Ca’ Foscari Agenda: January

Ca’ Foscari will organize several events in January for its community and beyond, and in particular exhibitions and conferences.
The 2018 edition of the Kids University project at Ca’ Foscari will start collaborating with schools in Italy around the topic of inclusion with the title “All for one and one for all” (‘Uno per tutti, tutti per uno’).
The university will re-open after its Winter Break on January 8th 2018.

January 8th
Conference, Encountering Kazakhstan: toward the new Silk Road
4.30pm, Aula Baratto
Focus on Kazakhstan with guests Stefano Ravagnan, Italian ambassador in Kazakhstan, Galym Mutanov, Rector of the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, and Tolkyn Abildayeva,  Head of Foreign Literature Department at the National Academic Library of the Republic of Kazakhstan Astana, as part of the project “A Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) was created in 2013 by the President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping.
The poster of the event

January 9th
Vernissage, exhibition: Ca' Foscari allo specchio. A 80 anni dalle leggi razziali
Cultural Flow Zone - CFZ, 5pm
Exhibition commemorating the 80 years of the racial laws passed in 1938 in Italy with the Archives of Ca’ Foscari and of high schools Benedetti-Tommaseo and Foscarini in Venice.
Project carried out by Silvia Ghiotto, Alessio Conte, Davide Busato, Veronica Bortolussi, Marco Diego De Paoli, Marta Marchini, Deborah Marcon, Caterina Mongardini, Enrico Ruffino, in collaboration with the students of the high schools Benedetti-Tommaseo and Foscarini.
Free entrance.
For more information and to book guided tours:  allospecchio@unive.it

January 11th
Conference: Crossing the Mediterranean: towards Investment and Integration - MIM EMJMD
Aula Baratto, 10.30am
Inauguration of the Venetian start of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s program (EMJMD) for the a.y. 2017/18. Lectio Magistralis: What is the room for religion in our secularized societies, by Olivier Roy, European University Institute, Florence.
The poster of the event

January 19th
Vernissage, exhibition: Colonialismo e razzismo
Cultural Flow Zone - CFZ, 6pm
Open from Monday to Saturday, 10am-7pm, on Sundays 3pm-7pm
The poster of the exhibition

January 22nd
Ceremony and conference, setting a stumbling stone in honor of Olga Blumenthal Secrétant
Ca’ Foscari headquarters and Auditorium Santa Margherita, 11am
Stumbling stone in honor of Olga Blumenthal Secrétant, Germany reader at Ca’ Foscari deported in Ravensbruck in 1944.
Followed by an encounter with artist Gunter Demnig who created the initiative.

January 25th
Conference: ‘Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy. I finanziamenti europei per la ricerca sull’energia’
Ca’ Dolfin - Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, 2pm
The Horizon 2020 "Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy” will be presented
Program and reservation
Organized by the International Research Office, Ca’ Foscari
The poster of the event