John D Calandra Italian American Institute

09/09/2026

In Mildura

Ascolta Women Inc. invite senior Italian migrant women (70+) to a FREE lunch to share their migration stories at the Multicultural Conversation Cafe on Saturday 10 October, 11.30am at Brother Chris 86 Deakin Ave Mildura Bookings essential via Humanitix

https://events.humanitix.com/ascolta-women-s-multicultural-conversation-cafe

and
All-day Afternoon Tea: Sunday 11 October from 11.30am at St Joseph's Parish Hall 17 Fitzroy Ave Red Cliffs as part of the
Festa Solenne della Madonna del Santo Rosario
Drop in anytime (no bookings necessary)

Ascolta Women Inc. is a creative collective of multi-generation Italian Australian Women writing and listening to migrant women's stories. Find out more about us https://www.ascoltawomen.com

09/09/2026

October 16 at Hofstra University

09/08/2026

"As has been well documented by now, Luigi Mangione was neither lowly of birth nor noticeably oppressed. His upper-middle-class family was well off and completely Americanized. He was valedictorian of his private high school and graduated cm laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a master’s degree in engineering. He worked as a data engineer and lived for a while in Hawaii, where he injured his back while surfing, aggravating a spinal condition and leaving him, he said, to suffer with unrelenting, untreatable pain."

He was but an amateur compared to those who came before.

09/08/2026

The latest episode of Italics is out now! Watch online

✨ Check our last Italics episode
A “Call to Home” Exhibition at the Calandra Institute
https://tv.cuny.edu/homepage/show/italics/

John D Calandra Italian American Institute
CUNY TV

09/07/2026

Labor Day greetings from the Botto House National Landmark/American Labor Museum, Haledon, New Jersey

Happy Labor Day from Labor’s Schoolhouse! ❤️💪🇺🇸

09/04/2026

"Wahlberg, sporting a cartoonishly broad accent and aviator sunglasses, appears to be trying to outdo Viggo Mortensen’s mugging in “Green Book.” Scarpa may be a fish out of water, but that’s no reason for Wahlberg to act as if he’s in an entirely different movie."

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Mark Wahlberg do the F.B.I.’s dirty work in a civil rights picture caught between earnestness and exploitation.

09/04/2026

Italian American Review: Call for Submissions for Special Issue on Religion

https://calandrainstitute.org/2026/09/04/italian-american-review-call-for-submissions-for-special-issue-on-religion/

Call for Contributors
Special Journal Issue on Religion and Italian Mobilities
Submissions Due: November 1, 2026

The Italian American Review (IAR) invites submissions for a special issue on religion and Italian mobilities. Building on the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute’s April 2026 conference “Religions, Beliefs, and the Supernatural in Italy and Across Italian Mobilities” the IAR seeks articles that address the religious lives and practices of members of the Italian diaspora, current immigrants in Italy and their descendants, and former Italian colonial subjects.

Religious beliefs and practices shaped the ways in which Italian emigrants were seen and understood in new environs, especially in Protestant-dominant countries like the United States. Most recently Muslim and Buddhist immigrants in Italy have had to contend with the dominance of Catholicism in that country’s political and cultural spheres. In addition, Italy’s colonial and imperial projects in Africa and in the Mediterranean racialized religious differences as aspects of warfare and violent subjugation.

The Italian American Review is an interdisciplinary, bi-annual peer-reviewed journal of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, The City University of New York) that publishes scholarly articles about the history and culture of Italian Americans, as well as other aspects of the Italian diaspora. The journal embraces a wide range of professional concerns and theoretical orientations in the social sciences and in cultural studies.

Authors wishing to have an article manuscript considered for publication should email David Aliano ([email protected]) Rosangela Briscese ([email protected]) by November 1, 2026. For submission guidelines, see our website.

09/02/2026

🚨FALL SEMINARS ANNOUNCED🚨

Come see three seminars at the Calandra Institute this Fall, all free and open to the public. More information can be found on our events calendar online and via our newsletter.