George Guida reads from Low Italian: Poems
The poems in Low Italian (Bordighera) explore the drama, the comedy and the tragedy of Italian American consciousness. From “I’m Through Being Italian” to “Zen…
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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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Between Naples and New York: Italian Immigrant Speech in Eduardo “Farfariello” Migliaccio’s Macchiette
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Hermann W. Haller, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York Eduardo Migliaccio (1882-1946), known as Farfariello, was widely considered one of…
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Mark Binelli reads from his novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036The Nic Sacco and Bart Vanzetti of Mark Binelli’s debut novel Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! are not exactly the infamous anarchists sentenced to death…
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Joanna Clapps Herman, Edvige Giunta, Maria Laurino, and Annie Lanzillotto read from Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Four authors read from this collection of Italian-American autobiographical works edited by Lee Gutkind and Joanna Clapps Herman. This anthology consists of twenty-one original essays…
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My Heart Is as Black as Yours: White Backlash and Italian-American Stereotypes in New York City’s 1969 Mayoral Campaign
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Maria C. Lizzi, University of Albany, SUNY Speaking to an unfriendly crowd at a 1969 Harlem rally, New York City mayoral hopeful Mario Procaccino proclaimed,…
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Una casa, due cucine: The Italian Immigrant Home with Two Kitchens in North America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Special Guest Presentation Lara Pascali, Lois F. McNeil Fellow, Winterthur Museum A number of Italians in North America have two kitchens in their homes; one…
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Seeing Immigrant Growth Machines in Little Italies and Chinatowns
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Tarry Hum, Queens College, and Jerry Krase, Brooklyn College This collaborative presentation emphasizes a political economic approach to ethnic enclaves and argues that the role…
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Maria Terrone reads from A Secret Room in Fall
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036“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…
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Fred Misurella reads from Lies to Live By.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Fred 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…
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Folk Music and Modernity in Southern Italy
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036A symposium presented by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. This seminar, with accompanying music and video, explores the social changes occurring in contemporary…
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I Build the Towers (2005), 87 min. Edward Landler and Brad Byer, dirs.
Graduate School of Journalism 230 W. 41st Street, Room 308 New York NY 10036“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…
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Italian Vernacular Healing and the Enchanted Worldview
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Sabina 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…
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