Wednesday November 14, 12:15 - 1:30 pm EDT. President's Conference Room #2 of Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library - Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY 11367. Admission: free; open to the public. Contact: Alexandra de Luise 718-997-3748. [email protected] Olivia Tursi, M.A., L.C.S.W-R, a psychological counselor at the John D. Calandra Ita...
READ MORENon è un segreto. Il cibo è sicuramente tra le cosa che il mondo invidia di più alla nostra terra. Per decenni ormai, la dieta mediterranea, rubando il nome al ricco mare che circonda la nostra penisola, si è appropriata di milioni di diverse papille gustative, rapendole con la complessità e la dolcezza dei suoi sconfinati gusti. Per questo motivo,...
READ MOREThursday, October 25, 2018, 6pm EDT. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York, NY. Italian American Women, Food, and Identity: Stories at the Table. Andrea L. Dottolo, Rhode Island College; Carol Dottolo, retired educator, Liverpool Central School District, New York In the narratives collected in Italian A...
READ MOREThis is a one-day symposium on one of the major exports of Italy: the culinary health and nutrition benefits of the Mediterranean Diet. The discovery of the nutrition and health benefits of Italian cuisine demonstrates how Italian global migration and host-country identity-building connect the food and culture of the individual with that of their e...
READ MORETuesday October 16 2018. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY. 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036. In the posthumously published Missing Madonnas, the late poet Gil Fagiani writes with lyricism and humor about the absurdities of life, from mythical Madonnas to nonnas to urban addictio...
READ MOREThursday October 4. 6:00 - 8:00 PM EDT John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10036. The panel discussion will screen three segments of Pane amaro followed by a discussion by the panelists and filmmakers. Segments to be shown are: (1) Lynching; (2) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire; (3) Anarchists a...
READ MORETuesday, October 9, 2018, 6pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10036. Italian immigrants to the United States and Argentina hungered for the products of home: Merchants imported Italian cheese, wine, olive oil, and other commodities to meet the demand. As a result, migrant marketplaces came i...
READ MOREMonday, October 1, 2018, 6pm EDT. John D Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street Suite 1700, New York, NY 10036. Borsalino City (2016), 78 minutes. In Italian with English subtitles. Enrica Viola, dir. Post-screening discussion led by Anthony Julian Tamburri, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. Borsalino City tells the sto...
READ MORESeptember 6 (Thursday) 6:00 - 8:00 pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, Manhattan, NY. Admission: Member: free; Non-Members: $10. Contact: [email protected] 212-642-2003. Although enormously important to the region's development, Italy's Norman period (ca. 1061-1194) is relatively unknown. This presentation...
READ MOREDopo Melbourne, in Australia, che ha ospitato ad aprile nella sede del CO.AS.IT. di Carlton il capitolo inaugurale della conferenza internazionale "Diaspore Italiane – Italy in Movement", sarà New York ad ospitare il prossimo incontro del progetto transnazionale. Il progetto coinvolge tre continenti, ovvero Australia, Stati Uniti e Italia, ed altr...
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