The Florentine in NYC for NOIAW 35th luncheon
The NOIAW's 35th anniversary luncheon will be held on April 16 at St. Regis New York. 250 copies of the April issue of Florence's English-language news magazine will be available at the NOIAW's 35th anniversary luncheon on April 16 at St. Regis New York, where CNN anchor and co-host of morning show New Day Alisyn Camerota and founding principal of...
Il fisico Leonardo Rastelli vince il premio Fondazione Guggenheim
Montecatini 23 aprile 2013 - Il montecatinese Leonardo Rastelli, docente di fisica all'università statale di New York, ha vinto la borsa di studio della fondazione John Simon Guggenheim, unico premiato nel suo campo di ricerca.
Italian American Studies Association
IASA menber Jerome Krase reports on "Seeing Brooklyn Change": A Call for Student Researchers, Photographers, and Videographers: More than 30 years ago, Brooklyn College students, under my direction, created an exhibit that photographically documented life in the borough's Italian American neighborhoods. It was the centerpiece of a conference and al...
Italian Identity in the Third Millennium
This symposium is a continuation—a sort of inter-mission—of the last three symposia ILICA has sponsored on the topic. After two events last fall and a third this past spring in Rome, ILICA concludes this discussion in November. This event, in the meantime, offers the four Italian Americans an opportunity to gather their thoughts, so to spe...
La rivoluzione bilingue. Studiare (anche) in Italiano a New York si può
di Maurita Cardone Sono lontani i tempi in cui gli immigrati italiani che arrivavano in America dovevano cercare di integrarsi anche a spese della propria identità culturale. Oggi i nuovi immigrati sono giovani, con un grado di istruzione generalmente alto, e non hanno intenzione di vergognarsi delle proprie origini né di recidere il legam...
Italian-American scholarship available
Assemblyman Phil Palmesano (R-Corning) and his fellow members of the Conference of Italian-American State Legislators are announcing the availability of applications for their annual scholarship program.Four scholarships will be awarded, each totaling $2,500. Two will be awarded based on academic achievement and two will be athletic scholarships.&...
Westlake High Seniors Gain Recognition For Excellence In Italian
by Jim Barg Four seniors and three teachers of Mount Pleasant's Westlake High School were celebrated for excellence in Italian at the annual Italian Heritage and Culture celebration held Oct. 5 at the Sons of Italy Meucci Lodge in White Plains. The Westchester Coalition of Italian American Organizations and County Executive Rob As...
Lecture in Italian by Professor Augustus Pallotta
Start Date: 11/15/2012 Start Time: 4:00 PMEnd Date: 11/15/2012 Event DescriptionLecture in Italian by Professor Augustus Pallotta, Syracuse University. An offering in a Lecture Series made possible by Dr. Joseph Tromba, MD, Stony Brook alumnus and member of the Center for Italian Studies Advisory Council.
IASA Memorial Fellowship ($1,000)
IASA awards this annual fellowship to the author of the year's outstanding Ph.D. dissertation or MA thesis proposal in Italian American studies. We welcome all approaches to the field of study. ELIGIBILITY: Graduate students in any discipline whose work focuses on Italian American culture are eligible and encouraged to apply.Graduate stud...
Call for papers. “Italian Jews in Context: Relations, Exchanges, Networks.” New York, March 2015
The CUNY Graduate Center and the Columbia University Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies invite proposals for papers to be presented at a conference featuring new research on early modern and modern Italian Jewish life in relation to and in dialogue with the larger context of Mediterranean, European, and American Jewish history. The confer...
Giovanni Meli: A Poet Remembered
By Gaetano Cipolla 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Meli, Sicily's most celebrated poet, who died of pneumonia on December 20, 1815. Prof. Giovanni Ruffino, director of the Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, in collaboration with Sicily's three major universities organized a four-day conference in...
Lingua italiana in America: dopo i senatori, la parola a tre prof
Il 3 giugno, al Consolato d'Italia a New York, si è tenuto un incontro con una delegazione di senatori arrivati da Roma nell'ambito di una "indagine conoscitiva" sulla promozione della lingua e cultura italiana nel Nord America. Accolti dal Console Generale Francesco Genuardi, con il senatore e capo delegazione Claudio Micheloni, President...