Italian Americans and Early Rock and Roll
In 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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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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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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Drawings and Sculptures of Elisa D’Arrigio
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Visual 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…
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Angelina Napolitano and Virgilia D’Andrea: Workers’ Internationalism, First-Wave Feminism, and Two Defiant Italian Immigrant Women in North America
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Franca Iacovetta, University of Toronto This talk will consider how two intertwined international movements helped to shape the lives of two defiant but starkly different…
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Dangerous Politics: Why the Sacco and Vanzetti Case Still Matters
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Michael Miller Topp, University of Texas at El Paso Although the question of their guilt or innocence is still unresolved over 75 years after Nicola…
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Rosette Capotorto reads from Bronx Italian
Maria Terrone reads from The Bodies We Were LoanedJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036“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…
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Behind the Bollettino dell’Emigrazione: Politics, History, and Migration in Italy, 1886-1913
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Peter Carravetta, Queens College This paper addresses the shaping of Italian national political debate from the first defeat of the Italian colonial venture in Africa…
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Living Newspapers and Circum-Atlantic Performance in 1930s New York
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Clarissa Clò, University of California in San Diego Clarissa Clò will examine Italian American and African American relations in New York during the 1930s from…
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