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Italian 3008 – Spring 2018 – Professors Barbara Weiden Boyd and Davida Gavioli

Sicily Trip

Italian 3008 – Latin 3311 – Spring 2018
Professors Barbara Weiden Boyd and Davida Gavioli

Trip Photographs

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Giorno 2 – La Biblioteca Privata di Tomasi

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Giorno 7 – Anfiteatro

Roommates!

Monreale, Segesta, and Erice

Class today

Palermo cathedral

March 18.

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Day 4

Day 2

la spedizione siciliana

This faculty-led study trip, “Sicily: Mediterranean Pasts, Presents, and Futures,” has guided students to an in-depth understanding of the historical, social, and cultural complexities of the island of Sicily, now a part of the nation of Italy but, in the course of its long history as cultural crossroads, home to several early indigenous peoples of the western Mediterranean as well as colonizing Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Spanish, French, and Arabs over the course of more than 3000 years. Because of its strategic location, long history, and a new appreciation for its cultural riches, Sicily is the perfect vantage-point from which to consider the Mediterranean world as a whole, through both historical and contemporary lenses.

In the spring 2018 semester, two Bowdoin faculty members, Davida Gavioli (Italian) and Barbara Weiden Boyd (Classics), offered upper-level courses focusing of various aspects of Sicilian history and culture. Gavioli’s course, Italian 3008 (Of Gods, Leopards, and ‘Picciotti’: Literary Representations of Sicily Between Reality and Metaphor) was organized around literary texts written by Sicilian writers and/or located in the Sicilian landscape, drawn from 20th and 21st century authors; central themes of the course included issues of cultural identity long a part of Sicilian discourse (e.g., is Sicily “truly” Italian? is Sicily really part of Europe, or should it be considered fundamentally Other? etc.) as well as major contemporary social and political issues (the economy; the Mafia; immigration and asylum; etc.). Boyd’s course, Latin 33 (Sicily in the Roman Imagination), was organized around the literary texts commemorating the appropriation of Sicily first by the Greeks and subsequently by the Romans between the 5th and 1st centuries BC. Students read several significant ancient texts in Latin concerning Rome’s occupation and colonization of Sicily, supplemented by readings in English drawn from the many Greek poets and historians who were active in ancient Sicily.

My Dad

March 1, 2018 By Francesco Pappalardo

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March 25, 2018 By Francesco Pappalardo

Il 17 siamo andati al paese di Noto, che è caratterizzato dalle sue tre chiese barocche che sono state costruite dopo un grande … [Read More...]

Pirandello’s funerals

March 22, 2018 By Rachael Allen

Each of the authors’ sites we’ve visited over the trip have memorialized their legacy in a different way. While Lampedusa’s home … [Read More...]

Pirandello 15/3

March 25, 2018 By Francesco Pappalardo

Oggi siamo andati alla tomba di Luigi Pirandello. Dopo aver arrivato, abbiamo letto ad alta voce le ultime voglie di lui. Non … [Read More...]

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March 25, 2018 By Francesco Pappalardo

Il 18 abbiamo viaggiato da Syracusa a Catania. Ad ogni modo, prima di arrivare a Catania, siamo andati in montagna per vedere … [Read More...]

Il Cattedrale di a Palermo

March 12, 2018 By Francesco Pappalardo

Il Cattedrale di Palermo si composta di molti stili architettonici diversi. Ci sono aspetti arabi, romani, normanni e barocchi. … [Read More...]

Erice

March 24, 2018 By Sarah Austin

On our third day in Sicily, we visited Erice, an important site in Virgil's Aeneid. During the 5th Book of the Aeneid, Aeneas and … [Read More...]

Day 8

April 11, 2018 By Emily Beaulieu

It was exhilarating to visit Mount Etna on the last day of the trip! After a steep climb in the bus, we arrived at the first set … [Read More...]

Catania e le chiese

April 10, 2018 By John Medina

Catania and the surrounding region had been plagued by earthquakes that had destroyed the many different architectural sites of … [Read More...]

Agrigento

March 25, 2018 By Sarah Austin

On our fifth day, we travelled to Agrigento, a city on the southern coast of Sicily. Here we visited more temple ruins; in … [Read More...]

2nd Day in Palermo

March 19, 2018 By Sofia Trogu

3/12/18 Today, was another well packed day. Our group headed to the Capella Palatina and the Palazzo dei Normani (royal … [Read More...]

Calcio

March 1, 2018 By Justin Miller

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Fotografia.mp3

April 7, 2018 By Cesar Varela

Fotografia - Nicolò Carnesi (Bellissima Noia, 2016) 12 Marzo 2018 "E do un altro sguardo al futuro che anche se non mi sorride … [Read More...]

Mt. Etna

March 20, 2018 By Louisa Moore

3/18/19: On our final day in Sicily, we ascended Mt. Etna by bus. The landscape was unlike anything I had seen before, as the … [Read More...]

Come amare Il mare

April 10, 2018 By John Medina

It’s sad that this journey of trying to understand Sicily through the bits of pieces we’ve seen of its history, has come to an … [Read More...]

La felicità.mp3

April 7, 2018 By Cesar Varela

La felicità - Canova (Avete ragione tutti, 2016) 16 Marzo 2018 "L'hai mai provata, la felicità? L'hai mai provata, la felicità? … [Read More...]

Day 2

April 10, 2018 By Emily Beaulieu

Upon our visit to La Zisa, I was struck by the palace's intricate fountain system. I particularly liked the open room with a part … [Read More...]

March 17.

March 25, 2018 By Cooper Hemphill

Here in the heart of Syracuse lies a statue of the great Archimedes who is considered among the greatest mathematicians of all … [Read More...]

Trip Participants Individual Photo Diaries

  • Rachael Allen (9)
  • Sarah Austin (8)
  • Emily Beaulieu (8)
  • Professor Barbara Boyd (1)
  • Cooper Hemphill (8)
  • John Medina (9)
  • Justin Miller (9)
  • Louisa Moore (8)
  • Eliza Nitzan (1)
  • Francesco Pappalardo (12)
  • Sofia Trogu (9)
  • Cesar Varela (9)
  • Dean Zucconi (11)
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