"Il problema dei problemi": così Tommaso Conte, nominato vice presidente vicario della Commissione Scuola e Cultura, in assenza di padre Tassello, ha definito la questione della diffusione della lingua e cultura italiana nel mondo, intervenendo alla Plenaria Cgie in corso da ieri a Roma.   "Sostanzialmente – ha esordito - la situazione è sem...

Every year, the most important Italian-American organization in the United States awards scholarships to outstanding students in the summer for use during the following academic year.   The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) has recently announced that Ariana Alva Ferrari of San Francisco, CA, has received the Maurizio A. Gianturco...

The Department of Italian at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick Campus), invites applications for a three-year renewable position as Language Coordinator at the rank of Instructor, beginning on July 1, 2014.   The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in hand in Italian Studies and a specialization and/or long experi...

L'arte culinaria si conferma ambasciatrice d'eccezione della lingua italiana negli Stati Uniti, anche nei confronti dei giovanissimi.   E' quanto emerge con forza dall'appuntamento di ieri organizzato presso il nuovo Academia Barilla Restaurant di New York atto primo di una nuova serie di lezioni di italiano e cucina per gli studenti delle s...

Penobscot School, a nonprofit center for language learning and international exchange in MidCoast Maine, seeks a native Italian speaker to instruct four levels of Italian courses, conduct tutorials and immersion programs and to assist with cultural events throughout the academic year.   This position is available September, 2015 and requires...

by Serena Perfetto   A unique genius, but also a survivor of his time: professor Edward Goldberg could not find any other word to describe Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Italian artist whose talent influenced the development of the Western art. As art historian, who attained a PhD at Oxford and taught at Harvard, Mr Goldberg is also the founde...

George L. Graziadio Chair of Italian Studies' Clorinda Donato applauded the CSULB Academic Senate's approval of a new Master of Arts degree for Italian Studies beginning next fall at CSULB. "We're all very excited in Italian Studies about the new degree," said Donato, who joined Romance/German/Russian Languages and Literatures in 1988. "The goal o...

Compared to the amount of time Sam Sylvester has been speaking English, his entire life, his Italian is relatively new. "I've been learning it for four or five years, I think," Sylvester said. His skills were put to the test last spring when he traveled with 11 of his classmates to Italy.   "When I got there, how it looks is how I expe...

Quali sono le sfide nel mercato americano per le creazioni e i prodotti italiani? Quali valori culturali veicolano le ditte italiane nel territorio metropolitano tra New York City e il New Jersey? A cosa si deve il persistente successo di firme italiane? Come una formazione culturale italiana può essere spendibile nel mondo del business negli State...

  WTI Magazine #54    2015 February, 20Author : Nicola Bergamo      Translation by: John Cabot University   I grew up fascinated by the United States, just like all my peers who lived through the Cold War since childhood. At the time, there was the division between good and bad, between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and oppression,...