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  • Events: Reports

    Calandra’s Conference: Italian “Thingness” Across the World

    Siân Elaine Gibby
(April 08, 2016)
    As one of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s two non-Italian American employees, and an enthusiastic champion of all things Italian American, I relish any means of entry into a better understanding of a facet of society I have come to value immensely (and love) over the four years I have worked here. And material culture is certainly an easily accessible point of contact, rich with possibility and nuance.
  • Life & People

    Back to The Roots: Italian American Identities in the US

    Giulia Madron(June 17, 2014)
    The Calandra Italian American Institute, in collaboration with ILICA, organized an insightful panel discussion on Italian American identity: “The New Generation of Americans of Italian Origins: the Value of the Italian Heritage in the 21st Century.”
  • Life & People

    Investigating Mafia(s) on a Global Scale

    O. C.(June 17, 2014)
    In a recent two-day conference at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, dozens of scholars from the U.S., Italy and elsewhere looked into the global mafia phenomenon from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The guest of honor was Italy’s former Interior Minister Vincenzo Scotti, whose book about the relationship between the Mafia and the State in Italy has just been translated into English.
  • Facts & Stories

    The Italian-American Experience as a Vision and as a Mission

    Anthony Julian Tamburri(March 07, 2014)
    New York is the most “Italian” city in the US. Adding together Americans of Italian descent and Italian citizens living here, the metropolitan area is home to almost four million Italians—which is among the largest concentration in the world after Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Rome. This translates into a most robust cultural presence that has its points of reference in a handful of excellent institutions dealing with the Italian and Italian-American experience. In the first of a series, we asked the Dean of the Calandra Institute to describe who they are, what their mission is, and to talk about their many activities.
  • Art & Culture

    50 Italians. Should it be Screened in Schools?

    Marina Melchionda(January 25, 2010)
    Should a documentary that recounts the "gestures" of 50 Italian fascist soldiers who saved a few thousands Jews to escape Fascist persecution be screened in Italian schools? Here is the opinion of the director of the Primo Levi Center Natalia Indrimi
  • Art & Culture

    50 Italians. Should it be Screened in Schools?

    Marina Melchionda(January 25, 2010)
    Should a documentary that recounts the "gestures" of 50 Italian fascist soldiers who saved a few thousands Jews to escape Fascist persecution be screened in Italian schools? Here is the opinion of the director of the Primo Levi Center Natalia Indrimi