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This edition: Claudio Pagliara

Episode Details

Original tape date: June 17, 2025. First aired: August 25, 2025.

Our guest this month is journalist Claudio Pagliara, newly appointed director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. Since 2019 Pagliara has served as chief correspondent of Rai’s New York bureau, leading radio and TV news coverage from the US and North America. His distinguished career includes previous reporting on global events in Paris, Jerusalem, and Beijing. He is fluent in Italian, French, English, Hebrew, and Chinese. He now shares his expertise and insight in his new role as head of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York.

Guest List

Claudio Pagliara Director, Italian Cultural Institute/NY

Cav. Anthony Julian Tamburri, PhD. Host, Italics

  • About this series

  • Italics, Television for the Italian American Experience is a monthly presentation in the CUNY Presents timeslot that features prominent Italian Americans in the arts, business, government, sports, academia, and more. Each episode explores various aspects of the Italian diaspora, Italian-American history and traditions, contemporary Italian-American life, and takes a projected look at the future of the Italian-American community.

    Italics is hosted by Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College/CUNY and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures.

    Italics is now in its third decade serving the Italian-American community and those interested in Italian-American history and culture. Italics is co-produced with the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute.

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  • Monday – Thursday 9:30am

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