VIU Lectures 1|08
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20 May 2008, 5.00pm
VIU, Isola di San Servolo
Menachem Mautner,
Daniel Rubinstein Professor,
Faculty of Law
Tel Aviv University
with discussant
Francesca Coin, Lecturer of Sociology of Immigration at Ca' Foscari University
Prof. Mautner will be talking about how multiculturalism is challenging traditional assumptions about the nation-state and liberal political theory.
Menachem Mautner is currently teaching two courses in the Semester Program of the VIU School of Humanities and Social Sciences: Law from a Cultural Perspective and Multiculturalism in a Liberal State.
His fields of interest are Comparative Civil Law and Jurisprudence.
21 May 2008, 5.00pm
VIU, Isola di San Servolo
Neil De Marchi,
Professor,
Department of Economics,
Duke University
Marina Bianchi
Professor,
Department of Economics
University of Cassino
with discussant
Pierluigi Crosta, Professor of Urban Policies at IUAV University
Prof. De Marchi and Prof. Bianchi will argue on the importance of human diversity in generating urban development.
Neil De Marchi and Marina Bianchi are currently working on a project on the changing role of the artist in commerce with ICARE and the VIU TeDis Center and teaching The Economics of Creative Goods in the VIU School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The lecture series is open to the public.
Podcasts of previous lecture series are available at http://www.univiu.org/viulectures
The public boat no. 20 to San Servolo leaves from San Zaccaria opposite the Londra Palace Hotel, Riva degli Schiavoni.
San Zaccaria – San Servolo
15.50; 16.30; 17.10; 18.30; 19.10
San Servolo – San Zaccaria
17.30; 18.00; 18.50; 19.20; 20.10; 20.40
Venice International University
Isola di San Servolo,
30100 Venice, Italy
tel 041 2719 511
www.univiu.org
