Victoria Lancelotta reads from her novel Far (Counterpoint)
Far 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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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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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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Mediated Ethnicity: Italian Americans and the Cinematic Experience
Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue New York NY 10010A Symposium and Film Series, presented by: The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, and the Department of Communication Studies, Weissman School of…
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Little Kings (2003), Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno
Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue New York NY 10010Free -
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Mac (1992), John Turturro
Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue New York NY 10010Free