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Diaspora, curriculum, community: A transnational approach to community-based learning 散居地、课程、社区：基于社区学习的跨国方法

IF 0.1 4区文学

Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI: 10.1177/00145858231172558

Lina N Insana

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Building space for belonging: The Critical Race, Diasporas, and Migrations Caucus (CRDM) 建立归属感的空间:关键种族、散居者和移民核心小组(CRDM)

IF 0.1 4区文学

Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/00145858231172174

Michela Ardizzoni, K. Driscoll, Carmela Scala

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‘Transnational Italian Cultures’: Editing as method “跨国意大利文化”:作为方法的编辑

IF 0.1 4区文学

Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/00145858231172189

E. Bond

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Embedding transnationalism in Modern Languages pedagogy: A UK perspective 英国视角下的跨民族主义在现代语言教学中的嵌入

IF 0.1 4区文学

Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/00145858231172557

C. Burdett

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Talking Black Europe, identities and languages: A conversation with Emmanuelle Maréchal (co-creator of Blackcoffee Podcast) 谈论黑人欧洲，身份和语言:与Emmanuelle marsamchal (Blackcoffee Podcast的联合创始人)的对话

IF 0.1 4区文学

Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI: 10.1177/00145858231172927

Kombola T Ramadhani Mussa

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Transplanting Italo-Africa: The Monumento ai caduti d’Africa at Siracusa from colonial conception to Italian construction 将意大利移植到非洲：锡拉库扎的非洲纪念碑从殖民概念到意大利建筑

IF 0.1 4区文学

Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI: 10.1177/00145858231173049

S. M. Farmer

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“The homeland is on the ship:” D’Annunzio's La nave and the construction of nationhood “家园在船上”:达南齐奥的《中殿》与国家的建设

IF 0.1 4区文学

Forum Italicum Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI: 10.1177/00145858231175144

S. Guslandi

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(Dis)placing the foreign in early modern Europe: The example of Tasso's Gierusalemme （Dis）将外国人安置在近代早期的欧洲：以塔索的《吉鲁萨勒姆》为例