Events Venice

„I’m both an artist and a writer. These are not divergent practices: they are shared obsessions with how we see and read objects and texts. In this illustrated presentation I’ll talk about recent projects in Vienna, Berlin and LA, how family stories interweave with what I am trying to do, why collecting matters and why white is a difficult colour.“

Auditorium Santa Margherita, Dorsoduro 3689, Venice

Admission free
Event in English language, with Italian translation available.

From 3 pm to 7 pm at the Aula Magna of Ca‘ Dolfin (map [IT]) scholars, writers and a photographer discuss traces of colonial history in Italian culture.

Vittorio Longhi, Alessandra Di Maio, Shaul Bassi and Elena Cadamuro will give a general introduction, followed by writer and current post-doc reasearcher at the Center for the Humanities and Social Change Igiaba Scego presenting together with photographer Rino Bianchi their book Roma negata (ediesse 2014), „postocolonial itineraries within the city of Rome“. A slideshow of photographs from Rino Bianchi’s project on Eritreans in Rome will be projected.

At 5.30 pm Ethiopian writer Maaza Mengiste, currently in residence at the Waterlines project, will talk with the Italian writer Francesca Melandri (Sangue giusto, Rizzoli 2017).

At 8.30 pm the program continues in a different venue with the play Acqua di colonia [IT], by Daniele Timpano and Elvira Frosini, staged at the Teatro di Ca‘ Foscarri (map [IT]). The paly is in Italian, reservations must be made at:  biglietteria.teatrocafoscari@unive.it

The symposium is part of a wider focus on Africa that will be developed throughout 2018.

Organized in Venice by Reset Dialogues on Civilizations, the Humanities & Social Change Center at Ca‘ Foscari University and the Giorgio Cini Foundation, this conference explores the sources of toleration in diverse cultural and religious traditions, in both the secular liberal as in a confessional context, in different historical regions of the world, Western and Eastern, in the Christian history of thought as well as in Hebraism, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism and Hinduism. In the history of these different systems of thought what are the developments that have led on the one side to an exclusivist, extremist and fundamentalist perspective and, on the other side, to an inclusive, pluralist, tolerant view?

More information about the Venice Seminars on the official Website.

The reporter Emanuele Confortin met the Christian Syriac painter Matti al-Kanun while he was on assignment in Iraq. Upon returning to his city, recently liberated from Isis, al-Kanun reassembled his collection of paintings, including three works with a Christian theme, that had been defaced by the Jihadists, and decided to repair the gashes with plain strips of canvas, leaving the scars visible. This gesture has a dual symbolic value: the rejection of the violence that has plagued Iraq for years and divided its various resident groups; the hope to return soon to a normal existence. In Venice the conservation and restoration students complete the repair work, and al-Kanun’s paintings are displayed alongside with the superb photo reportage by Emanuele Confortin. Back to life in Iraq.

Download File Program: Back to live in Iraq

Organized in Venice by Reset Dialogues on Civilizations, the Humanities & Social Change Center at Ca‘ Foscari University and the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the Summer School explores the sources of toleration in diverse cultural and religious traditions, in both the secular liberal as in a confessional context, in different historical regions of the world, Western and Eastern, in the Christian history of thought as well as in Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism and Hinduism. In the history of these different systems of thought what are the developments that have led on the one side to an exclusivist, extremist and fundamentalist perspective and, on the other side, to an inclusive, pluralist, tolerant view?

Find out more about the Summer School and on how to apply at  http://www.resetdoc.org/event/summer-school-application-2018/
More information about the Venice Seminars at  http://www.resetdoc.org/event/seminars-application-2018/

The Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice co-sponsors a dedicated session at the Venice international literature fest Incroci di Civiltà (Crossroads of Civilizations) where world-renowned Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, one of Africa’s leading voices, will be interviewed by the Center’s director, Shaul Bassi, and by one the Fellows, writer Igiaba Scego.

Details on the Festival can be found here.

5 April, 6 p.m., at Auditorium Santa Margherita, Dorsoduro 3689, Venice
Event in English, Italian translation available

The international workshop is organized by the Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice in partnership with the NGO Progressi.

Full program and more information here

A new edition of Afropean Bridges is in the making for March 2019. Stay tuned.

April 20th, 2018 – 10 a.m – 6 p.m.
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Aula Baratto (2nd Floor)
Dorsoduro 3246, Calle Larga Foscari