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Special Guest Lecturer: Luisa Del Giudice The mythic Land of Cockaigne projected a gastronomic utopia or “poor man’s paradise” featuring mountains of cheese, rivers of…
A symposium presented by The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Queens College, CUNY Saturday, May, 11, 2002 1:00PM – 5:30 PM. The Baisley…
Constructed in 1905 by immigrant baker and peddler Francesco Lisanti, this private Roman Catholic chapel was once the spiritual center for the Lisanti family and…
Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island, CUNY Giancarlo Lombardi will examine the role Paris plays in recent cinematic and literary texts about Italian terrorism. Paris…
“ has produced a striking novel whose compositional principle is silence. This is a book all Italian Americans can benefit from reading, not for what…
A symposium presented by: The John D. Calandra Italian American Insitute Queens College/CUNY and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University Saturday, October 5, 2002 12:30–…
Christian Messenger Chris Messenger is the author of The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became “Our Gang” (2002) and Professor of English at…
“Graceful … manages to handle an enormous amount of emotional material with a light touch…. struggle is urgent and real. Giardina makes us care, in…
Jennifer Gugliemo, William Paterson University In the post-World War II period, Italians in New York came to signify the quintessential blue-collar white ethnic conservative, as…
An exhibition presented by The John D. Calandra Italian American Insitute Queens College/CUNY and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University February 6-March 14, 2003 Casa…
John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame History professor John McGreevy of the University of Notre Dame will speak on the experience of Joseph Vitolo,…