The AP® Italian Reading will take place June 12-18, 2014 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the third year after the AP® Italian has been reinstated as a course and, after the excellent results of the two previous years, we are once more all looking forward to this year's Reading with great anticipation.   The Chief Reader, the Q...

The stunning 15th-century Villa La Pietra in the Montughi hills of Florence will be open May 28 through August 7 to host readings with contemporary Italian and American authors, concerts and theater performances organized by New York University Florence. The 10th edition of NYU's The Season, a city-wide annual event, will debut with the first of f...

Dear Friends: As the president of FIAME, I welcome you back from the summer days to a new school year. You will find attached the 2012–2013 membership renewal form and dates for upcoming events that may be of interest to you. Please mark your calendars with these dates.   The tax exempt membership dues remain at twenty dollars ($20.00) for...

La VOCE di New York ha intervistato Luca Serianni, professore ordinario di Storia della lingua italiana all'università "La Sapienza" di Roma .   Serianni ha condotto indagini sulla storia linguistica italiana dal Medioevo a oggi, e sulla diffusione dell'italiano nel mondo. Socio dell'Accademia della Crusca e dell'Accademia dei Lincei, nel 20...

di Riccardo Chioni   Si apre un nuovo capitolo per la Scuola d'Italia "G. Marconi" che dopo tanti anni di gestazione vedrà realizzarsi il progetto di una nuova sede adeguata all'istituzione storica di New York che venerdì ha celebrato da Cipriani al 42nd Street il consueto gala a cui hanno partecipato 520 persone. Ad aprire la serata condot...

by Claudia Astarita   Rome is getting ready to host the big international event, second only to Maker Faire in the US. There will be more than 600 stalls with more that 700 inventions carefully selected among the most brilliant ones.   Moreover, the whole 15.000 m² area will host workshops and seminars held by the most important speak...

Job descriptionPart time teaching position; Small classes (5 to 10 students); Flexible schedule and syllabus. Job applicant requirementsLanguages: Italian – native speaker or level C1 (Common European Framework); English – fluent; Spanish – not required but preferableLaurea triennale or equivalent.Experience in teaching Italian...

With words like api (happy), sangawich (sandwich), agida (stomach acid) and tencsalotto (thanks a lot), every Italian immigrant succeeded in communicating bilingually thanks to italiese. First coined by Gianrenzo Clivio in 1975, italiese (italiano + inglese) was used to describe the mixture of Italian and English spoken by immigrants in North Ameri...

DetailsWHERE: The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue ROOM: 1218: Segal Theatre WHEN: February 27, 2015: 2:30 PM-5:00 PM CONTACT INFO: http://www.womensstudies/ ADMISSION: Free   DescriptionA celebration of the special issue of The Journal of Modern Italian Studies on Italian Fashion. There will be a Roundtabl...

The Rev. John Lo Schiavo, former president of the University of San Francisco who presided over the university's resurgence and a shutdown of its basketball program, died Friday. He was 90. Lo Schiavo died in the infirmary at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos, said University of San Francisco spokeswoman Anne-Marie Devine Tasto.  ...