October 2018
Readings from Gil Fagiani’s Missing Madonnas, (Bordighera Press, 2018)
In the posthumously published Missing Madonnas, the late poet Gil ...
Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America
Elizabeth Zanoni, Old Dominion University
Italian immigrants to the United States ...
Pane amaro: A Discussion
The panel discussion will screen three segments of Pane amaro ...
Borsalino City (2016), 78 minutes, Enrica Viola, dir.
In Italian with English subtitles.
Borsalino City tells the story of ...
September 2018
Christian Picciolini reads from White American Youth: My Descent into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out (Hachette Books, 2017)
White nationalist rallies in the United States have drawn the ...
May 2018
Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions: Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Edited by Ryan Calabretta-Sajder
Noted as a ‘civil poet’ by Alberto ...
April 2018
Exhibition Opening of Italian Brooklyn: Photographs by Martha Cooper
In this collection of images, photojournalist Martha Cooper, well-known for ...
American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism, Saladin Ambar, Rutgers University
Saladin Ambar’s American Cicero (Oxford University Press, 2017) traces Mario Cuomo’s rise ...
March 2018
Frank Serpico (2017), 95 minutes Antonino D’Ambrosio, dir.
In 1971 patrolman Frank Serpico became the world’s most famous ...
February 2018
Olivia Kate Cerrone reads from The Hunger Saint (Bordighera Press, 2017) Camilla Trinchieri reads from Seeking Alice: A Novel (SUNY Press, 2016)
This evening presents two books set in the post–World War ...
Presentation: “Nation-Building through Antisemitism: Fascist Italy and the Jew as Internal Enemy,” by Ernest Ialongo
In 1938, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini introduced institutionalized antisemitism ...
January 2018
Book Presentation: Il dio di New York, by Luigi Fontanella
At the age of sixteen, Pasquale D’Angelo emigrated to the ...
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