Preservation of Italian language at Jyväskylä University

Cultural illiteracy is thriving when we most urgently need to understand our fellow human beings. Jyväskylä University's waning commitment to Italian Studies is unthinkable, given Finland's prosperity and reputation as one of the most humane places to live in the world. The humanities help us to understand the very meaning of terms like 'humane' and even 'human', and Italy has probably given us more contributions in this regard than any other single country (e.g. the Dolce Stil Novo, Dante, Giotto, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci; the list goes on and on). Administrators and educators at Jyväskylä University: Defend the values that have made higher education possible in the West! Be partisans in the fight against neoliberal economic tyranny and its contempt for learning, just as Finland itself resisted fascist tyranny in 1939-45!