Un nuovo appuntamento nel calendario di eventi culturali che accompagnano la mostra “psalm” di Edmund de Waal (8 maggio-29 settembre 2019)

Venezia, 29/05/2019 ore 17.30,  Ca’ Bottacin (Dorsoduro 3911)

Pubblicato per la prima volta a Venezia nel Cinquecento, il Talmud è un’opera che segna la cultura ebraica, fondendo insieme rito, interpretazione, filosofia, legge, narrazione. In occasione della prima traduzione italiana integrale, quattro voci diverse ci aiutano a scoprire come un lettore non specialista può avvicinarsi a questo capolavoro del pensiero.

In collaborazione con Giuntina

Ca’ Bottacin, Dorsoduro 3911, Venezia

Posti limitati, è necessaria la prenotazione: bookings@psalmvenice.org

 Please find here the complete cultural program organised around Edmund de Waal’s psalm.

Learn more about psalm here

A new event from the cultural program organized around Edmund de Waal’s exhibition “psalm” (May 8th-Sept 29th, 2019)

Venice, 22/05/2019 at 5.30 p.m. Ca’ Bottacin (Dorsoduro 3911)

Archives of the Present: Introducing the Mayank Austen Soofi Archive

Dayanita Singh and Mayank Austen Soofi in conversation

Introduced by Anna Gerotto

 Mayank Austen Soofi is a writer, blogger, journalist and photographer based in Delhi, India. For more than a decade he has been creating stories and images out of the megacity. Artist Dayanita Singh calls him the “Chief Archivist of Delhi”. Mayank Austen Soofi is now organi­sing his ongoing work, a literary and artistic form in itself, into a massive online archive.

In the garden of Ca’ Bottacin from 4.30 to 7.30: “Somewhere in Delhi collection – Prints on Khadi”, a project by Anna Gerotto based on Mayank Austen Soofi’s photos.

 Please find here the complete cultural program organised around Edmund de Waal’s psalm.

Learn more about psalm here

Il Center for the Humanities and Social Change dell’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia collabora con Edmund de Waal organizzando un ricco programma di eventi culturali che accompagneranno la mostra “psalm” (Venezia, 8 maggio-29 settembre 2019)

The Venice Center for the Humanities and Social Change collaborates with Edmund de Waal organising a rich cultural program around his exhibition “psalm” (May 8th-Sept 29th, 2019)

Venice, 10/05/2019 at 5 p.m.

May 10th, at 5 p.m. Edmund de Waal and Ben Okri present The Library of Exile, a fascinating project based in the Aula Magna of Ateneo Veneto and part of a larger exhibition which is on display also at the Jewish Museum of Venice.

Full program here

Booking is essential: bookings@psalmvenice.org

Learn more about psalm here

The Venice Center for the Humanities and Social Change supports this conference on “Republics and Republicanism” organized by the Venice International University: 

Venice (San Servolo), 3-5/05/2019 

The aim of the conference is to discuss Republicanism in a broad, multidisciplinary and worldwide perspective, and to initiate a series of such meetings to be held in Venice every two years.

During recent decades, Republicanism has become a central concern in political theory and history. This body of thought emerged as the main alternative to Liberalism, when Marxism lost this role after the fall of the Berlin Wall. There is a renewed interest today, while searching for solutions to mounting populism and personalization of power; the issue of inequality and the crisis of democracies….

Continue reading on conference website

The Venice Center for the Humanities and Social Change presents:  Joan C. Tronto (Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota) – Caring democratically: A response to neopopulism. Chair: Giulia Garofalo Geymonat, Discussant: Beatrice Gusmano

Venice, 13/05/2019 at 11 a.m.

Recent neopopulist ideas have gripped democracies around the globe. They have brought with them new forms of tribalism, hatreds of outgrips (religious groups and migrants) anti-feminist and anti-women regressive policies. But to defeat these powerful forces requires a proper analysis of their attraction. First, we need to understand that neopopulism is a reaction to neoliberalism and the damage it has wrought. Neopopulism, while reactionary and nostalgic for an imagined past, also contains a *discourse of care *that explains its appeal. This discourse of care is paternalistic and rests on fear of imagined, threatening, others. Defeating neopopulism requires more than a critique of neoliberal economics, it also requires addressing specifically the racist/ xenophobic and masculinist appeals of neopopulism. A democratic care ethics provides a convincing way to address these concerns.

prof. Joan Tronto teaches at the University of Minnesota.

“‘It is important to realize that we are receivers as well as givers of care, acted upon as well as agents. This is a difficult position to understand politically, but strength and human cooperation can arise from our recognition of our mutual interdependence.” J. Tronto

Michael Taussig

with Franca Tamisari and Valentina Bonifacio

Monday April 15th

5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Aula B Ca’ Bottacin, Dorsoduro 3911, Venice

Afropean Bridges is an international workshop aimed at opening a discussion about the identity of Europeans of African origin and about the post-colonial relationship between European and African countries. The event officially supports the International Decade for People of African Descent. This is its second edition

Venice, 21/03/2019 (3-6 p.m.) and 22/03/2019 (10 a.m.-6 p.m.)