{"id":21550,"date":"2012-08-11T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T04:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/?p=21550"},"modified":"2018-06-11T16:14:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T20:14:37","slug":"travel-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/travel-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Italy Trip with Anne Haeckl in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-21556\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2018\/06\/Italy-Tour.jpg\" alt=\"K Faculty and Alumni in Italy\" width=\"313\" height=\"204\" \/>Kalamazoo College alumni enjoyed a K faculty-led study tour to one of Europe\u2019s most popular tourist destinations \u2014 southern Italy. The sponsoring organization for the tour was The Vergilian Society, Inc., a private foundation that promotes \u201cthe ties of culture between Italy and America.\u201d Vergilian Society tours are open to everyone (with or without K College connections), but especially to those who have a life-long learning interest in the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome.<\/p>\n<p>The tour \u2014\u00a0<em>The Archaeology of Identity in Coastal Campania: How Ancient Italians and Greeks Became Romans on the Bay of Naples<\/em> occurred on July 30 to August 11. Anne Haeckl, Roman archaeologist in the Kalamazoo College Classics Department (who has excavated with K students in Italy and Egypt), and George Mason University\u2019s Dr. Christopher Gregg, led the study tour of major Roman archaeological sites museums in Campania and the Bay of Naples. A previous Italian tour directed by Profs. Haeckl and Gregg in 2010 was a great success, with five K College students and alumni among its 28 participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College alumni enjoyed a K faculty-led study tour to one of Europe\u2019s most popular tourist destinations \u2014 southern Italy. 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