Italy, the Mediterranean, the Horn of Africa: questioning colonial spaces and their legacy

Italy, the Mediterranean, the Horn of Africa: questioning colonial spaces and their legacy 1024 483 Barbara Del Mercato

A seminar with Claudio Fogu (University of California Santa Barbara) and Igiaba Scego Venice, 18/09/2018 at 2 p.m. Aula Milone, Malcanton Marcorà Dorsoduro 3484/D, Venice Admission free Event in English…

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Citizenship and Belonging

Citizenship and Belonging 1024 683 Barbara Del Mercato

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. Pachuka Beach. 5-7 p.m. Via Klinger, 1…

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International Summer School Critical Theory 2018: Re-Thinking Ideology

International Summer School Critical Theory 2018: Re-Thinking Ideology 500 300 domonda

Why do people often accept, and even embrace, social and political conditions that seem to run counter to their own interests? How is it possible that we sometimes support forms…

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Authoritarianism: Rule or Exception

Authoritarianism: Rule or Exception 500 300 domonda

Invited speakers: Prof. Seyla Benhabib (Yale University), Prof. Zeynep Gambetti (Boğaziçi University) Berlin, 04/07/2018, 6-8pm, Gorki Theatre Berlin Authoritarian movements and governments resurface globally. They are often presented as a shocking…

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Summer Institute in Venice – Fact And Value In Public Life

Summer Institute in Venice – Fact And Value In Public Life 1024 768 Nina Rismal

Summer Institute in Venice: Fact And Value In Public Life Plural Cultures, Media, and the Academy Today   Venice, June 25th-29th, 2018 The value of „facts“ in public life today,…

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Conference: Fountainheads of Toleration

Conference: Fountainheads of Toleration 500 300 domonda

Conference: Fountainheads of Toleration – Forms of Pluralism in Empires, Republics, Democracies. Venice, 07/06/2018 – 09/06/2018 Organized in Venice by Reset Dialogues on Civilizations, the Humanities & Social Change Center at…

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Fountainheads Of Toleration: Call For Students & Young Scholars

Fountainheads Of Toleration: Call For Students & Young Scholars 500 300 domonda

Discover the Summer School and Seminars on Fountainheads of Toleration – Forms of Pluralism in Empires, Republics, Democracies. Deadline for applications on March 15th, 2018 Venice, 04/06/2018 – 09/06/2018 Organized in…

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Alice Crary: Inside Ethics, Book Presentation (invitation only)

Alice Crary: Inside Ethics, Book Presentation (invitation only) 500 300 domonda

We have come to think of human beings and animals as elements of a morally indifferent reality that reveals itself only to neutral or science-based methods. Berlin, 31/05/2018. This little-commented-on…

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abstract painting; visual motif of the conference

Emancipation, International Conference

Emancipation, International Conference 500 300 domonda

50 years after the events of 1968, the question of emancipation is still of central importance. Berlin, Emancipation 25-27 May 2018 in Berlin. The international conference “Emancipation” will investigate from…

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Laurie Anderson: All the things I lost in the Flood

Laurie Anderson: All the things I lost in the Flood 500 300 domonda

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,…

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Trajectories of Spirit

Trajectories of Spirit 500 300 Nina Rismal

Trajectories of Spirit Three events with philosopher Hans Ruin Professor at Södertörn University, Stockholm and author of Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness…

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International Workshop: Afropean Bridges. Identity, Representation, Opportunities

International Workshop: Afropean Bridges. Identity, Representation, Opportunities 1024 576 domonda

Afropean Bridges aims to open a discussion about the achievements of the Africa-EU partnership and to address social and cultural issues related to the post-colonial relationship between European and African…

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Interview with Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Interview with Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 500 300 domonda

The work of Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o includes novels, plays, short stories, and essays, ranging from literary and social criticism to children’s literature. Venice, 05/04/2018 The Center for the…

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PROVOCATIONS | Session #1 | What do we owe to trolls and Nazis?

PROVOCATIONS | Session #1 | What do we owe to trolls and Nazis? 500 300 Nina Rismal

What do we owe to trolls and Nazis? Community Discussion Group PROVOCATIONS | Session #1 March 16th, 2018, 6-8 p.m. SBCAST @ 513 Garden St., Santa Barbara   How do democratic virtues change…

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Back To Life In Iraq: Art, Destruction, Regeneration

Back To Life In Iraq: Art, Destruction, Regeneration 500 300 domonda

Art is a form of resistance to violence and a hope for a new life in Iraq. Venice, 16/02/2018 – 07/04/2018 The reporter Emanuele Confortin met the Christian Syriac painter Matti al-Kanun…

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Stanley Cavell and Emersonian Perfectionism

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Stanley Cavell and Emersonian Perfectionism A Seminar with Andrew Norris (UCSB) & Sandra Laugier (Panthéon Sorbonne) February 13th, 2018, 2-5 p.m. Board Room @ Mosher Alumni House, University of California, Santa…

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The Politics of Voice

The Politics of Voice 500 300 Nina Rismal

The Politics of Voice PERFECTIONISM AND RADICAL DEMOCRACY with Sandra Laugier Author of Recommencer la philosophie: Stanley Cavell et la philosophie en Amérique (Vrin, 2014) and Why We Need Ordinary…

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Animals, Contradictions and Value

Animals, Contradictions and Value 500 300 Nina Rismal

Animals, Contradiction, and Value Dinesh Wadiwel, University of Sydney Author of The War Against Animals (Brill, 2015), co-editor of Foucault and Animals (Brill, 2016), and convenor of the Human Animal Research…

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Memorie D’africa. Tracce Coloniali Nella Cultura Italiana

Memorie D’africa. Tracce Coloniali Nella Cultura Italiana 500 300 domonda

The Center for the Humanities and Social Change presents a symposium of “Memories of Africa. Colonial traces in Italian culture”. Venice, 24/11/2017 From 3 pm to 7 pm at the…

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La strada bianca: poesia, porcellana, passione

La strada bianca: poesia, porcellana, passione 500 300 domonda

The Center for the Humanities and Social Change presents Edmund de Waal, writer and artist, the author of The Hare with Amber Eyes (2011) and The White Road (2016). Venice,…

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