Bill Tonelli, editor of The Italian American Reader (William Morrow), and authors Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Mark Rotella, and Michael Tenaglia read from their works
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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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Caricature and Surrealism: The Portrayal of Italians in Argentinean Tango Lyrics
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Ana Cara, Oberlin College Folklorist Ana Cara is the Chair of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College and has published a book on Jorge Luis Borges’…
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A Matter of Life and Death: Italian American Domestic and Cemetery Landscaping Practices
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Joseph Inguanti, Southern Connecticut State University Joseph J. Inguanti is an Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Connecticut State University. His research interests include…
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Mountains of Cheese and Rivers of Wine: Paesi di Cuccagna and other Gastronomic Utopias
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Special 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…
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Historic Preservation and the Italian American Presence in New York City
Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street New York NY 10016A symposium presented by The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Queens College, CUNY Saturday, May, 11, 2002 1:00PM – 5:30 PM. The Baisley…
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A Ceremony Celebrating the Listing of the Lisanti Family Chapel on the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places
Lisanti Family Chapel 740 East 215th Street Bronx NY 10467Constructed in 1905 by immigrant baker and peddler Francesco Lisanti, this private Roman Catholic chapel was once the spiritual center for the Lisanti family and…
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Parigi o cara: Terrorism, Exile, and Escape in Contemporary Italian Cinema and Fiction
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island, CUNY Giancarlo Lombardi will examine the role Paris plays in recent cinematic and literary texts about Italian terrorism. Paris…
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Nicholas Montemarano reads from A Fine Place
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036“ has produced a striking novel whose compositional principle is silence. This is a book all Italian Americans can benefit from reading, not for what…
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Eye-Talian Flava: The Italian American Presence in Hip Hop
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036A 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–…
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The Godfather’s Silences
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Christian Messenger Chris Messenger is the author of The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became “Our Gang” (2002) and Professor of English at…
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Anthony Giardina reads from Recent History
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036“Graceful … manages to handle an enormous amount of emotional material with a light touch…. struggle is urgent and real. Giardina makes us care, in…
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At the Crossroads: Italian Women, Race, and Urban Politics in New York City, 1930-1950
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Jennifer 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…
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