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AUR alumni leaders in the Travel and Tourism sector

Did you know that Travel and Tourism offers endless career opportunities?

Do you think working in travel and tourism means a job as a tour guide, hotel receptionist, restaurant worker or flight attendant? Think again.

M.A. Food Studies students visit Trebotti winery

Students were guided students of the Sustainable Food Systems class through the vineyards, grotto, and winemaking facilities by Ludovico, one of the three Botti brothers who founded and run the enterprise.

M.A. students' private tour of the Colosseum

Barbara Nazzaro is an architect and serves as technical director of the Colosseum. She began the tour with a summary of the nearly 2,000-year history of the amphitheater.

The migrants genocide: the banality of democracy

In 40 years from now what we define as the ‘migration crisis’ in Europe will be reported in history books as the migrants genocide. The migrants genocide of the early XXI century unveils the banality of democracy and its supposed norms, principles, values and institutions.

'The Cyprus Conflict', a presentation by Professor Sözen

On the 11 February 2019, Professor Ahmet Sözen from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) hosted a guest lecture entitled 'The Cyprus Conflict: The Role of Third Parties'.

Professor Gaia Cottino wins research grant

Congratulations to Professor Gaia Cottino, whose project "Mountains as Laboratories of Coexistence. Migrations and Food cultures in the Maritime Alps" (Montagne laboratorio di Convivenza.

Facebook’s algorithms and political protest: a new publication by Professor Lorenzo Coretti

In this book, published by Routledge, Coretti (who co-authored the chapter with Daniele Pica) argues that the commercially-driven design of Facebook promotes ‘cycles of depression’ in those movements that adopt social media as means for mobilization and circulation of information.