Joseph Sciorra
@josephsciorra.bsky.social
ethnographer folklorist cultural historian: material culture*italian diaspora*religious studies. presepe builder. director of Academic & Cultural Programs at Calandra Institute, a CUNY-wide research institute
Two talks! See you in Madison.
October 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Two talks! See you in Madison.
July 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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
@kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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
@kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social
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?...
April 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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?...
reading Chabon’s ‘The Yiddish Policemen’s Union’ (2007) in the morning then Cohen Bros’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ (2013) at night and noticed something….
January 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
reading Chabon’s ‘The Yiddish Policemen’s Union’ (2007) in the morning then Cohen Bros’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ (2013) at night and noticed something….
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.
December 2, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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.
So many amazing new books by colleagues! Where to begin?
November 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM
So many amazing new books by colleagues! Where to begin?