Globalizing the Debate on Migrations at Stony Brook University
“Given the centrality of migration in transforming cultures internationally, this conference serves as a launching pad for what we hope will become a college-wide initiative dealing with migrations in global perspective,” said Professor E. Ann Kaplan, Director of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook.
Nuovi muri vent'anni dopo
Ora sì, è certo: dopo 28 anni, 2 mesi e 26 giorni, il Muro di Berlino è stato aperto. Cambia per sempre la vita dei berlinesi e dell’Europa. Ma davvero la storia della caduta del muro, della chiusura del “secolo breve” e della fine della guerra fredda è tutta chiarita?
November 10, 2009
Italian Entrepreneurs Meet with African Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Bea Spadacini Photographer
Classic Rwandan Geometric Art Patternsnull
The author led a delegation of Italian entrepreneurs involved in Fair Trade to meet with local business people in Kenya and Rwanda
Giuseppe Gagliardi and Peppe Voltarelli Take San Diego
Film maker Giuseppe Gagliardi and actor/musician Peppe Voltarelli visit the San Diego Italian Film Festival in occasion of the screening of their film, La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar.
L'Aquila. Un cumulo di macerie
“Se va avanti così, smaltiamo in 50 anni.” “finora le cose fatte sono del tutto inadeguate.” Parole del prefetto dell’Aquila, Franco Gabrielli, non quelle di uno dei tanti cittadini impazienti… Il sasso nello stagno è di notevoli dimensioni. Anche lo stagno - ce ne siamo resi conto tutti - è di notevoli dimensioni. A situazioni di questa portata si deve rispondere con misure eccezionali.
November 9, 2009
Wines by Joseph, Food by Lidia
by Charles Scicolone
Manzo (Roasted all-natural angus beef flat iron with mushrooms, with sliced hanger steak tagliata, and swiss chard and potatoes)
The Wine Media Guild at Felidia Restaurant. Joseph Bastianich and Lidia: a Passion for Wine and Food
November 9, 2009
Harder Side of Italian Life Seen In Neorealist Films
Riso Amaro e Giorni di Gloria - The heavier side of Italian life showcased at Neorealism Film Festival.
November 9, 2009
Slide Show Update on Chicago's Casa Italia Library
This is an update on the progress that we are making at the Florence Roselli Casa Italia Library in Stone Park (Chicago) from a Power Point presentation done at the American Italian Historical Association annual conference in Baton Rouge last week.
Casa Italia in Stone Park, IL--- 15 miles from Chicago's Loop and 5 miles from O'Hare airport--- is a multi-faceted operation including exhibits, meeting rooms, banquet halls, sleeping rooms, festival grounds, club rooms and office space for the Fra Noi and Joint Civic Committee. Our focus here is the development of a Library of Italian American Culture and the preservation of primary resource material , before it's too late, in a digital archive.
Italian Americans say movie 'Staten Island' offends
Silive.com. "Staten Island," the film, is a darkly humorous love letter to director James DeMonaco's home town (he grew up in Prince's Bay) -- following a pack of mobsters and the would-be innocents they ensnare through the borough's strip malls, salumerias and large, empty swaths of land. And while filmmakers often draw on their roots in character-making (read Woody Allen and Eddie Murphy), some Staten Islanders, especially those of Italian American descent, are incensed over the depiction of the "forgotten borough" as it is dubbed in the film's promotional poster. (Read the article)
Feting Fellini: French museum highlights Italian master's work
The Washington Post. PARIS. Federico Fellini, once viewed by some as a mere farceur, has become a classic. The Jeu de Paume is honoring the Italian film director with a vast exhibition, aptly named "La Grande Parade." (Read the article)
Italians want crucifixes to stay in classrooms: poll
REUTERS. Some 84 percent of Italians oppose a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that crucifixes should be removed from Italian classrooms, according to a poll on Sunday.
The poll in the Corriere della Sera newspaper showed 84 percent of Italians want the crucifixes to stay, 14 percent said they should be taken down and two percent had no opinion. (Read the article)
November 8, 2009
Giuseppe Gagliardi and Peppe Voltarelli Take San Diego
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Voltarelli and Gagliardi at Caffe' Calabria, San Diego
Film maker Giuseppe Gagliardi and actor/musician Peppe Voltarelli visit the San Diego Italian Film Festival in occasion of the screening of their film, La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar.
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