Event Lectures and Symposia EU Month of Culture: Defining Italian-American Identity through Opera

Kluge Center Director Dr. John Haskell will interview Dr. Davide Ceriani about his project, titled, “Defining Italian Cultural Identity in American Urban Centers through Opera from Mass Migration to World War II.”  Ceriani’s interdisciplinary, multi-lingual research aims to fill a significant gap in immigration history, which at least in the case of Italian-Americans has focused primarily on socioeconomic improvement and only occasionally on the arts; with few exceptions, opera in particular has been ignored.   Kluge will also host a small display of corresponding items from the Library’s collections in LJ-113.

During the European Month of Culture the EU highlights the diverse cultures of the 28 European Union Member States for American audiences. During May, the EU is sponsoring musical performances, art exhibits and tours, film screenings, and lectures at the National Gallery of Art, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Folger Shakespeare Library, NYU Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, EU Embassies, EU Cultural Institutes, and here at the John W. Kluge Center.