A particularly poignant time for a conference on religion.

Laura Ruberto and I wrote the article, "Italian American Columbuses: Contested Spaces, Unstable Identities, and Public Memories," for ‘Memoria e Ricerca’ special issue "Colombo conteso: Immagini, rappresentazion e rivisitazioni.” @laura-e-ruberto.bsky.social www.rivisteweb.it/issn/1127-01...

The $1,000 fellowship is for graduate students who are writing their dissertation on any topic involving Italian emigrant and/or Italian ethnic labor and/or working-class life either in the United States or in the wider Italian diaspora.

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Alberto Grandi debunking Italian food myths. “Italian cuisine did not migrate. It was invented abroad by people who had finally found something to eat.”

"Nearly a century later, it’s astonishing to see “a person whose grandfather was an immigrant engaging in such abhorrent and violent treatment of contemporary migrants,” Joseph Sciorra — the director of academic programs at the Calandra Italian American Institute at CUNY — said of Bovino.

such a petty lowlife

More news about the book ‘Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move’ with my article “The Visual Culture of Italian Migrant Return: Snapshots at the Crossroads of Home Visits and Touristic Itineraries”

Two talks! See you in Madison.

I co-edited this special issue of the ‘Italian American Review’ on the topic of periodicals in the Italian diaspora

What a treat gathering with contributors to present my article “The Visual Culture of Italian Migrant Return: Snapshots at the Crossroads of Home Visits and Touristic Itineraries” in this exciting new book

Cool 3D rendering of an exhibit I co-curated!

Resisting Italian American identity and politics as racist and xenophobic.

Italian Americans for Zohran www.instagram.com/italiansforz...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

My chapter in ‘Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move’ (out this month with @nyupress.bsky.social) looks at family photos and the #visualculture of Italian migrant home visits.
@kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social

Daffy Duchamp

i hear you. i have over 400 followers and hardly a LIKE to posts. hard to to get traction

I’m excited to have an article in this collection about photos of Italian migrant home visits.

indeed

Chicago Park District to loan Columbus statue to Italian American group for museum, end lawsuit The City of Chicago, which owns the statues, will not be bringing the statues back to their former sites in Grant Park and Arrigo Park.

seems like a trend, similar to what happened in Chicago www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Call for Papers for the Institute's 2026 annual conference on the theme of "Religions, Beliefs, and the Supernatural in Italy and across Italian Mobilities." DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: SEPTEMBER 15th.

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May 1 the exhibit @josephsciorra.bsky.social & I curated opens: CREATIVITY AND WORLD WAR II ITALIAN POWS IN THE UNITED STATES

I was happy to be in NYC to celebrate it w/colleagues, friends, former students and a curators-selfie!

pics/info @calandrainstitute.bsky.social
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A broadcast of the @radiopopolare.bsky.social program "Sacca di diavolo" on the subject of European #Easter #folkmusic with hosts Giancarlo Nostrini and Marco ??, April 18, 1992. youtu.be/-BlWJllhrp0?...

a rotten shame

Our exhibit, opening May 1st, “Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States,” curated by Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra, and designed by Polly Franchini, is coming together. @laura-e-ruberto.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social

Martin Wong, Medici of the Aerosol Art Set (Gift Article) A patron saw the beauty in graffiti when most of the world thought it was mere nuisance. Now the writing (of Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee, Futura and others) is on the museum wall.

Martin Wong, the “Cosimo de’ Medici of the aerosol set.” His collection is highlighted in “Above Ground,” an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, until August 10th

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Congrats! Looking forward to reading it

New Yorker cartoon.

Lou Nasti, Who Brought Christmas Displays to Extravagant Life, Dies at 79 (Gift Article) A robotics specialist, he animated puppets and dolls for displays worldwide. His “Toyland,” with a two-story-high Santa, drew sightseers to a Brooklyn home for years.

I’m sorry to read of Lou Nasti’s passing. I interviewed him in 2006 for my chapter on Christmas house displays for my book ‘Built with Faith’ (2015). He made Dyker Heights, Bklyn, the mecca of holiday lights.
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The next time you see me, I'll be handing you one of these: bookmarks for our edited volume on unauthorized European migrations to the United States (forthcoming May 2025) @dbattisti.bsky.social @illinoispress.bsky.social