{"id":2406,"date":"2016-10-21T16:15:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2016-10-21T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:15:28","slug":"exploring-sicilys-fascinating-and-diverse-culture-through-films-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2016\/10\/21\/exploring-sicilys-fascinating-and-diverse-culture-through-films-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Sicily\u2019s fascinating and diverse culture through films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week students of Italian and local folks\u00a0attended a lecture entirely in Italian delivered by Elisa Pianges from\u00a0Babilonia, Centro di Studi Italiani in Taormina, Italy. Elisa&#8217;s love and\u00a0knowledge of photography, cinema, and Sicilian culture \u2013coupled\u00a0with her obvious\u00a0gift as a language teacher\u2013made for a particularly engaging and enriching presentation. After the lecture,\u00a0students had the opportunity to\u00a0ask questions about the upcoming\u00a0full\u00a0immersion summer travel course\u00a0in Taormina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_2679-298c7rm.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1034\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1034 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_2679-298c7rm-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"img_2679\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_2679-298c7rm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_2679-298c7rm-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_2679-298c7rm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_2679-298c7rm-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_2679-298c7rm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/IMG_2679-298c7rm.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/files\/2016\/09\/16-0476-Taormina-Travel-Poster_Web-rbthav.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-983\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-983 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/files\/2016\/09\/16-0476-Taormina-Travel-Poster_Web-rbthav-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"16-0476-taormina-travel-poster_web\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/16-0476-Taormina-Travel-Poster_Web-rbthav-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/16-0476-Taormina-Travel-Poster_Web-rbthav-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/16-0476-Taormina-Travel-Poster_Web-rbthav-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/16-0476-Taormina-Travel-Poster_Web-rbthav-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/16-0476-Taormina-Travel-Poster_Web-rbthav-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/16-0476-Taormina-Travel-Poster_Web-rbthav-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/16-0476-Taormina-Travel-Poster_Web-rbthav-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week students of Italian and local folks\u00a0attended a lecture entirely in Italian delivered by Elisa Pianges from\u00a0Babilonia, Centro di Studi Italiani in Taormina, Italy. Elisa&#8217;s love and\u00a0knowledge of photography, cinema, and Sicilian culture \u2013coupled\u00a0with her obvious\u00a0gift as a language &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/2016\/10\/21\/exploring-sicilys-fascinating-and-diverse-culture-through-films-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/pacchioni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}