NIAF will make 30 scholarships available to students for the 2013-2014 academic year, and its Voyage of Discovery program will take about 20 U.S. students on an expense-paid trip to Italy this summer. NIAF scholarship applications and information is now available online at www.niaf.org/scholarships. Deadline to apply is March 1, 2013. NIAF Voyage...

Si avvicina il traguardo dell'Italian American Country tour, e siamo in procinto di toccare la terza e ultima costa del continente. La prima è stata, naturalmente, New York. La seconda New Orleans, approdo per molti emigrati che non videro mai Ellis Island, arrivando direttamente qui. L'ultima è San Francisco, che abbiamo preso via terra "navigando...

The Italian Language Inter-Cultural Alliance (ILICA) is a not for profit foundation dedicated to the promotion of the Italian language as an instrument of understanding and study of a culture in continuous evolution, directed at not only Americans of Italian origin, but all those who share an interest in learning the Italian language as a key to un...

by Claudio Tucci   The first result of the school reform will be hiring 36,000 now temporary teachers by September 1. This is the initial tranche of an intake of more than 102,000 people introduced by the Matteo Renzi- Stefania Giannini law, which will see additional 11,000 jobs in the following days and, by September 2016, the final tranche...

Call for Applications – The 2013 NPIHP Nuclear Summer School-In cooperation with the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, the University of Roma Tre in Rome is hosting a ten-day Summer School in the history of nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation in the last half of June 2013.The course – including travel, accommodations and meals – will be...

by Eric Goodman   The Italian School of New Jersey is preparing for a new semester of language lessons in Parsippany and Morris Township. The school teaches Italian language and culture at all levels to children from age 2 1/2 up and to adults.   "Italian School NJ has concluded their 2012-2013 classes very successfully," said or...

Italian Through Music: A Pedagogical Seminar20 September 2014, 12-4pm - Cherpack Seminar Room - 543 Williams Hall255 S. 36th Street - Philadelphia 19104   Do you teach Italian? Do you love music? Join us at the University of Pennsylvania September 20, 12-4pm, to discover how you can use music in your Italian classroom.  

The Italian American Studies Association-Western Regional Chapter (IASA-WRC) is pleased to offer a one-time award of $500 for a graduate student or recent graduate-degree recipient whose research focuses in a significant way on the history and culture of Italian Americans in the West.   We welcome all disciplinary approaches to the field of...

Italian dialects, or regional vernaculars, have played a significant role in the development of the Italian literary tradition since its origins. In the words of Gianfranco Contini, "Italian literature is the only major national literature whose dialect production viscerally and inseparably forms a corpus with the rest of its patrimony."  

Italy comes to Long Island once again as Camp Italia welcomes children ages 4-12 to its summer camp programs from July 21st – July 24th, transforming the space at 38 Old Country Road in Garden City to an oasis of all things Italian.   For children ages 4-7, the camp day starts at 9 am and ends at 11am. For ages 8 to 12, the program begins at...