the worst mine disaster in American history occurred in Monongah, West Virginia. About fifty percent of…
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Anne Marie Macari reads from Gloryland
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Anne Marie Macari’s breath-taking second collection finds unapologetic revelation in the female body. Gloryland (Alice James Books, 2005) re-examines motherhood, death, birth, and rebirth, drawing…
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Watch the Pallino (2007), 42 min. Stephanie Foerster, dir.
Graduate School of Journalism 230 W. 41st Street, Room 308 New York NY 10036At the turn of the twentieth century, Italian immigrants found jobs in the coalmines in the rural town of Toluca, Illinois. On Sundays afternoons, the…
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