Italian Language Week (12 – 16 February 2018)

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12

FOUNDATIONS OF ITALIAN II (OPEN CLASS)
11:20 A.M. – 1 P.M. | A-106
Try out an Italian class for free, with Professor Rosetta D’Angelo. Have fun, and learn a little Italian!

INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN II (OPEN CLASS)
2:15 – 3:55 P.M. | A-223
Try out an Italian class for free, with Professor Rosetta D’Angelo. Have fun, and learn a little Italian!

CRASH COURSE IN ITALIAN
4:30 – 5:30 P.M. | B-124
Join Professor Giuseppe Sorrentino for a lecture on Italian society and politics.

FOUNDATIONS OF ITALIAN I (OPEN CLASS)
6:05 – 7:45 P.M. | A-103
Try out an Italian class for free, with Professor Giuseppe Sorrentino. Have fun, and learn a little Italian!

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14

ITALY AS A STUDY ABROAD DESTINATION
NOON – 1 P.M. | ROUKEMA CENTER ASB-123
Meet Mattea Di Fabio, Resident Director for ISA-Rome. She will discuss why Italy is a unique and important study abroad destination, with particular emphasis on Rome. Snacks will be provided.

ITALIAN FILM – MINE VAGANTI (LOOSE CANNONS)
1 – 3 P.M. | PAVILION 3
View the film Mine Vaganti (Loose Cannons). Film description: Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.

VIEWING AND DISCUSSION ON ITALIAN FILM
6 – 9 P.M. | ASB-135
Join professor Rosetta D’Angelo for a viewing and lively discussion on the Italian film Seduced and Abandoned (1963) by Pietro Germi.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15

FOUNDATIONS OF ITALIAN II (OPEN CLASS)
11:20 A.M. – 1 P.M. | A-106
Try out an Italian class for free, with Professor Rosetta D’Angelo. Have fun, and learn a little Italian!

ITALIAN CONVERSATION HOUR:
AFRICAN WOMEN’S VOICES IN ITALY TODAY
1 – 2 P.M. | A-106
Join the Italian Club and Italian professors in a casual environment to learn a little Italian. Pizza, coffee, pastries and other goodies will be provided.

CELEBRATING NAPLES: A JOURNEY THROUGH NAPLES’ HISTORY TO THE PRESENT DAY
2 – 3 P.M. | A-106
This exciting, multimedia presentation by photographer and historian Anita Sansaverino, will share this incredible story!

INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN II (OPEN CLASS)
2:15 – 3:55 P.M. | A-223
Try out an Italian class for free, with Professor Rosetta D’Angelo. Have fun, and learn a little Italian!

For more details please contact Rosa Montemarano at rmontem1@ramapo.edu or the
Roukema center at international@ramapo.edu

Italian Language week is co-sponsored by the Italian Club, Salemeno School of Humanities and Global Studies
and the Roukema Center for International Education, as part of Ramapo College’s Year of Europe (2017-2018).