By Riccardo Chioni Si è svolta ieri al campus del Hunter College nella Upper East Side la cerimonia annuale che precede il Mother's Day, organizzata dal Italian Heritage and Cultural Committee of New York ai piedi della rappresentazione scultorea "Mother Italy", per rinnovare l'omaggio a tutte le mamme. Alla cerimonia ha partecipato il presidente...

John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd street, 17th floor, Manhattan   For more information: 212.642.2094 or www.qc.edu/calandra   Lingue MigrantiThe Global Languages of Italy and the Diaspora

Bordighera Press celebrates 20 years of publishing VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Italiana, three book series (VIA Folios, Crossings, Saggistica), and the Bordighera Poetry Prize. Bordighera Press publishes literature and poetry by and about Italian and Italian/American authors. Many of our titles are consistently utilized in university courses...

On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations calls for applications for the Carlo Bellini Dissertation Fellowship. The Fellowship will be offered every second year to a doctoral student (D.M.L.; Ed.D.; Ph.D.) writing a dissertation on a topic pertinent to Italy and...

This symposium will continue the discussion begun during the first encounter of "I giovani italiani di New York."   Panelists will come from a variety of professions and speak to their experiences as young Italians and the challenges they face in today's fast-paced professional worlds.  

Dear Friends, We are writing to announce that after sixteen remarkable years, the Bordighera Poetry Prize has come to an end.   The Bordighera Poetry Prize was active from 1998 to 2013. The prize, generously sponsored by the Sonia Raiziss Giop Foundation, was conceived to promote both the literature of the Italian diaspora and its languages...

Wednesday, September 25 - 12:15 PM - Queens College - Kiely Hall 270 Italian Signs, American Politics: Current Affairs, Historical Perspectives, Empirical Analyses - Ottorino Cappelli, editor   This book analyses intra-ethnic elections in the United States, in the circumstance of American politicians of Italian desc...

by Anthony J. Tamburri This past summer New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio returned to his maternal family roots in Italy. The Mayor's grandparents immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s: his grandmother Anna Briganti was from Grassano (Basilicata, Matera Province), and his grandfather Giovanni De Blasio from the town of Sant'Agata de'...

Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880–1943, edited by Francesco Durante (Fordham University Press, 2014), brings to an English-speaking audience a definitive collection of writings by Italian immigrants in the United States.   Containing work originally published in Italian, this groundbreaking anthology presents long-i...

Monday, December 1 Nancy Caronia and Edvige Giunta's edited collection, the first book to focus on an Italian-American woman writer, places Louise DeSalvo at the forefront of a cultural renaissance of the body-mind-spirit connection. Personal Effects (Fordham University Press, 2014) pays special attention to her memoirs, with their fearless explor...