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A.)  First ITALICS goes to a Conference on the State of the Teaching of the Italian Language in Schools in the United States on Levels K-16, and in Continuing Education. The Italian Language Conference was held at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC, and was Hosted by the Italian Ambassador to the US, The Hon. Giovanni Castellaneta. Dean Anthony Tamburri reports on the Conference Proceedings from Washington DC.

B.) Next on ITALICS, we’ll attend a lecture by Edo Zaffarto, a member of AddioPizzo, the community based consumer organization in Palermo, Sicily, which is successfully battling the “pizzo”, or long legacy of mafia extortion of “protection” payments from local merchants. ITALICS Correspondent Lucia Grillo reports from the Wolfe Institute at Brooklyn College/CUNY.

C.) Then ITALICS attends the receptions for “Si Parliamo Italiano?,  the new book which asks “Who Speaks Italian?”, written and published by members of the Calandra Institute/CUNY,

D.) ITALICS NEWS BRIEFS will include some new ways and websites where you can see new television programs produced by the Calandra Institute on the Internet and also inform you on important new course offerings in Italian American Studies being taught this semester by Distinguished Professor Fred Gardaphe at Queens College/CUNY.

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