VIU Lectures provides a platform for discussion of key issues in current debate.
Venice and Globalization and Sinking and Shrinking Cities: New Orleans & Venice are the first two topics 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.
The lecture series is open to the public.
Thursday, 16 November 2006, 5pm
VIU, Isola di San Servolo
Venice and Globalization
Michael Hardt, Duke University
with discussant Stefano Micelli, Dean, Venice International University
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.
Thursday, 7 December 2006, 5pm
VIU Isola di San Servolo
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
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.
Thursday, 14 December 2006, 6pm – 8pm
Photo Exhibition. Aula Magna VIU, Isola di San Servolo
Venice: impressions from near and far
An exhibition of photos taken by students of Venice International University and Università Iuav di Venezia – Faculty of Arts and Design and Ca Foscari.
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