Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel
Nunzio 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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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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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 -
Narrating Race and Italianità: Language and Text in the Construction of Race and Italian Americans
Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing NY 11367A 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…
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Ciao America (2002), Frank Ciota
Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue New York NY 10010Free -
Christopher Castellani reads from his novel The Saint of Lost Things
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In his new novel, The Saint of Lost Things (Algonquin Books, 2005), Christopher Castellani explores the ties that bind in an Italian neighborhood in Wilmington,…
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Tenor Madness: Joe Lovano’s “Viva Caruso” and the Italian Jazz Diaspora
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036John 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…
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Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Special Guest Presentation Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College In his new book Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (SUNY Press, 2006), Robert Viscusi…
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