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  • Online Form for Italian Heritage & Culture Month Events

    June 14, 2023

    For 2023, the theme for Italian Heritage &  Culture Month, as selected by the Italian Heritage & Culture Committee of New York, Inc., is The

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  • Book Release: Expanding Diasporic Identity by Anthony Julian Tamburri

    September 22, 2025

    New book by the Dean of the Institute! This study examines the changing dynamics of the “Italian” writer and how we, as cultural critics, need

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  • Book Release: Gli americani italiani: cultura e società by Anthony Julian Tamburri

    September 22, 2025

    New book release in Italian by the Dean of the Institute! Anthony Julian Tamburri is a leading figure in the field of Italian/American studies. Examining

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  • Academic Year 2025-26

    August 18, 2025

    Queens College begins the 2025-26 academic year on Tuesday, August 26. With it, we are launching a new suite of programs at the Calandra Institute!

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  • Explore a 3D Model of the Exhibition: Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States

    August 18, 2025

    The Calandra Institute’s current exhibition Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States, curated by Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra, can

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  • Calandra Institute Summer Office Hours

    June 23, 2025

    The Calandra Italian American Institute’s offices at 25 West 43rd Street, Floor 17, will be closed on the following Fridays, observing CUNY’s summer hours: August

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  • Call for Papers: Italian American Review Special Issue on Sacco and Vanzetti

    May 19, 2025

    Abstracts Due: July 1, 2025 Italian American “cause célèbre” and “anarchist martyrs” Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed by the State of Massachusetts on

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  • Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States

    April 8, 2025

    The exhibition, curated by Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra, presents creative work made by Italian soldiers who were imprisoned by the Allied forces during

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  • Video from Event Honoring the Late Professor Robert Viscusi

    March 31, 2025

    On the anniversary of the death of Professor Bob Viscusi, poet, teacher, theorist, friend of the Calandra Institute, we hosted a commemoration of him and

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  • Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar in the News

    June 21, 2024

    The IDSSS got some favorable press in L’idea magazine. This year’s edition of the seminar ran through June 28 at Roma Tre University.

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  • Italian Heritage and Culture Month 2024: Giovanni da Verrazzano 1524-2024

    June 18, 2024

    This year’s theme for Italian Heritage and Culture Month is Giovanni da Verrazzano 1524-2024: 500 Years. We present here the Italian Heritage & Culture Committee,

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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

The Italian American Think Tank

25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10036

Phone: (212) 642-2094
Email: calandra@qc.cuny.edu

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