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CLER Conversation Series with Giorgia Faraoni (PGR)

The unexpected turns of a Year Abroad in Italy in the Era of Covid-19: a nightmare or a dream?

This presentation will guide the audience through the journey of one UK student of Italian during her Year Abroad and present some of the changes and unexpected turns that occurred over the nine months of her time in Italy. We will look at the student's challenges and her coping strategies, especially in the light of the outbreak of Covid-19, highlighting how this affected her experiences in unprecedented and unforeseeable ways. Notwithstanding the negative sides of this pandemic, it has indeed turned her Year Abroad into an even more "once-in-a-lifetime experience", as well as one of extraordinary importance for research. In this visual journey through her Year Abroad, I will share my preliminary interpretation of the data collected in the first months of my longitudinal study, and my intentions for the next steps.