Clothesline (1981), Roberta Cantow, dir.
Poetry Reading co-sponsored with Mal�a: A Collective of Italian American Women
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Clothesline (1981), Roberta Cantow, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036 -
White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power, 1890-1945
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Thomas Guglielmo, University of Notre Dame Thomas Guglielmo, Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, will explore Italians’ encounters with race in Chicago and…
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Reversible Destinies: Mafia, Anti-Mafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street New York NY 10016Panel discussion with authors Jane and Peter Schneider, Alessandro Stille, Fred Gardaphe. Moderator: Philip Cannistraro Location: CUNY Graduate Center The President’s Conference Room, Room 8201.01…
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Louisa Ermelino reads from The Black Madonna and The Sisters Mallone: Una Storia di Famiglia
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036“An endearing portrayal of working-class Italian-American women, their sons, their families, their lives, their loves, and their dreams in New York’s Little Italy. Ermelino writes…
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Buona Vendetta Social Club: Calabrian ‘Malavita’ Songs and the Media.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Goffredo Plastino, University of Newcastle Calabrian “malavita” songs represent a long musical tradition that is distributed regionally vis-à-vis cassette recordings. Recently, this local music has…
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The Many Meanings of St. Gerard Maiella: Devotional Practices, Symbolic Polyvocality, and Marginality and Difference in Greater Newark, New Jersey
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Peter Savastano, Seton Hall University Peter Savastano earned his Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Drew University in Madison. Savastano, a native of Newark, belongs…
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Italian Americans and Early Rock and Roll
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In the late 1950s, young Italian American men from New York City and the surrounding areas emerged on the burgeoning rock and roll scene. Groups…
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Language and Italian Immigrant Experience in Farfariello’s ‘Italglish’ Theater
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Nancy C. Carnevale Nancy C. Carnevale, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, will speak on the early twentieth century stage performer, Eduardo Migliaccio, aka Farfariello,…
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James Sturz reads from Sasso
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036“As this teasing, literate thriller gets underway, a team of sunstruck foreign investigators … arrives in the hill town of Mancanzano in rural southern Italy,…
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The Black Madonna of East 13th Street: Italian American Religious Devotion in the East Village
Il Covo dell’Est 210 Avenue A New York NY 10009Il Covo dell’Est 210 Avenue A (corner of East 13th Street) Manhattan On September 8, 1905, in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, immigrants from Patti (Messina…
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Mark Rotella reads from Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036“Italian Americans of a new generation are discovering their homeland, and they could not ask for a better guide than Mark Rotella.” — Gay Talese…
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Italians and War Crimes in Yugoslavia, 1941-1943
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Jim Burgwyn, West Chester University This paper will discuss Italy’s military counterinsurgency program to counter the Yugoslav Partisan uprising during the Italian occupation of the country…
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