Watch the Pallino (2007), 42 min. Stephanie Foerster, dir.
At 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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Graduate School of Journalism 230 W. 41st Street, Room 308 New York NY 10036
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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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Italians in the Americas
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036This conference is dedicated to the myriad experiences of Italians in the Americas. It is a unique opportunity for scholarly communities in North and South…
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Richard Vetere reads from Machiavelli and Caravaggio
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Pulitzer-nominated playwright Richard Vetere reads from his recently published plays Machiavelli and Caravaggio, which both premiered in 2006. Machiavelli explores the Italian’s personal and political…
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Italian in Florida: Shifting Identities in the Wake of Assimilation
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Denise Scannell, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Tampa’s Italian Americans express a counter-discourse disputing the discourse of assimilation in which Italian-American ethnic identity…
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Italian Divas in American Film: Changing Images of Italian Womanhood
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Vera Dika, New Jersey City University The image of Italian-American women has changed over the course of film history. In American film, this female character…
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My Brother, My Sister, Sold for a Fistful of Lire, (1998), 90 min. Basile Sallustio, dir.
Graduate School of Journalism 230 W. 41st Street, Room 308 New York NY 10036In 1952, Pia Dilisa was ten-years-old when she last saw her younger brother Dominic and sister Antoinetta perched atop a donkey leaving their mountain village…
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