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At Stony Brook University’s Center for Italian Studies, Calandra’s dean, Dr. Anthony Julian Tamburri, will be in conversation with the Center’s Director Giuseppe Gazzola about…
Calandra’s annual international conference will take place in person at the Institute on Friday, April 29, 2022 and Saturday, April 30, 2022. More information and…
In Scena! presents an informal discussion among Italian and Italian American playwrights on the meaning and importance of identity in their work. Guests: Tobia Rossi…
The death of Christopher Sorrentino’s mother in 2017 marked the end of a journey that had begun eighty years earlier in the South Bronx. Victoria…
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED Gianna Patriarca reads from This Way Home: Selected and New Work (Guernica Editions, 2021). This Way Home, Gianna Patriarca’s new…
On October 15, 1915, in the mountains of Western Canada, a tragic work accident ended the life of twenty-eight-year-old Angelo Conte, a young immigrant from…
Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Alyssa J. Maldonado-Estrada Kalamazoo College Every Saturday, a group of men can be found…
On this episode of Italics: On April 14 at the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA), Calandra’s Dr. Joseph Sciorra gave a talk about the…
This episode of Italics covers the National Organization of Italian American Women’s Annual Luncheon, which was held on May 5, 2022, at Tribeca Rooftop +…
Kossi Komla-Ebri reads from EmbarRACEments: Daily Embarrassments in Black and White . . . and Color (Bordighera Press, 2019) and Home (Bordighera Press, 2022) Italy’s…
Luci Callipari-Marcuzzo is a multidisciplinary researcher and artist based near Mildura in Victoria, Australia, whose artwork actively engages with her family’s immigration history with a…
Italian Women in Basilicata: Staying Behind but Moving Forward during the Age of Mass Emigration, 1876–1914 Victoria Calabrese, Lehman College, CUNY This study examines the…