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Dacia Maraini e l’Emancipazione delle Scrittrici Italiane

Posted on 14/04/2014 by ARossi

FIRENZE, 1 APRILE 2014 Dacia Maraini parla alle nuove generazioni americane e italiane al  Gabinetto Vieusseux  nell’ambito di “Scrittori d’Italia” ciclo di conferenze dedicate agli studenti americani a Firenze, lezioni di letteratura italiana promosso dal Gabinetto Vieussseux, dalla Syracuse University … Continue reading →

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Dacia Maraini: Language as Identity by Loredana Tarini*

Posted on 14/04/2014 by ARossi

At the conference held at the Gabinetto Vieusseux for the world renown writer Dacia Maraini, a student in the audience observed that language should be considered a code, a method through which we express ourselves and through which we can … Continue reading →

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Dacia Maraini: What Students Think

Posted on 14/04/2014 by ARossi

Gabriela Riccardi I’ve spent a great part of my semester with the words of Dacia Maraini. From the first week of our advanced Italian class, we’ve read Dacia’s vivid recollections of her early and later life in Bagheria. Our class … Continue reading →

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Circulating Ideas: “Scrittori d’Italia” at Gabinetto Vieusseux

Posted on 13/01/2014 by ARossi

Last semester, on occasion of the” 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States”, Syracuse University in Florence adhered  to the proposal promoted by the Gabinetto Vieusseux, and also this semester is collaborating with the Center Palazzeschi /Aldo Palazzeschi … Continue reading →

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The “FAB 4” Judges by Carlotta Fonzi Kliemann

Posted on 09/01/2014 by ARossi

The Syracuse University in Florence Award for Best Short Film goes to “Left Side of the Face” by Martin Bortkiewicz (Poland 2013) for its excellent camerawork and montage and in support of a highly original photographic project which illuminates issues … Continue reading →

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Slow Water al Museo

Posted on 08/07/2013 by ARossi

Ecco come si possono innaffiare i fiori del nostro giardino o del terrazzo senza sentirsi colpevoli di sprecare, “l’oro bianco”, come viene oggi chiamata l’acqua. Ed ecco che cosa succede quando un architetto, una coltivatrice di fiori, un designer di … Continue reading →

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Villa Rossa Turns Green

Posted on 08/07/2013 by ARossi

Last July, 2nd the Philanthropist and former SUF Grad Student Mary Jo Weinig cut the ribbon of the brand new SUF sustainable vegetable garden. Mary Jo Weinig is the founder of the “Read a Recipe for Literacy’ organization (http://readarecipeforliteracy.org/) RRL … Continue reading →

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Villa Rossa Lecture: ”Is Democracy Superfluous?” by Elisabeth Resnick – SUF Alumnus

Posted on 21/04/2013 by ARossi

The Villa Rossa lecture series came to a conclusion on Monday, April 8, 2013 offering an opportunity to the SUF students to immerse themselves to Italian politics and more so to the recently held election which drew a lot of … Continue reading →

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Carlo il Decoratore, una Storia Emblematica di Giulia Chellini – Università di Firenze

Posted on 14/04/2013 by ARossi

Sono Giulia, una studentessa dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze, mi sto per laureare in Lingue Straniere. Un anno fa ho avuto il piacere di fare un tirocinio(= internship) presso la SUF nel Dipartimento di Italiano che mi ha dato la … Continue reading →

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Villa Rossa Lecture – Riccardo Petrella “Dichiariamo Illegale la Povertà

Posted on 17/03/2013 by ARossi

Dopo Paolo Valerio, professore di psicologia all’Università di Napoli, SUF  ha ospitato  la conferenza di Riccardo Petrella professore di economia all’Università di Lovanio in Belgio, il 13 Marzo scorso.  Valerio e Petrella sono accomunati dalla battaglia contro  la disparità e … Continue reading →

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