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request more infoOctober 18 - 24, 2016
16TH ITALIAN LANGUAGE WEEK IN THE WORLD
The Week of the Italian Language in the World promotes Italian as a great language of classical and contemporary culture. Every year the diplomatic and cultural network of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation chooses a theme for this initiative and organizes a series of events in the third week of October. In 2016, under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy, for the XVI edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World - October 18 through October 24 - the chosen theme is "L'Italiano e la creatività: marchi e costumi, moda e design".
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As part of these series of events the Department of Italian at Georgetown University, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington DC. in collaboration with the Initiative for Multilingual Studies, invite you to a technical workshop by Professor Camilla Bardel, Stockholm University, on the study of Italian as a Foreign Language.
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Time: From 3:30 pm To 5:30 pm
Entrance : Free
ABSTRACT: In this workshop Prof. Bardel will present the corpus InterIta, which consists of a collection of recordings of oral production and interaction of students of Italian at Stockholm University. The recordings have been transcribed in Chat format (MacWhinney, 2016) and the transcriptions can be explored with the CLAN software. This has allowed her, along with her research team, to conduct studies on the interlanguage of Swedish students learning Italian at different study levels. The learners represented in the corpus range from beginners to very advanced learners. There is also a parallel corpus of recordings and transcriptions of Italian native speakers, which has been used for comparisons. The InterIta corpus has been exploited in studies on L2 vocabulary and grammar as well as the interaction between L1 and L2 speakers. Prof. Bardel will illustrate how a learner corpus of oral data can be used, presenting data from some of these studies, and she will also show more in detail how the CLAN software can be used. The presentation will start with a short survey of Italian language studies in Sweden.
Camilla Bardel is Professor of modern languages and language education. She holds a Ph.D. in Italian from Lund University (2000) on the acquisition of negation in Italian as a foreign language. In 2010, she was appointed full professor of modern languages and language education. Between 2013 and 2014, she served as Professor of Italian at the Department of French, Italian and Classics at Stockholm University. At present, she is one of two vice deans at the Faculty of Humanities of Stockholm University. Her research interests lie within the broad field of language education. More specifically, her previous research projects concerned cross-linguistic influence in third language learning, advanced levels of foreign/second language learning, corpus linguistics and lexicography.
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LOCATION
Georgetown University
Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Intercultural Center, ICC 227
37th and O St, NW
Washington, DC
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As part of these series of events, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington DC, in collaboration with the Embassy of Switzerland, invite you to a special presentation and workshop by artist Kiko Gianocca, who will introduce you to some of the techniques and materials he uses to create his unique jewelry.
Date: Friday, October 21, 2016
Time: From 6:30 pm To 8:30 pm
Organized by : Embassy of Italy/Italian Cultural Institute
In collaboration with : Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, DC
Entrance : Free
KIKO GIANOCCA:
Born in Bellinzona in 1974, Graziano (Kiko) Gianocca studied gold- and silversmithing at the Art Institute CFP in Florence, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 1999. From 2000 to 2001, he studied in the invited student program at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. From 2003 to 2008, Kiko lived in Melbourne, where he completed his master’s degree at RMIT University (2003–2004) and where he also taught from 2004 until 2007. In 2006, he won the Emerging Artists Grant from the Australian government. After returning to Switzerland in 2008, he won the Swiss Design Prize, and in 2014 he won the Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery. His work has been exhibited around the world and collected by Australian National Galleries in Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, as well as at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn (The Netherlands) and MUDAC in Lausanne.
website: www.kikogianocca.ch
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LOCATION
Hillyer Art Space
9 Hillyer Court Northwest
Washington, DC
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