Humanities in the Metaverse: A Conversation with Content Creator Lucrezia Oddone
What is the place for humanities and languages in our digital era? What are the challenges and opportunities that contemporary technologies offer to the fields of culture and language instruction? Which innovative pathways open up for teaching and learning Italian through the integration of new media? The internationally acclaimed and hugely popular content creator Lucrezia Oddone is joining Bryn Mawr College for the first time to discuss these topics in conversation with Luca Zipoli, Assistant Professor in the Department of Transnational Italian Studies. Thanks to her 12 years of female leadership in teaching Italian through online platforms, Lucrezia Oddone will discuss women's participation in modern technologies as well as the possibilities offered to humanities and romance languages by digital tools, from social media to AI. You are cordially invited to join the Department of Transnational Italian Studies for this timely event, which in the week of Bryn Mawr’s presidential inauguration will offer food for thoughts on crucial issues at the core of our mission as cross-cultural learners and instructors of the 21st century.
Reception
An aperitivo "Italian style" and a book signing will follow at 6-7 p.m. in the Quita Woodward Room.
The event is made possible by the Digital Bryn Mawr Grant Program and is co-sponsored by Comparative Literature, Romance Languages, Praxis, Film Studies, and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. Please contact lzipoli@brynmawr.edu for more information about the event.
Biography
Lucrezia Oddone is an online content creator, instructor of Italian as a second language, and author of the hybrid textbook for self-study “Videogrammatica della lingua italiana” (Alma Edizioni, 2024). She teaches Italian language and culture at the Treccani Foundation, Italy’s national cultural institute in Rome. She holds a B.A. in Applied Interlinguistic Communication from the University of Trieste and a M.A. in Modern Languages for International Communication from the University of Roma Tre. After her graduate studies, she also obtained from the University of Siena “Ditals I”, the Italian national certification in second language acquisition. In 2011, during her undergraduate studies she inaugurated the YouTube channel "Learn Italian with Lucrezia", which as of today is followed by a community of over 700,000 learners and counts more than 50 million views. Over the years, this channel has become a point of reference for anyone who wants to learn and study Italian language, culture, and lifestyle in an informal setting, and made Lucrezia a world-renowned female leader in the field of second language acquisition. She collaborates with “Google Arts & Culture” and she is a recurrent guest in the show “Paparazzi”, which broadcasts on Rai Italia in English every day and recounts Italy to viewers from across the world.
Event Co-Sponsors
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