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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…
DeJohn’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…
Beverly 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…
Edited by Jennifer Guglielmo and Salvatore Salerno This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores how, when, and why whiteness became important to Italian Americans, and the…
Eugenia 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…
Gil Fagiani fell in love with East Harlem in the 60s. As a young, idealistic, activist his passions led him to work in an antipoverty…
Philip Cannistraro, Queens College, and Gerald Meyer, Hostos Community College Radicalism has had a powerful but largely unacknowledged influence in the Italian American community. The…
Special 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…
Gina M. Miele, The Coccia Institute, Montclair State University In recent years literary folktales have become regarded, as they were at their inception, as a…
Exhibition Curator: Dr. Joseph Sciorra Admission: Free This exhibit presents the work of photographer John Milisenda. “Dennis, Rose, and Sal: Family Portraits” is the culmination…