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Shooting the Real: Meeting an Italian Artist Studio Art Competition by Hannah Gorton (Syracuse University) 4 by Kirsten Stromberg 24

A Day with George Saunders Meeting an SU Writer in Florence 6 SUF Portfolio by Ericka Kirk (Loyola University) 26

The Colors are Bright / The Experience is Generous : SUF Interns in the Pecci Museum of Contemporary Art in Prato 10 Faculty Watch by Calvin Main (Brown University) 29

Superheroes by Jenece C. Reyes (Syracuse University) 12 News from SU: 2010 Remembrance Week by Emily Allen (Syracuse University) and Duncan McNab (Lockerbie Scotland) 31 SEND-A-SMILE! (and Reach for the Stars!) Gets to Florence by Lauren Maldonado (University of Southern California) 13 SUF’s It’s All About You: Semester End Program 33

Tasting Culture: One Sip at a Time by Angela Laurello (Syracuse University) 15

Studying at the University of Florence by Option III Students 16 Florence & Syracuse University in Florence! I can’t imagine a more beautiful city or a better place to work. Over the past 27 years I have been director at SU Florence three times, and this program just keeps get - ting better. The theme of this issue of the Villa Rossa Voice is (re)drawing the future. Although we are Discovery Florence Program reminded daily of Florence’s Renaissance splendor, contemporary life in Florence is now sharing center stage. by Amy Kleine 18 And at SUF the new ideas emerging from our faculty and staff are impressive. Through revision of our cur - riculum as well as activities such as service learning, internships, workshops, an exciting lecture series, and co-sponsored events with the city and the University of Florence, our students will return to their home cam - In Famiglia! Staying with Italian Hosts: A Retrospective Look puses with a rich understanding not only of Italy’s past, but also of its present. At the beginning of the by Jim Kauffmann 20 semester I urged all students to take full advantage of what this program has to offer. I’m especially delighted Student Comments and encouraged by the response of our first-year students who are a relatively new (three years) addition to our program. You’ll find their work along with the other stakeholders of SU in Florence in this issue of the Villa Rossa Voice . Exchanging English for Italian (and viceversa) Enjoy! Tandem Exchange in Fall 2010 21 Michael J. Calo SUF Director A Visit to Pietrasanta: Traveling with a Pen and a Brush by Elizabeth Lewis (Syracuse University) 22 Professor Antonella Francini , who has edited this Fall 2010 edition of the Villa Rossa Voice , would like to thank the contributors and wish the SUF community Happy Holidays. To all students: here's to (re)drawing I Giullari di Syracuse Performance 23 your future! by Eric Nicholson

cover photo by Leora Shuchter 3 On Tuesday November 16, art What unites the two forms of curator Dott.ssa Paola time is light – the recogniz - Giovanni Bortolotti introduced able sign of the passing of Ozzola Giovanni Ozzola, a young, time. It is sunlight, the physi - Florence-born artist, to stu - cal phenomenon that marks dents of SU Florence’s art out our days, but it is also department to talk about his artificial light, and a scenic work in photography and instrument that guides the Shooting the real video art installations. eye and defines objects. It is a Ozzola’s informal and radiation that illuminates the provocative talk was part of screen and exposes the film. an ongoing lecture series Light is a wave that enables ideated by Stefania Talini, us to perceive matter, but it is SUF professor of photogra - also a means for impressing Selfportait phy, to acquaint American an image and bringing it to college students with young, life. It is the threshold of rep - s contemporary Italian artists, resentation, and it marks the s a category in which Giovanni shift from consciousness to e Ozzola is an unquestionable perception, making the image e i leader. Born in 1982, he par - become reality. Light, its i ticipated in his first group occurrence and provenance, r r show at the age of 17 and his and the place of its arrival first solo exhibition at the age have always been a matter for e of 24. Since then his work has investigation by the artist, just e appeared in some of the most as the photographic medium important art shows and gal - – the photosensitive material S S leries in the world and today on which the time of vision is

can be found in leading pub - impressed and becomes form lic and private collections. and substance – is the lan - e

Ozzola’s most recent exhibi - guage that Ozzola has always e tion was a one-man show at preferred. With Superficiale - r the Elgiz Museum in Under My Skin, Ozzola takes r Poltrona, 2003 Istanbul, Turkey. up video, with the image u In a world that relies more and more on technology, it can be hard to Giovanni Ozzola’s extraordi - moving in a space-time u t nary, “larger than life” dimension. He abandons the t distinguish reality from what has been altered. I had the fortunate opportunity photographs can be seen in infinite time of contempla - to attend a Studio Arts lecture at SU Florence with the world-renowned, young, his monographic work tion for the pre-set time of View of camera rossa, 2003 c up-and-coming artist Giovanni Ozzola. Ozzola takes on one of art’s greatest Skip_Intro ’09, while his par - experience. While photo - c challenges and does his best to expose reality in his work. In Florence I am ticular style and artistic vision graphic time is an interval, e constantly being pushed into a world of the past. While this is great for my edu - are perhaps best described by that of the moving image is Light has a body…. It shows and e cation (not to mention very interesting), it is a refreshing breath of air to see a critic/curator Elisa Del Prete continuity. While the fixity of reveals, but it also changes reality L on Ozzola’s website: the shot presupposes some L contemporary artist in action. While Ozzola works with various media, includ - and makes it disappear. ing video and installations, as a beginning photography student I was mostly http://www.giovanniozzola.c imaginary before and after,

interested in his shooting. I have learned just how important light is in photog - om/ . the moving image confines t raphy and this is exactly what Giovanni touched upon. “Light has a body…. It “Giovanni Ozzola is a young, experience to the projection. t r but renowned, Italian artist So the choice is not dictated r shows and reveals, but it also changes reality and makes it disappear.“ said who works in the media of by narrative needs, but rather Ozzola. He discussed the challenge of obtaining ‘true’ colors, those that he photography and video. by the need to represent a A really sees, and making them appear real in his prints (and we as a class have Ozzola compresses space and continuous and repeatable A learned firsthand just how hard that can be). time in his search for a par - unfolding of action. The

My personal favorite of the photographs shown was a floral chair with light tial, alienating shot and a artist invites the observer to streaming in the window. “The real presence is the absence,” explained precise time span. He uses embark on a cognitive experi - o Ozzola. His work is especially impressive when seen in exhibition, for Ozzola editing to break down his ence that he has had himself, o i i works in full-scale dimensions. See the photograph of the chair: it appears experience of reality and and he does so by recon - directly on the floor as if sharing your space. He does this with many of his recompose it in an image that structing a new level of time. d works to best show the reality of what he sees, so that onlookers may share has a duration and form of its The focus is thus not on an d own. The experience of time observation of time, but the space and begin a relationship with his work. It was very inspiring to hear thus passes first through the rather on representing its u u about his thought process while shooting such incredible photos and to see artist’s experience and later movement by means of the t the results right in front of me. through that of composition. image.” t

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SUF Director Michael Calo Meeting George Saunders in person was very refreshing. He is a humorous person as his writ - s ing and his appearances on popular talk shows testify. However, when he talked to us about his s travels with Bill Clinton, working with children with AIDS and about his time spent at a shelter e for the poor in California, I could not believe all of the beautiful and diverse things he has e i accomplished in his life, especially if we think that he did not start writing professionally until i r relatively late in his career. Writers like Saunders can truly be role r models: he has an astonishing career that he never seems to take for e granted, and he also stays grounded with his family whom he lov - e ingly mentioned more than once. He seems honest and true to Saunders signs a copy of his book for Mary Ellen Countryman, himself – qualities that I feel separate excellent writing from just American Consul General in Florence S good writing. He told me that he writes about what he likes and what S

he thinks is funny, and hopes that his audience will feel the same way (which we clearly do!). I got some great insight from him and even e have a quote from the end of one of his travel pieces, “The New Visiting the SUF library e r

Mecca,” taped to my desk now: r u Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possi - u t ble. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you t die, world without end, amen. c George Saunders during his lecture c From left to right : Prof. Giovanni Cipriani, Director Centro di Saunders talks about not being afraid to be confused, advice that perfectly suits my time here Cultura per Stranieri (University of Florence), Dr. MariaPaola e abroad. One can be an inspiration to anyone, anywhere. Pierini, US Embassy in Rome, SUF Prof. Antonella Francini e L L

F F U U S SUF Director Michael Calo, SUF Director Michael Calo, Florence Florece Mayor Matteo Renzi, S Councilwoman Cristina Giachi, Mayor Matteo Renzi, George Saunders George Saunders Students at George Saunder’s lecture Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi Saunders signs a copy of his book for SUF student Emily Matras

8 9 SUF Interns at the Pecci Museum of Contemporary Art in Prato War, peace, and economic digest are themes among his artwork and majestic floral patterns, which adorn shopping malls, tennis courts, skate parks, and even house interiors. With the coming of this exhibit SUF interns were now The COLORS are becoming instruments in this message of community. Over the course of two weeks, Syracuse and Florentine students worked diligently in the garden of Lin, cultivating fruitful relationships and forming a warm community unto itself, one that will hopefully endure into future years and future Pecci collaborations. This was one of the few opportunities in which I was Bright able to work side by side with Italian students, exchanging my lingual fragments for slang and information on the pop culture. Our workgroup, we found, was incred - The Experience is ibly diverse ranging from native French and Chinese, to Italian, Columbian, and Michael Lin even Bulgarian. Some were finishing high school others wrapping up graduate Generous school, some spoke English, others not so much. Despite the lingual and cultural dif - ferences it was meeting together in a common space with a common goal that gave rise to experiences that transcended By Calvin Main, barriers in working together, eating together, waiting for buses, Brown University encouraging one another, and sharing the differences we have to offer. Paint whatever you are told The experience of working with Michael Lin and his assistants to in whatever fashion was invaluable; each individual’s contribution was necessary as instructed… the images grew with each brush stroke of orange, green, vio - let, and pink. When the exhibit opened proudly on October 16, This was the only instruction 2010 there were no small emotions walking through the space given to me and four other in its full splendor and being able to spot the contributions of interns from the Syracuse my peers and myself. The space was transformed from paint University in Florence program cans and scaffolding into carpets and chairs, we had actually r e t

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h SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PECCI TEAM P setup of an art exhibit for the n n internationally renowned artist Chelsea Firor Regan Horacek r r Michael Lin in the two weeks before the scheduled opening date. However, when Mr. Lin him - Amelia Lockwood self warmly greeted our group at the door the reality of the project began to dawn on us. This Katherine Van Brunt e e awareness fully bloomed when he toured us through the Calvin Main t t large exhibit space and iterated his plans. Our chief task: to paint a warehouse wall Our chief task: to paint a warehouse wall spanning the length “The unique opportunity to work at Museo Pecci is a huge and rare honor for Syracuse students, a chance to look at how of three grand-sized rooms stenciled with intricate floral pat - spanning the length of three grand-sized n n artists work and all that is involved in installing large scale

rooms stenciled with intricate floral pat - I I terns. Italian students from the Academy of Fine Arts in exhibitions ” Florence were already busy at work and instructions were terns. Italian students from the Academy Kirsten Stromberg, SUF Painting Professor

being thrown around by French and Chinese assistants in a of Fine Arts in Florence were already “When I first saw the space I didn’t know how he was going to flurry of languages. Another room with a floor-sized paint - get everything done in two weeks, everything was white except

busy at work and instructions were being F F ing, another wall waiting, still to be stenciled. It was at this the back wall, that was covered in giant intricate flowers…” thrown around by French and Chinese Chelsey Firor, Syracuse ‘University point we realized that we were a part of something big both assistants in a flurry of languages. U U in stature and artistic consequence. “This girl offered me chocolate, my hands were covered in It had hardly been five days prior when the Pecci first con - paint and I had no idea what to say. She then literally fed me tacted the Syracuse campus in desperate need of painters. A team was quickly assembled from the the chocolate and we were laughing and had such a good time S S painting classes of professor Kirsten Stromberg, members being mid-seasoned painters and some, and I remember thinking this is what art should be about…” Regan Horacek, Syracuse University like myself, having not picked up a brush prior to the semester. Dedication was the key requirement.

10 11 S U P E R H E R O E S S E N D - A - S M I L E by Jenece Claribel Reyes (Syracuse University - Freshman) (and Reach for the Stars!) Gets to Florence by Lauren Maldonado (University of Southern California) Remember the days when you sat in front of the TV watching cartoons or you read comic books cheering on your favourite superhero? Those days are history for me, yet this weekend I achieved a childhood dream of spending time with some real-life superheroes. Nearly five years ago my best friend in high-school and I started up Send-A-Smile, an organization that sends homemade cards to pediatric hospitals and care facilities around the world. Community service has long-since been an integral part of my life, and I was determined to continue my activity in Florence this My name is Jenece Reyes and I am a student at Syracuse University in Florence. As part of the SUF semester abroad, if only I could find the right Volunteer program, I joined Zia Caterina on her mission of spreading smiles, happiness, and love to people channels! After all, I feel that community ser - in need. Well, I should explain who 'Zia Caterina' (or Aunt Cat) is? She is an angel dressed like a fairy who vice is one of the best ways to get to know the drives Taxi Milano 25 accompanying cancer patients, especially children, to their therapy appointments, and city you're living in, its people, and, why not, to above all bringing joy to their lives. better understand yourself. Zia Cat and I visited cancer patients at the Vittoria Tettamanti, Coordinator of the SUF Careggi hospital in Florence on a Saturday. I Volunteer Program helped me to connect Send- spent most of the afternoon with a Sicilian A-Smile with Florence, and get that ‘something man named Giuseppe. He is currently at more’ I wanted out of my experience in Italy. Careggi fighting cancer for the second time. Just a few weeks ago, six other students and I All of his family and friends are in Sicily, so he spent an unforgettable afternoon at the was excited to have visitors. Although we were Cooperativa Barberi , a day-care center for people m in a hospital, Giuseppe found the strength to who have physical or mental handicaps. The m focus his energy on teaching me about the visit was organized by Maibritt Handberg and a importance of theater in his hometown and Vittoria Tettamanti (in cooperation with Zia a r about the things he enjoyed doing when he Caterina). Decked out in Minnie Mouse Ears r with fresh gelato in hand, the seven of us set was home. It didn’t take long for me to realize Jenece Reyes and Giuseppe g I had made yet another friend in Florence. forth, unaware of what we were about to experience. That afternoon still stands as one of the most memo - g The next day, when I got into Caterina’s super fabulous taxi, we talked about an opportunity for Giuseppe to rable experiences I have had here – and believe me, incredible days, weekends, and events are bountiful in Florence. The people we met that afternoon were inspiring. Our presence and care spread optimism among o share his story in the local newspaper. After some “pushing” he agreed. I was moved by Giuseppe’s words. o He talked about how drastically cancer had changed his life. His adoration of Caterina was evident when he them, and we all shared happiness. I saw that it’s really possible to r r spoke about how she brightened up the life that he was beginning to see as an endlessly dark path. Within a make someone’s day and even change a person’s life for the better. Stars can be reached everywhere few hours, we successfully put Giuseppe’s story on paper as an article which was then published in the When Vittoria graciously helped me to connect our Send-A-Smile with small gestures! P Florentine daily newspaper La Nazione . project also with Florence’s Meyer Pediatric Hospital, I was thrilled P and honoured. Send-A-Smile has humbly provided me with the opportunity to give back to the people and We were then ready for the next part of Caterina’s mission, visiting the Ospedale Meyer, a children’s hospital where I met several young people. One in particular amazed me--an eleven-year-old girl named Asia whose city that have given to us and that continue to reward us with so much. Through our small contribution as r r mother died a few years ago from cancer. Asia also had cancer and went through chemotherapy. She was able a community at Syracuse University in Florence, we can make a big difference. I was touched, amazed, and to go home after about a year of treatment. Unfortunately, however, soon afterwards the doctors discovered inspired by how enthusiastic my friends, classmates, and faculty were to help with my project. When I return e that she had another form of cancer. Asia is currently in the hospital receiving treatment again. When I met to the United States, I will take with me many new perspectives, bonds, close friendships, profoundly mov - e her she was suffering pain from the disease. Nonetheless she still found the strength to greet Caterina and me ing experiences, and a fresh outlook on the world. Send-A-Smile has crossed another border, as has my e with a smile. There are so many of us who come into a workplace or classroom and instantly tell people that experience in Florence: my wish is that I leave a small footprint on the city that I have been so fortunate to e t we are ‘having a bad day’. Personally, I’ve had days when I justified my bad attitude towards a co-worker with call ‘home’ for the past four months. Stars can be reached everywhere with small gestures! t such an excuse. I find it amazing that this eleven-year-old girl was able to put aside her pain and maintain a n good attitude. n These people’s fight against such a ferocious beast has made me more conscious of the preciousness of life. u Giuseppe and Asia have the same characteristics I saw in superheroes when I was a child. They have inspired u l me to recognize every day as a gift and not to waste my time dwelling on the negatives of life. Visiting with l Zia Caterina reminded me that the world is so much bigger than I am. Her philosophy on life amazes me. o Her superpowers are not the ordinary superpowers we know from watching cartoons. They’re better. Caterina o doesn’t save lives by fighting crime with physical strength. Instead, she changes lives with love and emotion. V V

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Stephanie and I are not the only stranieri as Italians would call us. We have adjusted, but differences between How different is studying at the University of the typical American college and an Italian university continue to attract our attention. For example, at the Florence from studying at home? Very! ... says Jessika Caruthers (University of Southern Facoltà di Lettere there is a huge cloister where many students smoke cigarettes before and after class: hang - California) who is enrolled in a Linguistics course ing around there is more socially at the Facoltà di Lettere : “For the past month, I have been attending classes at the Università di Firenze. The students dress a lot more formal than do Americans and valuable than in America, I suspect! Surprisingly, I have discovered that there are far greater differences between UniFi and my university in the they don't really support our typical backpack marked by Students treat professors with a lot States than just the language of instruction. For example, one thing that truly shocks me is that the Italian more respect than we do at home. For professors are extremely detached from the textbooks and their syllabi, whereas at home, syllabi are (typi - brands such as Northface or L.L. Bean. example, they wait until the teacher cally) followed strictly, and textbook material is repeated and elaborated upon in class. Here, the concept of asks if anyone has questions before class lessons and textbooks are two separate things. What the professor says is additional material to what asking for clarifications or raising issues, and very rarely do they leave during class to go to the bathroom. we find in our textbooks; therefore, it is absolutely essential to be present at every class. As an SUF Option III student, I have a tutor to aid me in preparing for the final oral exam. At first I did - Unlike at home, the concept of a written exam does not exist; in fact, Italian students shudder at the mere n’t like the idea of having two instructors teaching me the same thing. It turns out, however that, my tutor mention of anything written. Italian exams are oral: the professor asks you questions about anything that is very helpful in clarifying exactly what it is that I write down in my notes and who exactly are the major you are expected to have heard in class or read in the textbook during the semester. Even the class sched - poets of Italy. I would liken him to a ‘Sparknotes’ of my class at Tufts University, but much more engaging. ules are different in an Italian university: every ‘hour’ of instruction includes a mandatory 15-minute In all, it has been a wonderful learning experience. Everyday I realize or learn something new, and I don't academic pause, called il quarto d’ora accademico , otherwise known as a smoking break for professor and stu - just mean a new Italian word.” dents alike. From all this you might think that I'm not enjoying my Linguistics course at UniFI. On the contrary, I love Like Mike and Jessika, Stephanie also stresses the differences between the Italian and the American acade - it simply because I feel like I'm learning so incredibly much. Italian students are expected to know a lot. For mic systems: “I would say that my experience in Florence is very different from all the other students at SUF. m example, in my class most students speak at least three languages, and their knowledge of those languages I also take one class in the Option II Program at the Centro di Cultura per Stranieri , Monday through Friday. m are referred to in the lessons. Contrary to American classes, where students are walked through the entirety It is a class of students from all different countries and the one thing we have in common is Italian, our sec -

a ond language. We work on grammar, conversation, writing and other things that really help me improve my of the course, I enjoy how Italian students are expected to take the initiative in order to lear and are given a the freedom to decide how best to study and learn the material.” language skills. The other class I take, Letteratura moderna e contemporanea , is at the Facoltà di Lettere , and is a r huge challenge. The teacher lectures the whole time on novels and poetry: we must follow and take notes r Michael Boncaldo (Tufts University) and Stephanie DiPrima (Syracuse University) have chosen a course because we get only one grade, and that grade is our final exam, which is oral. We must speak in front of our g two teachers for at least 30 minutes about everything we g in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature. Mike still recalls his first day at the Università : Italian students in class are extremely “I will never forget the first day I went to the University of Florence to sit in on a class that I was deciding have learned, that the professor taught, and that we read o whether or not to take. After climbing three flights of stairs I arrived outside Aula 4b , following the instruc - through the semester. Italian students in class are extreme - serious, taking pages and pages of notes o r tions. I peaked in quickly to see the professor talking to what seemed to be a class full of ‘on-time’ students. ly serious, taking pages and pages of notes and not talking and not talking amongst each other. r Five minutes passed and I found myself in the exact spot I was in when I first peaked into the classroom. amongst themselves. In America, instead, we see students on their phones, on their computers using Facebook, talking with their friends or even sleeping. This would P Nervous could not describe how I felt: it was more like terrified. For one thing I did not want to walk into the P class late and have the teacher make an example of me, and, secondly, amidst my nerves I was beginning to never happen in an Italian classroom. Students here are more disciplined and take their studies much more

sweat as if I had been running in place for five minutes. After calling a friend and collecting myself I knew seriously than do we Americans. I feel that here a lot more is expected of students and therefore they must I work hard to meet those expectations. I I I had to finally enter. I I The whole class passed pretty quickly it I will never forget the first day I went to the University of I

seemed, because I was too busy looking Florence... Nervous could not describe how I felt: it was Fall 2010 Option II students during their visit to the Accademia della at other students and watching how an Crusca in the Medici Villa di Castello. Here they are in the 16th-centu - Italian class would ensue. The students more like terrified. ry garden of the building. From left to right: (back) Francesca DeBiaso, n n dress a lot more formally than do Kelsey Lucca, Ned Dutton, Michael Boncaldo, Dylan De Angelis, Jessika Caruthers; (front) Angela Laurello, Prof. Lucia De Anna, and Americans and they don't sport our typical backpack marked by brands such as Northface or L.L. Bean.

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i Also, it was a hot, late afternoon in September and I was the only person in shorts! (Talk about sticking out! Preparing for their upcoming studies at the Centro di Cultura per i ). After class I looked to the student I was sitting next to and, mustering up my best Italian, asked him what Stranieri of the University of Florence through intense advanced Italian t language classes, a site visit to the Accademia della Crusca is manda - t the teacher had asked us to do at the end of the class. Whatever he said could have been in German for all tory at the beginning of the Fall semester. It provides students, says I knew, because I did not understand a word. The student listened to my question and then politely said, ‘I Antonella Francini, Coordinator of the Option II Program, "with a his - p have no idea what this professor is talking about either.’ Who would have guessed I was sitting next to an torical perspective on the language they have studied at home and p which they have come to perfect in Florence."The Accademia della Crusca is the leading research institution on the Italian American! From that point on I began to feel a lot more comfortable. language. Its origins can be traced back to the late 1500s; there the first modern dictionary of Italian was compiled. I did not choose that class in the end, but the one I enrolled in is just like it, but much larger. I have met Currently located in the magnificent Medici Villa di Castello, once home to Botticelli's Primavera and Birth of Venus, this O some French students, another American, and an Albanian that are also enrolled in the class. place and its historic garden are the perfect haven for students of Italian language. Upon arrival, linguist Lucia De Anna O introduced the Option II group to the history of Italian, from its Indo-European roots to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Students saw an original copy of the Vocabolario (dictionary) of the Italian language, printed in Venice in 1612. The Accademia della Crusca had prepared it to preserve the beauty of the Florentine tongue as it had been used by such illus - trious authors as Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Lorenzo il Magnifico, and Machiavelli.

16 17 Discovery Florence Program My First Week in Florence by Amy Kleine (Assistant Director for Student Health and Wellness) by Elizabeth Webster (Syracuse University)

m The Discovery I’ve just finished my first week living here in Italy. With all the many things that have happened over m Florence (DF) Freshmen the course of seven days, one image sticks out in my mind: Matilde. Matilde, the sweet, cherub-faced baby a Program is going strong in with a head full of jet black hair and the biggest drooling smile I’ve ever seen come from a three month old. a r its third year since inception. The first sign of her existence was the orange car seat sitting on the front seat of the car we were picked up r What began as a small group in on move-in day. After our arrival at Via Francesco Puccinotti, 72, I was able to put a face to this so called g of eight courageous and Matilde. My imagination never could have conjured up a more beautiful, Italian infant. Little did I know on g bright first-year students has that first day how prevalent her presence would become. Her shrilling cry ringing down the hall and out the

o blossomed into a class of windows has become a daily occurrence, often times during the moments when I just wish for silence. Sitting o twenty-two equally intelli - at the desk trying to read, I hear her begin to scream and I say out loud to myself, “Matilde, calm down!” r r gent and adventuresome wishing from the depths of my heart that she could actually hear and understand me. However, despite her freshmen. These students routine interruptions into my quiet times, she still remains the one Italian I feel the most comfortable with P have chosen to embark on right now. I don’t have to worry about the language barrier with little Matilde. I don’t have to wonder if the P

their college career in a for - conversation going on in Italian at the dinner table is about me. I don’t have to be acutely aware of the per - eign country, living with host ception of my mannerisms around Matilde. I know that a simple smile from me is sufficient and will almost always be returned with that cheek-to-cheek, toothless smile of her own. Amidst the chaos of this past week, e families and learning a for - e eign language, rather than starting with the more traditional model of dorm and campus life in the U.S. it is the image of that smile that will remain printed in the memory of my first week living in Italy. “Going from an initial group of eight (and ten last fall) to more than double that number has been exciting, c c challenging, and all in all, great fun!” says Freshmen Forum instructor Amy Kleine. “The increase in num - September 21, 2010 bers has meant more input in class discussions, more involvement by these students in our program activities n n and internships, and in general more of a presence as a group among the other students.” The DF students follow a curriculum tailored to them including Italian language, First Year Writing, Political e Science and Art History. Some of the students are also enrolled in upper-level courses, including a sociolo - e r gy class (Family and Gender in Contemporary Italy) and in a literature/drama class (Comedy in Italy). r First-year writing Professor Lily Prigioniero is enthusiastic about the DF students this semester and their o class performance: “I find that this year's freshmen in the DF program are incredibly mature. Our class dis - o l cussions, encompassing topics such as teenage intoxication, the homeless in Florence, cultural differences l and gay rights, have been extremely open, profound and often exhilarating! I have to say, I love this age group F and truly enjoy this class!” F

Learning the Italian language is a core element of their curriculum, as well as a fundamental experience in Italy in general. Italian department coordinator and Professor Loredana Tarini is pleased with the DF stu - y dents participation in language learning, “Since the freshman program began at SUF, the Italian department y

r has always found it a pleasure to have the freshman students in our classes. They are enthusiast, curious, r inquisitive and very interested in learning our language. DF students have shown consistently a strong moti -

e vation in understanding the Italian language and culture from up close.” e Twenty-two students can have a significant impact on the general atmosphere of the SUF campus, and in v the case of the DF students, their influence is undoubtedly positive. Art History Professor Richard Ingersoll v observes, “The presence of first year students has really enlivened the scene at SUF campus. Their capacity

o to mingle, ask questions, make a little trouble (nothing serious), and live up to the freshness of their status o has been wonderful for the atmosphere.”

c SUF and the DF professors are undoubtedly enthusiastic and positive about these students, however most c importantly, it is what the DF students get out of this experience that makes this program so fantastic. As

s DF student Cylicia Elianor, describes, “The experiences I am having here are priceless. I cannot duplicate or s i correctly express to anyone how much fun I am having and how much I am learning, both in terms of anoth - i er culture and myself. I say “myself” because I have never been on my own for so long. I am becoming much more independent by being here and taking care of myself.” D D

18 19 In Famiglia - Staying with Italian Hosts: A Retrospective Look Tandem Exchange in Fall 2010 by Jim Kauffman (Assistant Director for Student Life) Exchanging English for Italian with peers from the local high schools

A student recently came to me and asked As is common at SU Florence every semester, Fall 2010 Italian language classes had the opportu - "What's the deal with the towels? My Italian host nity to exchange English for Italian with peers from local high schools. “We have been organizing mother brought me into the bathroom and explained Tandem meetings for many years now,” says Loredana Tarini, Coordinator of the Italian that this set of towels was to be used only for my feet, Department, “and have involved hundreds of students in the project. It is always pleasantly sur - these for my body and the final set only for my face prising to see both Italians and Americans somewhat intimidated at first, worried about interacting and hands." I said I wasn't sure, but that it'd be best to abide by her rules and there was probably a good rea - spontaneously and in Italian with strangers, but they soon become engaged in deep conversation, son for this seeming peculiarity. The same is true in the asking questions and talking up a storm. They forget that, just shortly before, they were total case of the host mother who stops you from going strangers.” outside with wet hair. She's afraid you might catch your death of cold, and from my experience, take her warn - ing seriously. Wet hair and cold, damp mornings are a bad mix. All cultures evolve and develop traits of behavior for one reason or another. It is almost always tied to some cause and effect reality. Behavior is dic - tated by need. Keep in mind that your Italian hosts may also often wonder why you do the things you do. For instance, they probably admire your independence and autonomy, as not many of their 20- and 21-year- olds leave home for an extended period of time to experience the world. However, they no doubt worry if you sit and drink alone in your room or may wonder how you can stand to live in such a messy room. In fact, many students have expressed concern that their host mother goes in and cleans up or rearranges “their” room. But in her mind, this is the job of the casalinga (housewife); it's not so much an invasion of your privacy (a word that doesn't even exist in Italian), as merely her job to tidy up (mettere a posto) her

home. e You may have also noticed that Italians tend to live a more prescribed lifestyle than Americans do: i.e. dinner usually at the same time each evening, laundry done only on certain days of the week, etc. This contrasts great - g ly with our lifestyle where family members are often on their own for dinner (ready-made food or leftovers warmed up in the microwave) and eat any time they feel hungry (or bored). But, in the end, the important thing a is reciprocal respect and common courtesy when living Meeting Italian students from Liceo Scientifico Enriques, classe VB, of Livorno, Italy What's the deal with the towels? My Italian in a shared, often small, space. Peculiar habits, on the u host mother brought me into the bathroom other hand, are opportunities to learn something more by Matt Gornstein (George Washington University) about the other

and explained that this set of towels was to g culture. So, when As American students entered the Villa Rossa new faces greeted them. Italian high school students were be used only for my feet, these for my body and you find yourself visiting from Livorno to take part in a quasi-exchange for the day. The Italian students visited several class -

the final set only for my face and hands. thinking, “That's es to converse with American students. There were no strict rules guiding the conversation; the exercise n stupid” or “That's was aimed at encouraging thoughts and ideas to be exchanged in a casual setting. The Italians from

weird” catch yourself and simply say, “That's different.” It’s always better Livorno allowed for a practical use of language learning. All grammar, tenses, articles, and nouns that we a had learned on the white board and practiced in class through role play could now be used for real with g to ask the question behind the action: “I wonder why they do that?” or

“Why is that???" And every time you ask yourself this, you’ve brought people close to our age and for purposes of communication. Our conversation topics ranged from acad - L emic interests to family, movies and sports. There was a natural flow that resembled a “typical,” sincere

n yourself that much closer to understanding “the other.” conversation among students. Everyone had a different story to tell and a unique experience to share. i Fears of encountering a language barrier were quickly dispersed as American and Italian students helped Student Comments on Home Stays each other translate vocabulary and rephrase sentences. The candid setting removed the fear of making n s a mistake while speaking a new language and a visible sense of comfort escalated over time. Meeting and

“By the end of the semester, I felt as close to my host family as to my own family…well almost! They were won - a derful and made my stay here a most significant aspect of the program." speaking with Italians is sometimes a difficult task when studying abroad. This exchange enabled u American and Italian students to connect with each other and develop conversational skills that are essen - i “When I first got here and my Italian was horrible, my host family never made me feel stupid and always lis - l tened when I spoke, despite my awkwardness. They even tried to involve me in family discussions. …. They tial to learning a language. o are possibly the coolest people in the world.” a

“My host parents are open-minded, well-cultured, and very intelligent. The atmosphere is always welcoming t and accommodating. They like to hear about how my day has gone and are so personal I feel like one of the H family.” I “When I got sick my host parents waited on me hand and foot. I became the most important thing in their lives and, even though they are both in their 70's, they carried breakfast, lunch and dinner upstairs to me every day.”

20 21 A Visit To Pietrasanta: Traveling with a Pen & a Brush I Giullari di Syracuse Performance by Elizabeth Lewis by Eric Nicholson (Professor of Drama and Theater)

This is Elizabeth Lewis' visual account of her visit to Pietrasanta and around Italy this SONG and DANCE, FOOD and DRINK, LOVE and DESIRE, and MUCH MORE will all semester. Liz who is an English and Art major at Syracuse University in Florence has be served in this semester's theatrical production, staged by the student-faculty group “I continued to cultivate her passions studying Travel Writing and working in SUF’s Studio Giullari di Syracuse” and entitled LA DODICESIMA NOTTE, or WHAT YOU DECEIVE. Arts program. Here she adds a verse commentary to her painting. This original show will be performed in both English and Italian, and will take Do I know you? I swear we’ve met before— Shakespeare's classic comedy Twelfth Night, or What You Will back to its roots in No, I don’t think so—the woman continues to walk Renaissance Tuscany, via the style and atmosphere of such modern film favorites as She's And I am destined to stay, only for a little while the Man and La Dolce Vita . These are well-known titles, but less famous is the play that a pale figure in the background . Shakespeare himself adapted, by the Intronati di Siena: gl'Ingannati ( The Deceived ). “Baciala,” shouts a character in this play, providing the model for “You go right ahead and My boots echo down the cobblestone streets, kiss her!”, and other memorable lines. You'll hear these and many others, and see lyrical My feet buckling against the uneven surfaces scenes of longing and passion, as well as comical ones of cross-dressing, mistaken identi - Touch the building—what is this one exactly? ty, late-night partying, and downright folly. Mixing the two comedies together, and setting Its faded yellow color and heavy shutters; them in 1960s Italy, the production aims to bring you all their fun and fantasia in innova - e I wonder who has lived here for the past tive and “amorous-glamorous” ways. Once again, though as you've never seen before, girl c 500 years—small children running through meets boy, girl loses boy, and girl gets boy. Will they live happily ever after?! “The rain it The halls, a woman sighing as she hangs raineth every day,” but with dynamic young women determined to get what they WILL--- n The laundry to dry, the distant smells quello che VOGLIONO---the sun may also shine, very brightly. In short, viva la diva, e y Of Tuscan cooking oiled in the walls. l

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a The abandoned side streets I fall in love with, “LA DODICESIMA NOTTE, or WHAT YOU DECEIVE”

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22 23 SUF Students Art Exhibition SUF Students Art Exhibition

Studio Arts Competition Fall 2010

This year’s winners are:

Best In Show Prize: i l l e z

z Sophy Min for her oil painting The Lady and the Ladder a u G

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s Honorable Mention to: e c n a

r Introductory Painting: Calvin Main F

: s Amelia Lockwood

o Sculpture: t o

h Drawing: Jenna Fugate p

m Sketchbook: Alexandra Berch m Printmaking: Elizabeth Stace

a On Thursday Dec 9th, the SUF Studio Arts Department celebrated the end of the semester Digital Photography: Genevieve Geiger a Renaissance Painting: Claire Stankus

r with the Student Art Show, the latest installment of the bi-annual exhibition and juried com - r petition of student work. This year’s show included over one hundred pieces in printmaking, Metalsmithing: Ashley Ross photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, Renaissance painting, batik, silkscreening, and Batik: Francesca Debiaso Sophy Min - The Lady and the Ladder, g g metalsmithing, highlighting the breadth and depth of creative work by SUF students. Silkscreen: Anna Pitz oil on canvas The SUF Studio Arts Department holds a student exhibition at the end of every semester. o It is a unique opportunity for students to not only learn the important process of installing o r and exhibiting their works, but also a chance for them to share, celebrate and communicate r their thoughts and creative reflections with the greater Italian community.

P Awards for outstanding projects in each medium as well as a ‘Best in Show Cash Prize’ are P juried during every exhibition by a distinguished group of artists, curators and critics active in the Florentine and international communities. This year’s Jury consisted of Marco Cianchi and Bianca Pinzi. Marco Cianchi teaches Art History at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze s and California State University. His research focuses on the parallels between Renaissance s t and Modern/Contemporary art. Bianca Pinzi is a curator and educator with a degree in con - t r temporary art from the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Florence. She r collaborates with the Center of Contemporary Art at the Villa Medicea La Magia . A A By Kirsten Stromberg (SUF Professor of Painting)

Marco Cianchi and Bianca Pinzi, competition jurists o o i i d d u u t t S S

SUF Studio Arts Coordinator Nick Kraczyna with Jenna Fugate, winner of the Honorable Mention for Metalsmithing display Sophy Min Drawing

24 25 SUF Fall 2010 Portfolio SUF Fall 2010 Portfolio

Breaking up with Hollywood SUF Students at the 28th Torino Film Festival by Morgan Schutte (Wake Forest University)

I must admit that four months ago my taste in film was a bit childish. I love movies, but what I didn’t realize was that I only really loved American movies. However, this all changed when I signed up for Carlotta Kliemann’s Contemporary Cinema class. We were required to watch one film every Wednesday and on the following Tuesday afternoon we would meet for a three-hour group discussion. The course topics ranged from the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall to the ceaseless Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and almost all the films were produced outside of the United States. Towards the end of the semester we focused on two films which commented on the current war in Iraq. One of the films called Redacted , directed by Brian De Palma, told a true story about American soldiers who raped and killed an innocent Iraqi girl. It would be an understatement to say that this film struck close to home; it was like nothing I had ever seen before, and the classroom debate the following Tuesday From December 3 to 5, students in Professor Carlotta On their way to the cinema district in the heart of the Kliemann's cinema course attended the 28th Film Festival city center, posing in front of café Mulassano , one of the was anything but tame. in Turin. Here they are, under the gigantic poster set up for many historical cafés in Torino. o This is not to say that Redacted was the only film that pushed me to reevaluate my stance on certain polit - this year's event before their two-day immersion in watch - o i ical issues, but it was definitely a film I felt personally connected to. It had been easy to discuss films ing international films. i l l which dealt with issues foreign to me, but suddenly I was forced to analyze my own country and culture. This is exactly what a college course should do. o o Although the entire semester was an adventure, the high point was the class trip to Torino for the 2010 f f Torino Film Festival . While there I was able to see eight films in two days – a personal record – and the t t best part was that each film was produced in a different country. On the afternoon of Friday, December r 3 when we arrived in Turin we saw The Bang Bang Club , a South African film by Steven Silver; Henry , an r Italian film directed by Alessandro Piva; and Burlesque , an American film directed by Steve Antin. All the o films had been released this year. o Saturday morning we were all up early in order to get to the 10 a.m. screening of The Four Lions , a British

P work directed by Chris Morris. Throughout the day I saw four more films: Parked (Irish, directed by P

Darragh Byrn); Super (American, directed by James Gunn); Bus Palladium (French, directed by Christopher ..and at the Al Bicerin , the celebrated chocolate Thompson); and finally Neds: Non Educated Delinquents (Scottish, directed by Peter Mullan). stop in Turin (photo by Morgan Schutte) I feel compelled to list all of the movies and their directors because I want to encourage the reader to 0 0 go out and rent them. Each one is truly unique and none of them, with the exception of Burlesque , has

the infamous ‘fairytale’ ending. I was especially fond of The Four Lions , a dark comedy about four suicide A Picture is Worth a Thousand Troops , by 1 1 bombers whose plans go horribly awry. The festival made me see that I have been missing out on a lot Martha Rosler. of fantastic films. I would even go so far as to say I feel as if I have been liberated from a constricting 0 Hollywood box. 0 On Sunday some of us visited the Torino GAM ( Galleria di Arte Contemporanea ). There I discovered the

2 work of Martha Rosler, a socially engaged American photographer from New York City. Her work is 2

centered on social issues, the media and war. Therefore my political mindset was most certainly aug - l mented in a museum at the foot of the Alps, as I was confronting the compelling exhibit of this l l American artist. l I can now say that this semester I have acquired a more mature taste in film. Usually, when I go to the a movie theater, I have a choice between 8-12 American films and, on the off chance there is a foreign a film, it will be overshadowed by more recognizable titles. However, I am confident that when I return to On Sunday, a jaunt to the GAM, Turin's celebrated Gallery of F Modern Art. Student Morgan Schutte visits AS IF, and discov - F the States I will no longer be seduced by the pulchritude of Hollywood. I can only hope that you too will ers Martha Rosler's thought-provoking exhibit - the first exibit venture outside of the box in order to see some of these pertinent and wildly entertaining foreign films. dedicated to this American artist in an Italian museum.

26 27 Faculty Watch SUF Fall 2010 Portfolio Matteo Duni

Matteo Duni participated in the international conference on “Heresy, Magic and Natural Philosophy” organized by the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. His paper focused on a little-studied sixteenth century Outstanding Students Awards Ceremony jurist, Gianfrancesco Ponzinibio, the first Italian author who devoted an entire book, De lamiis (On witches , first published 1511), to disprove the reality of witchcraft. His rad - ical ideas drew violent criticism from inquisitors, some of which called for the burning of the book and of its author. Luckily for him - and for us! - both were spared that fate, Coluccio Salutati Essayists so that we are still able to appreciate this humanist's contribution to the intellectual Kelly Mannes - George Washington University debate of his age. The conference drew together eighteen scholars from Scandinavian Caress Reeves - Pomona College countries as well as from the US, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Hungary, Australia, and of Nicole Balin - Oberlin College course Italy, for a three-day intensive discussion on such fascinating topics as alchemy, Anthony Cuneo - Boston College magic, the witch-hunt and the repression of heresy in late medieval and early modern Europe. Outstanding Option II/III Student Stephanie DiPrima - Syracuse University Antonella Francini Outstanding Interns Jenece Reyes-Syracuse University Mari Rohena-Cruz -Syracuse University An essay by Antonella Francini - “Transferring Dante: Robert Rauschenberg's Thirty-Four Meghan Schneider-Syracuse University "Terry" Victoria Muiru-Syracuse University Illustrations for the Inferno ” - has just appeared in a collective volume: Metamorphosing Elizabeth Congdon-Syracuse University Dante: Appropriations, Manipulations, and Rewritings in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries , Devorah Weinstein - Syracuse University edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart (Berlin: Verlag Tura + Jessica Cimino - Syracuse University Kant, 2010, pp. 324-374). This essay is a result of Francini’s current studies on Dante's pres - o ence in contemporary American culture. Here, she examines Rauschenberg's deep and very

i Outstanding Volunteers personal transformation of the Inferno in his 34 transfer-drawings, a trasformation all the l On Tuesday, December 7, Director Michael Calo and SUF program Briana Rinaldo - Syracuse University coordinators awarded those students who have excelled this term in Jenece Reyes - Syracuse University more striking because it takes place in the realm of the urban American avant-garde of the their commitment to academic study and engagement with the SUF Lettori per un Giorno Winners late 1950s. o and Florentine communities. Vizza, Jeri - Santa Clara University f Above: Fall 2010 award recipients. Hylton, Caitlin - Santa Clara University Frias, Stephanie -Syracuse University t r Sara Matthews-Grieco h c o Sara Matthews-Grieco has edited a volume, Erotic Cultures in Renaissance Italy , published t Syracuse University Graduate Program in Renaissance Art by Ashgate Press (May 2010). Concentrating largely on the 'middle ranks' of society P in Renaissance Italy – artisans, merchants, and professionals such as bankers and a

lawyers – this book focuses on new social subjects, new documents and unusual objects. Using innovative methods of inquiry and interdisciplinary analytical tools, contributors explore a little-known but pervasive erotic culture in which sexually

0 The Florence Symposium explicit artefacts, games and gestures were considered essential to a number of rituals W At the end of their course of study, FIA and social occasions. At the same time, they demonstrate how a burgeoning market for erotica, along with a cultural tradition of allusion and innuendo, played an increas - 1 graduate students present twenty minute- long scholarly papers relating to a ingly important role in the Italian peninsula between the fifteenth and early common topic selected earlier in the year. seventeenth centuries. y 0 t

Since 1987, the symposium has attracted l members of the international scholarly Carlotta Fonzi Kliemann 2 community in Florence, as well as inter - ested students, faculty, and guests. u l

l This year’s topic was entitled: c Rooted in the Renaissance: Italian On November 13, Carlotta Fonzi Kliemann presented a paper at the conference Gardens and Their Legacy Italian Cultural Integration, Facts and Fiction organized by CCIS-sQuola and SUNY a at Stony Brook entitled “Permeable Identities: The Representations of Immigrants in a Fall 2010 FIA graduate students and faculty. Recent Italian Cinema.” During the Torino Film Festival 2010, which Kliemann From left to right : Jonathan Nelson, Lorinda Dickson, Molly Bourne, Rab F Hatfield, Sarah Dziamba, Bryan Keene, Caitlin Sweeney, Melanie Honour, attended on December 3-5 with students of her Contemporary Cinema course, the F Margaret Contompasis, Townsend Zeigler. Association Chicca Richelmy, of which she is co-founder and Vice-President, award - ed a prize for short films within the Spazio Torino Short Film Competition.

28 29 Faculty Watch News from SU, Syracuse, NY Lily Prigioniero 2010 Remembrance Week

The poem, "Restoration of an Restoration of an Icon Icon” by Lily Prigioniero appears in the "Mary in Art" essay in Judith Dupre's book Full of Grace: I may fill the lacuna with the exact color Encountering Mary in Faith, Art, and between child and crown there on her throne Life (New York, Random House and think to be part of that eternal art, 2010). Lily's poem is one of the I may write a poem because of her stare midrashim, or marginal commen - Alone in the musty solvent smells of work taries, that was inspired by the Leaving me to ponder what it’s worth, format of the Torah and that appears throughout the book. Her glance may juggle time with eternity These insights on the Virgin Mary, Making light the intricacies of death and on womanhood in general, by theologians, historians, Because she survived the centuries, contemporary writers, and poets, add up to a kind of chorus celebrating Mary. The book offers a new twist on the life of But the lacuna between her eyes and mine the Virgin Mary, taking the reader inside her world in ancient Cannot be filled with words or song Palestine and showing, equally, how thoroughly she inhabits Or painted dabs of the master’s hand our own 21st-century experiences. For perhaps it is in that missing space Where humanity’s eternal struggle with art Can never depict the lacuna of life. Y

Diane Kunzelman & Ezio Buzzegoli N

Profs. Diane Kunzelman and Ezio Buzzegoli have recently brought to conclusion two very important conservation projects which involved in-depth and far-reaching , research and restoration efforts. The first of these is Agnolo Bronzino’s Nano Morgante , carried out with the collaboration of other restorers, scientists and art historians in the Twenty-two years ago 35 Syracuse University students studying abroad boarded a plane home from U h Opificio delle Pietre Dure at the Fortezza da Basso (Florence’s prestigious restoration London. Their flight, Pan Am 103, exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and laboratory which SUF undergraduate and graduate students have the opportunity to crew onboard and 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie. They were aspiring artists, politicians, writ -

c ers, journalists and educators. They left behind parents, friends, siblings and a world that would have

visit under their guidance each semester). The Nano Morgante is one of Kunzelman S and Buzzegoli’s most significant conservation endeavors in recent years. This double- benefitted greatly from their gifts and talents. t sided canvas described by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists was painted by Bronzino Every year, 35 Remembrance Scholarships are awarded to outstanding undergraduate students cho - towards the end of the 1540s. The renowned court dwarf of Duke Cosimo I is por - sen in their junior year through a rigorous and competitive process on the basis of distinguished a trayed as a bird hunter on both the front and back panels, as can be seen after academic achievement, citizenship, and service to community. The scholars’ mission is to educate the campus community about the tragedy, remember the students whose lives were taken and spark painstaking removal of overpaint which had transformed the figure in the mid 18th m century into a Bacchus, covering his nudity with grape leaves. The painting is one of conversation about terrorism today. They look to explore ways of using advocacy and understanding the most captivating works of Bronzino now on exhibit at Palazzo Strozzi. Its restora - to overpower and extinguish intimidation and the use of terror. W tion has also been the subject of a documentary film by Richard Blanchard presented This year’s weeklong series of events honoring the 270 victims took place on SU campus from o

for the first time at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence and soon to be aired on interna - October 14 to October 21, and it included a panel discussion on terrorism, a candlelight vigil, a con - r

tional television. The film Restoring Genius Bronzino will be shown at SUF in Spring 2011. cert, and archival displays. On Friday October 22, the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars laid f y roses at the Wall of Remembrance during the annual Rose Laying Ceremony in honor of and to pay

t The second of these efforts involved yet another double-sided tribute to the 35 SU students and the 11 victims from Lockerbie, Scotland.

l painting, this time by the poet and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, Emily Allen, who studied in Florence in Fall 2009, is one of the 2010-11 Remembrance Scholars. We

dating from the 1940s. Although stylistically different from the publish here her personal statement about receiving such a special and prestigious award. s Bronzino piece, Pasolini’s front and back paintings presented as Jennifer Monti, who studied in Florence in Spring 2008, is also very proud to have received this schol - u great a challenge in terms of preservation efforts as the Nano arship. Says Jennifer, “Syracuse University gave me the chance to study abroad in Florence and

Morgante . The two works, extraordinary documents of Pasolini’s Madrid and gain a larger understanding of the world around me. I was able to learn so much about w c early efforts as a visual artist, will be exhibited together with the life during the four months I spent abroad. Hopefully, through the Remembrance Scholarship, my fellow scholars and I will be able to fully represent those students who lost their lives on Pan Am author’s original manuscripts, documents, photographs and draw - e a ings, at the Gabinetto Vieusseux/Archivio Contemporaneo Bonsanti in Via flight 103 and keep their memories alive.” Maggio n. 42, from Nov. 18 to Jan. 21, 2011. F N

30 31 News from SU, Syracuse, NY 2010 Remembrance Week

Emily Allen (Syracuse University; SUF Fall 2009)

Studying abroad is an experience that each student cannot wait to get home and share with family, friends, and anyone he/she knows. It is a life-changing experience that becomes a part of everything you do from that point on. In December of 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. There were 35 Syracuse University study abroad students aboard that flight from SU’s home campus and other colleges around the country. They were athletes, musicians, artists, students, and all roughly around 20 years old. The Wall of Remembrance sits at the front entrance to Syracuse University. It is an ever-present reminder of how we, although in central New York, are a part of a world much larger than our campus. For many, the Wall is simply a nice decorative touch on the lawn in front of the Hall of Languages. When one stops to examine the Wall closer, it becomes apparent that the names of the victims line the Wall. As a stu - dent who has walked by that memorial almost every day that I have attended SU, I felt that it was important to educate myself as to the real reasons behind the Wall and how Pan Am 103 affects us all. Becoming a Remembrance Scholar is a high honor. It is an experience that humbles you. It makes you take a step back and recognize that no matter who you are, what you will do in the future, or from where you come, you are connected with peers that came before you to a world beyond the campus. It is a real - TUESDAY DEcEmbEr 7 - FrIDAY DEcEmbEr 17, 2010 Y ization that you cannot ignore global issues because you are in fact a part of those global issues. Moreover, being a Remembrance Scholar is about honoring the life of someone who was lost on December 7: Outstanding Students Award Ceremony that flight. I remember Sarah S.B. Philipps. When I was looking over the personal archives of each of the N victims, Sarah and I connected. Like me, she was an English major and our high schools played soccer 6:15 - 7:15pm | Villa Rossa, Room 13 against each other. She went to the University of Colorado at Boulder which many of my study abroad In recognition of outstanding students in the following categories:

, friends attended. She loved the wintertime because of her passion for skiing and I for my love of hockey. Yes, these connections are meaningful and establish a life behind a name and a personal connection to Sarah. -Volunteer Program But I found the most important bond between Sarah and me in a testimonial written by Sarah’s mother. -Lettore per un giorno U Sarah’s mother wrote about the last phone conversation she had with Sarah before she boarded Pan Am 103. -Option II / III Program It was almost identical to the one I had had with my mom just about one year ago. It sent chills down my -Internship Program

S spine. I can’t completely explain all of the reasons why, but this brought me to a new point of passion and The VILLA ROSSA VOICE is -Coluccio Salutati understanding about what it means to be a Remembrance Scholar. Along with my fellow Scholars, I have the newsletter for the Reception to follow at 7:30 sought to spread the awareness and memory of those aboard Pan Am 103. As a Syracuse community, we Syracuse University in are one. We are connected through those who came before us and we cannot be active members of this Florence community. We welcome your ques - m community without paying tribute to their lives. tions, comments, articles and/or artwork. December 9: Student Art Show o Editorial staff 5:30 - 7:30pm | Studio Arts, Piazzale Donatello 21 r Director f Michael Calo Light refreshments served To be a Lockerbie scholar at Syracuse University is something special. It’s difficult to describe what

Host families invited it means in one simple statement because it means a multitude of things. It means you are an ambassador Fall 2010 Editor Antonella Francini for your school, your community and your country. It means that you achieved an honour that is not simply [email protected] s academic but also reflects citizenship and your ability to represent your home in the right way. It means you Copy Editor are someone your family can truly be proud of. But most importantly it means that you are the physical Sylvia Hetzel December 17: I Giullari di Syracuse present embodiment of hope, when two communities are thrust together by disaster. You are the living link between [email protected] w two places struck by tragedy, the epitome of hope like a poppy on The field of Flanders. It is hard to con - graphics and Layout “La DODIcESImA NOTTE or WHAT YOU DEcEIVE ” vey what it means to be a Lockerbie Scholar. All I know is that I am honoured and humbled to be one for Francesco Guazzelli e [email protected] 5:30 - 6:30pm | Villa Rossa, Room 13 Remembrance Week 2010. Duncan McNab, 2010-11 Lockerbie Scholar, from Lockerbie, Scotland. Tribunale di Firenze Registro Stampa Followed By "LA CenA FInALe" N (Each year, two students from Lockerbie, Scotland, come to Syracuse for a year of study through the Syracuse-Lockerbie Scholarships, jointly funded by Syracuse and the Lockerbie Trust.) Periodico No. 5854 At: 7:30 - Palazzo Budini Gattai. Via dei Servi, 51 (near Piazza SS. Annunziata) All material © Syracuse University in Florence

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