The Municipality of Torricella Peligna (Province of Chieti), within the framework of the cultural festivals John Fante Festival “Il dio di mio padre” [“My Father’s God”] and Piccolo Festival delle Spartenze Migrazioni e Cultura [Small Festival of Departures, Migrations, and Culture], has launched a literary competition for unpublished stories, aime...

This questionnaire is part of a research project of the Catholic University of Milan supported in part by the General Directorate for Italians Abroad and Migration Policies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The research project is dedicated to Italian communities in North America in order to build a diffuse community...

Dear friends, as you know we do not stop even in August, and this is the editorial for the hottest month of the year. We are working on some new things that will see the light of day soon, and I hope to be able to announce some of these new things as early as next month. On July 29 I had the honor and pleasure of attending the John Fante Festival,...

On August 21, 2023 an exciting "Nostos," a return journey to discover territories at the crossroads of peoples, cultures, and traditions that have called the Mediterranean home in different phases of history will take place at Max Enoteca Trattoria in Cirò Marina, Calabria.  During the day long forum, Arcadians, Oenotri, Achaeans, and then Romans,...

July 19 2023 Torricella Peligna, Italy

Ciao from Rome, my dear friends readers of We the Italians. This new editorial has a lot of news regarding the activities and family of We the Italians. The first is that after Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Anchor, from this month you will find an account of We the Italians also on Tik Tok. It's an experiment, luckily it won't...

“Scoprirsi Italiani, speciale USA: il viaggio delle radici in Italia”, questo è stato il titolo del webinar condotto e moderato dal ricercatore Giuseppe Sommario dell’Associazione AsSud insieme a Riccardo Giumelli, membro ORI e Università Mar del Plata. Sommario ha ricordato l’esperienza già di successo del Piccolo Festival delle Spartenze; introdu...

The AsSud Association (which has among its statutory purposes the study of emigration and the relationship between migration and the territories of departure and arrival, see in this regard the "Piccolo Festival delle Spartenze" founded by the Association in 2016) has established the Osservatorio sulle Radici Italiane - Observatory on Italian Roots...

Una maratona online durata oltre cinque ore - domenica 23 agosto - ha tenuto incollati più di cinquemila seguaci ai Pc sparsi in varie parti del mondo nell’incontro virtuale sui temi della casa, delle radici e del ritorno. Il Festival delle Spartenze ha chiuso il mese di agosto con un appuntamento online sulla propria pagina Facebook dove, in una v...