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B.G. Firmani @bgfirmani.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Really cool to see this digitized archive of fascinating public domain items from the James J. Periconi Collection of Italian-language American imprints. Thank you, @jstor.bsky.social and @calandrainstitute.bsky.social! #Immigrants #ItalianAmerican #radicalhistory www.jstor.org/site/queensc...

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A particularly poignant time for a conference on religion.

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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...

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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute @calandrainstitute.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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. calandrainstitute.org/2026/01/14/a...

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"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.

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

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”

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Resisting Italian American identity and politics as racist and xenophobic.

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Italian Americans for Zohran www.instagram.com/italiansforz... @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

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

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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

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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute @calandrainstitute.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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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Laura E. Ruberto @laura-e-ruberto.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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 shorturl.at/JeC1f

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

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?...

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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute @calandrainstitute.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

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 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/a...

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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.

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Congrats! Looking forward to reading it

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

New Yorker cartoon.

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/n...

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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.

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Dr. S. Deborah Kang @kangborderlaw.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

reading Chabon’s ‘The Yiddish Policemen’s Union’ (2007) in the morning then Cohen Bros’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ (2013) at night and noticed something….

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I’m curious about the significance of the image of a tired, resting, or sleepy St. Joseph in Italian paintings of the Nativity. This is not the prone St. Joseph who while sleeping receives divine messages before the Nativity.

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thinking about family photos: “What an image can really reveal, and how memories shift and shape our sense of self. ‘Is a photograph actually a record of something, or is it meaningless without interpretation?’ she asks.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/m...

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‘A Photographic Memory’ Review: The Imperfect Past (Gift Article)

A daughter hunts for the mother she never knew in an extraordinary, elegiac documentary.

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Joseph Sciorra @josephsciorra.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

So many amazing new books by colleagues! Where to begin?

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