Laura E. Ruberto

Trump defends troops in US cities after Hegseth decries military DEI efforts President and defense chief delivered pair of incendiary speeches to a crowd of hundreds of generals and admirals

Rolling out fascism

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Italian American Review Vol. 15, No. 1, a special issue on periodicals in the Italian Diaspora, also contains three new book reviews and a film review. cc: @calandrainstitute.bsky.social and @josephsciorra.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/iar/issu...

Heavy scuffles in #Milano during the strike for #Gaza (via x . com)

Milano, caos al corteo per Gaza: assalto alla stazione, scontri pro Pal-Polizia | Piantedosi: "Isolare i violenti ma non vieteremo i cortei"
http://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/25_settembre_22/milano-manifestazione-gaza-pro-pal-scontri-stazione-0a42d9bc-02c2-44fd-a68a-8080ec949xlk.shtml

MILANO, 50.000 IN PIAZZA PER GAZA

Folla oceanica oggi al corteo dello sciopero per la Palestina. Assedio alla Stazione Centrale con violenti scontri

#FreePalestine
#StopBombingGaza
#CeasefireNow
#StopGenocide
#GlobalSumudFlotilla

Check out the 3D model of the Calandra Institute's exhibit "Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States" curated by Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra. @laura-e-ruberto.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social

Cover of Italian American Review, Volume 15, Issue 1, Winter 2025 Multi-colored yellow background featuring the art work of Vincent Baldassano—an abstract house design.

In Italian American Review 15.1, Marcella Martin focuses on a late 20th-century periodical published at a time when many were predicting the end of the Italian ethnic press in the US. cc: @calandrainstitute.bsky.social and @josephsciorra.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/iar/arti...

How the Italian anthem 'Bella Ciao' is connected to Charlie Kirk's killing From its association with workers' rights in the 19th century to its inclusion in a video game, the famous old Italian song "Bella Ciao" has an evolving legacy.

Yes of course I figured 😊 - here’s a good piece @npr.org ran Friday in case you / others missed it www.npr.org/2025/09/12/n...

Yes! I (and others) have !

www.google.com/books/editio...

Happy to share that the exhibit I curated w/ @josephsciorra.bsky.social , Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States, has been extended through November 26, 2025. Check it out!

Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
25 W 43rd St Fl 17, New York, NY
@calandrainstitute.bsky.social

💜 seeing this! #Italianpows

Thanks to all these people and more for your advocacy around her history continuing to be remembered and studied @anteenuke.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @monicabee.bsky.social @ewingbrooks.bsky.social and others who I’m missing on Bluesky right now !

Overlooked No More: Tina Modotti, Whose Life Was as Striking as Her Photographs

Glad the @nytimes.com finally recognized Tina Modotti by running an obituary of this immigrant activist and artist.

I—along with others—have been submitting her to their “Overlooked No More” series

I’d love to know how they ultimately decided to run one
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

“Martin Scorsese” di Lorenzo Marmo (a cura di) Marsilio, 2025 - Un'immersione nel cinema del grande regista, fra i suoi film di denuncia sociale e riflessione sul senso di fallimento e del peccato, che hanno fatto della violenza un campo di indagi...

nuovo libro a cura di Lorenzo Marmo su Scorsese con un capitolo mio sul film "Domenica in chiesa, lunedì all'inferno" / New book out edited by Lorenzo Marmo un Scorsese with a chapter of mine on "Mean Streets" - Marsilio Editori
www.sololibri.net/Martin-Scors...

very cool to see this 3-D version of the exhibit I curated with @josephsciorra.bsky.social -- on view in person until September 26 in NYC @calandrainstitute.bsky.social

Asylum-seekers thought they were following the rules. Now some are told to start over NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters notifying them that their asylum cases have been dismissed because they have not yet received a screening interview.

NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters notifying them that their asylum cases have been dismissed because they have not yet received a screening interview.

Mattarella ricorda Marcinelle: “Tutela dei lavoratori e lotta allo sfruttamento urgente necessità”
https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2025/08/08/news/mattarella_marcinelle_tragedia_1956_lavoratori_morti-424778814/?rss

Black and pink text on a gray background advertises the Howard Zinn Book Fair on December 7 2025 in San Francisco. There is also a small line drawing of historian Howard Zinn.

indeed!

Italian Americans, for and Against Mamdani, Square Off in New York

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/n...

It’s not - sadly.

L’avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960

Sometimes migration themes are on the margins of a film’s story but are no less revealing or impactful.

Screening Migration at www.instagram.com/p/DMMHTvKSoA...

YouTube video by Вайнах Лига Lady Without Passport, A Original Trailer

“when someone wants to go somewhere else so badly that they’ll risk their life then it’s time for me to help them, not send them away”

A Lady Without Passport, 1950, Joseph H. Lewis

See also: www.instagram.com/p/DL7sdspRUs...

#immigrants
#refugees

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pag5...

Digital History Seed Grants Visit the post for more.

***Digital History Seed Grants***

The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields.

Deadline: 8/1/25

iehs.org/awards/seed_...

Migrant Screens
I teach a course that traces the cinematic representations of immigrations—considering borders, journeys, assimilation, historical & ongoing policies around refugees, asylum seekers, economic migrants, etc.
kicking-off a related IG profile-join me

www.instagram.com/migrantscree...

Check out this new special issue on Citizenship and Migration co-edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social for the Journal of American and Ethnic History!

The introduction is open access and available to all for free.

scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

I'm fairly confident cages is not what Lady Liberty had in mind as a location from which to breath freely....

'Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free'

Migrant Screens
I teach a course that traces the cinematic representations of immigrations—considering borders, journeys, assimilation, historical & ongoing policies around refugees, asylum seekers, economic migrants, etc.
kicking-off a related IG profile-join me

www.instagram.com/migrantscree...

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.