Italian/American Studies will flourish only if it gets the requisite support, first and foremost, from its community in order for it then to be part of the larger discourse. We need to support our artists, writers, and scholars.
Italian/American Studies is (some might say should be) becoming more and more part of Italian Studies in the United States. As some of you know, there are a few outlets dedicated to scholarship on the Italian diaspora here in the United States. I am connected to two of them.
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Life & PeopleDean Anthony Julian Tamburri, Ph.D., was honored at this year’s annual Commission for Social Justice-B’nai B’rith Award Breakfast, on June 10, 2012, which was co-sponsored by the New York Grand Lodge Commission for Social Justice of the Order Sons of Italy in America and The Metro North Region of B’nai B'rith International, celebrating 31 years of solidarity between the two groups.
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Lucia Grillo’s full-length documentary Terra Sogna Terra celebrated its premiere screening last week at the Calandra Italian American Institute.
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The Italian poet and trade unionist is remembered on the 150th anniversary of the Italian Unification to relive his contributions of political activism and poetry to the American history
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I wrote about one thing on the Calandra Institute list-serve (the Arizona Ethnic Studies Bill), and, among the many responses, people spoke to another issue, as you can see below. Ben venga! I thought this might be a better forum in which to continue that discussion that was spontaneously born. I also believe that we still live willy nilly in that ever-so, never-mentioned world of Hyphenville, as I wrote in an essay more than twenty years ago that was, for that time, courageously published by Guernica Editions.
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Touching words from one of our editors: Anthony Julian Tamburri, Professor and Dean (John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Queens College/CUNY). His feelings are i-Italy's