Vittoria Repetto reads from Not Just A Personal Ad
Vittoria 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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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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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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Emanuel De Pasquale reads from Writing Anew: New and Selected Poems
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Emanuel di Pasquale’s Writing Anew: New and Selected Poems (Bordighera, 2007) spans forty years of his work. Di Pasquale poetry is connected to his Sicilian…
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Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women at Work
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Laura E. Ruberto, Berkeley City College Revisited from a feminist perspective, the work of Italian cultural theorist Antonio Gramsci offers insights into the relationship between…
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Speaking to an unfriendly crowd at a 1969 Harlem rally, New York City mayoral hopeful Mario Procaccino proclaimed, “My heart is as black as yours.”…
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The American Myth Through Architecture: Modernism and Anti-Modernism
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Giulia Guarnieri, Bronx Community College, CUNY Italian intellectuals Giuseppe Giacosa, Emilio Cecchi, Mario Soldati, Italo Calvino, and Furio Colombo traveling to the United States in…
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Louis Prima: The Wildest! (2000), 82 min.
Graduate School of Journalism 230 W. 41st Street, Room 308 New York NY 10036Jazz trumpeter and consummate showman Louis Prima came to epitomize the night club and lounge scene of the 1950s and 1960s while reaching American homes…
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Danielle Trussoni reads from Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Growing up in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Danielle Trussoni was fascinated by stories of her dad’s adventures as a tunnel rat in Vietnam. Ultimately, she came…
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