Tag: Calandra Institute
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Artist Talk: A Conversation about Identity and Art
A Conversation about Identity and Art: John Avelluto, Joanne Mattera, Timothy McDowell, Sheila Pepe Identity politics has become an increasingly significant aspect of the art
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The Giovanni Schiavo Book Series Launch
On May 9, 2023, Bordighera Press republished The Italians in America Before the Revolution, by Giovanni Schiavo, as the first book in the Giovanni Schiavo
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Presentation of the Joseph Tusiani Italian Translation Prize
The Tusiani Translation Prize will be presented to Geoffrey Brock for his translation of Giuseppe Ungaretti‘s Allegria. Presenting the prize will be Chairman of the
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Preserving Italian Immigrant Music Making: Joseph Sciorra at CIMA
Preserving Italian Immigrant Music Making A lecture at CIMA, Center for Modern Italian Art, by Dr. Joseph Sciorra During the great wave of European emigration
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The Columbus Affair: Imperatives for an Italian/American Agenda
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
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Writers Read: Gianna Patriarca EVENT CANCELED
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
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Documented Italians: Revelstoke: A Kiss in the Wind (2015)
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
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Documented Italians: Dear Sirs (2021)
Dear Sirs (2021), 93 minutes Mark Pedri, dir. Filmmaker Mark Pedri had never heard his grandfather Silvio’s story, despite spending nearly every day with him
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Writers Read: Christopher Sorrentino Reads from Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son’s Memoir
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
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Writers Read: Claudia Durastanti Reads from Strangers I Know
Strangers I Know is the fourth novel by Claudia Durastanti and her first to be translated to English; the book is a bestseller in Italy