Family Ties: the Famiglia Italiana Project
Nov | 12
This semester, two students in the Contemporary Italy: Culture, Society, and Trends course are participating in the Famiglia Italiana Project. Annie Bodian and Taylor Speranza meet with a local family once a week to participate in their daily life, go... Read More
Bittersweet Conclusion of EuroChocolate and Fall Break
Nov | 03
After a 10-day mid-semester break, Umbra Institute students are pouring back into Perugia in time for the conclusion of EuroChocolate, Perugia’s annual chocolate festival during which the city center is crowded with cocoa-lovers from across the world sampling and purchasing... Read More
Umbra Alum is “World’s Best Father;” Featured on Today Show Fomorrow
Oct | 17
Tune into the Today Show on Thursday morning to watch former Umbra Institute student Dave Engledow, fall 2001, talk about his new, almost darkly whimsical calendar featuring himself with his young daughter, Alice Bee, in comically precarious situations. “His work... Read More
Umbra Professor Publishes in Prestigious Journal
Oct | 17
Umbra Institute Art History Professor Dr. Adrian Hoch’s paper on a Florentine tabernacle was published in “Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz,” one of the oldest and most prestigious art-historical journals in the world. Drawing from previously unpublished documents from... Read More
Umbra Alumna Works with Sister Cities during Fiera dei Morti
Oct | 17
The center streets of Perugia are vibrant with crowds of Perugini and tourists alike perusing the dozens of stands selling everything from gilded candlesticks to Slovakian sausages for the Fiera dei Morti, a five-day Italian celebration akin to the Day... Read More
Umbra Professor Earns Ph.D. from Harvard
Oct | 17
After teaching her last Italian class of the spring semester, Umbra Institute Professor Elgin Eckert boarded a plane to Cambridge, Mass., ready to defend “Cultural Memory in Contemporary Narrative: Andrea Camillieri’s Montalbano Series,” the dissertation she spent almost five years... Read More