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VOLUME 1 • ISSUE 2 • SUMMER 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dean’s Letter ...... 2

Personaggi: Peter Sammartino ...... 2

Italics ...... 3

Staff News ...... 3

i-Italy ...... 3 il Giornalino ...... 4

Notevole: Why Do Public Programs? ...... 4

Conference: Italians in the Americas ...... 5

From the Archives ...... 5

In Piazza: NOIAW ...... 6

The Staff at Calandra ...... 6

Symposium: Pensare Auschwitz ...... 7

Festival: New Italian-American Cinema . . . . 8

Conference: Neapolitan Postcards ...... 9

Conference: The Land of Our Return ...... 9

Distinguished Professor Fred Gardaphé . . . . . 10

Institute Publications ...... 11

Calendar of Events ...... back cover

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute is a University Institute under the Aegis of Queens College/The City University of New York LETTER FROM THE DEAN

Welcome to the second issue of the and the general public a firsthand account international conference on the theme Calandra Institute’s newsletter, il Bollettino! of such topics as why the elected official of “Italians in the Americas.” The papers Since I last wrote, I am happy to say the decided to seek office, what his or her presented were diverse in subject matter Calandra staff continues to meet the political stance is and how it developed over and most informative, and we look forward challenges of the numerous initiatives and time, and how his or her Italian-American to compiling a collection of these essays. projects we are undertaking, and then some. background affected (or didn’t) the elected We are pleased to announce next year’s These projects provide gratifying experiences official’s political formation. conference, “The Land of Our Return: and a sense of accomplishment as we move The Calandra Institute staff has been Diasporic Encounters with Italy,” which will into new levels of productivity. enhanced by new hires. I am delighted to take place April 23–25, 2009. The Italian-American communities announce Lucia Grillo, associate producer We are in the midst of organizing a of the greater New York metropolitan area and correspondent for Italics, whose four-day film festival dedicated to “New are most encouraging in various ways. insightful editing and on-screen presence Italian American Cinema.” This is a Our events attract a growing audience and have already left their mark. And joining continuation of a component of the 2007 support for projects has been forthcoming. us most recently is Christine Gambino, Pesaro Film Festival in Italy that we helped This enthusiastic community support assistant for demographic studies, who organize. The festival is scheduled for inspires us to undertake new programs brings new expertise to the Institute and is September 24–27, 2008. and collaborations. highlighted on page six. To be sure, much still needs to be We continue to enjoy the generosity of Our research, in turn, is enhanced done, and our future activities will continue New York Senator Serphin Maltese, Justice by the appointment of Fred Gardaphè to explore the multifarious aspects of our Dominic Massaro, and the National Italian as Distinguished Professor of Italian extended community. Please do not hesitate American Foundation. We have recently American Studies. As you will read in his to call on us if we can be of assistance. Also, benefited from the largesse of New York profile on page seven, Professor Gardaphè’s be sure to join our electronic and postal Senator Frank Padavan, Assemblywoman utmost experience will bring a new level of mailing lists. Ginny Fields, and Assemblyman Joseph intellectual rigor to the Calandra Institute. Dulcis in fundo: All of what we have Lentol, who join Senator Maltese in funding Much of his work over the years has been accomplished could not be done without a new project, the Oral History Archive dedicated to creating a public conversation unyielding support from both Chancellor of Italian-American Elected Officials. It with Italian-American communities, and Matthew Goldstein’s Office of CUNY and is difficult, if not impossible, to study the the U.S. community at large, in an effort to President James Muysken’s Office of Queens history of Italian-American elected officials, further bridge gaps that all too often divide College. They and their staff have cleared except for those few who have been covered sectors of Italian Americans. many a path throughout these first two years regularly and widely by the media. An As you will learn in this issue, of my tenure. oral history archive provides the researcher we conceptualized and organized an — Anthony Julian Tamburri

PERSONAGGI il Bollettino is published by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Peter Sammartino (1904–1992) QUEENS COLLEGE/CUNY 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor Dr. Peter Sammartino was an educational visionary with a long record of New York, NY 10036 scholarly and cultural accomplishments, whose commitment to higher education PHONE: 212-642-2094 and public service is noteworthy. FAX: 212-642-2030 Dr. Sammartino and his wife Sylvia produced one of the great success stories in American EMAIL: [email protected] higher education. In 1942, they founded Fairleigh Dickinson University, as an institution “of and WEBSITE: www.qc.cuny.edu/calandra for the world,” where students were called upon to apply theory to praxis by working in a range of multicultural settings and international study, groundbreaking initiatives at the time. Dean: Anthony Julian Tamburri Believing that education and universities have the power to unify diverse ethnic and racial Managing Editor: Lisa Cicchetti groups, Dr. Sammartino’s value for the importance of international partnerships resulted in his Editors: Maria LaRusso, Joseph Sciorra recruitment of faculty and visiting professors from around the world. Through his pedagogy Cover art: Hickory With Hands (detail), ©Nancy Azara Fairleigh Dickinson University was the first institution to offer course work in Italian-American studies. This innovative curriculum served as a model to future programs across the nation. Contact the Calandra Institute to be included on Dr. Sammartino’s appreciation for Italian-American history inspired him to initiate the the newsletter mailing list. Provide your email renovation of Ellis Island, culminating in a nationwide campaign to restore this national landmark. address to receive the newsletter via email or His unique and invaluable contributions to higher education and Italian-American studies your mailing address to receive a printed copy. instituted cultural diversity as academic practice.

il Bollettino • Summer 2008 • John D. Calandra Italian American Institute • 25 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 • 212-642-2094 • [email protected] • www.qc.cuny.edu/calandra 2 documenting the lives of New York City segments posted to its website. Recently, ITALICS Mayor Fiorello Laguardia, and New York Italian author Roberto Saviano discussed his THE ITALIAN-AMERICAN TV MAGAZINE Congressman Vito Marcantonio. The show book Gomorrah, about organized crime in has presented various aspects of the Italian Naples, on both www.i-Italy.org and Italics. The Calandra Institute is proud to experience in America such as Italian- For the past two decades, television announce the twentieth season of Italics, American radicalism, Italian Americans viewers have come to appreciate and enjoy The Italian American TV Magazine. For at CUNY, the Brooklyn giglio feast, and the depth and breadth of Italics, the only the past two decades Italics has been airing the College Board’s inclusion of an Italian regularly scheduled show about Italian monthly on channel 75, the City University language advanced placement test. Americans. Programming for Fall 2008 of New York cable station. During In July 2007, Dean Tamburri became host is well underway and will continue to be September and October, Italics will feature of Italics. Innovations included creating a new informative and substantive. Stay tuned! • highlights from past programs in celebration on-air look and changing editing platforms of its twentieth anniversary. to allow greater efficiency and flexibility. In Over the years, Italics has featured October 2007, Lucia Grillo joined the team as Italics: The Italian American TV Magazine notable Italians and Italian Americans associate producer and correspondent. Dr. Fred including First Lady Matilda Cuomo, painter Gardaphé, Distinguished Professor of Italian CHANNEL 75 Ralph Fasanella, the Honorable Geraldine American Studies, Queens College, will be a Last Wednesday of the month Ferraro, mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando, frequent contributor to and rich resource for 10 am, 3 pm, 8:30 pm chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, actor Chaz future programming. Repeats Saturday 8 pm Palminteri, and Governor George Pataki. Italics collaborates with the internet Sunday 10 am The program has created special segments portal www.i-Italy.org by having video

Staff News i -ITALY

DR. JOSEPH SCIORRA presented at: i-Italy is an online editorial and social cultural energies—which has not had, until • Montclair State University’s “Italian Festival network dedicated to Italy and Italian now, a firmly established presence online. of the Arts and Humanities” on visual artist B. America. i-Italy: Italian American Digital i-Italy is a catalyst for a fruitful synergy Amore’s exhibition and publication “Filo della Project, is an open, accessible multimedia between “old” media, such as existing vita/Lifelines,” February 7, 2008; tool that enhances the discoursive power of Italian-American newspapers, radio, and Italics • the Italian Culture Institute of New York those interested in Italian-American issues. televison (first among them ) and the The dynamic interaction between “new” digital formats such as podcasts. on Italian-American devotional arts as part the editorial portal (www.i-Italy.org) The thematic structure of i-Italy of journalist Olivia Fincato’s photographic and the social network (www.i-Italy.us), encompasses a broad spectrum of subjects: documentary of Brazilian religious practices, which have reached a combined audience cinema; cuisine; current events; fashion; March 3, 2008; of 20,000 unique vistors in the first six history; language; literature; politics; • Stony Brook University’s symposium “Italian- months of its existence, is the reason for tourism; and visual arts, among others. American Youth Culture: Recent Reappraisals,” the project’s success. This unique and ambitious project on “The Ethnoscape of Hip Wop: Alterity and i-Italy is an innovative experiment in needs the contribution of everyone with Authenticity in Italian North American Hip Hop,” interaction between professional journalists an interest in the larger conversation of March 11, 2008. and citizen journalists, bloggers, and public Italian America. There are myriad ways • the Vernacular Architecture Forum Conference, intellectuals—academics and experts to collaborate with i-Italy: request a blog, Fresno, California, on “Built with Faith: Place willing to leave the university’s ivory tower open a discussion forum, send in articles, Making and the Religious Imagination in Italian and become involved in public debate. publish videos or photographic reportage. New York City,” May 7–10, 2008, with a grant from They all seek to enhance the exchange CUNY students can intern and assist in Professional Staff Congress/CUNY. of information and cultural discussion the daily workings of this project. while encouraging a deeper understanding Visit www.i-Italy.org and www. DEAN ANTHONY JULIAN TAMBURRI delivered a of Italy and a greater awareness of the i-Italy.us, or write to i-Italy in care of the series of lectures this spring. He delivered one of historical and contemporary experiences Calandra Institute. three keynote lectures entitled “Aldo Palazzeschi of Italian Americans. and the Transgression of Humor,” for the Hofstra i-Italy is inspired by the principles University Conference on Romance Literatures, of user-created content and social April 10, 2008. He served as the first Esposito interaction—the so-called “Web 2.0” Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of revolution. This approach, which bridges Massachusetts, Dartmouth, where he met with the gap between high culture and students and faculty and delivered a public lecture popular culture, authors and readers, entitled: “The Italian/American Writer in ‘Exile’: seems particularly significant for Italian Here, There, Wherever!,” April 29–30, 2008. America—large as it is in numbers and

il Bollettino • Summer 2008 • John D. Calandra Italian American Institute • 25 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 • 212-642-2094 • [email protected] • www.qc.cuny.edu/calandra 3 The journal exposes high school il GIORNALINO students to, and fosters interest in, the Italian THE ITALIAN JOURNAL language while strengthening Italian language programs in high schools. The goals of the During the 2003–2004 academic journal are to: facilitate communication year, Calandra Institute counselor Joseph between high school Italian teachers; foster Grosso and Queens College Italian Professor the exchange of information between Giovanna DeLuca discussed strategies to schools; assist in the development of promote the literary productions of students linkages with the participating high schools enrolled in Italian language courses. They and colleges that offer Italian programs; agreed to highlight student writings in and identify careers in which knowledge of special editions of the Queens College Italian is an asset. monthly newsletter, ciao-queens college. These Submissions to il Giornalino include editions received a tremendous response essays, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. from both the college and surrounding This year’s edition (volume 4) includes communities. The positive reaction writings by CUNY students and high encouraged Grosso to continue this endeavor school students from New York City and and to invite submissions from New York Long Island. The issue is divided into five high school students studying Italian. sections: “La Famiglia e Amici” (Family With the generous support of State and Friends), “Italia America,” “La Vita,” Senator Serphin Maltese, Grosso established “Sport e Hobby,” and “Quattro Stagioni” il Giornalino, The Italian HICKORY WITH HANDS, 2004 the publication (Four Seasons). Regarding this special Carved and painted wood with gold leaf and encaustic, 5’ x 3’ x 1’ Journal. Senator Maltese noted that il edition, Dean Tamburri said, “The young I have been carving sculpture in wood for a long time. Giornalino “allows this rich linguistic women and men who have contributed It has felt like a good “fit” for me as I have always culture to be showcased through the their work only prove how students can admired trees and I often—even as a child—felt that writings of talented students and shared arrive at a successful linguistic and, I dare they held a metaphor for my experience of life. Most by the members of our community.” The to say, literary goal.” The current edition of recently my work has been about the cycle of time, publication supports the Calandra Institute’s il Giornalino can be found at www.qc.cuny. about the death of my mother, about the birth of my mission to foster higher education among edu/studyabroad/Il Giornalino 2008.pdf. For granddaughter, and my own aging. Italian Americans and to educate the larger information on the Italian language program, — NANCY AZARA community regarding Italian heritage. visit www.qc.cuny.edu/studyabroad. • For more information visit www.nancyazara.com

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Our public events offer possibilities for a critical place at the Calandra Institute. WHY DO PUBLIC PROGRAMS? presenting the research of Calandra staff, Italian-American cultural production is Over the past decade, we have been in ways that are not always feasible with a dynamic and ongoing venture that we conceptualizing and implementing a rich publications. The 2003 exhibition “Sacred support by inviting individuals to publicly panoply of public programs exploring Emblems, Community Signs: Historic present their work. the diverse histories and cultures of Flags and Religious Banners from Italian The Calandra Institute has become a Italian Americans. Monthly programs Williamsburg, Brooklyn” was based on two significant node in a network of individuals include the “Seminar Series,” “Writers decades of work conducted by Dr. Joseph and institutions across the United States, Read,” and “Documented Italians.” Sciorra on a little studied but fundamental Canada, Europe, and elsewhere with Symposia, conferences, and exhibitions aspect of Italian-American religious artistry. whom we collaborate in various ways. We are presented throughout the year. These These forums also provide intellectual are enhancing the global dissemination of events are stimulating and critical channels venues that foster research on sparsely information via the Internet, as with the for circulating ideas and engendering documented topics, as with the 2002 recent podcasts of our “Seminar Series” discourse among a wide range of people. symposium “Biancheria: Critical and lectures. Our programs help link like-minded The Calandra Institute is committed to Creative Perspectives on Italian American individuals throughout the world, who conducting such intellectual and cultural Women’s Domestic Needlework” and encounter each other through our programs inquiries in the public sphere. the March 2009 symposium “Neapolitan and initiate their own collaborations. As part of CUNY, the Calandra Postcards: The Canzone Napoletana as These programs are designed to provide Institute is a public institution with a Transnational Subject.” The objective is nuanced, in-depth presentations about the mandate to serve the citizens of New York to open up a scholarly space where new myriad experiences of Italian communities City and New York State. Presenting the research can be nurtured and presented, in the United States and throughout the work of scholars and artists in forums free and ultimately brought to publication. diaspora. Our audiences have come to and open to the public is one of the ways The creative work of authors, film expect such engaging and superlative we serve that mission. directors, performers, and visual artists has presentations from the Calandra Institute.

il Bollettino • Summer 2008 • John D. Calandra Italian American Institute • 25 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 • 212-642-2094 • [email protected] • www.qc.cuny.edu/calandra 4 contemporary notions of ethnic identity Political scientists Ottorino Cappelli ITALIANS IN evolve. He suggested that rethinking the and Rodrigo Praino, and sociologist Jerome fields of Italian, American, and Italian- Krase, presented their work on the Italian- THE AMERICAS American Studies as an overarching American politic. Cappelli referred to “Italian CONFERENCE Italophone Studies will make it possible for American politics” as a “black hole” that has various components of the Italian diaspora rarely been studied. The panel shed light Scholars in the United States have to be studied and appreciated in a more on this important area of research, bringing made great progress in investigating, comparative manner. attention to the more recent phenomenon of preserving, and presenting stories of Italian During the subsequent two days, twelve the transnational “Italian vote abroad” and its Americans. Until recently, the focus of sessions with over forty scholars, writers, and relationship to local Italian-American politics. most of the research has been on Italian artists from Europe, Canada, and the United “First Encounters, First Conflicts,” experiences in the United States. One of States presented papers on a wide variety of with Teresa Fava Thomas, Peter Oliva, the earliest attempts to move the discussion subjects. The panel “Contested Identities in and Geoffrey Drutchas, examined the to other sites of the Italian diaspora was a Italian America” featured discussions of sexual tribulations of early immigrants. Esther conference sponsored by the Fondazione orientation by Joseph LoGiudice and Michael Romeyn, Joan Saverino, and Vincenzo Giovanni Agnelli together with the Center Carosone, and disconnections in the family Pascale explored how memories and for Migration Studies in 1992. The by Angela Danzi and Marilyn Blumenthal. histories are imagined and constructed publication Columbus Children grew out of In “Working Aesthetics,” Javier Grossutti, based on shifting perspectives and changing the conference and was the first collection of Christine Francis Zinni, and Jerry and contexts. Francesca L’Orfano, Danielle essays that reflected the Italian diaspora on Eleanor Koffler discussed the work of Italian Battisti, and James Pasto presented on post- a large scale. One result of these events was immigrant artisans in the United States. World War II experiences in the United an expanded definition of the hyphenated “Italians in the Americas” featured States and Canada by exploring cinema, phrase “Italian-American.” Since then, David Aliano and Stefano Luconi discussing politics, and interpersonal relationships. much work has been done in all regions of Italian communities in Argentina. Vincenzo The literary arts were represented by the world where Italians have emigrated. Milione and Maddalena Tirabassi presented panels of writers and educators, including John In an effort to air new ideas and an inventory of the Italian diaspora in the Calabro, Licia Canton, Nancy Caronia, Venera approaches, and to bring together scholars Americas, in which Milione proposed a Fazio, Frances Gendimenco Kaufmann, and studying global Italian immigration, model for studying assimilation that focuses Rosanna Micelotta-Battigelli. They presented the Calandra Institute organized an on sociocultural changes taking place in accounts of the impact language and writing interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the Italian communities throughout the world. have had on the development of Italian- myriad experiences of Italians in the western Donna DiCello, Elizabeth Messina, and American and Italian-Canadian identities. hemisphere, aptly entitled, “Italians in the Antonio Terracciano constituted the panel Jana Vizmuller-Zocco presented her Americas.” The conference took place on “Reflections in Psychology.” They presented preliminary research on Italian and Italian- April 24–26, 2008. personal experiences and offered critical American representations on facebook.com, Fred Gardaphé, recently appointed research demonstrating how their recent work the online social network. Patrizia La Trecchia Distinguished Professor of Italian American in the field of psychology contributes to both presented her experiences as an Italian Studies at Queens College and the Calandra historical investigations and contemporary immigrant inside and outside the university Institute, delivered the opening keynote analyses of stereotyping of Italian Americans. classroom. Daniela Gioseffi discussed the address. Professor Gardaphé surveyed the In another session of a different tone, “Re- exploitation of stereotypes and its impact on ways in which Italian-American identities Imagining/Re-Presenting,” Marion Jacobson Italian-American identity. have been fashioned and presented, and Simona Frasca discussed the impact of Papers from this conference will be arguing that Italian Americans inevitably Italian immigrant music inside and outside collated into a book, as part a developing move beyond the immigrant experience as Little Italys. series of Calandra Institute publications. • From the Archives

I had always heard about this photograph and fell in love with it when my Uncle Vito gave it to me recently. It’s of my grandfather, Michael Chiarappa, who ran an ice delivery business in New York City from the late 1920s to his untimely death shortly after World War II. My father Michael Jr. always remarked on the arduous nature of my grandfather’s work hauling ice up countless tenement steps. My grandfather married my grandmother, Anna Sabino, both of Bari, in 1931. The family, including a third son John, eventually moved from their home at East 84th Street to Clason Point in the Bronx. Of that generation only Uncle Vito survives and, fortunately for all of us, carries an abiding devotion to our family’s history. — PROFESSOR MICHAEL J. CHIARAPPA, Western Michigan University

American women. NOIAW has evolved into Italian students from Campania, Lazio, NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF an international organization connecting Sardinia, and Sicily who spent two weeks ITALIAN AMERICAN WOMEN women of Italian ancestry from Argentina, living with family sponsors in the greater Australia, Canada, the United States and New York area. These accomplished young The National Organization of women in Italy through conferences, events, women, ranging in age from eighteen to Italian American Women (NOIAW) and programs. twenty-two, visited civic, business, and is a network of women from varied The Mentor Program matches graduate cultural sites in New York and Washington, professional backgrounds, including artists, and undergraduate students with NOIAW D.C. This summer NOIAW will send a businesswomen, doctors, educators, lawyers, members in the same field who, in turn, group of young Italian-American women scientists, and women working in the home. mentor these young women. to visit Italy and stay with host families to NOIAW is the only national membership Annual academic scholarships are experience Italian life and culture. organization for women of Italian ancestry. awarded to Italian-American women to Recent NOIAW member events have The organization now accepts men and assist them in achieving their education included presentations on “The Holocaust women of all ethnic and racial backgrounds. and career goals. In 2008, NOIAW granted in Southern Europe,” “I Remember Nonna” NOIAW was founded in 1980 through eight scholarships supporting graduate and storytelling exchange, and “Italian-American the initiative of Dr. Aileen Riotto Sirey. undergraduate study. In addition, grants Women Writers,” among others. In spring At that time a small group of women, were provided to Italian women completing 2007, NOIAW members visited the including Roseanne Coletti, First Lady their Ph.D. degrees at the University of Pisa, National Museum of Women in the Arts Matilda Cuomo, Donna deMatteo, the enabling them to attend the “Fifth Italo- in Washington D.C. to view the exhibit Honorable Geraldine Ferraro, and Bonnie American Social Science Conference” held “Italian Artists from the Renaissance to the Mandina, created this network to support the at both the Calandra Institute and William Baroque.” The exhibition featured drawings, educational and professional aspirations of its Paterson University in New Jersey. paintings, prints, and sculptures by members and to combat ethnic stereotypes In June 2007 NOIAW established the prominent Italian women artists, including by promoting positive role models. Cultural Exchange Program in partnership Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Today, the organization sponsors with the Italian Foreign Ministry. The Artemisia Gentileschi, and Elisabetta Sirani. educational, cultural, and social programs that program sponsors visits to Italy and the To learn more about the National focus on issues of interest to, and feature and United States by women college students. Organization of Italian American Women, promote the accomplishments of, Italian- This program was launched with sixteen visit www.noiaw.org. • The Staff at Calandra

Christine Gambino joined the Institute’s staff in February as assistant for demographic studies. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), an M.A. in Applied Developmental Psychology from Fordham University, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the psychology department at Fordham. Ms. Gambino’s previous experience includes researcher, statistician, and instructor in the psychology department at Fordham University BYZANTINE HOMAGE (1), 2005 CROSS SECTION (2), 2002 and Fordham Graduate School of Cloth, acrylic paint, wax, thread, 35 x 35 x 3 inches Cloth, acrylic paint, wax, thread, 33 x 36 x 7 inches Social Services. In addition, she has taught at New York University For the past twenty-five years I have made work that alludes to the body, nature, and personal memory. My recent and has engaged in research at work is entirely constructed by hand sewing together many, sometimes hundreds, of flat rectangular units or hollow the Administration for Children’s vessel-like elements to form larger configurations. Made of layers of cloth (or cloth and paper) that are laminated Services, Agenda for Children and stiffened with acrylic paints and mediums, the tension created by sewing these individual components results in Tomorrow, Lighthouse International, structures that undulate and billow, as if animated from within. Seams define form, and stitches create lines, marks and the UCSD Community Pediatrics, surface. The absence of an understructure should be noted; these pieces are held together with thread alone. and the U.S. Department of Energy. My family had many embroidered textiles, made by female ancestors. My maternal grandmother did masterful hand Ms. Gambino’s research interests embroidery for a living, and I learned to embroider as a child. I have an abiding interest in images created by accretion— include cognitive development, from Byzantine mosaics to votive accumulations to multi-cellular organisms. I think of my work as representing a point in evaluating the effects of poverty on time, more in process than finished, implying a simultaneous state of expansion, growth, and disintegration. at-risk youth, and Italian-American — ELISA D’ARRIGO college student achievement levels. Elisa D’Arrigo is represented by Elizabeth Harris Gallery, 529 West 20th St. 6th floor, New York, NY 10011, 212-463-9666.

il Bollettino • Summer 2008 • John D. Calandra Italian American Institute • 25 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 • 212-642-2094 • [email protected] • www.qc.cuny.edu/calandra 6 to “bear witness” for the weak, for those who sponsoring programs that increase knowledge PENSARE AUSCHWITZ were once voiceless. Dr. Fiano’s writings and and awareness of significant events in Italian A SYMPOSIUM lectures, explaining what occured, are his and Italian-American history. • tools for disseminating knowledge in the

On February 26, 2008 a consortium of hope of curtailing and preventing future discrimination and genocide. institutions provided an Italian persepctive Mamma, to the Holocaust in its presentation of the The Honorable Franceso Maria symposium “Pensare Auschwitz” (To Think Talò, Consul General of Italy, encouraged Mi avvicino a te, dopo queste pagine di Auschwitz) at the CUNY Graduate Center. attendees to reflect upon Italian history as orrori, perchè ancora una volta cerco le tue Sponsors were the Calandra Institute, a source of both “pride and shame,” stating carezze e vivo ancora nel nostro passato. Centro Primo Levi, the Ph.D. Specialization that such a duality provides impetus for Il tempo mi ha avvicinato sempre di più alla in Italian Studies at the CUNY Graduate cultural change and transformation. Consul sventura della nostra famiglia, distrutta nella General Talò acknowledged that Italian Jews Center, and the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia notte del mondo. at the Università degli Studi di Napoli suffered grievously under Mussolini, while Federico II. Scholars, clergy, and a Holocaust at the same time, at great personal peril, Dal nostro ultimo abbraccio sulla survivor’s son contributed to our collective Italian citizens participated in resistance banchina di Birkenau, poche ore prima che memory of the Holocaust. efforts to hide Italian Jews from the Nazis. ti uccidessero, sono sceso e salito per molte Dr. Vincenzo Pascale moderated the He spoke about various public memorials scale, fra timori e speranze. symposium’s overall discussion of Italian and commemorative events in Italy honoring Nel rumore del mio tempo, ho speso la victims of the Holocaust. The Italian Jews during World War II and the challenges mia vita come ho potuto, ma il mio pensiero è in remembering and understanding their government sponsors an annual recitation, by suffering. Dr. Pascale acknowledged the young children, of the names of the deceased sempre stato “li,” con te, papà e Enzo. courage Jews demonstrated in the face of in an effort to ensure the collective memory Ho ancora tanto bisogno di te . . . utter despair, proclaiming their resiliency for future generations. The Consul General Il tuo Ricciolino a “true testament to the invincible human warned that we face grave danger if we are spirit to triumph over tragedy.” ignorant and indifferent to history. Professor Herman Haller, Director Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Mamma, of the Doctoral Specialization in Italian Permanent Observer to the Holy See to the I draw close to you after pages of horrors, delivered welcoming remarks and expressed United Nations, reiterated that “indifference because again I seek your caresses, and still his optimism that this program be the to suffering is our worst enemy,” and that live in our past. “first of many such collaborations.” Dean awareness of and empathy for the pain and Time has drawn me ever closer to our suffering of others can harness political will Tamburri expressed his gratitude to the family’s tragedy, destroyed in the night of program co-sponsors and acknowledged the to eradicate discrimination. He highlighted significance of such an undertaking. Dean several outreach programs under the aegis of the world. Tamburri extolled the importance of Italian the United Nations whose aim is to protect Since our last embrace on the bench at Americans educating themselves about the against human rights violations worldwide. Birkenau, a few hours before they killed you, Holocaust. Building on this theme, Queens Archbishop Migliore hopes the phrase “Never I have descended and ascended many stairs, College President James Muyskens posed again” will become a reality for all people. between fear and hope. Rabbi David H. Lincoln, of Park several provocative questions: “Who has the In the noise of my time, I spent my life as right to forgive?” and “Can a mother forgive Avenue Synagogue, reflected on the a man who has tortured her child?” President unique mass movement of Hitler’s “Final I could, but my thoughts have always been Muyskens suggested that “discussions of such Solution” organized to annihilate every Jew, “there,” with you, papa, and Enzo. philosophical questions are complicated and everywhere. Rabbi Lincoln cited ancient I am in such need of you still . . . sometimes unknowable, and, in fact, may religious history concerning bigotry against Your Ricciolino raise more questions than answers.” Jews for not recognizing Jesus as the messiah. Dr. Andrea Fiano, journalist and He attributed such prejudice among Centro Primo Levi board member, shared Christian Germans in the first half of the his memories as the son of an Auschwitz twentieth century as the foundation for a survivor. As a child, Dr. Fiano’s Italian “racist ideology that cast Jews as subhuman,” family told stories about Nazi soldiers who making anti-Semitism virulent. enforced racial laws in Germany calling for Dr. Fiano concluded the symposium the destruction of Jewish-owned property with a poem dedicated to his mother. and the roundup of Jews for deportation to Devoting his life’s work to speaking the concentration camps. Dr. Fiano often asked unspeakable truth, Dr. Fiano’s words and himself why and how such atrocities could poetry served to ammeliorate the anguish happen. Rhetorically, Dr. Fiano asked how that we feel grappling with inhumanity. we can learn from this experience. For Dr. The symposium is an example of Fiano, healing is only possible if we continue the Calandra Institute’s commitment to Dr. Andrea Fiano

il Bollettino • Summer 2008 • John D. Calandra Italian American Institute • 25 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 • 212-642-2094 • [email protected] • www.qc.cuny.edu/calandra 7 A FESTIVAL OF Cimino, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Calandra Institute will publish an English Palma, and Martin Scorsese. In addition to translation of Quei bravi ragazzi. NEW ITALIAN feature films, the festival presented short During the New York festival, many films and documentaries. Scholars presented of the questions raised in Pesaro will AMERICAN CINEMA on Italian-American history, culture, and continue to be investigated: What is an SEPTEMBER 24–27, 2008 cinematic artistry during the conference Italian-American film language? What In June 2007, the Calandra Institute component of the festival. A volume of are the elements of its style, its recurrent co-sponsored a retrospective of new critical essays addressing Italian-American visual motifs, the poetics of its images? Italian-American cinema as part of the 43rd cinema and its contribution to American How does Italian-American cinema find its Festival of New Cinema in Pesaro, Italy, cinema, Quei bravi ragazzi, edited by place among other hyphenated American under the artistic direction of Giovanni Muscio and Spagnoletti, was published in cinema? What are its specific and shared Spagnoletti. Film scholar Giuliana Muscio Italian by Marsilio Editori. themes? Please join us in exploring these of the University of Padua curated a In September 2008, the Calandra and other relevant topics with directors, selection of films made after the so-called Institute and the Pesaro Festival of New actors, scholars, and film aficionados, and “new Hollywood” generation of Italian- Cinema will present an updated version in viewing this series of fresh and revealing American filmmakers such as Michael of the retrospective in New York City. The cinematic works. •

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CONFERENCE 9 AM Coffee & Pastries 1 PM Roundtable discussion WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Opening Remarks 3 PM Roundtable discussion John D. Calandra Italian American Institute 10 AM Roundtable discussion 5 PM Roundtable discussion 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, Manhattan NOON Lunch 7 PM Reception

FILM SCREENINGS FILM SCREENINGS FILM SCREENINGS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Borough of Manhattan Community College, Richard CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium, Hunter College, Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, Room 424 Harris Terrace, 199 Chambers Street, Manhattan 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan Hunter North, East 69th Street between Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan 10 AM Trees Lounge 10 AM The Sweet New (Steve Buscemi, 1996; 95 min.) (Raymond Rea, 2007; 52 min.) 10 AM Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish NOON Che bella famiglia The Blinking Madonna (Kevin Jordan, 1999; 90 min.) (Diane Frederick, 1993; 30 min.) (Beth Harrington, 1994; 56 min.) NOON A pena do pana Lena’s Spaghetti NOON Pishadoo (Lucia Grillo, 2005; 19 min.) (Joseph Greco, 1994; 23 min.) (Michael Canzoniero & Marco Ricci, Touch 1 PM Roundtable with directors 1997; 22 min.) (Dina Ciraulo, 1995; 17 min.) and actors Tiramisù Mio paese—My Town 2 PM Fifty Cents (Len Guercio, 2002; 17 min.) (Katherine Gulla 1986; 26 min.) (Philip Botti, 2008,13 min.) Nunzio’s Second Cousin 1 PM Knock on Wood Bust A Move (Tom De Cerchio, 1994; 18 min.) (Tony De Nonno, 1982; 24 min.) (Philip Botti, 2000; 28 min.) 1 PM Puccini for Beginners Baggage True Love Waits (Maria Maggenti, 2006; 82 min.) (Susan Caperna Lloyd, 2001; 32 min.) (Dina Fiasconaro, 2004; 17 min.) 3 PM Dirt Uncovering 3 PM Two Family House (Nancy Savoca, 2004; 91 min.) (Mariarosy Calleri, 1996; 14 min.); (Raymond De Felitta, 2000; 108 min.) 5 PM Dinner Rush Mother Tongue: Italian American 5 PM Brooklyn Lobster (Bob Giraldi, 2001; 99 min.) Sons & Mothers (Kevin Jordan, 2005; 94 min.) 7 PM Canvas (Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno, 1999; 43 min.) 7 PM True Love (Joseph Greco, 2006; 101 min.) 3 PM Household Saints (Nancy Savoca, 1989; 104 min.) 9 PM Roundtable with directors (Nancy Savoca, 1993; 124 min.) 9 PM Roundtable with directors and actors 5 PM Pane amaro and actors (Gianfranco Norelli, 2007; 104 min.) 7 PM Romance and Cigarettes (John Turturro, 2005; 105 min.) RSVP/INFO: CALL 212-642-2094 OR EMAIL [email protected] 9 PM Roundtable with directors and actors

The Calandra Institute and the International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University, UK, in collaboration with the Archivio Sonoro della Canzone Napoletana, RAI, Naples, Italy, will present a two-day conference dedicated to the Neapolitan song. The conference will be held in Manhattan on March 20–21, 2009. Thecanzone napoletana has been one of the first international popular musics Logo for Edizione Pennino, New York City, courtesy of Simona Frasca. of the modern era, traveling beyond the city of Naples and the borders of Italy. music, piano rolls, 78 rpm recordings, and others would record and further disseminate Its success was due, to a large degree, to performances. Classic songs like “Core the Neapolitan song internationally. This Italian immigrants in the New World who ngrato” (1911), “Senza Mamma” (1925) conference is a unique opportunity to address composed, performed, recorded, sold, and Charles Aznavour, Count Basie, Elvis the relatively unknown transnational aspects consumed the music in the forms of sheet Presley, Caetano Veloso, Frank Zappa, and of the Neapolitan song. •

its diaspora, but the diaspora in turn This interdisciplinary conference is THE LAND OF transformed the paese.” What was the open to authors, cultural studies scholars, impact of returning emigrants and their filmmakers, literary critics, performers, social OUR RETURN descendants on the home society? scientists, and visual artists. Suggested topics DIASPORIC ENCOUNTERS WITH ITALY The political dimensions of return are include, but are not limited to: The Calandra Institute announces evident in the transnational movement of • Return migration; its annual conference, to take place April anarchists, as well as Risorgimento and later • Economic impact; 23–25, 2009 in Manhattan, on the theme anti-fascist refugees. Religious belief and • Return of political refugees; of “The Land of Our Return: Diasporic practice have long been a critical aspect • Return as religious pilgrimage; Encounters with Italy.” of immigrant return, with remittances • Reclaiming Italian citizenship; sent as donations pinned to the processed For Virgil’s Aeneas, Italy was “the • Metaphoric and mediated returns, land of our return,” the place his ancestor religious statue and post-World War II e.g., radio, film, television, web sites; Darnanus left generations earlier. The workers visiting the hometown during • The senses of return, e.g., nostalgia, Aeneid is thus an epic recounting of the the annual festa. curiosity, displacement; Trojan hero’s return, or nostos, to Italian After World War II, Italian Americans • Return as “ethnic roots” tourism; soil. This poetic conceit offers numerous traveled to Italy increasingly as tourists • Italian reception of cultural imports by opportunities to explore the political, and by the 1970s tourist companies began artists such as Fante, Piazzolla, Scorsese; economic, social, and cultural impact of catering to this “ethnic roots” market. There • Return as creative inspiration, e.g., historical and contemporary travel and they experienced the disparity between literature, photography, cinema; communication by Italian emigrants and personal connections to an ancestral paese • Reclamation of folk culture, e.g., music, their descendants to Italy. and the ever changing reality of the larger dance, storytelling; Italian emigration was one of the nation. In recent years, a growing number • Comparative experiences from different largest movements of free labor in world of descendants of Italian immigrants are diasporic communitites. history with over twenty-six million people reclaiming their Italian citizenship. Paper abstracts are due September immigrating from the 1870s to the 1970s. The imagined and actual “return” 1, 2008. Email abstracts of up to 250 Italian emigrants’ objective was, for the has historically been a source of creativity words, plus audiovisual requirements and most part, to make enough money to return in all genres, from comedian Eduardo a brief curriculum vitae, to calandra@ home. Forty-nine percent of the emigrants “Farfariello” Migliaccio’s 1917 song “Pascale qc.edu. Include title, name, affiliation, and traveling to the Americas returned between è Turnato d’all’Italia,” to author Helen postal and email addresses. Authors will be 1905 and 1920. According to historian Barolini’s 1979 novel Umbertina, to director advised of their acceptance or otherwise by Donna Gabaccia, “The paese had created Frank Ciota’s 2002 film Ciao America. November 15, 2008. •

il Bollettino • Summer 2008 • John D. Calandra Italian American Institute • 25 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 • 212-642-2094 • [email protected] • www.qc.cuny.edu/calandra 9 poetry. His edited books include: New chairperson of the Illinois Ethnic Coalition. DR. FRED GARDAPHÉ Chicago Stories (1990); Italian American Ways Professor Gardaphé is president of the DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR (1989); From the Margin: Writings in Italian Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic OF ITALIAN AMERICAN Americana (1991); and Shades of Black and Literature in the United States, past STUDIES JOINS QUEENS White: Conflict and Collaboration Between president of the American Italian Historical COLLEGE FACULTY & Two Communities (1999). He has published Association, and served as vice president of CALANDRA INSTITUTE two one-act plays: Vinegar and Oil, produced the Italian Cultural Center in Chicago. by the Italian American Theatre Company in Along with U.S. Senator Charles Fred Gardaphé was born in Chicago 1987, and Imported from Italy, produced by Schumer, Professor Gardaphé was presented to Anna Rotolo and Fred Gardaphé. Zebra Crossing Theater in 1991. He worked the 1999 Lehman-LaGuardia Award for His maternal grandparents emigrated for ten years as a video scriptwriter and is Civic Achievement by the Commission for from Castellana Grotte, Bari province, credited with more than fifty commercial Social Justice of the Order Sons of Italy in Puglia. His paternal grandmother’s family and educational productions. His study America and the Triborough Long Island emigrated from Calabria, while his paternal Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution region of B’nai B’rith International. In grandfather’s family was Canadian. Raised of Italian American Narrative is based on his 1999, he served as a visiting professor at in the predominantly Italian-American town doctoral research that earned the Fondazione the University of Sassari in Sardegna, and of Melrose Park, Illinois, Fred attended Giovanni Agnelli/Italian Ministry of Foreign in 2000 he gave the McDonald-Currie Sacred Heart Grammar School and Fenwick Affairs dissertation award in 1993 and was Distinguished Lecture at McGill University Preparatory High School in Oak Park. He subsequently published by Duke University in Montreal. In 2001, he and author Helen subsequently earned an associate degree Press in 1996. Choice magazine named the Barolini were honored by the American from Triton College (1973) and received a book Outstanding Academic Book for its Italian Cultural Roundtable for their B.S. in Education from the University of groundbreaking examination of Italian- distinguished service to Italian-American Wisconsin–Madison (1976). Fred continued American fiction in the twentieth century. culture. In 2005, the New York State Lodge his academic studies, completing an M.A. Professor Gardaphé’s additional publications of the Order Sons of Italy in America in English at the University of Chicago include Dagoes Read: Tradition and the awarded Professor Gardaphé the John Fante (1982), and a Ph.D. in Literature at the Italian/American Writer (1996), Moustache and Pietro di Donato Literary Award for his University of Illinois at Chicago (1993) Pete is Dead!: Italian/American Oral Tradition contributions to Italian-American literature. with an emphasis on cultural criticism and Preserved in Print (1996), and Leaving Little Professor Gardaphé’s professional American multicultural literature. In 1982, Italy: Essaying Italian American Culture memberships include: National Book Critics he married Susan Stolder in Castellana (2004). His most recent text From Wiseguys Circle; Modern Language Association; Grotte. They are the proud parents of to Wise Men: The Gangster and Italian the American Studies Association; the Frederico and Marianna, and grandparents American Masculinities (2006) was widely Society of Midland Authors; and Midwest of Michaelangelo born in November 2007. acclaimed for its thorough and provocative Modern Language Association. He also Professor Gardaphé, a leading scholar study of the gangster figure in American served in official capacities for the Society of American Studies, comes to the City culture. He is currently at work on a memoir for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of University of New York from SUNY Stony to be titled Living with the Dead. the United States (elected program chair, Brook, where he was Director of the Italian- Professor Gardaphé believes in 1999–2003); American Association of Italian American Studies Program and a professor connecting the academy to the “streets.” Studies; National Writers Union (Chicago in the Department of European Languages, In efforts to infuse the theoretical with co-chair, 1996–1998); American Italian Literatures and Cultures. His previous practice, he works as associate editor of Historical Association (vice president, professional experience includes teaching Fra Noi, an Italian-American monthly 1992–1996; president, 1997–2000); and high school English and communication arts newspaper. As editor of the Series in Illinois Ethnic Coalition (vice president, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Mason City, Iowa, Italian/American Culture at State University 1997–1998). He is a member of the Order and at Prologue, an alternative school in of New York Press he diligently maintains Sons of Italy in America at the Dr. Vincenzo Chicago. He also taught writing, educational cultural connections to the university and Sellaro Lodge 2319 of Smithtown, New studies, and Italian-American literature and Italian-American communities. Professor York and the Brookhaven Chapter of film at Columbia College, Chicago. Gardaphé is a founding editor of Voices in UNICO National. One of our nation’s most prolific and Italian Americana, a literary journal and The Calandra Institute is honored talented writers, Dr. Gardaphe’s works cultural review. He served ten years as board to have Dr. Fred Gardaphé in residence include academic essays, book reviews, president of Prologue Learning Center, as the Distinguished Professor of Italian drama, fiction, film and video scripts, and and as vice president and programming American Studies. •

SPRING PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT On May 5, 2008, Professor Elise Magistro, Scripps College, presented her translation of Maria Messina’s short stories, collected in Behind Closed Doors: Her Father’s House and Other Stories of Sicily (2007). Messina (1887–1944) focused on the repressive treatment of Sicilian women and the toll wrought by emigration. Magistro discussed Messina’s stories about Sicilian emigration, tragic and detailed portraits highlighting a phenomenon largely neglected by Messina’s more famous contemporaries. Additionally, Magistro demonstrated how the author transformed the literary principles of Italian verismo (a form of realism) to meet her artistic objectives. For Magistro, Messina’s strikingly modern narratives moved beyond the subject of Sicily’s poor and destitute to explore the lives of middle class women “too polite to speak out; too weak to rebel.”

Research Anthology Soon to be Published Essays Addressing Concerns of New Era Document of Piccirilli Stone Carvers The Calandra Institute is pleased to The forthcoming text, Uncertainty Recently published by the Calandra announce a forthcoming publication, and Insecurity in the New Age, edited by Institute is a comprehensive guidebook Italian American Students in New York City: Professor Vincent Parillo, is a volume of depicting the marble works of the Piccirilli A Research Anthology. Edited by Dr. Nancy thirty papers from social science professors, family of architectural modelers and carvers. Ziehler, the anthology brings together more including promising young scholars. This Freeing the Angel from the Stone: A Guide than thirty years of scholarship examining publication is the result of the three day to the Piccirilli Sculpture in New York City the experiences of Italian-American high conference “Fifth Italo-American Social by Jerry and Eleanor Koffler is a thorough school, college, and graduate students in Science Conference” held in May 2007, tribute to the Piccirilli brothers whose work New York City. jointly sponsored by the Calandra Institute adorns many of New York City’s most Little research about Italian-American and William Paterson University. recognizable buildings. students has appeared in social science These critical essays address such The Kofflers rediscovered the history publications. This anthology supplements issues as the impact of migration and of a father and his six sons, sculptors who the vast multicultural counseling literature globalization on cultural identity, work and emigrated from Massa Carrara, Tuscany, in addressing students’ diverse cultural contexts security, power and politics, community and 1888 and established a successful studio in and respective sets of values and needs. isolation, and race, gender, and sexuality. Mott Haven, the Bronx. Carving primarily Contributors to the volume This compilation offers insights into in white marble, their works include the include past and present CUNY faculty postmodernity and the similarities and Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. and Calandra Institute scholars. This dissimilarities faced by Italians and Italian and the Memorial Arch in Washington compilation provides an introduction to Americans. One theme that permeates the Square Park. Those interested in art and a body of research literature addressing publication is how one experiences changes sculpture will appreciate this publication various aspects of Italian-American student of postmodernity in which the past no longer documenting these immigrant stone carvers life in New York City. serves as a guide to planning the future. and their extraordinary public art.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS PHILIP V. CANNISTRARO DOCUMENTED ITALIANS SEMINAR SERIES WRITERS READ SERIES FILM SERIES UPCOMING Monday, September 15, 2008 at 6 p.m. CALANDRA INSTITUTE EVENTS: Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 6 p.m. KAREN TINTORI reads from Unto the Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 6 p.m. September 24–27, 2008 The Intrepid Giuseppe Pitrè and his Daughter: The Legacy of an Honor Killing “Buddy: The Rise and Fall of America’s A Festival of New Italian American Cinema Collection of Sicilian Folk Tales Most Notorious Mayor” (2007), 86 min. in a Sicilian-American Family BOOK PRESENTATIONS: JACK ZIPES (University of Minnesota) and (St. Martins Press, 2007) CHERRY ARNOLD, director Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 6 p.m. JOSEPH RUSSO (Haverford College) Monday, October 27, 2008 at 6 p.m. Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 6 p.m. Jerry and Eleanor Koffler, Freeing the Monday, October 20, 2008 at 6 p.m. MARISA LABOZZETTA reads from At the “Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans Angel from the Stone From “Terrone” to “Extracomunitario”: The Copa (Guernica, 2007) and the Movies” (2007), 58 min. Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 6 p.m. Evolution of Racism in Italian Cinema STEVEN FISCHLER, director Anthony Valerio, The Little Sailor Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 6 p.m. GRACE RUSSO BULLARO (Lehman College) Monday, November 10, 2008 at 6 p.m. CONFERENCES: SUZE ROTOLO reads from A Freewheelin’ “Poetry in Action: A Portrait of Vincent March 20–21, 2009: “Neapolitan Postcards” Monday, November 17, 2008 at 6 p.m. Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in Ferrini” (2000), 58 min. April 23–25, 2009: “The Land of Our Return” Magic in the Mezzogiorno: The the Sixties (Broadway Books, 2008) Anthropology of Ernesto De Martino HENRY FERRINI, director OTHER EVENTS: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 6 p.m. DOROTHY LOUISE ZINN (Università degli Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 6 p.m. October 3–4, 2008 Studi della Basilicata) ROBERT TINNELL presents his graphic “Se la pietra sapesse parlare/If Stone Forum on Italian American Criticism novel Feast of the Seven Fishes Could Speak” (2007), 67 min. 10/3 at Stony Brook Manhattan, 401 Park Monday, December 8, 2008 at 6 p.m. (Allegheny Image Factory, 2005) Italy Today: Facing the Challenges of the RANDY CROCE, director Avenue South, NYC; 10/4 at Calandra Institute, New Millennium > READINGS take place at: 25 West 43rd Street, NYC; Info: 631-632-7440 > FILMS screened at: October 29, 2008 MARIO B. MIGNONE (Stony Brook University) John D. Calandra Italian American Institute CUNY Graduate Center 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, Manhattan Gotham History Forum: The Fortunate ______365 Fifth Avenue, Room C198, Manhattan Pilgrim and Hell’s Kitchen > SEMINARS take place at: All events are free and open to the public. ______except September 4th screening in Sigel Hall CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Pre-registration required/Info: 212.642.2094. All events are free and open to the public. Info: 212-817-8460, www.gothamcenter.org ______25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, Manhattan Photo ID requested by building concierge. Pre-registration required/Info: 212.642.2094. November 6–8, 2008 All events are free and open to the public. Photo ID requested by building concierge. Pre-registration required/Info: 212.642.2094. AIHA Annual Conference, New Haven, CT Photo ID requested by building concierge. Info: www.aihaweb.org