BABILONIA - Center for Italian Studies - is proud to sponsor the following events on the occasion of the AATI & AAIS Joint Convention in Taormina, Italy 2008:

· Thursday, May 22nd, h. 6.30 pm
"I nuovi linguaggi degli scrittori siciliani” meeting the Sicilia writers Santo Piazzese, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco e Sergio Claudio Perroni.

· Friday, May 23rd, h. 6.30 pm
"Mafia e antimafia" meeting with the Member of the European Parliament Claudio Fava, son of Giuseppe Fava, the director of the monthly magazine “I Siciliani”, killed by Mafia on Jan, 5th, 1984

· Friday, May 23rd, h 08.45 am
guided tour of the town of Taormina (max 100 people)

· Saturday, May 24th, h 08.45 am
guided tour of the town of Taormina (max 100 people)

Moreover the director of BABILONIA – Centre for Italian Studies will co-present session 107 “The Teachers’ Blog and E-text as a Teaching Tool”

· Saturday, May 24th, h 08.30 - 9:45 am

Organizer and Chair: Alessandro Adorno, Director, Babilonia

· Alessandro Adorno, Director, Babilonia – The Teachers’ Blog as a Teaching Tool

· Chiara Frenquellucci, Harvard University, Pinocchio – A Digital Teaching and Learning Tool

· Jacqueline Samperi Mangan, University of Montreal – Il Blog come strumento interattivo di insegnamento ed apprendimento dell’italiano.

To book for these events, please, contact Prof Salvatore Bancheri

salvatore.bancheri at utoronto.ca

More information on the AATI & AAIS Joint Convention in Taormina, Italy 2008 on http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~aati/taormina/ .

Vi aspettiamo a Taormina!