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Top to bottom, left to right: Julia Sylvester, Gabriel Heck, Michael Reynolds, Aaron Schifrin, Shourou Li, Xinyue Zhou, Fiona McCabe, Madeleine Breen, Laurence Brown-Cohen, Andrew O'Connor, Sindy Lopez, Vanessa Morales and Kimberly Will. (Not pictured: Christopher Daniel, Alexander Edwards and Juan Forrer.)

Fourteen Cornell undergraduates and a student from Canada's Dalhousie University will study abroad June 3-23 in the new Cornell in Turin Summer Program at the Luigi Einaudi Foundation in Turin's historic downtown.

The students will take the four-credit course European Politics, which will focus on European and Italian history, politics and culture. It will be taught by a team of Cornell faculty members, including Matt Evangelista (government), Mabel Berezin (sociology) and Gail Holst-Warhaft (comparative literature).

 

The program, organized by the Cornell Institute for European Studies (CIES) and offered through the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, will be directed by Sydney Van Morgan (CIES) and Kora Bättig von Wittelsbach (Romance studies). Kimberly Will, a graduate student in the area of linguistics, will serve as an assistant to the program, and scholars from the University of Turin also will participate.

In addition to lectures and discussions, the group will tour, for example, the Museum of the Risorgimento to augment a lecture on the 19th-century movement to unify Italy. The class also will travel to Dogliani, a town south of Turin in the heart of Italy's famous wine-producing region known as the Langhe.

According to Van Morgan, the new program meets multiple needs. "First, it provides a high-quality international educational experience for students who may not have an opportunity to study abroad during the regular academic year. Second, it gives students the unique opportunity to learn about Italian politics and culture while immersed in the life and society of a major Italian city. Student interest in the course has been very strong. In fact, we are already making plans to expand the program in 2013."

The program is supported, in part, by the Luigi Einaudi Foundation, San Giacomo Foundation and Associazione Polis with the patronage of the Comune di Dogliani.