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The Italian Diaspora Studies Association is pleased to announce the launch of a new residential writing seminar. It will be held at the Grand Hotel San Michele, located in Cetraro (Cosenza), on the Northern Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria, May 22-31, 2025. This program inaugurates a collaborative project with the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experie...

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It was a labor of amore. The new Italian American Museum — which swings its doors open to the public Monday at its sleek digs on 151 Mulberry St. in Little Italy — was an idea more than 20 years in the making, according to its founder Joseph V. Scelsa. “Every group should have their culture recognized and seen by the public at large,” Scelsa told T...

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October 2024 "Italians of Newark: A History" told by a Jersey Girl with Italian roots    

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Until a few years ago there were ten Italian Consulates in the United States, because there was also one in New Jersey, in Newark. It was a very bad choice to close it ten years ago, in my opinion, because the area is very populated with Italians and Italian Americans, and the two Consulates in New York and Philadelphia, which had to share the resp...

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On the occasion of “2024: Year of Italian Roots in the World,” a rich program of events dedicated to the celebration of Italian traditions, culture and roots will take place in New York. From October 10 to 14, Italea - the program to promote Tourism of Roots, launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation within the PNRR...

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During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, millions of Italians immigrated to the United States. Marco and Lucia Rossi were among the young Italians considering joining this human mass. The couple hailed from the village of Pietropertosa in the northern mountains of Italy’s southern region “La Basilicata.” Marco was a muscular and strong young...

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Bag in hand, packed with what valuables you have, you shuffle along with others boarding a ship alongside crates of citrus and sacks of coffee beans and sugar. As the ship pushes out of port, you squeeze your way through the masses waving goodbye, grasping to the bannister and leaning over to take one last glimpse at a Palermo slowly slipping away....

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As our families age and we move further away from those family members that left everything behind to build anew in America, I often wonder what will our diaspora look like in 10 years, 20 years, even 50 years. It may sound ridiculous, but it weighs heavy on my mind. I have said in the past, I started down this road of history and heritage in a des...

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Located on the first floor of Cummings, Don Porcaro’s art gallery Everybody Knows speaks to the dual-identity of many Italian-Americans, and the recognition of one’s Italian heritage through the medium of marble — a material of great historical and cultural significance in Italy. Porcaro illustrated it best in his artist’s statement, a description...

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When: Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 2:00 PM - Where: Greenwich Historical Society, 47 Strickland Rd, Greenwich, CT, 06807 Come hear Kim Harke talk about her book: Italian American Recollections in Stamford, Connecticut, a rich portrayal of Stamford in the 1930s through the 1960s from the experiences of Italian American descendants. Their memories of war, ro...

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