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In Calabria for a Unique Summer Program

Application deadline is March 1, 2016. Don't miss this opportunity. Is the second year of the 'Italian Diaspora Studies Summer School', a successful collaborative program between...

Interview with Anthony Julian Tamburri, Distinguished Professor

O. C.

Now, effective this past September 1, Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute is a CUNY Distinguished Professor. The status is conferred...

Why MAFIAs? Studying What Many Have Chosen To Ignore

Joseph Sciorra

APRIL 25 & 26 AT THE JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE. A two-day symposium involving historians and criminologists, sociologists, literary and film critics, as well...

Migration and Development

Classroom Conversations Connecting the United Nations with world’s classrooms through discussions on today’s major issues and global responses to them Migration and...

Lingue Migranti, The Global Languages of Italy and the Diaspora

Anthony J. Tamburri *

Yesterday, April 27, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute concluded two-day conference on yet another significant aspect of our community and its ever expanding issues: the...

Italian Identity and Italian Americans in the Third Millennium

Azzurra Giorgi

Constructive dialogue at John Jay College. Italian and Italian American authors discussed the changing nature of Italian and Italian American culture in contemporary society....

Italian/American Culture: Journals and Conferences

Anthony Julian Tamburri

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...

“Promoting Better Relations Through Education” The Lehman-LaGuardia Award for Civic Achievement


Dean 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...

Terra Sogna Terra. Exploring Food Traditions in the Italian-American Garden

Gabrielle Pati

Lucia Grillo’s full-length documentary Terra Sogna Terra celebrated its premiere screening last week at the Calandra Italian American Institute.

The Verses and Battles of Arturo Giovannitti

Antonella Iovino

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...

Arizona Ethnic Studies Bill And Then Some...

Anthony Julian Tamburri

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....

Earthquake in Abruzzo. Our most heart-felt condolences

Anthony Julian Tamburri

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

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