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Svaldi, M. (2025) Presented Creating Connections through the Reading of Dizionarietto Quotidiano by Dacia Maraini, AATI [American Association Teachers of Italian] Princeton University, April 25-27, 2025
Svaldi, M. (2024) Presented: A Small Cup of Coffee with a Big Impact: the Interconnection between Creativity, Sociality, Sustainability, and Art in the Coffee Industry, MAFLA-Massachusetts Foreign Language Association, October 24-26, 2024
Svaldi, M. (2023) Presenting at the MAFLA (Massachusetts Association Foreign Languages) a paper "L’incanto della cultura italiana: Teaching Italian Language and Culture through Food, Design, Sustainability and Urban Planning", October 26-28, 2023
Svaldi, M. (2021) Presented "Immersive Teaching of Italian: Transforming a Challenge Into a Resource" at the virtual ACTFL Convention– American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 19-21 November 2021.
Ombretta Frau and Morena Svaldi held a workshop for teachers at the NEMLA conference in Springfield on October 25, 2019. The title of the workshop was "Learn In-Context Around Campus.â€
Presented her research on Teaching Italian in Higher Education: Assessment, Planning & Retention at the ACTFL Convention–American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Washington, DC, November 22-24, 2019.
Vo, D., Telegrafi, F. (2025). Local Film Night at LAVA Center in Greenfield, MA, Sept. 11, 2025. Guest artist presentation, including screenings of recent films made in and around Western Massachusetts, and a talk-back with the audience. Co-presented with Flonia Telegrafi.
Telegrafi, F. (2025) Panelist on The Producers: Behind the Scenes with Western Mass Movie Makers, part of the Pioneer Valley Picture Show exhibit at Deerfield Memorial Hall.
Telegrafi, F. (2025) Local Film Night at LAVA Center in Greenfield, MA, Sept. 11, 2025. Guest artist presentation, including screenings of recent films made in and around Western Massachusetts, and a talk-back with the audience. Co-presented with Dien Vo.
Sabra Thorner hosted "Ancestral Memories: Artists in Conversation" at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ College Art Museum on April 7, 2022. This event featured five Indigenous Australian artists-in-residence as part of Spring 2022 Decolonizing Museums course (Anthropology 316).