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Dr @AngelaViora's first #monograph (@routledgebooks 2025), has been awarded the 2025 Jo-Anne Duggan #Prize by the @ACIS_Italian for the best publication by an early-career researcher in the field of #ItalianStudies. Brava! 👏📖🏆🇮🇹 routledge.com/The-Ecology-of…

Under the expert guidance of our DAAD lecturer Jessica Lesjak, our #German students produced a colourful #podcast series together with @SBS German! 📻🎙️ 👂Listen and enjoy here: sbs.com.au/language/germa… Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏🇩🇪

Our very own A/P Stewart King receives the 2026 George N. Dove Award for Contributions to the Study of Mystery and #CrimeFiction His unique work on #Spanish & #Catalan crime fiction contributes to the relationship between this genre and national and #cultural #identities @pcaaca

Huge congratulations to our very own Prof @DrChrisWatkin on her latest book "The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity" (@CambridgeUP 2025) 🎉 #nature #modernity #philosophy #westernthought #ecology #research cambridge.org/core/books/sta…

Congratulations to the #ItalianStudies team Dr @AngelaViora (2025 Jo-Anne Duggan Prize), Prof @AndreaRighi20, Dr @BarbaraPezzotti, and Dr @AndreaPagani (Research Group) for their successes! @ACIS_Italian #award #research #education #academia

The 13th Biennial @ACIS_Italian Conference will explore interdisciplinary, comparative, transnational, and diasporic approaches to #Italian culture, language, and history. Sign up and entry your proposal by Dec 13. 👇 🗓️ July 2026 📍Naarm/Melbourne AUS acis.org.au/acis-biennial-…

Et voilà... Sensational @ClementBaloup guest of the annual European Languages Lecture 2025! His #graphicnovels portray the #Vietnamese #diasporas across various national spaces including Vietnam, France, Kanaky-New Caledonia and, most recently, Australia. @CharlotteMackay

The #Pandemic in Three #Words. A lecture by Prof Timothy Campbell. Is it possible that the world began speaking #Italian without knowing it? The most common words of the pandemic era #quarantine, #mask, and #community have deep roots in Italian culture... share.google/W0rEYKK4OxJ4Em…

The largest celebration of Italian #culture and film outside #Italy, the ST. ALi Italian #Film Festival, returns to #cinema screens this September – October with an unmissable selection of the best new Italian cinema! @ItalianFF @palacecinemas 📽️ 🍿 share.google/8cfqykvJntkFRL…

We had a blast last night at the @MonashArts event celebrating some #monographs around the topic of "Making Sense of the #Climate Crisis": our very own Dr Barbara Pezzotti and Prof @AndreaRighi20 discussed their latest works with the fantastic moderator Dr @carlosuxo 🌎 📚

Making Sense of the Climate Crisis: Join our very own Dr @carlosuxo, Dr Barbara Pezzotti, and Prof @AndreaRighi20 in discussing the climate crisis through societal, economical, and cultural lenses. 🗓️ 7 aug • 6pm 📌 Monash Caulfield campus RSPV 👇 eventbrite.com.au/e/making-sense…

Thanks to our Staff, students, and all the visitors swinging by for making #OpenDay a great day! Interested in learning #languages and #cultures through a single or a double #Degree, or a Language #Diploma? We got you covered! 🇪🇺🇦🇺🌎🌍

Read the film review of 'The Salt Path: A Zen parable set on England’s South West Coast Path' by Dr @FelicityChaplin, lecturer in French & Francophone Studies (FAFS) and expert in Film & Media Studies 📽️ 🍿🎬🎞️ share.google/h5sdndw8kMV2bT…

In the latest episode of the @ACIS_Italian #podcast series, Dr @AngelaViora talks about her #monograph on the Ecology of #Performance Art, and how this informs her work as an artist, scholar and #educator in #Italian Studies. Buon ascolto! @AndreaRizziMelb @routledgebooks 🎧🇮🇹🌎

FAFS scholar and Screen Studies expert @FelicityChaplin's #review of Salt Path is as delicate and vibrant as the #film itself - read Dr Chaplin's beautiful piece here 👇 📽️ 🎬 #cinema australianbookreview.com.au/arts-update/10…

2 May – 21 May 2025 The HSBC German Film Festival is here! Presented by @palacefilms, it will showcase the best contemporary #German #cinema direct from major festivals in #Europe plus a selection from #Austria and #Switzerland. 📽️ 🍿 🎫 🎬 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇪🇺 palacecinemas.com.au/festivals?fest…

A very helpful tool for our #French Introductory students to keep practicing the #language outside of the classroom, at a manageable pace #radio #podcast #slow and steady wins the race... @SBSFRENCH sbs.com.au/language/frenc…

"Power, place and people: European legacies, global #resistance, and #transculturation" examines how cultures across the #globe have encountered, rejected, adopted, adapted, and transformed European cultural #legacies. #power #people #places #Europe ✊🌏 handbook.monash.edu/2025/units/ATS…

The painting above is by the Spanish artist #SalvadorDali who illustrated the Divine Comedy in the 1960s, commissioned by the Italian government itself.

#25marzo2025 In #Italy today is #Dantedì namely Dante Day! Scholars, indeed, believe that on March 25 the Italian poet #DanteAlighieri began his fictional journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven, which he described in his book "The #DivineComedy" 🇮🇹