ICLS sponsored Center & Institute Initiative for Enhanced Remote Learning 2020 Grant Recipients
As part of the on-going Center and Institute Initiative for Enhanced Remote Learning’s call for proposals that cultivate student engagement and enhance the online learning experience for Columbia students and instructors, we have two examples of 2020 ICLS sponsored grant recipients to share and inspire you.
First, students from LAIC/ICLS PhD candidate Anayvelyse Allen Mossman’s Fall 2020 course “End of Monuments” created a bilingual Spanish/English zine the end of monuments / el fin de los monumentos “about monuments, their ends/purposes, ends/endings, and monumentality”.
The zine is organized by type of content, in two forms: “Monuments Around Town”, or studies and research about one particular monument, and “Monument Maps”, or maps of monuments in a particular region around a certain theme. Included are activities, questions, and extra materials to guide, entertain and inspire readers.
Among the student contributions was an essay “El (re)encuentro: Lo que dice y lo que calla el Tótem Telúrico del Barrio Ballajá” or “The (Re)Encounter: What the Tótem Telúrico in Barrio Ballajá Says and Silences” written by Comparative Literature and Society Major Alejandra Quintana Arocho (CC’22).
The zine was supported by the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and ICLS, in addition to a grant from the Center & Institute to Enhance Remote Learning and Teaching.
There was a limited print version shared with the students and the Libraries. You may view the online zine here.
Second, Italian/ICLS PhD candidate Luca Abbattista’s Fall 2020 Elementary Italian I course held a series of video interviews in a project entitled “La lingua della pandemia” or “The Language of Pandemic”. This project sought to make it possible to start a conversation about COVID-19 between students and professionals who have experienced the effects of the pandemic.
Interviewees included Claudio Zappalà and Simona Fioroni of Istituto per la Famiglia and Volontari Protezione Civile, entrepreneur Giuseppe Frualdo, and art curator Michela Autorino.
This video series, which can be found here is entirely in Italian.
