July 8, 2016
President Franco Pavoncello and members of the John Cabot University community took part in a candlelight vigil and prayer service at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere on the evening of July 7.
July 8, 2016
July 7, 2016
Rome-based Italian daily newspaper Il Tempo interviewed John Cabot University President Franco Pavoncello in the aftermath of the death of visiting student Beau Solomon.
July 7, 2016
July 6, 2016
A statement by John Cabot University President Franco Pavoncello appeared in several media outlets yesterday. The original statement was made in Italian and the translation that the English language press provided failed to capture the essence of President Pavoncello's words and misrepresented their spirit.
July 6, 2016
July 5, 2016
John Cabot University is greatly saddened by the death of Beau Solomon, a visiting student from Wisconsin Madison. Our hearts go out to his family and friends, and we are committed to assisting the family in any way possible.
July 5, 2016
July 4, 2016
John Cabot University is deeply saddened to announce that the body of Beau Solomon, the missing American visiting student, has been found in the Tiber River. We express our most heartfelt condolences to the Solomon family and to all those who loved Beau.
July 4, 2016
July 3, 2016
On Friday, July 1, 2016, John Cabot University, in Rome, Italy, reported to the Italian Authorities and the American Embassy that Beau Solomon, a visiting student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was missing after arriving in Rome the day before.
July 3, 2016
June 27, 2016
John Cabot University President Franco Pavoncello was interviewed by The New York Times on how European leaders are dealing with the challenges posed by Britain's recent vote to leave the E.U.
June 27, 2016
June 22, 2016
On June 20, 2016, the Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation hosted a conversation on the craft of writing, featuring John Cabot's 2016 Writer in Residence Susan Minot and poet and journalist Cynthia Zarin.
June 22, 2016
June 22, 2016
JCU Philosophy Professor Stefan Sorgner Stefan Sorgner, one of the world's leading post- and transhumanist philosophers, was invited as Visiting Professor at the Ethics Centre of the University of Jena this summer.
June 22, 2016
June 21, 2016
On June 15, 2016, the Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation presented a reading by Susan Minot, 2016 Writer in Residence at John Cabot. Minot read from her latest work, Thirty Girls, a novel about a group of Ugandan young girls abducted by the guerrilla group and cult Lord's Resistance Army.
June 21, 2016
June 21, 2016
John Cabot University President Franco Pavoncello was asked by USA Today to comment on the victory of Virginia Raggi, Rome's first female mayor and a member of the Five Star political movement.
June 21, 2016
June 20, 2016
An environment and climate change expert, Dr. Abdel-Motaal traveled through the Antarctic and the Arctic and published the book Antartica: The Battle for the Seventh Continent (Praeger, 2016).
June 20, 2016
June 17, 2016
On June 16, JCU's Italy Writes, a nation-wide English language creative writing competition for high school students whose primary language of instruction is not English celebrated young talent.
June 17, 2016
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June 16, 2016
On June 13, 2016, the JCU Media and Communications Speaker Series presented a screening of If Only I Were That Warrior, a 2015 feature documentary film on the 1935 Italian occupation of Ethiopia, directed by Valerio Ciriaci.
June 16, 2016
June 13, 2016
Aidan Fadden is a freelance editor, translator, and literary reviewer. A widely published poet and playwright, Daniel Roy Connelly lived in India, Bangladesh, the USA, Scotland, and China, before starting to teach at JCU.
June 13, 2016
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June 7, 2016
John Cabot University hosted an Ambassadors Lunch on Monday, June 6, welcoming 40 ambassadors, cultural attachés, and embassy representatives to the Guarini campus in Rome.
June 7, 2016
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June 6, 2016
From May 25th to May 29th, 2016, Jens Koehler from JCU's Department of Art History and Studio Art attended the international conference "Water during the Time of Frontinus," in Trier, Germany.
June 6, 2016
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June 3, 2016
The John Cabot University Interfaith Initiative co-hosted a major international conference last week on Making Democracy One's Own: Muslim, Catholic and Secular Perspectives in Dialogue on Development, Democracy and Peace, in partnership with the University of Notre Dame, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Sophia University Institute and the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See.
June 3, 2016
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June 1, 2016
On May 30, 2016 the Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation presented a tribute to late American writer Lucia Berlin.
June 1, 2016
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June 1, 2016
On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 President of the Foreign and EU Affairs Committee Fabrizio Cicchitto invited JCU Professor Federigo Argentieri, Director of the Guarini Institute for Public Affairs, to the conference "Riflessioni sull'Ucraina" ("Reflections on Ukraine") in Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome.
June 1, 2016
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