Author: travelswithbertha

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Italian Book Launches

Thanks to everyone who came to the two book launches last week in Ancona and Fano for The Bicycle Thief and the German Wife.

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Valentina Conti (Affinitá Elettive) and Valentina Foschi (Liceo Nolfi) were wonderful hosts on each evening. We’re also especially grateful to Paolo Marasca, Assessore Culturale for the Comune of Ancona, for giving his time to attend and for so being so generous in his introduction to the event and The Bicycle Thief and the German Wife.

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With Paolo Marasca, Assessore Culturale of Ancona and Valentina Conti, Founder, Affinitá Elettive at the launch on the Teatro della Muse, Ancona 

The Dublin book launch is now bring organised which we hope will take place in early May.

Per comprare/To buy:

Affinitá Elettive, Ancona & Dove comprare/Where to Buy

Sará disponibile anche su Amazon a pasqua/The book will also be available on Amazon (Italia, UK and worldwide) from about Easter.

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The Bicycle Thief and the German Wife: Book Launch, Ancona/Fano, April 2019

I’m delighted to announce that my new book, The Bicycle Thief and the German Wife (The Hidden War of a German-speaking Italian Family), published by Affinitá Elettive, Ancona (www.edizioniae.it) will be launched this April 2019.

With an introduction by Associate Professor Eric Haywood, Emeritus Head of the School of Italian Studies in University College Dublin and Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia, the launch dates are below.

See also Where to Buy The book will be available on Amazon from late April.

L’incontro di Ancona si terrà in Italiano. L’incontro di Fano si terrà in Italiano e in Inglese ed è organizzato dal Liceo Nolfi-Apolloni di Fano, prof.ssa Valentina Foschi.
  • Ancona launch: Teatro delle Muse, 6pm, Thursday, April 4th

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  • Fano launch: Mediateca Montanari (MeMo), 5pm, Friday, April 5th

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Doublethink in Fano, Italy

Delighted to be invited back by Valentina Foschi to deliver two seminars to students in the Liceo Nolfi and to teachers in Mediateca Montanari this year in Fano, Italia, on December 20th.

The Orwell presentation, as part of the EFL Teacher’s Professional Develoment Series 2018-2019, takes place from 3-6pm in Memo and is entitled: Double Think or Clear Thinking: Sharing George Orwell with a New Generation.

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Thinking Outside The Box in Fano, Italy

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Following my talk on the subject to teachers in Recanati in 2016, I was pleased to be invited by Valentina Foschi and the Principal of Liceo Nolfi in Fano, Italy to discuss resilience, authenticity and employability for literature and languages students on December 18th 2017.

This was followed by an afternoon session I presented for teachers in the beautifully restored surroundings of Memo – or La Mediateca Montanari. This was the inaugural seminar of Fano’s new “Think Outside The Box” lecture series which is continuing in 2018.

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Humanities and Employability, Fano

 

 

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December Talks 2017

I am very pleased to have been invited to speak to groups of both teachers and also students again this December in the Marche region of Italy.

This includes two sessions in the Liceo Nolfi, Fano on December 18th. In the morning I will be talking with students as part of the l’alternanza scuola-lavoro and in the afternoon I will conduct a seminar for teachers entitled:  “The value of a humanities education: resilience, authenticity and employability – an Irish perspective”

In the Liceo Giacomo Leopardi, Recanati on December 20th I am pleased to lead a session with teachers on George Orwell.

For any further information please contact:

  • Liceo Nolfi, Valentina Foschi
  • Liceo Leopardi, Enrica Cerquoni

For a taste of what we may cover in the two Fano sessions, I’d suggest teachers and students might read my whimsical, but seriously-intended poem, Stemming the Tide. This deals with the value of culture and a humanities education against the background of the modern working world and was published in 2014.