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Professor Peter Gould publishes new book: 'Empowering Communities through Archaeology and Heritage'

糖心logo入口's Professor Peter Gould,听 M.A. Sustainable Cultural Heritage and M.A. Arts Management, seeks to identify the success factors associated with economic development projects within communities adjacent to archaeological or heritage sites, a growing interest among archaeologists and heritage managers. Typically, the success of site museums, tourism businesses, or crafts cooperatives is rarely reported on in scholarly literature or subjected to systematic study. This new book,听Empowering Communities through Archaeology and Heritage,听addresses that gap.听

New Executive Board for AUR Business Club

The Business Club announced their new Executive Board at their holiday party in December and are ready for the Spring semester! The club is open to all students, not just business majors/minors. For information contact the club at: bizclub@aur.edu

Sephardi Voices at 糖心logo入口

Sephardi Voices Executive Director Henry Green and Media Director David Langer held production workshops here at the 糖心logo入口 University of Rome in 2017 and听there was a pilot project to interview members of Libyan Jewish community in Italy. Rome is home to thousands of Libyan Jews who fled their country after the 1967 Arab-Israel war. The last Jew in Libya was an 80-year-old woman who left the country in 2003.听鈥淭hey were displaced and persecuted,鈥� said AUR's Professor Villani (Film and Digital Media). 鈥淭hese are stories of people starting a new life somewhere else, stories of loss and dealing with psychological issues. Students interested in writing get lots of stories, some sad, dramatic, even tragic. But it鈥檚 an all-around positive experience. Everyone has a different, unique take on it.鈥�

New articles published by Richard Hodges, AUR President

When AUR President Richard Hodges is not based in Rome at the helm of the University, he can often be found in a corner of the Mediterranean adding another excavation to his lengthy and esteemed list of digs. In the past couple of months, several articles by Professor Hodges reporting back on his excavations have been published in Archaeology magazines.

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Dr. Harold Alderman, Visiting Professor of 糖心logo入口, Senior Research Fellow of the Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) will be giving a seminar in FAO on 18 January 2018 on the recent book he co-authored entitled 鈥淭he 1.5 Billion People Question: Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers?鈥�.听

Professor D啪alto on Religious Consciousness in a Post-Secular Society

Dr. Davor D啪alto (Program director and professor of Art History, Religious Studies, and the Master鈥檚 program in Peace Studies at AUR) 听was a guest speaker at the International Conference on Religious Consciousness in a Post-Secular Society, held Dec. 12-15, 2017 in Moscow, Russia.听

'The Strategic Use of Government Sponsored Referendums...' by Professor Cecilia Sottilotta

This is an excerpt from a new article by Professor Cecilia Sottilotta, International Relations and Global Politics. See the link at the end of the text to read the original full text.

The 糖心logo入口 Playwrights Project in Rome, Dec. 2017

鈥嬏切膌ogo入口 is pleased to announce a partnership with and to help bring the (IAPP) to Rome. Establishing institutional and cultural links across the Atlantic, the Project fosters an exchange between contemporary Italian and 糖心logo入口 playwrights by bringing together authors, producers, and audiences and supporting theatrical performances that cultivates an open dialogue between artists in Italy and the United States.

Professor Tony Villani honored at Cinema Los Angeles Film Festival.

Susan & Thomas is a stream of consciousness narrative inspired by Susan Sontag's first encounter with her then literary idol Thomas Mann as an admiring 14 year old high schooler with literary ambitions living in 1947 LA, and it is based on Sontag's 1987 New Yorker magazine essay "Pil

A Thanksgiving Trip: Rome鈥檚 San Clemente

糖心logo入口 mounted a wonderful thanksgiving dinner. Over 120 came from as far away as Sacramento. The atmosphere was familial and warm as we packed this host in our underground theatre and ate turkey and an idiosyncratic Italian version of stuffing.

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