by Goffredo Palmerini   Monumentale volume, cartaceo e cd, sull'emigrazione italiana, di capitale importanza per la diffusione della conoscenza e della storia del fenomeno.    Il Dizionario Enciclopedico delle Migrazioni Italiane nel Mondo, edito da Ser ItaliAteneo e Fondazione Migrantes e curato da Tiziana Grassi, Enzo Caffarell...

by Andrew and Suzanne Edwards In the course of researching the works of authors concerned with matters Sicilian, be they foreigners or native-born and bred, we are constantly dismayed at the ratio between men and women. Readers will not need telling in whose favour that ratio falls.   As we're not only talking about islanders, but the liter...

Free and open to the public, please RSVP by calling 530-432-3260 Author Karen Haid will present her award-winning book Calabria: The Other Italy along with an illustrated introduction of this lesser known region in the toe of the Italian boot. A book signing will follow. The public is invited to attend and an RSVP is requested. Call 530 432 32...

di Stefano Vaccara   Il 27 gennaio, da sette anni, chi scrive si reca insieme a tanti altri italiani davanti alla sede del Consolato Generale di Park Avenue per leggere i nomi degli ebrei italiani trucidati nei campi di concentramento nazisti. La giornata della memoria, qui a New York, diventa quindi una cerimonia particolare perché, davanti...

Ted Bacino has had a long and diverse career. In October 1954, he served as editor to the Northern Star – the brand new student-produced paper at Northern Illinois University (NIU). He graduated from the University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1955.   He would later say of his experience as an editor: "It wasn't always good for grades, but it...

Lecturers Laura Benedetti (Georgetown University) and Peter Lukehart (National Gallery of Art CASVA) will present Torquato Tasso's poem Jerusalem Delivered and the works of art it inspired. The National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble with Rosa Lamoreaux, artistic director, soprano and the National Gallery of Art Chamber Players will perform the Comb...

In the 1960s, East New York, Brooklyn made the Wild West look like Disney World. East New York was in such a lawless state. Street gangs dominated Brooklyn like the New Lots Boys, Fulton and Rockaway, the Crescents, Liberty Park Boys, Fountain and Pitkin, and Hemlock and Sutter. The black and Puerto Rican gangs took cool names, like the Chaplains,...

This presentation uses Paolo Sorrentino's La grande bellezza (2013) and Rosi's Sacro Gra (2013) to frame a selective deconstruction of the Eternal City.   Paragraphs include Genius of Rome (broadly based on a long view of the city's primary logistics: place and time), Grand Narratives (focusing on an evolving Roman mythology driven by polari...

APRIL 29, 2015 (06:00 PM) Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011 Eppur si muove / And Yet It Moves is a series dedicated to Italians in and outside of Italy who give us hope for the future.   Books in comparison:The Country where Anything is Possible and Far from Us A conversation with the author...

Joseph Sciorra, director of academic and cultural programs at Queen College's John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York City, presents Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora (University Press of Mississippi, 2014), an interdisciplinary collection co-edited with Edvige Giunta that includ...