Friday, April 10, 2020. 5.30 pm - 6.30 pm. 45 minutes lecture, 15 minutes Q & A. The webinar will take place online through Google Hangouts. The webinar is $10 for all Filitalia members and non members. Space is limited, only 15 seats available. RSVP is required, so please reserve your ticket online. REGISTER NOW

Join Angela Cacciarru, Ph.D. and learn how the modern history of Italy, and the current history of Italian and American economic development are interrelated with the history of one prominent family: the Agnelli. You will learn how they became associated with the production of FIAT cars and the city of Turin, the iconic, elegant former Italian capital where FIAT production started.
 
You will also learn about the intertwined histories of both the Italian and American automotive industries.
We will look at how the Agnelli family was, once more, at the center of important entrepreneurial decisions that culminated in the merging of FIAT and Chrysler, and the creation of the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V., which is the world’s eighth largest auto maker.
 
More recently, FIAT, Chrysler and Peugeot have struck a binding deal to create the world’s fourth-biggest car-maker.
 
If you would like to understand how the journey of this unstoppable European family is maybe just the mirror of the state of the art of our current economy, you will gain insight in this exciting presentation!
 
About Angela Cacciarru:

Angela was born and raised in Italy, and has more than twenty years of experience as an instructor of Italian language and culture. She got her BA in Economics from the University of Cagliari, in Sardinia, where she also collaborated with a poetry magazine as an editor and author.

She left Italy in 1990, and, since then, has developed an extensive international and multidisciplinary teaching background in the United States, Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. She became an United States citizen in 2004.

Her knowledge of Human Geography, her academic specialty since her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been important in diversifying and broadening the content of her classes.

About Angela Cacciarru:
Angela was born and raised in Italy, and has more than twenty years of experience as an instructor of Italian language and culture. She got her BA in Economics from the University of Cagliari, in Sardinia, where she also collaborated with a poetry magazine as an editor and author.

She left Italy in 1990, and, since then, has developed an extensive international and multidisciplinary teaching background in the United States, Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. She became an United States citizen in 2004.

Her knowledge of Human Geography, her academic specialty since her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been important in diversifying and broadening the content of her classes.