Events Venice

The Venice Center for the Humanities and Social Change presents the screening of the documentary “Muzaffarnagar eventually”, by Nakul Singh Sawhney. Followed by a discussion with the author and with Stefano Beggiora, Massimo Warglien, Andrea Drocco

Venice, 05/02/2019 at 5.15 p.m.

In September 2013, Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of Western Uttar Pradesh, India, witnessed one of India’s worst ever anti-Muslim pogrom since Indian Independence. What triggered it, what happened?

‘Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai…’ (Muzaffarnagar eventually…) tries to find anwers by speaking to a cross-section of people. While looking at the immediate violence and its repercussions, it takes a journey around the many facets of the massacre. In the midst of gloom, the film narrates the tale of a continued and growing resistance.

A film by Nakul Singh Sawnhey, English subtitles, 130 mins., India 2015

The Venice Center for the Humanities and Social Change in collaboration with Bollati Boringhieri presents Edward Wilson-Lee in conversation with Maria Del Valle Ojeda Calvo and Igiaba Scego about his latest book, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked books (published by William Collins in the U.K, Scribner in the U.S.A and recently in Italy by Bollati Boringhieri)

Venice, 24/01/2019 at 5.30 p.m.

THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPWRECKED BOOKS tells the scarcely believable––and wholly true––story of Christopher Columbus’ bastard son Hernando, who sought to equal and surpass his father’s achievements by creating a universal library that would harness the vast powers of the new printing presses and bring every book in the world together in his library in Seville. (…) But the library he produced was much more than just an information-crunching machine: it was an artefact moulded by his life and the age in which he lived. During his immensely eventful life (…) he also amassed the largest collection of printed images and of printed music of the age, started what was perhaps Europe’s first botanical garden, and created by far the greatest private library Europe had ever seen, dwarfing with its 15,000 books every other library of the day. This first major modern biography of Hernando––and the first of any kind available in English––tells an enthralling tale of the age of print and exploration, a tale with striking lessons for our own modern experiences of information revolution and Globalisation.

(More on Edward Wilson-Lee’s website)

Il catalogo dei libri naufragati, translated by Susanna Bourlot, Bollati Boringhieri 2019

Alessandra Sciurba (University of Palermo) and Lucia Gennari (lawyer, ASGI) discuss with Sara De Vido (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) and Shaul Bassi (HSC Venice) about the genesis and development of the Mediterranea project. 

Venice, 30/11/2018 at 8.45 a.m.

The Venice Center for the Humanities and Social Change presents Stefano De Matteis, Le false libertà. Verso la postglobalizzazione. A dialogue with Franca Tamisari and Francesco Della Puppa

Venice, 20/11/2018 at 3 p.m.

An event in collaboration with the Dimensions of Citizenship program of the USA Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2018

Venice, 18/09/2018 at 2 p.m.

A seminar with Claudio Fogu (University of California Santa Barbara) and Igiaba Scego

Venice, 18/09/2018 at 2 p.m.

The Venice Center for the Humanities and Social Change presents A Pain in the Neck: Ecocritical Memoir, with Andrea Most (University of Toronto)

Venice, 18/10/2018 at 12.15

Laurie Anderson in conversation with Shaul Bassi (Director of the Center for the Humanities and Social Change at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) and Enrico Bettinello (Critic and curator).

Venice, 15/05/2018.

Amitav Ghosh, author of „The Great Derangement. Climate Change and the Unthinkable“, in conversation with Shaul Bassi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Thomas Carlson, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Venice, 17/05/2017.