Peter Covino reads from Cut Off the Ears of Winter
Peter Covino’s poetry can be described as confessional surrealism, such are the heightened psychological landscapes he re-imagines, whether he is exploring issues of identity politics,…
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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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The Folk Sculpture of Detroit’s Silvio Barile
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036John Cicala, Mount Saint Mary College Silvio Barile immigrated to Detroit from his native village of Ausonia (Campania) in the early 1950s. As a self-styled…
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Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Thomas J. Ferraro, Duke University On the cover of Thomas Ferraro’s new book Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America (New York University Press),…
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Victoria Lancelotta reads from her novel Far (Counterpoint)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Far is a haunting exploration of what it means for a woman to be alone in her family, her house and her body, even as…
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The Land of the Future: Changes in Italian Perceptions of São Paulo, Brazil as an Immigrant Destination, 1880-1930
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036David Aliano, CUNY Graduate Center In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some Italians perceived São Paulo, Brazil as a vast land of the future promising wealth and…
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The Buried Treasures of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota Although most folklorists are aware of the significance of the Brothers Grimm collection of German folk and fairy tales that…
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Paola Corso reads her collection of short stories Giovanna’s 86 Circles and Other Stories (University of Wisconsin Press)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The ten magical stories in Paola Corso’s collection are primarily set in Pittsburgh area river towns, where Italian American women and girls draw from their…
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The Mafia in the Mind of America: Attraction and Repulsion of a Media Image
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036George De Stefano, Independent Scholar As evidenced in countless novels, films, and television portrayals, the mafia has maintained an enduring hold on the American cultural…
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Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Nunzio Pernicone, Drexel University Carlo Tresca was one of the most fascinating figures of the American left, a charismatic Italian anarchist who became a folk-hero…
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Roland Merullo reads from his novel In Revere, In Those Days
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In Revere, In Those Days (Shaye Areheart Books, 2002) is the story of the Benedetto family from the small coastal city Revere, Massachusetts. The story’s…
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The Tammurriata from Campania: Adaptations and Revivals of a Folk Tradition
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Jennifer Caputo, Wesleyan University Italy experienced its first folk music revival in the 1970s, when field recordings of the tammurriata or ballo sul tamburo (dance…
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Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Diane Vecchio, Furman University Challenging long-held patriarchal assumptions about Italian women’s work in the United States, Diane Vecchio discusses the regional variation of Italian women’s…
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