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can be combined in different paths which lead us through
the city, while Florence tells its history through less
evident traces, and becomes a classroom itself. Sponsored
by the Center for International Service and Modern
Languages Department.
College of Staten Island/CUNY, Campus Center 1C
2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island
Admission: free; open to the public
Contact: Winnie Brophy (718) 982-2100
Fax: (718) 982-2108
Winnie.brophy@csi.cuny.edu
Lecture: “Southern Italian-American Comedy”
October 13 8:00 pm
Professor Salvatore Primeggia of Adelphi University
will trace the significance and meaning of humor dating
back to the immigrant era to the present. This lecture is
made possible through the NY Council for the Arts. To
be followed by refreshments. Sponsored by the Kensico
Italian American Society, Inc.
Mount Pleasant Town Hall
1 Town Hall Plaza, Valhalla, NY
Admission: open to the public
Contact: Brigida (914) 769-8846
MoliseBC@aol.com
Italian Film Festival
October 14 1:30 – 3:30 pm
Sponsored by Department of Modern Languages.
College of Staten Island/CUNY, Modern Languages,
Media Center 2S-114D
2800 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island
Contact: Valeria Belmonti (718) 982-4155
Valeria.belmonti@csi.cuny.edu
Lecture: “The Power of What Comes After: Italian-
American Death Talk”
October 14 6:00 pm
Mary Jo Bona, author of By the Breath of Their Mouths:
Narratives of Resistance in Italian America examines the
liberating powers of speech in Italian-American Writing,
with specific emphasis on the ways in which narratives of
mortality function as gestures of continuity. That Italian
Americans die in literature is as important as how they
die. Italian immigrants were subject to the degradations of
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