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In the studio with us this month are Dr. Stefano Albertini, clinical professor of Italian in New York University’s Department of Italian and director of its Casa Italiana, and Rossella Rago, host of the popular web TV series “Cooking with Nonna.” We will discuss today the notion of what constitutes “Real” and Non-“Real” Italians, a discussion that is long overdue, some might say.

Italics is hosted by Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College/CUNY and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures.

Italics is now in its third decade serving the Italian-American community and those interested in Italian-American history and culture. Italics is co-produced in collaboration with the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute.

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On Wednesday night, September 18, 2019, Dr. Joseph Sciorra joined filmmaker Antonino D’Ambrosio to screen D’Ambrosio’s 2017 documentary film Frank Serpico at the Swinging Sixties Senior Center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over the weekend, Dr. Joseph Sciorra presented his book Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City at the I Am Books bookshop in Boston.

Visual artist John Avelluto revels in mash-ups of sounds, images, products, and ideas where Italy and the United States converge. His multimedia work plays with Italian American culture and the existing linguistic and visual repertoire of vernacular references that have gone underappreciated and unexamined. It stands at a crossroads of what in Italian is referred to as contaminazione, those hybrid moments and places where ideas and idioms collide across ever-shifting borders to create innovative articulations. As part of the artistic process, this Brooklyn-born and raised artist employs a time-consuming method of layering numerous coats of acrylic paint to create strata of simulacrum imitating salami slices, dripping pizza, and other items that he augments and then applies to a flat surface.

On view May 7–September 13, 2019
GALLERY HOURS: MONDAY–FRIDAY, 9AM–5PM
Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 6pm

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE EXHIBITION CATALOG.

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.

Click here to read Dr. Joseph Sciorra’s article accompanying Alessandro Cinque’s photographs of Italian Willamsburg, Brooklyn.

Click here to read a new interview with Laura Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra about their groundbreaking publications New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 1: Politics and History since 1945 and New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 2: Art and Culture since 1945.