Close

Wednesday, October 29 The Watts Towers — a complex of multistoried structures decorated in pique assiette — were created over the course of three decades by a determined artist, Sabato "Sam" Rodia, an Italian immigrant laborer who wanted to do "something big" and ended up creating an internationally renowned architectural wonder.   Featurin...

1227

Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 6pmThe Good Son: The Life of Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini(2012), 90 min. - Jesse James Miller, dir.   Youngstown, Ohio, native Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini made his professional boxing debut in 1979. His father Lenny had been a top-ranked contender who lost his best chance at a championship when he was drafted into Wor...

943

The Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance (ILICA) is a not for profit foundation dedicated to the promotion of the Italian language as an instrument of understanding and study of a culture in continuous evolution, directed at not only Americans of Italian origin, but all those who share an interest in learning the Italian language as a key to un...

1111

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...

935

Thursday, November 13For 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 (University Press...

779

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'...

858

April 8, 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor - New York, N.Y. 10036 Italian Scientific Migration to the United States after the 1938 Racial Laws Alessandra Gissi, University of Naples "L'Orientale"   The Fascist government's 1938 anti-Semitic Racial Laws prompted a major...

830

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...

981

MIGRATING OBJECTS. Material Culture and Italian Identities April 28-30, 2016JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTEQueens College, City University of New York25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues), Manhattan   In Helen Barolini's multigenerational, women-centered novel Umbertina (1979) the journey of a woven...

1090

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...

807