CAlANDRA ITAlIAN AMeRICAN INsTITUTe - CUNY

Calandra
s Italian
American
Institute
s
John D. Calandra
Italian American Institute
Queens College CUNY
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor
New York, NY 10036
Philip V. Cannistraro
Seminar Series
Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 6 p.m.
“‘Il Fuoco di Minonga’: The 1907 Mine
Disaster and the Making of Transnational
Identity in West Virginia”
Joan Saverino, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 6 p.m.
“Gramsci, Migration, and the
Representation of Women at Work”
Laura Ruberto, Berkeley City College
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 6 p.m.
“The American Myth Through Architecture:
Modernism and Anti-Modernism”
Giulia Guarnieri, Bronx Community College, CUNY
Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 6 p.m.
“Italian in Florida: Shifting Identities in
the Wake of Assimilation”
Denise Scannell, NYC College of Technology, CUNY
} Seminars take place at:
Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, Manhattan
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All events are free and open to the public.
Pre-registration required/Info: 212.642.2094.
Photo ID requested by building concierge.
Writers Read Series
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Anne Marie Macari reads from
Gloryland
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Emanuel di Pasquale reads from
Writing Anew: New and Selected Poems
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Danielle Trussoni reads from
Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir
Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Richard Vetere reads from
Machiavelli and Caravaggio
} Readings take place at:
Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, Manhattan
__________________________
All events are free and open to the public.
Pre-registration required/Info: 212.642.2094.
Photo ID requested by building concierge.
C a l e n d a r o f E v e n t s
Documented Italians
Film Series
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 at 6 p.m.
“Nine Good Teeth” (2003), 80 min.
Alex Halpern, director
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 6 p.m.
“Watch the Pallino” (2007), 42 min.
Stephanie Foerster, director
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 6 p.m.
“Louis Prima: The Wildest!” (2000), 82 min.
Don McGlynn, director
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 6 p.m.
“My Brother, My Sister, Sold for a Fistful
of Lire,” (1998), 90 min.
Basile Sallustio, director
} Films screened at:
Graduate School of Journalism
230 West 41st Street, Room 308, Manhattan
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All events are free and open to the public.
Pre-registration required/Info: 212.642.2094.
Photo ID requested by building concierge.
Upcoming
Calandra Institute events:
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Symposium, “Pensare Auschwitz”
in collaboration with the Primo Levi Center
Book Presentations:
April 2, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Mario Mignone, Italy Today: Facing the
Changes of the New Millennium (2008)
May 5, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Elise Magistro, translator of Maria
Messina’s Behind Closed Doors: Her Father’s
House and Other Stories of Sicily (2007)
Annual Conferences:
April 24-26, 2008: “Italians in America”
Spring 2009: “The Land of Our Return”
Other events:
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Homage to Mario Fratti
Hunter College, Manhattan, NY
For more info: 212-772-5093
November 6-8, 2008
AIHA Annual Conference, New Haven, CT
For more info: www.aihaweb.org