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Mentre a New York si celebrava l’ambiente e la salvaguardia del pianeta terra, ero nel cuore di Manhattan insieme alle donne della NOIAW (Organizzazione Nazionale delle Donne Italoamericane) per il 37esimo anniversario della loro organizzazione. In quel giorno piovoso per le strade della città si doveva avere l’ombrello. Per chi guidava il traffico...

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In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we talk with Fred Gardaphé, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of English and Italian American Studies at Queens College/CUNY and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. Fred lost his father, grandfather, as well as his godfather to violence at a very early age and tells us the story of how that...

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The Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York in cooperation with the Consulate General of Italy in New York cordially invites you to attend and participate in our Annual Tribute for Mother's Day Weekend at the Mother Italy Statue. Location: Poses Park, Hunter College. East of 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10021 - Friday,...

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Friday, April 28, 2017, 9:30am-5:45pm - Saturday, April 29, 2017, 9:30am-5:30pm John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor - New York, N.Y. 10036. Italian Sonorities and Acoustic Communities: Listening to the Soundscapes of Italianità In his 1984 book Acoustic Communication, Barry Truax defined acoustic communitie...

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Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 6pm Sicily Jass: The World's First Man in Jazz (2015), 73 min. Michele Cinque, dir. - John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor. New York, N.Y. 10036 Sicily Jass, an intermingling of fiction and documentary, uses the Sicilian puppets and narrating voice of Mimmo Cuticchio to tell the st...

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In this episode of The Italian American Podcast, we talk with Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures. Tamburri dives into his career and what inspired him to pursue Italian and Italian American studies, and why he feels...

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Mercoledì 22 Febbraio, all’interno della sezione “documentari italiani”, il Calandra Institute ha presentato The Barese Icemen of New York, un’opera di Carlo Magaletti del 2015 che per essere realizzata ha richiesto dieci milioni di dollari e dieci anni, ci confessa il produttore del film John Mustaro. Il documentario racconta la storia degli immig...

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Thursday, March 16, 2017, 6pm: Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge. John Gennari, University of Vermont. Location: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor - New York, N.Y. 10036 In the United States, African American and Italian American cultures have been intertwined for more than a h...

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“L’italiano non è più solamente una lingua etnica. È molto importante ribadirlo. Direi essenziale. D’altronde abbiamo pressappoco 100mila giovani a livello nazionale che studiano l’italiano; a livello universitario, invece, ne calcoliamo circa 90mila”. Lo assicura Antony Julian Tamburri, Decano e professore dell’Italian American Institute Calandra...

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This summer, the University of Calabria, in collaboration with the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, will host the "Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar." As part of the program in Arcavacata di Rende, Cleveland-born moviemaker Michael DiLauro will screen his recent feature length production on June 21.  In La Mia Strada/My Road, the...

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