As part of the 100th Anniversary Convention of the American Association of Teachers of Italian, held July 5-8 in Catania, Sicily, faculty from the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures combined to present a panel on "Gaming the Mediterranean: Teaching and Researching through Virtual Reality." 

Assistant professor Rhodora Vennarucci ("The Virtual Roman Retail Project: Developing Digital Archaeology Pedagogy for the Classroom'') focused on the incorporation of digital workflows for archaeological visualization into an upper-level honors colloquium on ancient shopping, marketing history, and consumer behavior.