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designation for products
manufactured
outside
of Italy and eventually
re-shored. Dr. Antonella
Del Fattore-Olson (University of Texas, Austin) and
Paola D’Amora (doctoral
candidate at UT Austin)
presented
impressions
and considerations of Italy
available through cinema
while Dr. Maria X. Wells
(Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin)
talked about writer/poet/
politician Paolo Volponi.
The changes in the social,
economic, and political
processes of human mobility were featured in the
panel titled “Migrations:
Helping, Collaborating,
Educating” which illustrated how the phenomenon
of migration can involve
students and scholars to
the benefit of society at
large. Drs. Richard Armstrong and Carl Lindahl
(both of the University of
Houston) together with
students Pietro Cicalese and Dennis Kunichoff,
co-founders of the Global
Humanitarian Student Initiative (GHSI) at UH, discussed faculty and students’
responses to the current
refugee crisis in Europe
as an example of the new
synergy between research and service-learning.
Similarly, the contribution
of Lidia Musumeci and
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