Good afternoon, everyone. It’s a pleasure to welcome you all to Villa Taverna for this timely conversation. Our partner in organizing today’s event is Rome’s preeminent think tank, the Institute for International Affairs, or IAI. We’re honored to have with us today the President of IAI, Ambassador Ferdinando Nelli Feroci, who will be speaking in ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 16 May, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Former U.S. Ambassadors, News, U.S. & Italy | Tags: AmStudies, Foreign Policy
Il Jazz, strumento di dialogo e condivisione tra popoli e culture. "..it reaches folks like nothing ever has / Like when they feel that jazzy rhythm / They know we're really with 'em / That's what we call cultural exchange"
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 30 April, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event | Tags: AmStudies, Music
The Bari edition of Corriere del Mezzogiorno highlighted the event with an article under the headline “American Studies Relaunched with U.S. Embassy Support.” Praise for the Embassy’s initiative was effusive: Rector Uricchio called it a “Mini Marshall Plan” for American Studies in Italy. Professor Lorena Carbonara related that she has already received several thesis requests ...
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By U.S. Consulate General Naples | 27 March, 2018 | Topics: Consul General, Consulate General Naples, Featured Event | Tags: AmStudies, Naples
The Center for American Studies is among the oldest and most prestigious European institutions dedicated to the study of the United States, its culture and society.
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 9 January, 2018 | Topics: Exclude, Featured Event | Tags: AmStudies
One of the U.S. Mission to Italy’s priorities is supporting and promoting American Studies in Italy. American Studies has historically been a key channel for connecting with Italian youth and universities in Italy, and sharing American values, history, and culture. When I arrived in Rome two years ago, I heard about the decline of American ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 29 November, 2017 | Topics: Deputy Chief of Mission, Featured Event | Tags: AmStudies, Urbino
Encouraging educational exchanges between nations is also vital to our countries’ respective economic competitiveness and growth. U.S. communities and institutions gain intellectual and cross-cultural capital as well as enhanced business and professional networks from contacts with students, teachers and scholars from abroad.
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 21 November, 2017 | Topics: Deputy Chief of Mission, Featured Event | Tags: AmStudies
As U.S. Ambassador, it’s important for me to visit as many regions in Italy as possible to gain a deeper understanding of this country, which is such a close friend of the United States. Naples is the first city outside of Rome that I am visiting in my official capacity: and this is entirely appropriate ...
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 15 November, 2017 | Topics: Consul General, Consulate General Naples, Featured Event, Former U.S. Ambassadors, News, U.S. & Italy | Tags: AmStudies, L'Orientale University
During the Campaign of Italy between 1943 and 1945, in the Allied forces which fought against the Totalitarian regimes of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy was present a sizeable number of servicemen of Italian descent
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 9 November, 2017 | Topics: Exclude All, Featured Event | Tags: AmStudies
A series of podcasts on American Studies, featuring Dott. Sara Antonelli (in Italian), available on the RAI WikiRadio portal.
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 7 November, 2017 | Topics: Exclude, Exclude All, Featured Event | Tags: AmStudies
The American Studies Initiative has gathered a lot of consensus among the participating universities. The ultimate aim of our project is that the universities will find their own funds to renew the adjunct professorship positions and hopefully begin to reverse the negative trend.
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 4 October, 2017 | Topics: Exclude, Exclude All, Featured Event | Tags: AmStudies
With fewer professors, there are fewer degree opportunities for graduate students which mean that fewer students pursue academic careers in American Studies. Equally important, it means that fewer students have the opportunity to learn about American history and literature since fewer courses are being taught by academic experts…it’s a vicious circle.
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 28 February, 2017 | Topics: Chargé D’Affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission, Featured Event | Tags: AmStudies, DCM Degnan, Trento
The new experimental course (2016-2017 academic year) debuted today as part of the master’s degree in European and International Studies.
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 28 February, 2017 | Topics: Chargé D’Affaires, Deputy Chief of Mission, Featured Event | Tags: AmStudies, DCM Degnan, Trento
American exceptionalism is over? What is the role of the U.S. at the world level? On both extremes of the political spectrum there are talks on the American role at the global level; on whether the United States should go it alone, or find alliances and partnerships, or whether the U. S. should altogether disengage.
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By U.S. Mission Italy | 28 February, 2017 | Topics: Featured Event | Tags: AmStudies
What I would like to do is to try to understand whether the location/geography/place has an impact on history writing about the United States. To anticipate my point, the answer to this question is that location is important: It was crucial and fundamental to the writing, research and study of American history between 1945 and, ...
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By guasinag | 28 February, 2017 | Topics: Featured Event | Tags: AmStudies
