"Fish and Chips" all'Italiana. A Succesful Story of Immigration

Is Fish and Chips an Italian dish? No of course, but it helped Italians’ integration in Ireland. Nino Tropiano recounts their story in his documentary “Chippers”, screened...

Anthony J. Tamburri comments on ILICA 5th Annual Conference

Puglia Film Festival 2009. Italy’s Heel on the Big Screen

July 14-18. The Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY hosts Terra 3-Puglia Film Festival 2009 , an event dedicated to new cinema and emerging talents from the...

"Bitter Bread" for the US. An Encounter With Gianfranco Norelli

Extended interview with Gianfranco Norelli, writer and director of the documentary film "Bitter Bread" (Pane Amaro). The new version for American audiences will be screened on...

An Afternoon Together. With Rocco Caporale

St. John's University, Manhattan Campus. Colleagues, friends and relatives gather to reminisce professor emeritus Rocco Caporale, passed away a year ago

Remembering John Marchi: A One of a Kind, to be sure!

New York State Senator Giovanni (John) Marchi died at the age of 87, on Saturday April 25, less than a month shy of his 88th birthday while on a family trip in Italy.

John Marchi, an Italian American Class Act

John Marchi passed away last Saturday. In my opinion, he was among the best and the brightest and he deserves a place alongside New York City's other unblemished political...

The Land of our Return. Diasporic Encounters with Italy

For Virgil’s Aeneas, Italy was “the land of our return”... The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s second annual conference addresses the theme of “return”...

Neapolitan Music: When a Local Tradition Becomes a Global Issue

The conference “Neapolitan Postcards. The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject”. Interviews with Joseph Sciorra, the main organizer of the symposium

The Other Side of Benito Mussolini

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College/CUNY and the Italian Cultural Institute presented a preview screening of the documentary film Mussolini,...

Giving voice to “Memoirs and Memories” at the Calandra Institute

Each victim has a different experience of the Holocaust. The Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, welcomed four eminent speakers who shared their stories,...

Italian, American & Jewish

Interview with Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (CUNY): "As an Italian in the US you were automatically identified as a Catholic;...