Month: April 2019

Conference Keynote: “Signing Italian/American Cinema: A More Focused Look”

Posted on by Sian Gibby

Dean Anthony J. Tamburri delivers the conference keynote address, “Signing Italian/American Cinema: A More Focused Look,” to an overflow audience of conference attendees.

You can watch all the sessions of this year’s event, Eye-Centricity and the Visual Cultures of Italy and Its Diaspora, via the following links:

1  Architecture and Site-Specific Viewings

2  Signing Italian/American Cinema: A More Focused Look

3  Depictions on Canvas

4  Marketing Politics, Consumerism, and Tourism

5  Procession and Progression in the Mezzogiorno: Illuminating the Many Faces of the Mother

6 Seeing Is Believing

7  Spiritual View(ing)s in Italian American Writing and Visual Arts

8  Sonorities and Resistances

9  Illustrating Identities

10  Cinematic Takes

 

Nota bene: Not every session will be livestreamed as some participators have opted out of the livestream.

 

Click here to read the complete conference program.

Anthony J. Tamburri and the Calandra Institute Receive Friend of NOIAW Award

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Photograph by Italics, Calandra Institute

On Saturday, April 13, Dr. Donna Chirico, dean of York College, CUNY, on behalf of the National Organization of Italian American Women presented Dean Anthony Julian Tamburri and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute with a Friend of NOIAW Award. In the audience were numerous luminaries including, but not limited to, New York First Lady Matilda Cuomo, Italian Consul Genral in New York Francesco Genuardi, and the two honorees for 2019 Sandra L. Depaolo and Dr. Judith A. Salerno. Incoming CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez congratulated all the honorees, via letter, saying of the Institute, “I am especially pleased to congratulate Dean Anthony and the Calandra Institute. … The Institute is well-known for its quality research and events that enrich our understanding of and appreciation for all things and people Italian–including the many Italian women and women of Italian heritage who make outsize contributions to society.”