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Kevin Surprise

Publication

Surprise, K., & Sapinski, J. P. (2022). Whose climate intervention? Solar geoengineering, fractions of capital, and hegemonic strategy. Capital & Class, online first, 1-26.

Stephens, J. C., Kashwan, P., McLaren, D., & Surprise, K. (2021). The Dangers of Mainstreaming Solar Geoengineering: A Critique of the National Academies Report. Environmental Politics, 1-10.

Claire, T., & Surprise, K. (2021). Moving the Rain: Settler Colonialism, the Capitalist State, and the Hydrologic Rift in California’s Central Valley. Antipode, online first. 

Stephens, J. & Surprise, K. (2020). The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research. Global Sustainability, 3, E2.

Morena Svaldi

Grant

Received a grant from the Consulate General of Italy, Boston, to support an Italian tutor.

Publication

Svaldi, M. (2023) Article "Engaging Students in Conversations about Social Justice and Change in Italy, TILCA -Teaching Italian Language and Culture Annual" November 2023 Published

Svaldi M. Insegnare italiano in un’università del New England: analisi, pianificazione e proposta di un corso microlingua [Teaching Italian in higher education in New England: analysis, planification and a proposal of a micro language course]. Itals Journal, Supplement of the ELLE Journal, ISSN: 2280-6792, November 2019, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice. https://www.itals.it/sites/default/files/pdf-bollettino/novembre2019/Svaldi.pdf

Honor

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

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.