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AUR MA Food Studies Students at Onorati Farm

Urban Agriculture in Rome: MA Food Studies students visit a small-scale farm, November 17, 2017

Following his lecture at AUR on the International Planning Committee on Food Sovereignty, Antonio Onorati invited the MA Food Studies students to visit his farm in the city of Rome. He told the interesting story about how his family obtained 8 hectares and a small house in 1958, as a result of th

New Technologies & Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives in Italian Language Teaching

This is a graduate-level, 4-credit, 60-hour seminar on use of technology, methodology and culture in Italian language teaching.

Preparing teachers for competing in today’s digital humanities age, this seminar helps language instructors improve their teaching strategies by illustrating the latest approaches to use of the internet and technology in second language acquisition and by introducing innovative methods of language and culture instruction.

Upon successful completion, participants will receive 4.0 graduate credits from The American University of Rome, an American institution that has been operating in Rome for more than 45 years and is accredited by Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Scientist and AUR Trustee Antonio Giordano awarded the CORE Prize for Oncology 2017

Reggio Emilia, Italy, the 2nd International Congress on “Clinical Needs and Translational Research in Oncology”.

Sustainable Cultural Heritage Field Trip to Sperlonga and Terracina

On an unexpectedly hot and sunny Saturday October 21, 2017, a mixed group of undergraduate and graduate students travelled down the spectacular Italian coast. Our destination was Sperlonga and Terracina with the aim of seeing the Villa of Tiberius and the Temple of Jupiter Anxur, two very well preserved archaeological sites. The Villa of Tiberius itself is sparsely excavated and possibly too small to be a real imperial villa, but the star attraction is the adjacent rock cut swimming pool. It originally contained groups of statues of various characters from the Odyssey by Homer which are reconstructed in the nearby museum. The Romans believed that all the tales related by Homer in the Odyssey took place along this coast and many of the modern place names derive from this.

Sustainable Cultural Heritage welcomes guest lecturer Nicholas Stanley Price

On October 20, 2017, Nicholas Stanley-Price, a conservationist with a Dr. Phil. in Archeology from Oxford University guest lectured a Sustainable Cultural Heritage class on his role as a member of the advisory committee of the Non-Catholic (Protestant) Cemetery in Rome. His lecture focused on the practical aspects of maintaining a site that is both an active cemetery and also an important historical place housing the tombs of famous visitors to Rome such as Shelley and Keats. He illustrated some of the challenges this dual role entails for the management of the site.

Student review of Guest Lecture: The Anthropology of Tourism at Robben Island Museum

Dr. Mahsvari Naidu, a senior lecturer in Anthropology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, gave a guest lecture at AUR on Robben Island tourism and the relationship that South Africans and foreigners have with its difficult heritage.

M.A. in Arts Management supports international conference on the boundaries of museum mediation

AUR students and faculty are invited to attend a conference on the boundaries of museum mediation taking place in Florence November 16-17, 2017.  The International symposium focuses both on the relationships between museums and audiences, and on the professional skills of museum mediators.

Nutrition Policies and Programs with Professor Harold Alderman. January 2018.

This course will lay out a framework for the interplay of food, health and sanitation, and child care as underlying determinant of nutrition. Using this framework the course will illustrate levers for change and the evidence on what works to improve nutrition, from both the standpoint of economic returns as well as human rights.

This course runs from January 8-19, 2018. Monday-Saturday 9:30am-12:30pm.
This course is part of the M.A. in Food Studies and is also open to anyone who would like to audit the class for a fee of 900 Euros.

Momenti Iconici: Exhibition of Artworks by Professor Davor Džalto

Professor Davor Džalto is not only Director of the M.A. Peace Studies program and B.A. Arts History program at AUR but is also a world-renowned artist who has recently opened a new exhibition at the church Santa Maria della Pace in Rome. The exhibition features a number of new works by Professor Džalto and was officially opened by H.E. Msgr. Stanislav Hočevar, Archbishop and Metropolitan. 

AUR’s MA in Sustainable Cultural Heritage inaugurates its 2017-18 Cultural Heritage Lecture Series with guest speaker Christopher Prescott

This year’s Cultural Heritage Lecture Series kicked off on October 4th with a lecture from Christopher Prescott, Director of The Norwegian Institute in Rome, addressing one of the most pressing heritage topics in Europe – how to integrate new immigrant communities into national narratives. Since Norway achieved full independence in 1905 it has based its cultural identity on its ancient Norse and Viking background and has developed a heritage structure that showcases the rich archaeological and literary heritage from these periods. This traditional view has changed very little, notwithstanding the dynamic demographic changes in recent years which have resulted in a substantial immigrant population in cities like Oslo. The issue becomes ever more important as within the year 2030 over 50% of the urban population will be first or second generation immigrants.