Preservation of Italian language at Jyväskylä University


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2016-04-18 13:08

As an ex Head of the Italian Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, who for years had to fight tooth and nail to keep Italian Studies open, I fully support your petition and wish you the best of luck. We were successful because we were fortunate enough to get a new Dean of Humanities who fully understood the value of Italian as a language of culture. Our colleagues at the University of South Africa (UNISA) and University of Kwazulu-Natal were less fortunate and had to close last year.
Alida Poeti
(retired and now Vice-president of the Società Dante Alighieri in JHB)