The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute hosts an international conference at its Midtown Manhattan offices every spring. The theme of the conference changes each year, generating a slew of timely takes on related ideas from scholars all over the globe. The theme for the 2025 conference has recently been anounced: The Bitter Bread of War: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from Italy and the Diaspora. The conference will take place April 25–26, 2025. Click here for the Call for Papers.
Click on the posters below for more information about our past conferences.
April 2024
Calandra Annual Conference
Translation is a constant presence in the life of migrants, ...
26 - 27 Apr
All Day
Calandra Institute
April 2023
Calandra Annunal Conference: Italy and the Pacific Rim
Critical interpretations of modern Italy’s histories of migration and mobilities ...
28 - 29 Apr
All Day
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
April 2022
Calandra’s Annual Conference, Eco Italie: Material Landscapes and Environmental Imaginaries
Calandra's annual international conference will take place in person at ...
29 - 30 Apr
All Day
April 2021
Virtual Conference, Italian Borderlands: Restrictions, Breaches, Encounters
This year's conference will be entirely virtual. Each weekday from ...
05 - 21 Apr
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
April 2019
Annual Conference: Eye-Centricity and the Visual Cultures of Italy and Its Diaspora
This interdisciplinary conference proposes to explore the visual cultures Italians ...
26 - 27 Apr
All Day
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2018
Annual Conference: Corporeal Restrictions, Embodied Freedoms—Italian Interventions on the Body
The 1935 song “Faccetta Nera,” a paean to the Fascist ...
27 - 28 Apr
All Day
April 2017
Annual Conference: Italian Sonorities and Acoustic Communities: Listening to the Soundscapes of Italianit
In his 1984 book Acoustic Communication, Barry Truax defined acoustic ...
28 Apr
9:00 am
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2016
Annual Conference: Migrating Objects: Material Culture and Italian Identities
This interdisciplinary conference focuses on material culture in the contexts ...
29 Apr
9:00 am
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2015
Annual Conference: Bambini, Ragazzi, Giovani: Children and Youth in Italy and the Italian Diaspora
The Italian family has been a quintessential subject for scholarly ...
24 Apr
9:30 am
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2014
MAFIAs: Realities and Representations of Organized Crime
Click here to view the program flyer as a PDF ...
25 Apr
9:00 am
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2013
Lingue Migranti: The Global Languages of Italy and the Diaspora
This year's annual, two-day conference seeks to build on the ...
26 Apr
9:00 am
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2011
The 3Fs in Italian Cultures: Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and Film
The 3Fs in Italian Cultures
Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and ...
29 Apr
9:00 am
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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Past Conferences
April 2024
Calandra Annual Conference
Translation is a constant presence in the life of migrants, ...
26 - 27 Apr
All Day
Calandra Institute
April 2023
Calandra Annunal Conference: Italy and the Pacific Rim
Critical interpretations of modern Italy’s histories of migration and mobilities ...
28 - 29 Apr
All Day
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
April 2022
Calandra’s Annual Conference, Eco Italie: Material Landscapes and Environmental Imaginaries
Calandra's annual international conference will take place in person at ...
29 - 30 Apr
All Day
April 2021
Virtual Conference, Italian Borderlands: Restrictions, Breaches, Encounters
This year's conference will be entirely virtual. Each weekday from ...
05 - 21 Apr
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
April 2019
Annual Conference: Eye-Centricity and the Visual Cultures of Italy and Its Diaspora
This interdisciplinary conference proposes to explore the visual cultures Italians ...
26 - 27 Apr
All Day
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2018
Annual Conference: Corporeal Restrictions, Embodied Freedoms—Italian Interventions on the Body
The 1935 song “Faccetta Nera,” a paean to the Fascist ...
27 - 28 Apr
All Day
April 2017
Annual Conference: Italian Sonorities and Acoustic Communities: Listening to the Soundscapes of Italianit
In his 1984 book Acoustic Communication, Barry Truax defined acoustic ...
28 Apr
9:00 am
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2016
Annual Conference: Migrating Objects: Material Culture and Italian Identities
This interdisciplinary conference focuses on material culture in the contexts ...
29 Apr
9:00 am
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2015
Annual Conference: Bambini, Ragazzi, Giovani: Children and Youth in Italy and the Italian Diaspora
The Italian family has been a quintessential subject for scholarly ...
24 Apr
9:30 am
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2014
MAFIAs: Realities and Representations of Organized Crime
Click here to view the program flyer as a PDF ...
25 Apr
9:00 am
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2013
Lingue Migranti: The Global Languages of Italy and the Diaspora
This year's annual, two-day conference seeks to build on the ...
26 Apr
9:00 am
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2011
The 3Fs in Italian Cultures: Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and Film
The 3Fs in Italian Cultures
Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and ...
29 Apr
9:00 am
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
No event found!
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