Mark Rotella reads from Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria
“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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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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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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The Art of Freedom: Onorio Ruotolo and the Leonardo da Vinci School
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036February 23, 2004 – April 5, 2004 Exhibition Curators: Dr. Joseph Sciorra and Dr. Peter Vellon Click here for full exhibition catalogue. This exhibit presents…
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David Prete reads from Say That To My Face
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036“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…
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The Revival of Ritual and Performance in Italy: The Example of Tarantella and Tarantismo
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Laura Biagi, New York University In the 1960s and 1970s, the folk revival movement in Italy involved literature, cinema, music, and dance. It was a…
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From Angelo to Atlas, or How a 97-Pound (Italian) Weakling Became the All-American Working-Class Male
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Dominique 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…
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