Center for Italian Studies

January

Announcement: Center for Italian Studies and the Professional Education Program Outreach Office Annual Essay Contest for Secondary School Students. 2008 Theme: Updating Immigration History-Examining Recent  Italian Migration to the United States (1960-2006). 

Call (631) 632-7444 for Guidelines and additional details.                

20, Sunday, 2:00 p.m.

Long Island Premiere Performance of Documentary: Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans and the Movies. Location: Cinema Arts Center, 423 Park Avenue, Huntington.  See additional information at end of this message.  

February

9, Saturday,7:30 p.m.

Live Performance in Recital Form of the Italian Renaissance Play: La Calandra by Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena, recently translated into English by Carolyn Balducci. 

Location: Montauk Library, 871 Montauk Highway.  Free and open to the public.  Call 631-632-7444 or 631-668-3377 for additional information.  

24, Sunday 5:00 p.m.

11th Annual Italian American Mass followed by Italian cuisine.  Sponsored by the Catholic Campus Ministry with the cooperation of Stony Brook University's Center for Italian Studies and CIAO, the Students' Italian Club.  Location:  Ballroom, Student Union Building. 

Please call 631-632-7444 if you and your family would like to attend.  (In commemoration of the 11th Anniversary Celebration of the Italian Mass and Dinner, donations to the Catholic Campus Ministry will be greatly appreciated.)  

March

7, Friday. 9:30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.

Symposium: The Ethnic Eye/I: Memoir and Italian American Cultures.  Presentations by B. Amore, Founder of the Carving Studies & Sculpture Center in Rhode Island; Mary Cappello, University of Rhode Island; Louise DeSalvo, Hunter College; Edvige Giunta, New Jersey City University, Josephine Gattuso Hendin, New York University. 

Location: Center for Italian Studies Lecture Hall, Stony Brook University Melville Library, Room E4340. 

Free and Open to the public except for optional lunch. 

Call 631-632-7444 for additional information or email Symposium Chairperson: Professor Mary Jo Bona.

 13, Thursday, Time to be Announced

Lecture: Anthony Costantini, California State University at Northridge.  Topic: Discovering Piero Gobetti.  All are invited.  Call 631-632-7444 for additional information.  

28, Friday, 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.

Twenty-fourth Annual Student Poetry Contest sponsored by LI Chapter, American Association of Teachers of Italian in collaboration with Stony Brook University's Center for Italian Studies,  Department of European Languages. and Professional Education Program Outreach Office.  Recitations by students of Italian from participating local secondary schools followed by award ceremonies. 

Location: Stony Brook University's Student Activity Center.  For further information, please contact Isabel Cosentino 631-632-7440 or by email:  isbelle@aol.com.   

April                   

Dates and Times to be Announced:

Exhibition: Sicilian Crossings  to America and the Derived Communities as formerly presented at the Ellis Island   Museum, November 2007. Stony Brook University Location: Wang Center.  Details about opening ceremonies and reception along with viewing possibilities will be made available as soon as these are finalized.  

Listing of courses of Italian interest scheduled for spring 2008:  

Italian Civilization Through the Ages, Mon/Wed, 3:50 -5:10 p.m., Professor Andrea Fedi

Sex and Politics in Italian Cinema, Tu., 2:20-3:40 p.m., Th. 2:20-5:10 p.m., Prof. Giacchino Balducci

Introduction to 20th Century Drama, Tues/Thur, 3:50-5:10 p.m., Professor Luigi Fontanella

Sex, Love, and Tragedy in Early Italian Literature, Tues/Thur., 2:20-3:40 p.m, Prof. Charles Franco

The Italian American Experience in Literature, Tues/Thur., 9:50-11:10 a.m., Prof. Mary Jo Bona

Image of Italian Americans in Films, Mon. 5:20-6:40 p.m., Wed. 5:20-8:10 p.m., Prof. Peter Carravetta  

Senior citizens are allowed to audit any of these courses if space is available. If you are interested, call 631-632-7063 January 30.

Sunday, January 20 at 2:00pm only at

Huntington's CINEMA ARTS CENTRE

BEYOND WISEGUYS: Italian Americans and the Movies

A fascinating exploration of the intersection between Italian American Life and the Movies. 

A mosaic of interviews with well-known contemporary Italian American filmmakers and actors like John Turturro, Isabella Rossellini, Susan Sarandon, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Tucci, Chazz Palminteri, Marisa Tomei.

In Person: Dominic Chianese (The Sopranos) with producer Rosanne De Luca Braun, director Steve Fischler, and writer Joel Sucher

Documentary recounts the compelling untold story of how Italian Americans transformed themselves from "outsiders" – stereotyped by the Hollywood establishment – into a creative force to be reckoned with.

 Admission Costs: $25 for Members of the Cinema Arts Center / $35 General Public, Includes Post-screening Reception.

Tickets can be purchased on line: www.CinemaArtsCentre.org  or at the box office during theater hours   423 Park Ave Huntington 631-423-7611; or by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006