Temple Rome is delighted to announce the participation of Visual Arts faculty members Marina Buening, Anita Guerra, Katherine Krizek and Liana Miuccio in the third edition of Arteporto, with the title of Fuori Confine, at the magnificent location of the Imperial Ports of Claudius and Trajan, in Fiumicino. Please join us for the opening on Saturday September 18, or during opening hours through October 17, at Via Portuense 2329, Fiumicino (RM).
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Temple Rome faculty member, Prof. Carolina Vaccaro, is a co-curator in the exhibition Learning to See: Denise Scott Brown. The exhibition is on display until September 18 at the Temple Contemporary at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. The show highlights "Denise Scott Brown’s defining views on architecture and urbanism understood through her photographs of cities and landscapes taken throughout her life, and largely during the 1960s and 1970s."
On September 9, 2021, Prof. Vaccaro and her co-curator, Noa Maliar, will host an in-depth, online discussion...
Temple University Rome's Summer I students experienced Rome at a pivotal time of its revival after closures due to Covid-19. With heavy restrictions finally being lifted, Italy is going through a drastic transformation as it is reopening its doors to many parts of the world. Museums, tours, restaurants, and group activities are beginning to resurface, and Temple Rome students witnessed the beginning of the city's rebirth.Summer I Digital Photo students were thrilled to go out in Rome as the city was opening up and capture images for their Personal Views of Rome assignment. The...
Temple Rome Professor of Political Science, Marta Bordignon, moderated a session entitled Women in Peace and Security at the W20 Rome Summit.
The W20 Rome Summit took place from July 13-15, "bringing together hundreds of leaders, experts and role models from across the world, to discuss the most pressing issues facing women’s social, economic and political empowerment, and to deliver the W20’s 2021 Communiqué to the G20 Leaders."
Bordignon moderated a panel with speakers including Lucio Caracciolo, Editor-in-chief of Limes - Italian...
Professor Bernardo Nicoletti, who teaches Operations Management, was a guest speaker at the ICEM-2021 Conference in Pune, India. ICEM 2021's primary goal was to "endow opportunities for academicians, scientists and research scholars along-with professionals, decision makers and industrial practitioners to deliver and confer their research contributions." The conference also provided opportunities for inspiring young scholars to learn newly created avenues of research at an international academic forum. Bernardo Nicoletti presented and wrote on the “New Normal”...
Since 2014, the workshop-residency Ritratto a mano (RAMO), has taken place in Abruzzo, Italia. Every year a different artist-tutor is asked to conduct the residency, and twelve artists are selected to participate. The 2021 version of RAMO took place in Giulianova, a small coastal town on Abruzzo’s coast, from May 23rd – May 31st, 2021. Accommodations and working spaces were provided by the Hotel Royal, a hotel overlooking the Adriatic Sea, and equipped with spaces dedicated to artistic production and experimentation. Over the course of ten intensive days, the selected artists...
Shannon Billongton, TUR Spring 2020, volunteered at the Food & Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) headquarters during her time in Rome. A year later, Shannon has fostered this connection and was selected to design the visuals for the FAO Visual Manual on good beekeeping practices for small-scale beekeepers in Africa.You can view her project here.
Professor Roberto Caracciolo's Spring 2021 virtual intersession course, Digital Drawing From Your Smartphone, invited students to explore their creative side and expand their technical skills using a tool that they already have at their disposal- their cellphone!
Prof. Caracciolo, who also teaches TUR's Rome Sketchbook course, took advantage of the virtual setting by instructing students to download the free app, Sketchbook. He remarks, "Digital drawing is most likely the best solution to trying to teach drawing online. There is an immediacy to the...
Temple Rome Dean, Dr. Emilia Zankina, is one of the authors of the collected volume of "Women, Policy & Political Leadership - Regional Perspectives." The online book launch, organized by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Political Dialogue Asia, will take place via Facebook on Monday, January 18 at 8:30 AM Rome Time/3:30 PM Singapore Time.
The book launch will include the authors and the Asian Women Parliamentarian Caucus members who will be discussing their perspectives on Gender and political leadership.
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From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Angelica Scotto is a Freshman at Temple University Rome, majoring in Global Studies. She is currently participating in the Temple Rome Entry Year Program where she will complete the first year of her studies here in Rome, and then finish her degree and graduate at Temple’s Main Campus in Philadelphia.
Angelica, being part Italian, decided to come to Italy for her Freshman year of college to explore her identity while taking advantage of living and studying in the Eternal City.
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