Inauguration of the Academic Year on 12 February 2025 – Live Streaming

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The Inauguration of the 2024/2025 Academic Year at Ca' Foscari will take place on Wednesday, 12 February 2025, starting at 11.00 a.m. in the Auditorium Santa Margherita – Emanuele Severino.

At the conclusion of the ceremony, Professor Marcello Pelillo, professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics, and Statistics, will deliver a Lectio Magistralis titled From Leibniz's Dream to Turing's Game: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence.

 

Inauguration of the Academic Year 2024/2025

Programme

Academic Procession

Ca’ Foscari Choir
Paul Hindemith
En hiver from Six Chansons (1939)
Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke

Welcome Address
Tiziana Lippiello
Rector, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Institutions and representatives
Treviso City Council
Venice City Council
Veneto Regional Administration
Cesare Bulegato, Student Representative
Marco Simionato, Representative of the Technical Administrative Staff and Foreign Language Assistants

Inaugural address by the Rector

Performance
Il libro dell’arte di mercatura (The Book of the Art of Trade) by Benedetto Cotrugli
Adaptation by Fucina Arti Performative Ca’ Foscari

Awards to Outstanding Students

Lectio Magistralis
Marcello Pelillo
Professor of Artificial Intelligence – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
From Leibniz's Dream to Turing's Game: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence

Proclamation

Ca’ Foscari Choir
Anonymous, Gaudeamus igitur, arm
Christian Wilhelm Kindleben (1748–1785)

The ceremony and Lectio Magistralis will be in Italian, and translated into Italian Sign Language (LIS). The event will be live-streamed on Ca’ Foscari’s Youtube channel.

Participation is by invitation only. For further information, please contact:  inaugurazioneaa@unive.it