Jul 23, 2022
In episode 11, season 2 of Signorina Talks, Annalisa chats to Trevor Strolla, Principal of the first Italian bilingual school in Victoria, Brunswick South Primary School. Trevor has been Principal of the school since 2015 and has had experience as a teacher and school leader across many settings in education. He speaks...
Sep 1, 2021
In episode 10, season 2 of Signorina Talks, Annalisa chats to Dr Mark Nicholls on Italian cinema. Mark is a senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Melbourne where he has taught since 1993. He has worked as a film journalist for leading publications and has a list of over twenty stage credits as a...
Aug 11, 2021
In episode 9, season 2 of Signorina Talks, Annalisa chats to Olympia Nelson on Byzantine art. Olympia is a research assistant at Hong Kong Baptist University, Masters of Philosophy student at the University of Sydney, University of Melbourne alumnae and former intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Olympia...
Jul 25, 2021
In episode 8, season 2 of Signorina Talks, Annalisa chats to Matt Absalom, lecturer in Italian studies at the University of Melbourne.
Matt speaks on Italian communities in regional Victoria and how they sparked his passion for Italian culture and language at an early age. He also talks about evidence-based teaching in...
Jul 11, 2021
In episode 7, season 2 of Signorina Talks, Annalisa interviews Dr Paola Balla, a Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara woman of Italian and Chinese heritage. An award winning artist, curator, speaker, educator and writer, she speaks on her artwork, its meaning, and experiences growing up as an Aboriginal, Italian and...