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Jennifer Caputo, Wesleyan University Italy experienced its first folk music revival in the 1970s, when field recordings of the tammurriata or ballo sul tamburo (dance…
Diane 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…
A Symposium and Film Series, presented by: The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, and the Department of Communication Studies, Weissman School of…
A Symposium Presented by: The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute and the Catholic Newman Center Thursday, May 4, 2006, 10 AM-1 PM The Catholic…
In his new novel, The Saint of Lost Things (Algonquin Books, 2005), Christopher Castellani explores the ties that bind in an Italian neighborhood in Wilmington,…
John Gennari, University of Vermont Tenor saxophonist and jazz composer Joe Lovano’s 2002 recording “Viva Caruso” features small combos and a 12-piece chamber ensemble performing…
Special Guest Presentation Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College In his new book Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (SUNY Press, 2006), Robert Viscusi…
In 1892, a nine-year-old Jewish boy from Naples named Beniamino is smuggled aboard a cargo ship bound for America by his unemployed and impoverished mother. …
Donna Gabaccia (University of Minnesota) Most settlements of Italians around the world were not called “Little Italy.” The phrase seems to have been invented in…