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September 29, 2012 * 10AM to 4:30PM

Lang Recital Hall, North Building

Hunter College, East 68th St.

(between Park and Lexington Avenues)

Finding Joseph Tusiani:

The Poet of Two Lands

This symposium takes its name from the documentary on Joseph Tusiani made in 2011 by Sabrina DiGregorio. A major voice in American and Italian letters, Tusiani has dedicated his professional life to the creation, promotion, and promulgation of Italian Studies in the United States. An international award-winning poet, he writes in four different languages (English, Gargano Dialect, Italian, Latin) and has published his work worldwide.

10,00 AM Opening Comments

Paolo Fasoli, Chair, Romance Languages, Hunter College

Joseph Sciame, President, Italian Heritage & Culture Committee

Riccardo Viale, Director, Italian Cultural Institute, New York

Natalia Quintavalle, Consul General of Italy to New York

10,30 AM Re-reading Joseph Tusiani

Maria C. Pastore Passaro

          "La poesia inesplorata di Joseph Tusiani"

John T. Kirby

          "Tusiani and Neo-Latin"

Luigi Bonaffini

          "Tusiani, Writer and Translator of Dialect Poetry"

Paolo Giordano

          "Tusiani's American Odyssey"

Luigi Fontanella

          "Joseph Tusiani and His Poetry in Gradiva"

12,30 PM Lunch break (Lunch provided) 

1,30 PM Film Viewing

Finding Joseph Tusiani: The Poet of Two Lands

Dir. Sabrina Digregorio. Atena Films, 2011. (80 min.)

3,00 PM Tavola Rotonda

Conference Participants and Filmmaker

4,00 PM Presentation of the Leonardo da Vinci Award

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee NY, Inc. and Atena Films

Conference Coordinators

Giuliana Ridolfi & Anthony Julian Tamburri

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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor

New York, New York 10036

(Between 5^th and 6^th Avenues)

Free and open to the public. RSVP by calling (212) 642-2094. Please note that seating is limited and we cannot reserve seats. 

For further information see our Web site at www.qc.edu/calandra.

Recapturing Italian American Family History---Immortalizing YOUR family

Recapturing Italian American Family History---Immortalizing YOUR family

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Adam Kessel did a video about his grandfather—so can you.	Gloria Valentino urges you to write it down, do journals. Tony Maro created a digital book—so can you.	Kim Palmisano,  will share her experiences doing scrapbooks via Skype
Dan Niemiec lectures on genealogy—He has all the tools and shows how to use them.	CJ  Martello-- Fra Noi Columnist and an organizer of Roseland Roundtable on Facebook will share his techniques. http://www.facebook.com/groups/306489314524/

Recapturing Italian-American Family History            Immortalize your Family

April 13 - 7:30 p.m. in the Florentine Room of the Italian Cultural Center.  Learn to put together scrapbooks, videos and websites that preserve the histories of your families. 

Dan Niemiec will give a presentation on Passage Express, a software program that creates DVDs of family photos and movies.  Writing Guru Gloria Valentino explains how to write A GREAT CAMEO NARRATIVE IN FIVE EASY STEPS. What is a Cameo Narrative?  A brief story (fifty words or fewer) about a photograph, a Cameo narrative does in words what a photo does in images, adding invaluable, rich textures of feeling & life experience to your photo albums.                                  To reserve, call 708-345-5933 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            708-345-5933      end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

Bring old family photos, documents, letters, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, membership cards and pins, memorial holy cards,  awards,  club minutes, telegrams, uniforms, event tickets and programs, church commemorative booklets and we’ll help you discover the history behind them--Just like “Antique Road Show.”