“Italian Comics: History, Authors, and Characters” a lecture by Dr. Antonio Iannotta. March 5 at 7pm, Argyros Forum, Room 209C. Free and open to the public.
More than twenty teachers of Italian from Southern California attended the professional training workshop led by Dr. Elissa Tognozzi at Chapman University on Saturday. The 3-hour workshop provided theoretical and methodological training regarding best practices and new advances in communicative language teaching.
The instructors who attended came from various institutions from around Southern California, such as: Pepperdine University, University of California Irvine, Santiago Canyon College, Mira Costa College, Mt San Antonio College, Valencia High School, San Pedro High School, Granada Hills Charter High School, and Fondazione Italia. The workshop was made possible by generous contributions from the Italian Studies Council.
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing presents a reading by Dacia Maraini. The reading will be on Thursday, February 19th, at 7pm, in the Henley Reading Room of Leatherby Libraries.
Parking is available after 4:00 p.m. in the Fred L. Barrera Parking Structure on Sycamore and the Lastinger Parking Structure on Walnut Avenue. The cost is $2 for 2 hours and $3 for 4 hours (more parking information).
Emily Quinn is a native Southern Californian with a passion for art and everything Italian. She is currently working towards a major in Journalism and a minor in Italian Studies. Among her future plans, she hopes to complete part of her studies abroad in Italy. Emily has enthusiastically embraced the collaboration with the oldest Italian-American newspaper in California, and has already published two articles revealing new facets of the Italian community in Orange County. In Emily’s words: “writing for L’Italo-Americano has improved my knowledge of the journalistic world as well as my knowledge of Italian culture. I am very excited to continue learning in both areas.”
The Italian Studies Council is a non-profit initiative whose goal is to benefit the teaching and learning of Italian studies at Chapman as well as to develop the role that the program plays within the city of Orange and greater Orange County. The members of the Council collaborate in constructive endeavors along with the Italian studies faculty and students to promote academic achievement, student travel to Italy, student and faculty projects, cultural and artistic programming, and community-service initiatives. The Council is interested in projects of mutual enrichment originating from individuals or groups outside the academia. For more information contact Dr. Pacchioni at pacchion@chapman.edu
A merry gathering of italophiles chatting and learning about tortellini, ravioli and tagliatelle making with Chapman instructor Nadia Vranicich-Pettinger and student Nina Walther.
Students and local folks tried out their Italian language skills and listened to Neapolitan songs performed live by Chapman Italian/Voice students. Join us for our next La Serata on December 11!
Open to all who want to improve their language skills, learn about the Italian culture, speak with native speakers, and socialize with members of the local community and other students!
Thursdays: October 9, November 13, and December 11
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
in Beckman Hall 4th Floor Patio
In his lecture “The Un-Happy Ending. Re-viewing Capra, the Italian-American”, Dr. Zagarrio looked beyond the established concerns of Capra’s interpreters. He illuminated aspects of Capra’s works that were, so to speak, hiding in plain sight. Zagarrio reached back in time before the standard canon of Capra scholarship to dig out neglected works made before the director’s Academy Award-winning 1934 film It Happened One Night. In important early films such as Ladies of Leisure (1930) and Forbidden (1932), he discovered a despair deeper than humiliation and more permanent than the political machinations in which Smith and Doe found themselves enmeshed.
Vito Zagarrio (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) is an Italian film director and scholar. He is the author of numerous volumes on the history of Italian and American cinema.
The lecture was presented Monday November 3 by Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Italian Studies Program in collaboration with The Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.
L’Italo-Americano is a bilingual, weekly newspaper serving the Italian-American community throughout the United States. Established in 1908, this weekly periodical is the oldest Italian-American newspaper in the United States with a mission to promote, and most importantly, preserve Italian culture and heritage by reporting in both Italian and English on subjects such as arts and culture, literature, education, history, business, sciences, sports, lifestyle to name a few.
The Marisa Antonini award has been established to honor passion for the Italian language, culture, or art. Danielle is planning to develop a partnership between her sorority and a local elementary school, with the aim of exposing the children to Italian authors and other aspects of Italian culture. Danielle writes about how her schooling experience has influenced her relationship with Italy:
“When I came to Chapman, I chose to take Italian for my language requirement to both challenge myself academically and to learn more about my heritage. My great-grandmother on my mother’s side was from Castiglione di Carovilli, and I grew up learning family recipes that had been passed down from generation to generation, such as my Nana’s pizzelles, but that was the extent of my knowledge of my Italian heritage. After taking a trip to Italy in ninth grade, I became fascinated with the culture and language, but unfortunately, Italian wasn’t offered at my high school. When I discovered that Chapman offered Italian, I jumped at the new learning opportunity. The extra-curricular opportunities offered through both the Italian department and the Italian Club, in addition to the Italian classes I have taken, have really allowed me to immerse myself in the Italian culture, and my time in the program has sparked my interest to study abroad on the Semester at Sea next fall, which is set to stop at several cities in Italy.”
In the photograph Danielle James.
Student Melissa Marino reports from the recent day trip organized by Chapman Italian Club to the Pompeii Exhibition at the California Science Museum in Los Angeles.
“The exhibit was very interactive and thorough, covering all aspects of ancient life near Mt. Vesuvius. It was fascinating to me how much information anthropologists have been able to gather on a city that was destroyed nearly 2000 years ago. Walking through guided corridors, viewers are able to see intricate marble carvings of table legs, fountains, and sections of floor tiles, all recovered in virtually the same condition they were originally used. Citizens of Pompeii had bathhouses, gardens, frescos, and some even had temperature-controlled running water. Even small items, like counterweights and jewelry, were preserved due to the sudden and violent way in which the town was buried. Ancient health care, theater, sex life, homes, and status are all covered as you travel through the labyrinth of artifacts, and an interactive video demonstrates how it would have been to be in Pompeii on the day of the Mt. Vesuvius eruption. Accompanying the exhibit was an hour-long IMAX movie talking about the deadly forms of nature (including volcanoes) and the effects they have on current populations around the world. Pompeii, the Exhibit was overall extremely interesting and well worth the trip into LA.”
In the photograph students of the club and professor Francesca Paduano at the California Science Museum.
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