Laura E. Ruberto
@laura-e-ruberto.bsky.social
I'm a Humanities professor at Berkeley City College. I write abt Italian migration/transnational/diaspora topics, film, material culture, vernacular culture, monuments, Gramsci, POWs and more.
Anti-fascist, pro-the-people, through and through.
Anti-fascist, pro-the-people, through and through.
September 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
25 W 43rd St Fl 17, New York, NY
@calandrainstitute.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
25 W 43rd St Fl 17, New York, NY
@calandrainstitute.bsky.social
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...
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...
July 18, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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...
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...
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.
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www.instagram.com/migrantscree...
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...
June 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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...
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...
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
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
April 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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
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
more info here abt the exhibit I curated w/
@josephsciorra.bsky.social
May 1 - September 26, 2025
@calandrainstitute.bsky.social
"an opportunity to reflect on the myriad ways that identity and imagination are shaped materially during the adverse conditions of war"
#italianpows
shorturl.at/JeC1f
@josephsciorra.bsky.social
May 1 - September 26, 2025
@calandrainstitute.bsky.social
"an opportunity to reflect on the myriad ways that identity and imagination are shaped materially during the adverse conditions of war"
#italianpows
shorturl.at/JeC1f
April 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
more info here abt the exhibit I curated w/
@josephsciorra.bsky.social
May 1 - September 26, 2025
@calandrainstitute.bsky.social
"an opportunity to reflect on the myriad ways that identity and imagination are shaped materially during the adverse conditions of war"
#italianpows
shorturl.at/JeC1f
@josephsciorra.bsky.social
May 1 - September 26, 2025
@calandrainstitute.bsky.social
"an opportunity to reflect on the myriad ways that identity and imagination are shaped materially during the adverse conditions of war"
#italianpows
shorturl.at/JeC1f
New exhibit! Opening soon!
“Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States”
Curated Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra
Designed by Polly Franchini
May 1 - September 26, 2025
@calandrainstitute.bsky.social
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor
New York, NY
“Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States”
Curated Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra
Designed by Polly Franchini
May 1 - September 26, 2025
@calandrainstitute.bsky.social
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor
New York, NY
April 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
New exhibit! Opening soon!
“Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States”
Curated Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra
Designed by Polly Franchini
May 1 - September 26, 2025
@calandrainstitute.bsky.social
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor
New York, NY
“Creativity and World War II Italian POWs in the United States”
Curated Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra
Designed by Polly Franchini
May 1 - September 26, 2025
@calandrainstitute.bsky.social
25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor
New York, NY
Glorious screening of Hitchcock’s The Manxman at Grace Cathedral! Thanks to the San Francisco Silent Film Festival!
January 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Glorious screening of Hitchcock’s The Manxman at Grace Cathedral! Thanks to the San Francisco Silent Film Festival!
"He does not look like the heartthrob you see on postcards, [he looks] shady, shiftless, and arrogant, as though smeared in copious amounts of rancid oil. His body is as coarse and shapeless as a fat huckster's fist"
Walter Benjamin, describing Benito Mussolini, September 1924
Walter Benjamin, describing Benito Mussolini, September 1924
January 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"He does not look like the heartthrob you see on postcards, [he looks] shady, shiftless, and arrogant, as though smeared in copious amounts of rancid oil. His body is as coarse and shapeless as a fat huckster's fist"
Walter Benjamin, describing Benito Mussolini, September 1924
Walter Benjamin, describing Benito Mussolini, September 1924