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by Eve M. Kahn   Joseph Sciorra, 59, has spent three decades studying how Italian-Americans adapt traditions from their ancestral homelands.   The folklorist has looked at, among other topics, the Americanized versions of Italian embroidery, Neapolitan music, ephemeral architecture built for street processions and lawn shrines with sa...

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Thursday, March 31, 2016, 6pm. Fighting Paisanos (2013), 52 min. Marco Curti, dir.. John D Calandra Italian American Institute (CUNY) - 25 W 43rd St #17, New York, NY 10036   During World War II, while some Italian Americans were deemed "enemy aliens," more than 500,000 Italian Americans served in the U.S. military. The d...

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For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. The lives of these Italian women are woven into the artifacts of memory and imagination: embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting. Embroidered Stories: Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlew...

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OCTOBER 26, 2015, 06:00 pm - 07:30 pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10036. Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America, by Kenyon Zimmer, University of Texas at Arlington   From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of firs...

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E dopo le elezioni Luigi de Magistris vola a New York. Si tratta di una missione istituzionale che lo vedrà impegnato dal 3 al 9 giugno. Fitta l'agenda di appuntamenti, tra i più significativi la conferenza su emigrazione Napoli - New York: Città a confronto, moderata da Anthony Tamburri, preside del John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, is...

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 6pmA Great Conspiracy against Our Race: Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Early 20th Century Peter G. Vellon, Queens College, CUNY   In A Great Conspiracy against Our Race (New York University Press, 2014), Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and "s...

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Begun two years ago, the Calandra Institute's Community Book Club has read together and engaged in fun, funny, argumentative, dynamic, and critical conversation about a whole slew of the greatest Italian American books ever written. And we want you to join us as we continue exploring classic Italian American literature!   Come to our next me...

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JOIN USOpening Poster ExhibitionITALIAN HERITAGE & CULTURE COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK, INC.CELEBRATES ANNUAL THEMETUESDAY, March 12, 2013 at 7pmCalandra Institute of CUNY, at25 West 43rd Street, 17th FlrNew York, NY The President/Chair and Board of Directors of the IHCC-NY, Inc. have announced the first in a series of events for 2013: Year of Itali...

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Arrivarono in California per cercare l'oro e lo trovarono, ma era l'oro della terra del Golden State dove gli italiani fecero fortuna come agricoltori, pescatori, viticultori. Un documentario racconta le loro storie e la loro identità culturale, ieri e oggi In questo documentario del 2013 Gianfranco Norelli e Suma Kurien raccontano degli immigrati...

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December 7, 06:00 pm - 07:30 pmJohn D Calandra Italian American Institute (CUNY)25 W 43rd St #17, New York, NY Frank Polizzi will provide an overview of his new book of sonnets, A New Life with Bianca, highlighting the important influences on this project. There will be a video with music that illuminates Michael McCurdy's engravings, including th...

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