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Nancy C. Carnevale Nancy C. Carnevale, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, will speak on the early twentieth century stage performer, Eduardo Migliaccio, aka Farfariello,…
“As this teasing, literate thriller gets underway, a team of sunstruck foreign investigators … arrives in the hill town of Mancanzano in rural southern Italy,…
Il 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…
“Italian Americans of a new generation are discovering their homeland, and they could not ask for a better guide than Mark Rotella.” — Gay Talese…
Jim 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…
Visual artist Elisa D’Arrigio, a 2003 Artists’ Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation For the Arts (NYFA), will present a slide talk on her…
Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto This talk will consider how two intertwined international movements helped to shape the lives of two defiant but starkly different…
Michael Miller Topp, University of Texas at El Paso Although the question of their guilt or innocence is still unresolved over 75 years after Nicola…
“Bronx Italian is a dynamic, engaging and at times humorous poetic investigation of identities as poet, mother, family member, life survivor. It is a wonderful…
Peter Carravetta, Queens College This paper addresses the shaping of Italian national political debate from the first defeat of the Italian colonial venture in Africa…
Clarissa Clò, University of California in San Diego Clarissa Clò will examine Italian American and African American relations in New York during the 1930s from…
February 23, 2004 – April 5, 2004 Exhibition Curators: Dr. Joseph Sciorra and Dr. Peter Vellon Click here for full exhibition catalogue. This exhibit presents…