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Program

Professor Valerie Higgins in Science Channel's 'Unearthed'

Traveling around the world to some of the most iconic sites from history, UNEARTHED combines scientific investigations and expert insight with stunning CGI animation to unearth the hidden secrets behind these famed monuments and reveal how and why they were created.

Unwrapping chocolate: the untold story

Unwrapping chocolate: the untold story.聽From cacao genetic resources to cocoa and rewarding cocoa small-scale farmers.聽

Internship success for Food Studies students

Having just completed their theses for their Master's degrees in Food Studies, Teaghan Rose and Amanda Wakefield are already stepping into the next challenge: putting their knowledge into practice in internship placements.

Professor Coretti discusses migrants and the media with SIMI

Veronica De Sanctis, head of SIMI's projects, invited Professor Lorenzo Coretti (Director, Communication) to talk about what shapes the narratives on immigration in different countries, with a particular focus on the United States and Europe.

The Case of Neera. A new book by Professor Ramsey-Portolano

Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question聽focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian聽writer Neera, pseudonym for Anna Radius Zuccari, one of the most prolific and successful women writers of late nineteenth-century Italy.

AI turns its eye to the arts

The singer, songwriter, and visual artist Grimes and tech mogul Elon Musk seemed to many a fairly unlikely pairing. What brought them together was an AI pun that Musk wanted to post on Twitter, only to find that Grimes had beaten him to it by several years.聽

New article on overtourism and tourismphobia by Cultural Heritage professor and students

Rebecca George and Kristin Lochner, students of the MA in Sustainable Cultural Heritage, recently collaborated with their professor, Barbara Staniscia, for聽an article on sustainability in the tourist industry that was published in an Italian academic journal for geography teachers.聽