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Calandra Annual Conference Eco Italie: Material Landscapes and Environmental Imaginaries
The conference was a resounding success. Click here for the complete conference program. Check back soon for videos of the conference proceedings.
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Dr. Joseph Sciorra Gives Talk at Italian American Museum of Los Angeles
On Saturday, April 23, Dr. Sciorra made a presentation at the IAMLA in connection with the museum’s show “Woven Lives: Exploring Women’s Needlework from the
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Read an Interview with Dean Anthony Julian Tamburri in La Voce di New York (in Italiano)
Anthony Tamburri, the dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, was interviewed recently by Nicola Corradi for the Italian-language newspaper
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Calandra’s Spring Events Commence
Our first in-person events in our regular series took place last night. Calandra hosted filmmaker Mark Pedri and producer Carrie McCarthy (pictured here) for a
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New Approaches to Italian American Studies
Click here to watch a video discussion among Calandra Dean Anthony Julian Tamburri, Queens College Distinguished Professor of Italian American Studies Dr. Fred Gardaphé, Calandra’s
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Calandra Conference 2022 Eco Italie: Material Landscapes and Environmental Imaginaries
The theme for the 2022 edition of the Calandra Institute’s annual conference will be Eco Italie: Material Landscapes and Environmental Imaginaries. The conference will take
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Dr. Joseph Sciorra Wins Studs Terkel Award
As part of the Working-Class Studies Association Awards for work produced in 2020, this year’s Studs Terkel Award for Single Published Articles or Series, Broadcast
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Tribute to Robert Viscusi Published
Bordighera Press has just published this volume of essays, a Festschrift for beloved colleague and friend of the Calandra Institute Robert Viscusi (1941–2020). In it
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Calandra’s Olivia Tursi Wins Italian Writing Prize
The Calandra Institute’s Olivia Tursi, LCSW-R, MA, has won the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s II Micro Story Contest, sponsored by the college’s Modern Languages
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Connecting Despite the Pandemic: Calandra Conversations
With the COVID-19 pandemic, venues that devote resources to public programming, like the Calandra Institute, have had to switch things up a bit. These more
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