By Maitreyee Majumbar Note: Maitreyee wrote this blog post in connection with Italian 5150, Italian Ecocinema, a course exploring contemporary environmental issues through Italian cinema. Thanks to Maitreyee for agreeing to allow me to publish it here. What do we talk about when we discuss the environment? The conversation typically includes plants, animals, bodies of…
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By Pallavi Kurakula Pallavi is completing her final semester at Wayne State University and will be graduating with degrees in Global Studies and Public Health. She has appreciated her time translating for the Abruzzo Film Commission and hopes to one day visit all the places she has written about. After university, she is excited to…
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By Danielle Maus Danielle is completing her final semester at Wayne State University and will be graduating with degrees in Global Studies, Italian, and Film. Besides working as an intern translator for the Abruzzo Film Commission, she holds a full time job as producer for a media and entertainment production company. To be a translator…
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di Paula Qefaliaj Paula is completing her last semester at Wayne State University majoring in Psychology with minors in Italian and Statistics. She teaches Italian classes for adults and kids through Michigan State University’s Community Language School online program, while being president of the Italian club at Wayne State. Non dichiarerò mai di essere un’esperta…
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by Danielle Maus Danielle is in her last semester at Wayne State University and will be graduating with degrees in Global Studies, Italian, and Film. Besides working as an translator-intern for the Abruzzo Film Commission, she holds a full time job as producer for a media and entertainment production company. It’s not often that a…
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by Matthew Prisco Matthew is a senior at Wayne State University majoring in both German and Italian. He has been to many European countries and has a passion for language learning For the past three months now, I have had the opportunity to do translation work for a regional Italian film commission. Me and a…
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So, let’s imagine that a global pandemic shuts down your university’s study abroad program in Italy, but you still want your students to be able to connect with your home-away-from-home. You want them to experience the magic of putting their Italian to use, to see firsthand the nuances of culture enmeshed in the words of…
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I wrote this piece for the new website of the Office of Campus Sustainability. Tomato tales I have a vivid memory of being on a slow regional train, adventuring north from Siena while studying abroad in Italy. Two Italian grandmothers in the same compartment struck up a conversation with me. I was proud to chat…
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Planet WSU: the walk down Green Street continues Wayne State held its second annual celebration of Sustainability in Higher Education Month, Green Street, throughout the month of October. The first event happened on October 6, 2020, and featured a stellar line-up of speakers who reflected on possible sustainable futures for WSU and Detroit. The guests…
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I wrote this piece about Federico Fellini for the inimitable Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan. The year 2020 marks 100 years since Federico Fellini’s birth in Rimini, on the Adriatic coast, and Italian film scholars have been making plans to mark the centenary of the prolific Maestro for years. Back in 2017, as I was…
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