Sons of Italy scholarship now available
The Order Sons of Italy in America Weed Lodge #1269 scholarship application is now available for high school seniors planning to graduate this spring and enroll in college or trade school in the fall of 2015. Applicants must have a minimum GPA of 3.0 for high school credit courses through seven consecutive semesters, and have a paren...
La Piccola Scuola Italiana (parte 2)
Recentemente L'Italo-Americano è andato a visitare La Piccola Scuola Italiana a San Francisco, insieme alla direttrice Valentina Imbeni. Dopo la pubblicazione della prima parte dell'incontro con due delle ideatrici del progetto, ecco la seconda parte dell'intervista. Uno dei precetti fondamentali dell'insegnamento di Reggio Emilia, sviluppatosi ne...
The 2013 Winner of the Poetry Contest funded by Fondazione Azzurra, Edulingua and The UCLA Italian Club
Alyanna Cardozo is the scholarship winner for the 2013 Poetry Contest funded by Fondazione Azzurra, Edulingua and The UCLA Italian Club. "It's been three years now since we started this program and we've been noticing an increase of interest in our language, especially among people who do not have Italian origins, which means that Italian...
What is Vernacular? How Dante invented Italian
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2015 Time: 6:30 PM. Location: IIC (Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite F, San Francisco) Organized by: Leonardo da Vinci Society, IIC Professor Ascoli will read and comment on verses from the Divina Commedia and the Convivio. The lecture will be followed by a Q & A session, and is a companion to the H...
International Boccaccio Conference Kicks Off at University of Berkeley
Just across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco — and 700 years into the past — distinguished professors from all over the world are lecturing on the work of 14th century Florentine poet and humanist Giovanni Boccaccio, renown for works such as Decameron and On Famous Women. Recently, San Franciscans enjoyed Pier Paolo Pasolini's Decameron at the Cas...
La lingua italiana ritorna protagonista all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di L.A.
In un articolo apparso sul Corriere della Sera nel gennaio 2010, il noto filologo e critico letterario Cesare Segre denunciava la crisi della nostra lingua e l'uso improprio che se ne fa nella vita di tutti i giorni, specialmente nei differenti contesti in cui viene applicata. Segre insisteva in particolare sulla mancanza di selettività dei cosidde...
La Scuola italiana stile Reggio fa tendenza nella Silicon Valley
San Francisco, 2002: i genitori di una decina di bimbi si ritrovano in una sala di periferia per ragionare su come finanziare la loro nuova "piccola scuola italiana". Sono ingegneri venuti nella Silicon Valley con il boom delle dot.com e italo-americani di seconda o terza generazione. Vogliono che i figli non perdano l'uso della nostra lin...
ItaLingua School of Italian and Culture's Annual Fundraiser and Auction in San Francisco
December 4, 2015, Friday 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM. Italian Consulate in San Francisco - 2590 Webster Street - San Francisco, California 94115. ItaLingua School of Italian Language and Culture invites you to attend their annual fundraiser and auction. ItaLingua is a non-profit, award-winning school, serving students of all levels a...
Casanova: Libertine Legend conference at UCLA
Casanova: Libertine Legend —a conference organized by Malina Stefanovska, University of California, Los Angeles, and Thomas Harrison, University of California, Los Angeles. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies and the Department of Italian. Friday & Saturday, January 22–23, 2016, 9:30 a.m.&nb...
Italian American Studies Association Conference Proposals
Music, theater, film, multi-media, mass media and advertising, publishing, artistic renderings, science and technology, and the burgeoning digital humanities have characterized and are changing the way Italian Americans conceive of themselves and how they re-conceptualize and re-signify their identities. In recognition of this powerful mom...
C’è Maria Montessori all’origine di Google ed Amazon? Brin e Page non hanno dimenticato…
By Roberto Bonzio E se all'origine della formazione di straordinari innovatori del web che a livello globale hanno rivoluzionato la nostra esistenza, come i fondatori di Google e Amazon ci fosse... un'italiana nata nell'Ottocento, Maria Montessori (1870-1952), riconosciuta a livello mondiale come pioniera dell'educazione creativa e libertaria? &n...
Commission Approves Fondazione Italia to Assess Teachers’ Italian Language Skills
The Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) approved the Southern California based Fondazione Italia as an assessor agency for teaching credentials in Italian language instruction at its August 2013 meeting. Fondazione Italia, located in Los Angeles, CA, is a non-profit organization that promotes and preserves the study of Italian langu...
