John D. Calandra Italian American Institute: Who We Are

Up Coming Events

Symposium

Thursday, October 25, 2007, 1-5PM

“Recent Scholarship on Contemporary Italian-American Youth”

Past Events

Saturday, September 22, 2007, 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
“Critical Histories: Towards a New Perspective on Italian Americans”(pdf)
25 West 43rd Street, 18th floor
Between 5th and 6th Avenues, Manhattan

Special Film Screening
Thursday, September 27, 2007, 6PM
Joe Petrosino (2006), directed by Alfredo Peyretti
Screening takes place at the CUNY TV Studios, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets, Suite 1400.

Pesaro Film Festival

From June 24 to July 2, more than 30 films (feature length and shorts) made by Italian Americans were shown during the 43rd annual Pesaro Film Festival as part of an Italian-American festival within the overall Film Festival. This festival within the festival was coordinated, in part, by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, by Dr. Joseph Sciorra and Dr. Anthony Julian Tamburri. [PDF]

The Cultures of Migration

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute was co-sponsor with Dartmouth College of this two-day conference held in Hanover, NH. The weekend was dedicated to papers on all aspects of Italian migration. This included both the historical exodus of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to all parts of the world, and the more recent migration that is taking place from Eastern Europe and Africa, especially, to Italy. [PDF]

Fifth-Italo-American Social Science Conference

Concerns about terrorism, economic stability, interethnic conflicts, and maintaining a national identity and culture in the face of global homogenization were among the topics that will be explored at the fifth Italo-American Conference to be held at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., on May 17 and 18 and at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College, CUNY, on Saturday, May 19. 2007. The conference, “Uncertainty and Insecurity in the New Age,” offered an opportunity for leading Italian and Italian American social scientists, among them young scholars from Italy and the United States , to exchange ideas on the economic, educational and political impact of these global issues. [PDF]

Poetry Fest

On April 14, 2007, close to thirty Italian/American poets gathered at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in order to celebrate Poetry Month’s tenth-year anniversary. There was a special tribute to Joseph Tusiani, whose poetry appears in four different languages: English, Italian, his native dialect, and Latin. Also celebrated at this event was Alfredo de Palchi, poet, long-standing editor and publisher, and generous benefactor.[PDF]