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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,…
Thomas Guglielmo, University of Notre Dame Thomas Guglielmo, Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, will explore Italians’ encounters with race in Chicago and…
Panel discussion with authors Jane and Peter Schneider, Alessandro Stille, Fred Gardaphe. Moderator: Philip Cannistraro Location: CUNY Graduate Center The President’s Conference Room, Room 8201.01…
“An endearing portrayal of working-class Italian-American women, their sons, their families, their lives, their loves, and their dreams in New York’s Little Italy. Ermelino writes…
Goffredo Plastino, University of Newcastle Calabrian “malavita” songs represent a long musical tradition that is distributed regionally vis-à-vis cassette recordings. Recently, this local music has…
Peter Savastano, Seton Hall University Peter Savastano earned his Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Drew University in Madison. Savastano, a native of Newark, belongs…
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…
Nancy C. Carnevale Nancy C. Carnevale, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, will speak on the early twentieth century stage performer, Eduardo Migliaccio, aka Farfariello,…
“As this teasing, literate thriller gets underway, a team of sunstruck foreign investigators … arrives in the hill town of Mancanzano in rural southern Italy,…
Il 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…
“Italian Americans of a new generation are discovering their homeland, and they could not ask for a better guide than Mark Rotella.” — Gay Talese…