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Talk: Fashion, Design, Architecture
September 21 6:00 pm
Conversation with Stefano Tonchi, Grazia D’Annunzio
and Eugenia Paulicelli. Sponsored by New York
University Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò.
24 West 12 th Street, Manhattan
Casa Italiana programming is subject to change. For latest
updates, please visit www:casaitaliananyu.org or call
(212) 998-8739
Secret Recipes of Great Italian Chefs:
Sicilian Recipes Every Italian Should Know
September 21 6:30 pm
Hands on culinary class and demonstration presented
by executive chef Giusto Priola of Cacio & Vino in
New York City. Capacity limited to 28. Must register in
advance and prepay. Sponsored by Westchester Italian
Cultural Center.
One Generoso Place, Tuckahoe, NY
Admission: Members $50; Non-Members $60
Contact: Patrizia Calce (914) 771-8700, ext. 109
pcalce@wiccny.org
Lecture: “Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s
Resistance and Radicalism in New York City”
September 22 6:00 pm
At the turn of the twentieth century, Italian Americans
led and participated in some of the period’s most volatile
labor strikes. Yet Italian women’s political activism
and cultures of resistance have been largely invisible.
Historian Jennifer Guglielmo, author of Living the
Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism
in New York City, 1880 – 1945 (University of North
Carolina Press, 2010), brings to life the Italian, workingclass
women who helped shape the vibrant, transnational,
radical political culture that expanded into the emerging
industrial union movement. In this presentation, she
shows how their commitment diminished as they became
white, working-class Americans. The rise of fascism, the
Red Scare, and the deprivations of the Great Depression
led many to embrace nationalism and racism, ironically
to try to meet the same desires for economic justice and
dignity that had inspired their enthusiasm for anarchism,
socialism, and communism. Professor Guglielmo will be
joined by historian Gerald Meyer, Ph.D., actress Chiara
Montalto, and artist Annie Lanzillotto. Sponsored by the
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