January 19, 2021, marks one year since the passing of our dear friend Robert Viscusi. As I wrote last year, for those of us who knew Bob well, we knew a kind man, someone who was always respectfully inquisitive and concerned about his friends and, at the same time, always
The theme for the 2022 edition of the Calandra Institute's annual conference will be Eco Italie: Material Landscapes and Environmental Imaginaries. The conference will take place in person at the Institute on April 28–30, 2022. To read more about the theme and for submission guidelines, click here.
Joseph Sciorra
As part of the Working-Class Studies Association Awards for work produced in 2020, this year’s Studs Terkel Award for Single Published Articles or Series, Broadcast Media, Multimedia, and Film in Media and Journalism goes to “Protesta Per Sacco & Vanzetti,” by the Calandra Institute's Director of Academic and Public Programs Joseph Sciorra. A judge writes that the piece includes “extensive research into the songs related to the men’s arrest, trial and executions,” a case they compare with the death of George Floyd. “The balm for xenophobia is knowledge, but the challenge is to bring people to that table. I’m there.” Also, a judge writes that Sciorra has “preserved a vital record of American anarchist history, giving credit to the working-class reproductions of this period’s emotive sounds and sensations of this historical moment.” The essay’s “focus on Italian language items provides an explicit example of working-class experience across languages, cultures, and people.”
Bordighera Press has just published this volume of essays, a Festschrift for beloved colleague and friend of the Calandra Institute Robert Viscusi (1941–2020). In it scholars deal with an array of Bob's contributions to the worlds of letters and of academia.
This volume is available everywhere now for purchase. You may buy it at IAMBooks or at Barnes & Noble, among other booksellers. You may purchase the book directly from Bordighera Press by writing to info@bordigherapress.org.
The Calandra Institute's Olivia Tursi, LCSW-R, MA, has won the Borough of Manhattan Community College's II Micro Story Contest, sponsored by the college's Modern Languages Department. Congratulations, Olivia!
La Scuola d'Italia, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, has inaugurated new scholarship opportunities for students. Students interested in applying for a scholarship at La Scuola d'Italia "Guglielmo Marconi" can do so by sending a letter of presentation along with their CV focusing on their curricular and extracurricular activities. Knowledge of the Italian language is not required in order to obtain the scholarship.
For more information, click here.
Applications should be be emailed to slanfredini@lascuoladitalia.org.
Bordighera Press has just published this volume of essays, a Festschrift for beloved colleague and friend of the Calandra Institute Robert Viscusi (1941–2020). In it scholars deal with an array of Bob's contributions to the worlds of letters and of academia.
Bordighera Press has just published this volume of essays, a Festschrift for beloved colleague and friend of the Calandra Institute Robert Viscusi (1941–2020). In it scholars deal with an array of Bob's contributions to the worlds of letters and of academia.
The Calandra Institute's Olivia Tursi, LCSW-R, MA, has won the Borough of Manhattan Community College's II Micro Story Contest, sponsored by the college's Modern Languages Department. Congratulations, Olivia!
La Scuola d'Italia, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, has inaugurated new scholarship opportunities for students. Students interested in applying for a scholarship at La Scuola d'Italia "Guglielmo Marconi" can do so by sending a letter of presentation along with their CV focusing on their curricular and extracurricular activities. Knowledge of the Italian language is not required in order to obtain the scholarship.
For more information, click here.
Applications should be be emailed to slanfredini@lascuoladitalia.org.Read More
La Scuola d'Italia, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, has inaugurated new scholarship opportunities for students. Students interested in applying for a scholarship at La Scuola d'Italia "Guglielmo Marconi" can do so by sending a letter of presentation along with their CV focusing on their curricular and extracurricular activities. Knowledge of the Italian language is not required in order to obtain the scholarship.
For more information, click here.
Applications should be be emailed to slanfredini@lascuoladitalia.org.