The Scuola Italiana Enrico Fermi (SIEF) is pleased to announce exciting news: the inauguration of its Chicago location in Wicker Park, Toddlers playgroups, Saturday classes and the first Italian Summer Camp in Chicago. The Scuola (SIEF) will open its doors on April 2nd, 2016 for Playgroups and Children Courses on Saturdays at the Monsigno...

The Italian National Engineer Council, in collaboration with ISSNAF, just announced a contest for the assignment of 9 scholarship opportunities reserved to the engineers enrolled in the Italian professional roster who were born after 1978. The announcement will be fully presented in Cernobbio on April 30th during the conference about the training o...

250 million people worldwide speak Italian and are connected to Italian culture. The Italian government has long been committed to increasing that number through a variety of foundations, organizations and global initiatives. In fact, promotion of the Italian language and culture is one of the primary objectives of the Italian Consulate in Los Ange...

ICS Award Applications deadline: Post-Marked on the 2nd Friday of May, (May 8) except for Maria Guarrera Wilmeth Awards, which have a deadline of Friday, May 1. Applicants should be no more than 25 years of age as of May 1.   Selection will occur during May and awards will be presented at the ICS  Awards Gala, which takes place in...

by Nicola Orichuia   In recognition of outstanding academic achievement, Victoria Pace '15 has been named the Stonehill College Foreign Languages Department's 2015 Outstanding Student in Italian.    Pace, a psychology major with a minor in Italian studies from Everett, Massachusetts, has demonstrated a commitment to scholarship t...

Critical studies on the Italian canzone d'autore and popular music are becoming numerous, often intertwining society, music and poetry. Please, consider submitting an abstract for the next NeMLA Annual Convention, held from March 17 to 20, 2016 in Hartford, CT, for the panel: "New Perspectives on the Italian canzone d'autore and Popular Music." &n...

The Department of Modern Language Studies welcomes applications for a one-year, non-continuing full-time Italian lecturer for the 2014-2015 academic year, beginning in August 2014. M.A. degree in Italian language, literature, or culture required, Ph.D. preferred.   Applicants should have at least two years teaching experience at the universi...

Italy isn't just globally famous for his beauty or for his way of life. The Italian language has contaminated many fields: arts, poetry, food, design, cinema and music, becoming during the past century a truly global heritage.   The Italian language still fascinated many people around the world, so for help them the App Babbel choose 8 Itali...

Wichita State University's School of Music and Performing Arts will present "The Light in the Piazza" as part of National Opera Week at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 29-31, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, in Miller Concert Hall.   The romantic musical comedy, which won six Tony Awards, follows the story of two young lovers in 1950s Italy. Par...

The Columbian Foundation hosted their 74th Annual Humanitarian, Achievement, and President's Awards Dinner on Saturday, October 17 at at Birchwood Manor in Whippany, NJ. Honorees included the Foundation's first ever father/son duo, Senator Anthony R. Bucco and his son, Assemblyman Anthony M. Bucco, East Hanover Mayor Joseph Pann...