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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…
“Only a profound talent can write stories that are at once simple and deep.” — Darin Strauss “Prete’s complicated affection for neighborhood life-and his ability…
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…
Dominique 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…
Special Guest Lecturer: Simone Cinotto, University of Turin Utilizing the largest “Little Italy” in the interwar years as a case study, Simone Cinotto looks at…
Paola Corso: 2003 Artists’ Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation For the Arts (NYFA) “Death by Renaissance evokes and invokes a time that is…
Anthony Julian Tamburri, Florida Atlantic University The past thirty years, especially, constitute a fertile period of any sort of cultural, critical discourse with the advent…