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VIULectures 1|06. Venice and Globalization and Sinking and Shrinking Cities: New Orleans & Venice

 

VIULectures 1|06. Slides and audio files online

VIU Lectures is an initiative promoted by VIU, in collaboration with Marsilio, to provide a platform for international and local professors to discuss key issues in current debate.

November 16, 2006. Venice and Globalization

Venice and Globalization is the first topic addressed in this lectures series promoted by VIU, in collaboration with Marsilio, to give a platform to international and local professors to discuss key issues in current debate.

December 7, 2006. Sinking and Shrinking Cities: New Orleans & Venice

Sinking and Shrinking Cities: New Orleans & Venice is the second topic addressed in this lectures series promoted by VIU, in collaboration with Marsilio, to give a platform to international and local professors to discuss key issues in current debate.

May 10, 2007. Design and culture. Finnish Brand Design and Nokia

This series of VIU Lectures is organized in collaboration with Designpeople and TURN, two professional communities of designers, in order to address the issues of creativity and innovation.

May 24, 2007. Transdisciplinarity between Art, Technology and Economics as a Principle for Continuous Innovation

This series of VIU Lectures is organized in collaboration with Designpeople and TURN, two professional communities of designers, in order to address the issues of creativity and innovation.

May 10 & 24, 2007. VIULECTURES 1|07. Creativity and Technological Innovation: towards complementarity

 

November 14, 2007. Why Writers Love Venice

VIU Lectures is an initiative promoted by VIU to provide a platform for international and local professors to discuss key and current issues. The lecture series is open to the public.

November 21, 2007. Humans in the Age of Genetics and Computers

VIU Lectures is an initiative promoted by VIU to provide a platform for international and local professors to discuss key and current issues. The lecture series is open to the public.

November 19 & 26, 2008. VIULECTURES 2|08

VIULECTURES is an initiative promoted by VIU to provide a platform for international and local professors to discuss key and current issues. This semester Maurizio Scaparro, Director of the Biennale Teatro, will argue that the origin of European civilization lies in the contamination of Arab, Jewish and Christian cultures. Claudia Koonz of Duke University will address the issue of the Muslim Headscarf, arguing that even among liberals there is a subtle prejudice towards women who choose to wear the veil. VIULECTURES is open to the public.

VIU Lectures 2|08 The Mediterranean Heritage as an Asset in the Age of Multi-Ethnicity

Maurizio Scaparro Director of Biennale Teatro will talk about the main theme of the Biennale Teatro, arguing that the origins of European civilization partly lies in the contamination of Arab, Jewish and Christian cultures and that, today, there is the need to look at the Eastern Mediterranean artistic and cultural heritage, marked by the convergence of very different people, to seek new knowledge, new tolerance, new surprises and new illusions.

VIU Lectures 2|08 The Muslim Headscarf: veiled threat or religious freedom?

Claudia Koonz, professor of History at Duke University, will argue that contemporary Europeans' reactions to Muslim women, who wear the headscarf, is a subtle prejudice common even among liberals, contributing to the formation of ethnic fears that enow the "us" with the conviction of having been summoned to rid the world of an evil "them".

VIU Lectures 1|09. When and Where did Globalization Begin? with David Northrup and Stefano Micelli

David Northrup, Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College will argue that useful perspectives about the world today can be gained by appreciating how long global convergences have been underway and how European imperial expansion was built on older Asian structures. With the participation of Professor Stefano Micelli.

VIU Lectures 1|09. From Poverty to Development. Chinese Economic Growth in a Historical Perspective, with Bozhong Li and Ignazio Musu

Venice International University continues to focus on Globalization and its social, economic and environmental implications with a lecture open to the city of Venice. Venice International University invites Professor Bozhong Li to discuss and illustrate the economic development of the Asian superpower in a historical perspective, with reference to recent trends and environmental issues involved.

VIULectures 1|09. Venice International University continues to focus on Globalization and its social, economic and environmental implications with two lectures open to the public.

On May 13, Bozhong Li of Tsinghua University will examine the economic development of China with reference to recent trends and environmental issues, with discussant Ignazio Musu, President of VIU's TEN Center. On May 6, David Northrup of Boston College will examine the origins of Globalization, with discussant Stefano Micelli, Dean of VIU.

VIULectures 1|09. Venice International University continues to focus on Globalization and its social, economic and environmental implications with two lectures open to the public.

During the month of May two professors from VIU member universities gave guest lectures on themes related to Globalization. The VIULECTURES series is an initiative promoted to VIU to provide a platform for professors of Venice and the Veneto and international professors to discuss key and current issues of debate.

VIULecture 2|09. Christians and Muslims in the Age of the Crusades, between conflict and collaboration, with Joseph Shatzmiller and Vera Costantini

Christians and Muslims in the Age of the Crusades, between conflict and collaboration Prof. Shatzmiller shall analyze the multiple factors behind European expansionism, arguing that the Crusades cannot be explained through the theory of civilizational conflict, showing, that the period of the Crusades was also characterized by violent rivalry between Western and Eastern Christians.

VIULecture 2|09. The Role of Language in negotiating with Arabic-speaking Muslims, with Ilai Alon and Emanuela Trevisan Semi

Prof. Ilai Alon will analyze cultural differences and difficulties of communication between Arabs and Westerners, with particular attention to Hebrew-speakers, suggesting ways to develop mutual understanding.