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19. February 2020
2 March 2020 | Events Venice | Upcoming Events

CANCELLED/ANNULLATO: La defamiliarizzazione del mondo: un seminario con Chiara Mengozzi

CANCELLED/ANNULLATO: La defamiliarizzazione del mondo: un seminario con Chiara Mengozzi https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/slide_environmental_humanities_2020_serie_II-1024x576.jpg 1024 576 Barbara Del Mercato Barbara Del Mercato https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c47acbca5d84216cb819bd8645dddc2e?s=96&d=mm&r=g 19. February 2020 25. February 2020

The seminar with Chiara Mengossi was cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience. Ca’ Bottacin, Dorsoduro 3911 (map), HSC seminar room (1st floor) Registration is necessary: please email hsc@unive.it The next…

21. January 2020
21. February 2020 | Upcoming Events | Upcoming Events Santa Barbara

Atmospheres and Affective Climate Change

Atmospheres and Affective Climate Change https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/56-the-flank-of-a-a-great-storm-14067866210-e1579588506507-1024x650.jpg 1024 650 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 21. January 2020 22. January 2020

Friday, February 21, 2020 at 2 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A In recent years a growing number of thinkers from a variety of disciplines (e.g. philosophy, geography, anthropology, literary studies, cultural…

14. February 2020
20 February 2019 | Events Venice | Upcoming Events

Shaul Bassi in Princeton: Venice, Climate Change, and the Crisis of Imagination

Shaul Bassi in Princeton: Venice, Climate Change, and the Crisis of Imagination https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/HSC_Venice_RGB_area-1024x426.jpg 1024 426 Barbara Del Mercato Barbara Del Mercato https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c47acbca5d84216cb819bd8645dddc2e?s=96&d=mm&r=g 14. February 2020 21. February 2020

February 20, 2020 at 4.30 p.m. 165 Wallace Hall, Princeton University Princeton, NJ HSC Venice Director Shaul Bassi will present a lecture organized by the Department of Sociology at Princeton…

3. February 2020
10 February 2020 | Events Venice | Upcoming Events

Alessandra Viola: Trash! All you should know about garbage.

Alessandra Viola: Trash! All you should know about garbage. https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Alessandra-Viola-1024x485.jpg 1024 485 Barbara Del Mercato Barbara Del Mercato https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c47acbca5d84216cb819bd8645dddc2e?s=96&d=mm&r=g 3. February 2020 4. February 2020

Venice, February 10 at 5.30 p.m. Aula A Ca’ Bottacin (Dorsoduro 3911) Re Mida trasformava tutto quello che toccava in oro. Noi, più modestamente, in rifiuti. Abbiamo lasciato palline da…

21. January 2020
7. February 2020 | Upcoming Events | Upcoming Events Santa Barbara

Hooked: Art and Attachment

Hooked: Art and Attachment https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/JONI-MITCHELL-BLUE-FIRST-UK-PRESSING-TEXTURED-GATE-FOLD-LP_43183593.jpeg 991 882 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 21. January 2020 22. January 2020

Friday, February 7, 2020 at 2 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A Based on her forthcoming book of the same title, this talk makes a case for “attachment” as a key word…

13. January 2020
29 January 2020 | Events Venice | Upcoming Events

Amitav Ghosh returns to Venice for Gun Island

Amitav Ghosh returns to Venice for Gun Island https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/slide_environmental_humanities_2019-1-1024x576.jpg 1024 576 Barbara Del Mercato Barbara Del Mercato https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c47acbca5d84216cb819bd8645dddc2e?s=96&d=mm&r=g 13. January 2020 28. January 2020

Venice, January 29 at 5.30 p.m. Aula Magna Ca’ Dolfin, (Dorsoduro 3825D) Fully booked/posti esauriti – Streaming on line/Diretta in streaming: here/qui and in Room 1 at Ca’ Dolfin /…

21. January 2020
29-31. January 2020 | Upcoming Events | Upcoming Events Santa Barbara

Why We Drive: Towards a Philosophy of the Open Road

Why We Drive: Towards a Philosophy of the Open Road https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/0001-1-1024x952.jpeg 1024 952 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 21. January 2020 21. January 2020

Lecture: “Driving as a Humanism” Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 4 p.m. Mosher Alumni House, Alumni Hall In the much-hailed driverless future, we’re told that human beings are to become…

7. January 2020
13 January 2020 | Events Venice | Upcoming Events

Marco Armiero. Storia ambientale, ovvero come godersi un po’ di riconoscimento accademico senza essere (troppo) disciplinati

Marco Armiero. Storia ambientale, ovvero come godersi un po’ di riconoscimento accademico senza essere (troppo) disciplinati https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/slide_environmental_humanities_2019-1-1024x576.jpg 1024 576 Barbara Del Mercato Barbara Del Mercato https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c47acbca5d84216cb819bd8645dddc2e?s=96&d=mm&r=g 7. January 2020 8. January 2020

Venice, January 13 at 4.00 p.m. Aula A Ca’ Bottacin (Dorsoduro 3911) A new event in our “Environmental Humanities Seminar and Lecture Series”: a lecture (in Italian) by Marco Armiero…

28. October 2019
8 January 2020 | Events Venice | Upcoming Events

Environmental Humanities Seminar and Lecture Series (I)

Environmental Humanities Seminar and Lecture Series (I) https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/slide_environmental_humanities_2019-1024x576.jpg 1024 576 Barbara Del Mercato Barbara Del Mercato https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c47acbca5d84216cb819bd8645dddc2e?s=96&d=mm&r=g 28. October 2019 7. January 2020

The Center for the Humanities and Social Change is organising a series of seminars and lectures revolving around the Environmental Humanities from a wide array of perspectives. Upcoming events: 13…

5. December 2019
10 December 2019 | Events Venice | Upcoming Events

Reframing Ecofeminism in a Posthuman Era: A seminar with Alessandra Chiricosta

Reframing Ecofeminism in a Posthuman Era: A seminar with Alessandra Chiricosta https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/slide_environmental_humanities_2019-1024x576.jpg 1024 576 Barbara Del Mercato Barbara Del Mercato https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c47acbca5d84216cb819bd8645dddc2e?s=96&d=mm&r=g 5. December 2019 9. December 2019

Venice, December 10 – 2.00-4.00 p.m. Ca’ Bottacin, Dorsoduro 3911 (map), HSC seminar room (1st floor) Registration is necessary: please email hsc@unive.it The next seminar in our “Environmental Humanities Seminar…

20. November 2019
9. December 2019 | Upcoming Events | Upcoming Events Santa Barbara

The Strange End of the Catholic-Protestant Conflict and the Genesis of Europe’s Harsh Religious Pluralism

The Strange End of the Catholic-Protestant Conflict and the Genesis of Europe’s Harsh Religious Pluralism https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Greenberg-image.jpg 968 726 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 20. November 2019 20. November 2019

Monday, December 9, 2019 at 6 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A A series of recent controversies has raised many questions about Europe’s treatment of its religious minorities. Why do societies that…

20. November 2019
6. December 2019 | Upcoming Events | Upcoming Events Santa Barbara

Perfection and Disaster

Perfection and Disaster https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Elias-1024x768.jpg 1024 768 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 20. November 2019 2. December 2019

Friday, December 6, 2019 at 2 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A In this essay I am less concerned with developing a cogent and persuasive argument than I am in posing and…

28. November 2019
5 December 2019 | Events Venice | Upcoming Events

Grazia Francescato. L’arte eretica della sostenibilità

Grazia Francescato. L’arte eretica della sostenibilità https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/slide_environmental_humanities_2019-1-1024x576.jpg 1024 576 Barbara Del Mercato Barbara Del Mercato https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c47acbca5d84216cb819bd8645dddc2e?s=96&d=mm&r=g 28. November 2019 28. November 2019

Venice, December 5 2019 at 5.30 p.m. Aula A Ca’ Bottacin (Dorsoduro 3911) A new event in our “Environmental Humanities Seminar and Lecture Series”: Grazia Francescato – environmentalist, activist, politician…

20. November 2019
2. December 2019 | Upcoming Events | Upcoming Events Santa Barbara

Modalities of the Perhaps: Secularity, Post-humanism, Uncertainty

Modalities of the Perhaps: Secularity, Post-humanism, Uncertainty https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/mayanthicat-1024x767.jpeg 1024 767 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 20. November 2019 20. November 2019

Monday, December 2, 2019 at 6 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A Even as multispecies and post-humanist scholarship expands definitions of being, it nonetheless restricts other-than-humans to entities that previously went under…

12. November 2019
21. November 2019 | Upcoming Events | Upcoming Events Santa Barbara

Attending to the Lessons of the Pond: Henry David Thoreau’s “Revery”

Attending to the Lessons of the Pond: Henry David Thoreau’s “Revery” https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/koskywalden-1024x768.jpg 1024 768 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 12. November 2019 20. November 2019

Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 2 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A In the forced labor camp of attention that is society today, many find that being attentive leads to distractedness, their…

6. November 2019
15. November 2019 | Upcoming Events | Upcoming Events Santa Barbara

Meaning and Melancholia: Leo Tolstoy, Max Weber, William James

Meaning and Melancholia: Leo Tolstoy, Max Weber, William James https://hscif.org/wp-content/themes/blade/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 6. November 2019 7. November 2019

November 15, 2019 at 2 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A For a century now, Max Weber’s famous description of the genesis of the modern world as a gradual process of “disenchantment,”…

30. October 2019
8. November 2019 | Upcoming Events | Upcoming Events Santa Barbara

Denying Reality: A Polanyian Theory of the Contemporary Crisis

Denying Reality: A Polanyian Theory of the Contemporary Crisis https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CALIFORNIAWILDFIRE13.jpg 810 455 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 30. October 2019 5. November 2019

November 8, 2019 at 2 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A The present global environmental situation seems to be one of crisis, a failure to secure a human future. Is this fundamentally…

25. October 2019
1. November 2019 | Upcoming Events | Upcoming Events Santa Barbara

Endless Happiness: Confessions of a Recovering Addict

Endless Happiness: Confessions of a Recovering Addict https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/augustine-889x1024.jpg 889 1024 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 25. October 2019 26. October 2019

November 1, 2019 at 2 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A I set out to write about how to be happy, and my questions about happiness led me to a consideration of…

8. October 2019
18. October 2019 | Upcoming Events | Upcoming Events Santa Barbara

With the World at Heart: Studies in the Secular Today

With the World at Heart: Studies in the Secular Today https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/WorldatHearthighresolution-1-682x1024.jpg 682 1024 Tom Carlson Tom Carlson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ede05bfda0dd8d974456ea01bb809e2c?s=96&d=mm&r=g 8. October 2019 9. October 2019

October 18, 2019 at 2 p.m. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A Based on a reading of key chapters from Thomas A. Carlson’s With the World at Heart: Studies in the Secular Today…

10. October 2019
18 October 2019 | Events Venice | Upcoming Events

Environmental Humanities Seminar and Lecture Series. A seminar with Elizabeth DeLoughrey: The Postcolonial Roots of the Environmental Humanities

Environmental Humanities Seminar and Lecture Series. A seminar with Elizabeth DeLoughrey: The Postcolonial Roots of the Environmental Humanities https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/slide_environmental_humanities_2019-1024x576.jpg 1024 576 Barbara Del Mercato Barbara Del Mercato https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c47acbca5d84216cb819bd8645dddc2e?s=96&d=mm&r=g 10. October 2019 28. November 2019

Venice, October 18 – 2.00-4.00 p.m. Ca’ Bottacin (Dorsoduro 3911), HSC seminar room (1st floor) Registration is necessary: please email hsc@unive.it The Center for the Humanities and Social Change is…

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