Connecting in New Orleans
TBI Director Tom Rankin spent three intensive days recently attending meetings and learning sessions at the annual NAFSA Conference in New Orleans.
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Exploring Southern Italy’s Welcoming Coast
The Spring Program Visits Calabria One of the highlights of the program was the 5-day trip to the Calabria region in Italy’s south. The focus this time was on cultural diversity and inclusion, a topic dear to our curriculum (in fact, we dedicate an entire academic cluster to human rights). We were welcomed by the Italian Coast Guard, Red
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Spring Newsletter is Out
We’ve just sent out our quarterly newsletter with updates on what’s on in Italy and especially around the Borromini Center in Rome. If you haven’t received it and would like to subscribe here’s where you can enter your email. In the meantime, here are a few of the highlights. Some Spring Semester Highlights With nearly
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Sustainable Service Learning
Our students love to get involved in environmental projects in their adopted city, Rome. Whether this be helping fight climate change through conscientious shopping and recycling, joining in with Retake Rome to clean up public areas, or participating in internships supporting urban agricultural or welcoming immigrants, there are always ways for the study abroad student
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Open House Roma
It’s always a thrill to be in Rome when Open House comes around. This non-profit organization has been opening up special sites and properties to the public for over a decade and has become a true annual institution. A wide range of destinations, from tiny modern apartments to huge churches and archaeological sites make up
Borromini in Boston
Several members of the Borromini Team will be present at the Forum for Education Abroad annual meeting in Boston later this month, on March 20-22. We hope those of you attending will drop in and say hi. Founder Pier Alberto Merli, Visual Media Manager Lu Yuan, and Program Coordinator Lindsay Maldari will be on hand
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Kicking Off the New Year with Chapman University’s Interterm Travel Course
What better way to kick off the new calendar year than by welcoming a new custom program to the Borromini Institute–the Chapman University 2024 Interterm Travel Course in Rome. This interdisciplinary group of ten students was led by Chapman University Professor and the Founding Director of the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experience and Research, Dr.
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L’orologio – Fall 23
The new edition of L’Orologio – the Borromini Institute’s quarterly publication – is out!
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The Human Rights Lab Heads South
As part of our Human Rights Lab programming, the Borromini Institute organized a week-long trip for our University of Illinois and Hobart and William Smith College students into Italy’s deep south. We began in the Calabria region, headed into the island of Sicily, and concluded with an overnight ferry into the bustling city of Naples.
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Thrift shopping in Rome
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