On Sunday, May 20 at 2 pm, enter the wonderful world of Frank Sinatra with Dr. Stanislao G. Pugliese when he presents his popular lecture Longing, Loss and Nostalgia: Frank Sinatra and Italian American Culture.

There are almost as many Sinatras as our imaginations may will into existence: the wise-guy kid from the streets of Hoboken; the vulnerable crooner who made the bobby soxers swoon at the Paramount; the self-destructive moth to the flame of Ava Gardner; the eternal Maggio and the Comeback Kid; the head Rat with rock glass in hand; the original "gangsta" epitomizing cool and a certain way with women; the the ferociously proud Italian American; the Chairman of the Board; Ol' Blue Eyes; civil rights spokesperson. In short, Sinatra was the platform upon which much of American culture was written in the second half of the twentieth century.

Dr. Pugliese is professor of history at Hofstra University and the author, editor or translator of a dozen books on Italian American History. He is a former fellow at Columbia University, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge University.