June 3-6, 2013, Venice International University, Island of San Servolo, Venice, Italy
For the first time, the three major conferences on the Victorian period, NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association), BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies) and AVSA (Australasian Victorian Studies Association) will join forces for a conference in Venice Italy, to be held June 3 to June 6, 2013.
The conference theme is The Global and the Local.
Some of the topics are:
Cosmopolitanism
Nationalism/Internationalism/Globalization
Global Circulation
Geopolitical Commodities
Glocal Cities
Imagined Communities and Imaginary Places
Traveling, Tourism, Guide Books and Travel Writing
Trains and Speed, Spatialization and Temporality
Trade, Markets, and Dissemination
Empire and Rebellion
British Reception of Italian Music and Visual Arts
Art Collecting, Museums, Libraries, and Galleries
Dialect Literature
Victorian Roots
Victorians and the "Risorgimento"
Religious Difference
The Perception of Otherness
The Country and the City
The Local Artifact and Digital Networking
Opera
Water
For more information please visit the conference website or click on the following link to download the program in PDF:
At the crossroads of Africa, Asia and Europe: Challenges and Perspectives
The Humboldt Kolleg will be held at Venice International University from May 30th to June 1st 2013.
The Kolleg programme will begin on Thursday 30th at 14:30 and will close on Saturday June 1th at 12:30.
Registration will be open on Thursday at 13:30.
PURPOSE OF THE KOLLEG
The focus of the Kolleg will be on the perspectives between Africa Asia and Europe in building up a common research area, on the cooperation on High Education and on Energy and sustainable development.
The Kolleg will also be the biannual meeting of the Italian Humboldt Association.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
The scientific programme includes invited talks on the following topics:
• Interculturalism, Migration and Multiculturalism
• Euro-Mediterranean Innovation and Research Area
• Mediterranean Area of Higher Education: Beforehand Statements and Perspectives
• Energy and Sustainable Development
The Coimbra Group has published a paper outlining its position on the European Union’s forthcoming Horizon 2020 programme, following the high-level seminar that took place at Venice International University on 4th and 5th April 2013.
From the Coimbra Group website:
CG position on Horizon 2020
The Coimbra Group has published its comments on the Horizon 2020 proposal from the European Commission. The Coimbra Group welcomes Horizon 2020 because of its determination to strengthen the emphasis on research excellence, its support to open, basic research and the ambition to increase European and cross-sectoral research collaboration. The policy paper also contains the concerns of the Coimbra Group, in many cases serious concerns, in particular of the negative funding trend regarding the future Marie Skłodowska Curie actions and the virtual absence, yet again, of the social sciences and humanities in most of the defined societal challenges. The member universities of the Coimbra Group put a strong emphasis on fundamental and blue sky research and see the Humanities and Social Sciences as equal and integral parts not only of their teaching and research portfolio, but also of their contribution to society and economic development. With its particular awareness of regional differences and the varying impact of economic and financial instability on different higher education and research systems the Coimbra Group has also expressed its concern that the progress of the past decade and a half of creating a strong and cohesive ERA may be undermined in the present crisis and that this is not sufficiently taken into consideration.
This means that, unfortunately, comments earlier published by the Coimbra Group on the European Commission’s Green Paper From Challenges to Opportunities and in connection with the ERA consultation can only be repeated: “The Coimbra Group concludes that it has been a source of considerable concern that the complexity of innovation is underestimated and along with this the vital role and creativity of university research and the diversity of research disciplines. This has given rise to the concern that a future Common Strategic Framework might neglect the fundamental role in any innovation strategy of basic research, of the cross-feeding of ideas and knowledge through increased mobility of researchers, of the need to foster spaces for researchers to meet, exchange ideas and promote entrepreneurship”.
VIU President Ambassador Umberto Vattani will deliver a talk on The Former Soviet Union, China and Iran from the late Eighties to the late Nineties (March 25, 11 am, Aula Baratto, Ca' Foscari).
The lecture is part of the Ambassadors' Lectures series at the Interdepartmental School of International Relations, Ca' Foscari University.
The lecture is open to the public.
Ca' Foscari is a founding member of Venice International University.
VIU is taking part in the Conference “Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society”. The conference is promoted by the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBAC), the Veneto Region, and the City of Venice, on the occasion of Italy’s signing of the FARO Convention. The Conference will be held in the Marciana Public Library in St. Mark’s Square, and will address the issue of cultural heritage and public participation as promoted by the FARO Convention.
VIU and the Council of Europe in Venice cooperate since 2012 on joint activities for the promotion of intercultural dialogue and cultural heritage.
The Conference Program is available to download at this link.
