VIU LECTURES: Venice and globalization, creativity economy, metropolis, exodus, Venice and New Orleans

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Creativity and innovation as a strategy for the Veneto region, immigrants, metropolitan cities and industrial districts: these issues are discussed during VIU LECTURES at Venice International University.

Creativity and exploitation is the title Michael Hardt gave his lecture on November 16, 2006 discussing the theme Venice and Globalization. The lecture featured Stefano Micelli, VIU Dean, as discussant.

The ideas and projects raised in the debate following the lecture continue to be discussed on the blog firstdraft.it

The next lecture will take place on Thursday, December 7, 2006, 5 p.m. Sinking and Shrinking Cities: New Orleans & Venice.
Berndt Ostendorf, Ludwig Maximilians Universität, with discussant Corrado Clini, Director General, Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea.
This event will be in English. Informal reception to follow.

The theme Venice and Globalization will be visually investigated Thursday, December 14, 2006, 6 p.m. by the exhibition Venice: Impressions from near and far, which is a special extracurricular project within Michael Hardt’s course on Venice and Globalization: a photographic competition to analyze and reflect on Venice and Globalization through images.
The project is carried out by Michael Hardt and photographer Stefano Graziani. Photos taken by students of Venice International University, University of Iuav/Arts and Design and University of Ca' Foscari.
Informal reception and music to follow.

The ACTV Public Boat n. 20 to San Servolo leaves from San Zaccaria opposite the Londra Palace Hotel, Riva degli Schiavoni.

 Michael Hardt is professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. He is co-author with Antonio Negri of Empire and Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. His research interests are twentieth century Italian literary theory, globalization and coloniality. During the Fall 2006 semester he is teaching two courses in VIU’s Joint Undergraduate Program: Venice and Globalization and Italian Culture and Society in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

 Berndt Ostendorf is professor of North American Cultural Studies at Ludwig Maximilians Universität. Current research includes New Orleans culture and politics, evangelical fundamentalism and African-American studies. During the Fall 2006 semester he is teaching two courses in VIU’s Joint Undergraduate Program: Conspiracy Nation: conspiracy theories from the Illuminati to the X-Files and Americanism, Americanization, Anti-Americanism: Transatlantic Relations in the age of Globalization.

 Stefano Graziani, photographer, graduated in Architecture, works at IUAV/Arts and Design and teaches History and Technique of Photography at Trieste University. A project of his, on taxonomy, will be soon published.