Philip V. Cannistraro was the first distinguished professor of Italian American studies associated with the Calandra Institute. Known principally as a scholar of Italian Fascism and anti-fascism, he also studied and published about the relations between Italian Americans and Fascist Italy. He was the co-author with John J. Reich of The Western Perspective: A History of Civilization in the West, a popular American college history textbook. Cannistraro died at age sixty-three in 2005. We renamed the Lecture Series in his honor, focusing, as it does, on recently published works of scholarship related to Italian American and other diaspora topics.
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October 2023
Spaghetti Sissies: Queering Italian American Media
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 6pm
Spaghetti Sissies: Queering Italian American Media
Julia ...
12 Oct
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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September 2023
The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884–1947): The Paladins of France in America
Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 6pm
The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino ...
20 Sep
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
May 2023
For a New Religious History of Italian Catholic Immigrants in the United States (1854–1921)
Massimo Di Gioacchino, New York University
The religious history of Italian ...
04 May
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
April 2023
For a New Religious History of Italian Catholic Immigrants in the United States (1854–1921) Rescheduled for May 4
Massimo Di Gioacchino, New York University
This event has been rescheduled ...
18 Apr
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
March 2023
Edward E. Boccia: The Painter of Nightmares and Dreams
Rosa Berland, The Edward E. Boccia Artist Trust
This talk will ...
21 Mar
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
October 2022
The Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies: Mary Anne Trasciatti
Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the ...
13 Oct
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
September 2022
The Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies: Victoria Calabrese
Italian Women in Basilicata: Staying Behind but Moving Forward during ...
27 Sep
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
June 2022
The Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies: Alyssa J. Maldonado-Estrada
Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Devotion in Williamsburg, ...
06 Jun
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
April 2022
The Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies: Pamela Ballinger
The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar ...
07 Apr
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
November 2019
The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America
Giorgio Bertellini
University of Michigan
In the post–World War I American climate ...
19 Nov
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Defining Italian American Identity in the United States through Opera during the Mass Migration Period
Davide Ceriani
Rowan University
This presentation focuses on the role Italian opera ...
14 Nov
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
May 2019
Pre-Occupied Spaces: Remapping Italy’s Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
Teresa Fiore
Montclair State University
By examining Italy’s long history of worldwide ...
09 May
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
April 2019
Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945–1965
Danielle Battisti
University of Nebraska–Omaha
In Whom We Shall Welcome (Fordham University ...
11 Apr
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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