JUSTICE - Borromini Institute

Another successful summer program of academic internships is complete, and as always concluded with an engaging Internship Symposium in which our students got to share amongst themselves and invited guests the wonderful work they completed at their internship placements these last eight weeks. This time their Symposium was also combined with the video screening of […]

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Apr 8 2024

Sustainable Service Learning

CITIES, JUSTICE, Uncategorized / By Lindsay Maldari

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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A group of Human Rights Lab heads posing

Oct 9 2023

The Human Rights Lab Heads South

JUSTICE, PROGRAMS, Uncategorized / By Lindsay Maldari

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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Feb 24 2023

Exploring Rome’s Ancient Port

CITIES, FOOD, JUSTICE, PROGRAMS / By borromini

32 students from two universities headed out by train from Rome’s Porta San Paolo and spent the morning exploring the back streets and monuments of Rome’s ancient port. Preserved in mud the way Pompeii was preserved in lava, but bearing witness to many more centuries of ancient history, Ostia provides a comprehensive look at Roman

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A group posing with their bicycles in front of an arch.

Feb 24 2023

Biking the Appian Way

CITIES, FOOD, JUSTICE, MEDIA, PROGRAMS / By borromini

Today on a gorgeous Sunday both the @hwsabroad @hwscolleges and the @illinoisabroad students took to the ancient Appian Way on bikes! But not after a look and tasting at the Campagna Amica farmer’s market. Joined by @luluinitalia and many though not all of the students we learned about how agriculture, ancient archaeology and modern day

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