Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 5:30-8pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - Queens College, CUNY - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10036. The Comitato Società Dante Alighieri NYC invites you to the symposium Between Acceptance and Prejudice: One Hundred Years of Italian E/i[m]migration.

This symposium takes its title from the Italian collection of essays Tra accoglienza e pregiudizio: Emigrazione e immigrazione nella storia dell'ultimo secolo: da Sacco e Vanzetti a Jerry Essan Masslo (2018) edited by Giovanni Cerchia and sponsored by the Fondazione Giorgio Amendola and the Associazione Lucana Carlo Levi. The program will consist of presentations by four authors from the book as well as others by area scholars, dealing with the theme of migration to and from Italy and its legacy today. Some presentations may be in Italian.