3. Conference Organizer and Host
The John Felice Rome Center is the organizer of this conference. Established in 1962, the John Felice Rome Center offers an American undergraduate college experience in the heart of Rome (Monte Mario) and Western Europe for 400 students on an annual basis. Students choose from more than 40 academic courses each semester and live together to form a tight-knit community. As an overseas campus of Loyola University Chicago, the John Felice Rome Center is fully accredited and credits earned are easily transferable to other American universities. For more information, visit the John Felice Rome Center website (www.luc.edu/romecenter) or call: (06)355-881.
The International House of Women has been reopened in Rome, it is located in Via della Lungara, in a building which was built during the century of 1600 and it is called “Buon Pastore” (Good Shepherd). More than 40 associations, federated separatist Feminist Center (ATC) and the Association Federativa Feminist International (AFFI), have created this project (unique in Italy), which holds the history and success of the women’s liberation movement. A courageous commitment, a very hospitable place where women of the world can meet, it offers many services and political and cultural activities open to the collectivity. Within the complex you can find: a store which sells products hand-made by female artisans and people of the Third World, a book store and a coffee shop, a convention center, a documentation center, an historic library of the women’s liberation movement and a library. It is possible to hold courses, performances, exhibitions, seminars and new book presentations. Within the complex are also offered psychological consultations, legal consultants, and a health center. For more information, please visit www.casainternazionaledelledonne.org or call (06) 68.40.1720.
The Centro Studi Americani (Center for American Studies) is one of the most prestigious institutions devoted to the study of the United States in Italy, and one of the foremost in all of Europe. Occupying the main floor of the Palazzo Antici Mattei di Giove, the Center for American Studies brings people together for debate, discussion and exchange of ideas through a wide range of programs designed for both the general public and specialized audiences. Every year writers, artists, historians, international scholars and other experts take part in conferences, round tables and seminars focused on the United States’ cultural, political and economic relationship with Italy and Europe. Today the Center employs a global perspective as it presents the opportunity for education and study of all aspects of the United States-Italian relationship within an independent world. For more information, please call (06) 68801613 or visit www.centrostudiamericani.org.
