The Revival of Ritual and Performance in Italy: The Example of Tarantella and Tarantismo
Laura Biagi, New York University In the 1960s and 1970s, the folk revival movement in Italy involved literature, cinema, music, and dance. It was a…
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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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From Angelo to Atlas, or How a 97-Pound (Italian) Weakling Became the All-American Working-Class Male
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Dominique Padurano, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Using photographs, advertisements, and other texts from popular culture sources, Ph.D. candidate Dominique Padurano will trace the ways in which…
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Food Consumption, Topographies of Taste, and Ethnic Identity in Italian Harlem: 1920-1940
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Special Guest Lecturer: Simone Cinotto, University of Turin Utilizing the largest “Little Italy” in the interwar years as a case study, Simone Cinotto looks at…
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Paola Corso reads from Death by Renaissance
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Paola Corso: 2003 Artists’ Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation For the Arts (NYFA) “Death by Renaissance evokes and invokes a time that is…
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Italian/American Cultural Criticism: The State of the Art
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Anthony Julian Tamburri, Florida Atlantic University The past thirty years, especially, constitute a fertile period of any sort of cultural, critical discourse with the advent…
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Jacqueline DeJohn reads from Antonio’s Wife
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036DeJohn’s debut novel traces opera diva Francesca Frascatti’s search for her daughter Maria Grazia in 1908 New York. In her book, corrupt Tammany Hall police…
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The 1920 Wall Street Explosion: Terrorism and Italian Anarchism in the Era of Sacco and Vanzetti
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Beverly Gage, Yale University On September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn cart exploded at the corner of Wall and Broad streets in New York, killing 39…
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Are Italians White? How Race is Made in America
Queens College 65-30 Kissena Blvd. Flushing NY 11367Edited by Jennifer Guglielmo and Salvatore Salerno This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores how, when, and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans, and the…
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Fashion and Identity in Italy in the 1930s
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Eugenia Paulicelli, Queens College Fascism in 1930s Italy dominated more than just politics – it spilled over into modes of dress. Mussolini’s regime choreographed people’s…
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Gil Fagiani reads from Crossing 116th Street: A Blanquito in El Barrio
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Gil Fagiani fell in love with East Harlem in the 60s. As a young, idealistic, activist his passions led him to work in an antipoverty…
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The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Philip Cannistraro, Queens College, and Gerald Meyer, Hostos Community College Radicalism has had a powerful but largely unacknowledged influence in the Italian American community. The…
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Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and Post-ethnicity: Challenging Stereotypes and Questioning Affiliations
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Special Guest Lecturer: Alessandra Masolini, University of Naples “L’Orientale” CANCELLED Through the works of authors like Susanne Antonetta, Carole Maso, and Kym Ragusa, to name…
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