The abstracts are published in English for the workshops that will be in English and in Italian for the workshops that will be in Italian
Marco Aime
Anthropologist and writer. He has carried out researches in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and on the Alps. He teaches at the University of Genoa. He has written, among others, "Le radici nella sabbia" EDT, 1999; "Sapersi muovere. Pastori transumanti di Raschia" together with S. Allovio and P.P. Viazzo (Meltemi, 2001); "Eccessi di culture" (Einaudi, 2004); and "Gli specchi di Gulliver" in difesa del relativismo (Bollati Boringhieri, 2006). He was awarded the Chatwin prize.
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Convivere con le diversità
Abstract
Parole come cultura, identità, etnia, razzismo riempiono sempre di più i discorsi dei politici, le colonne dei giornali, i dibattiti televisivi. Talvolta vengono usate in modo non corretto o peggio strumentalizzate a fini politici e spesso se ne abusa. La sempre maggiore enfasi posta sulle culture e sulle loro presunte radici conduce a una crescente attenzione verso il locale e i localismi, alcuni dei quali vengono poi impugnati da qualche élite dotata di sufficiente potere e caricati di aspirazioni globali. Molti dei cosiddetti «conflitti culturali» che sembrano caratterizzare la nostra epoca, spesso sotto la patina della cultura celano ben altre spinte, ben altri interessi.
A incontrarsi o a scontrarsi non sono “culture”, ma persone. Se pensate come un dato assoluto, un recinto invalicabile le culture rischiano di sostituire il vecchio concetto di razza nei processi di costruzione e discriminazione dell’altro. Ogni identità è fatta di memoria e oblio e piuttosto che nel passato, va cercata nel suo divenire presente.
Daniele Archibugi
Director of researches at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome, Associate at the Institute on Population and Social Policy (IRPPS), and Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London, Birkbeck College, Department of Management. He works in the field of the technological evolution of economy and politics and of the political theory of international relations.
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Verso una democrazia cosmopolitica
Abstract
La democrazia è nata come forma di gestione della politica in comunità ristrette. Nelle polis greche, tutti gli individui si conoscevano di vista e non era per loro difficile riunirsi, discutere e decidere. Ma più di due secoli fa, la democrazia è stata re-inventata al fine di adattarsi a comunità politiche della dimensione dei moderni stati-nazione.
Oggi questa forma di democrazia è in crisi. Gli stati nazionali sono diventati troppo piccoli per le cose grandi e sono troppo grandi per le cose piccole. La conseguenza è che molti aspetti della nostra vita quotidiana – le crisi finanziarie e le epidemie, i flussi migratori e il commercio – sono stati sottratti al controllo democratico esercitato dai cittadini.
Può la democrazia diventare la modalità di gestione della società globale? Per continuare ad esistere, la democrazia ha bisogno di trasformarsi nuovamente, espandendosi alle organizzazioni internazionali, a cominciare dalle Nazioni Unite e all’Unione Europea. Ma deve anche trovare forme di gestione del potere che consentano a comunità locali o non territoriali di poter discutere e decidere su questioni che riguardano la propria vita. La democrazia cosmopolitica non ambisce solamente a trasferire la democrazia dalla sfera nazionale a quella globale, ma ad operare una rifondazione delle modalità di gestione del potere. Un tale radicale cambiamento porterebbe la globalizzazione dei nostri tempi ad essere qualcosa di diverso da una serie di processi incontrollati, aprendo la strada ad una società cosmopolitica, nella quale gli individui possano agire come autentici cittadini del mondo.
Riferimenti bibliografici
Daniele Archibugi, Cittadini del mondo. Verso una democrazia cosmopolitica, Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2009.
Seyla Benhabib, Cittadini globali, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2008.
Norberto Bobbio, Il futuro della democrazia, Einaudi, Torino, 1984.
David Held, Democrazia e ordine globale, Asterios, Trieste, 1999.
Luca Scuccimarra, I confini del mondo. Storia del cosmopolitismo dall'Antichità al Settecento, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006.
Laura Boella
Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Milan and member of the Ethics Committee. She is well known for her researches on Hannah Arendt. Her publications focus mainly on critical marxism and on utopian philosophy in the context of classical German philosophy, historicism and cultural sciences, as well as phenomenology and philosophy of existence.
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Educare all'empatia
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L'empatia é una capacità umana, le cui basi neurobiologiche sono attualmente oggetto di numerosi studi sperimentali. Educare all'empatia implica pertanto innanzitutto conoscere questa decisiva risorsa, di cui tutti siamo dotati, per poterla praticare. Ciò significa gestire attivamente e quindi esercitare una competenza relazionale che non può essere scambiata né con un automatismo cerebrale , tantomeno con un "sentimento" di partecipazione o condivisione. L'empatia mette in gioco il fatto che siamo originariamente in relazione con altri e altre. La nostra esperienza é relazionale, cioè vissuta alla presenza di altri, in un mondo comune. Educare all'empatia non può dunque voler dire acquisire una tecnica di comunicazione e magari di manipolazione della mente altrui o sviluppare sentimenti solidali o altruistici. Educare all'empatia implica acquisire il valore dell'altro, della sua presenza accanto a me sulla scena del mondo, come elemento essenziale della formazione della mia soggettività e come stimolo all'ampliamento della mia esperienza verso sentieri non battuti, altre possibilità d'essere. Verrà sviluppata la via che ritengo principale per educare all'empatia: l'immaginazione.
Giancarlo Bosetti
Professor of political journalism at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and free lance at "La Repubblica" newspaper. He graduated in philosophy, he worked as deputy editor of the newspaper “L'Unità”. In 1993 he founded the magazine "Reset" of which he is currently the editor. He wrote against conservative, ethnocentric and racist attitudes that hinder the integration of immigrants in Europe and of intercultural dialogue. More recently he wrote a pamphlet against extreme laey positions in Italy.
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Religioni e laicità
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Tra i concetti che la globalizzazione evoca e costringe a inventare per descrivere i problemi del mondo contemporaneo e le idee per affrontarli quello di “intercultura” è destinato a prevalere su altri, forse anche su quello più noto “multiculturalismo”, per il quale tuttavia è bene opporsi a una messa in caricatura, come quella operata da diversi primi ministri dell’Europa odierna, i quali propongono di accantonare il «il multiculturalismo» in quanto dottrina accusata di «incoraggiare le diverse culture a vivere separatamente». In verità il multiculturalismo, concetto che può ben descrivere la cultura politica che ispira le politiche di rispetto per le differenze culturali, come per esempio negli Stati Uniti e non solo in Canada, non ha avuto solo interpretazioni estremiste della separatezza, dei ghetti, dell’isolamento di comunità tribali nello spregio dei diritti individuali. In questo caso meglio sarebbe parlare di “somma di monoculturalismi” o «multi-comunitarismo», perché il multiculturalismo è anche una cultura dell’”integrazione”. Tuttavia il concetto si presta a qualche equivoco, in particolare comporta il rischio che le differenze culturali vengano assunte come un dato permanente, come una essenza cristallizzata o cristallizzabile, facendo dimenticare che ogni cultura umana è continuamente in evoluzione e soggetta a cambiamenti, che derivano dalle relazioni di convivenza, conflitto, scambio con le altre culture. Il campo dello sviluppo della ricerca teorico politica dovrà dunque bene indirizzarsi in direzione del “pluralismo”, non solo quello politico, attributo primario delle società libere, ma proprio “culturale”, che possiamo anche definire “pluralismo forte” o “profondo”. E avremo certamente bisogno dell’idea “interculturale “ per descrivere un pluralismo che mette l’accento sui rapporti di reciproca interpenetrazione, dialogo, contrasto e sulle permanenti modificazioni che sono indotte da questo intreccio. Nessuna cultura è data senza relazioni interculturali e la “interculturalità” è destinata a diventare probabilmente la parola che meglio descrive l’ideologia necessaria per affrontare i problemi della convivenza e dell’integrazione. Il tema che mi propongo di sviluppare ulteriormente è quello dell’apporto che al pluralismo culturale deriva dalla presenza di diversità religiose nella sfera pubblica. Mentre la tradizione liberale standard tende a sottolineare la necessità di affermare i diritti individuali, specie quelli soggettivi (la scelta), nei confronti non solo dell’autorità dello stato, ma anche contro l’invadenza delle autorità spirituali e religiose con i loro principi non negoziabili, una prospettiva più accogliente per le religioni (postsecolare con Habermas, multiculturale con Taylor, ma anche pluralista alla maniera del liberalismo politico di Rawls) si accompagna a una maggiore attenzione per i diritti dei gruppi e delle culture, alzando l’asticella delle difficoltà oltre lo standard cui si era assuefatto nella sua lunga battaglia contro la Chiesa il liberalismo laico. La presenza delle religioni nella sfera pubblica e la loro visibilità diventano un vero “test” di pluralismo, prospettando una discussione pubblica diversa da quella cui l’Europa era abituata. Nel nuovo scenario pluralista diventano centrali i temi simbolici degli edifici religiosi e dell’abbigliamento e il liberalismo riscopre un altro suo valore cruciale, che era stato messo in disparte nel mondo monoculturale e anche nella tradizione illuministica “monista”, quello del trattamento delle minoranze e delle garanzie della loro libertà, in un’era in cui tutte le culture e religioni tendono a diventare minoranze.
Paolo Branca
He holds a degree in Arabic Language and Literature from the School of Oriental Languages of the University in Venice – Ca’ Foscari. Later he obtained a certificate in Arabic Language at the Institute for the Middle and Far East (IsMEO). Since 1989 he is a researcher in Islamic studies at the Faculty of Humanities at the Catholic University in Milan. Since 1998/99 he is professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Catholic University in Milan. He has lectured on Islam and he has produced several publications on this topic.
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Islam e cosmopolitismo
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Pur nato in ambiente prettamente arabo, l’islam è divenuto rapidissimamente una religione universale, espandendosi oltre la sua terra d’origine e costituendo un grande impero sovranazionale, che oggi diremmo multiculturale. Nei suoi primi secoli di vita, all’apice della propria fioritura, ha operato una mirabile sintesi di tradizioni differenti, chiamate ad amalgamarsi – non sempre facilmente – in un nuovo contesto estremamente dinamico e interessato anche da tensioni e conflitti.
L’impatto con la modernità è stato invece più problematico per una serie di circostanze che ancora gravano pesantemente su molte aree musulmane e sui rapporti tra l’islam e le altre civiltà, specialmente con quella occidentale. Nel grande patrimonio classico, tuttavia, non mancano esempi e modelli che potrebbero essere riattualizzati, particolarmente da parte dei musulmani che vivono tra di noi. Una rinnovata e riconciliata memoria condivisa potrebbe aprire orizzonti inediti di scambio e arricchimento reciproci.
Gian Paolo Calchi Novati
He is a researcher at Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (Milan) and a visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies (UCLA) and at the African Studies Center (Boston University). Former director of IPALMO (Rome). Visiting Professor at Addis Ababa University; he delivered courses and seminars at the Universities of Milan, Pisa, Urbino, Tunis, Nairobi and Mexico City. At the University of Pavia he is professor of History and Institutions of African and Asian Countries (Faculty of Political Sciences), director of the Department of Political and Social Studies and coordinator of the Advanced studies on Africa and Asia. Main fields of research: Colonialism and Decolonization in Africa and the Middle East; States and Nations in the Horn of Africa; Crisis of the African Postcolonial State.
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Cosmopolitismo in una prospettiva africana. Il valore di una storia e di una cultura.
Francesco Cavalli Sforza
Author, director, science writer. With her father Luca Cavalli-Sforza, a geneticist, has published: Who we are - the history of human diversity (Mondadori, 1993), Race or injury? - The human evolution between nature and history (Einaudi Scuola, 1996), The science of happiness – reasons and values of our life (Mondadori, 1997), Why science - the adventure of a researcher (Mondadori, 2005) and some science courses for middle and high school (Einaudi Scuola, 2003-09). He teaches Genetics and Anthropology at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan. Collaborates with “La Repubblica”. He is publishing a biology course for high school (Biology to understand, Einaudi Scuola, 2011).
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Scienza e cosmopolitismo
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Le società contemporanee sono il prodotto di migrazioni e stratificazioni successive, a partire dalla grande espansione, iniziata 60.000 anni fa, che ha portato l’uomo moderno a diffondersi sull’intero pianeta, seguita poi dai vasti movimenti di popoli che si sono verificati in età storica, fino alle estese migrazioni che contrassegnano questo secolo. Ciascuna società, ogni cultura, percorrendo le strade che è riuscita a individuare, ha sviluppato propri caratteristici strumenti di interazione fra i suoi componenti e con l’ambiente. La nozione di cosmopolitismo nasce in epoca classica, quando diverse civiltà si affacciano alle sponde del Mediterraneo e si scambiano merci, costumi e istituzioni. Oggi il cosmopolitismo è una scelta obbligata: la stessa varietà e diversità delle culture, che è prodotto dei modi in cui l’umanità ha saputo gestire la propria esistenza, racchiude possibili soluzioni alle sfide del presente. Ben più delle differenze biologiche, la molteplicità delle culture è la migliore garanzia per il futuro della specie umana.
Adolfo Ceretti
Professor of Criminology at the Bicocca University in Milan. His scientific research is about the relationship between epistemology and human sciences, the juvenile justice system, the function of punishment and the mediation in criminal cases. professor Ceretti has held research and teaching positions at the University of Urbino, State University in Milan, and Catholic University in Milan. He served as a member of a commission on Social Defense and Crime Prevention in 1982 and as a member of the Metropolitan Committee of Milan in 1996. In 1993, professor Ceretti received the Dennis Carroll Prize at the 11th World Criminology Congress.
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Pluralismo etico: conflitti e dissidi sociali
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Nelle sfere politiche e sociali delle società occidentali contemporanee incontriamo infiniti dilemmi riguardanti questioni etiche/politiche assai distanti tra loro, quali l’eutanasia, le aspettative di vedere (o di non vedere) riconosciuti in luoghi pubblici i propri (o altrui) simboli religiosi (Crocifisso) o di appartenenza religiosa (il velo islamico). Detto altrimenti, ci si imbatte in punti di vista che difficilmente possono trovare una sintesi, o un compromesso, anche all’interno di “un universo” gruppale, etico, politico, religioso ritenuto, almeno al suo esterno, omogeneo. Ciascuna prospettiva, al contrario, appare spesso ragionevole sotto alcuni, più o addirittura molti aspetti, ma certamente non tutti.Un punto dal quale prendere le mosse per il nostro workshop è dunque il fatto che le contese su questi “nodi” superano spesso l’occasione di singole vicende, investono i valori e si traducono molte volte in una contestazione della competenza dello Stato a decidere liberamente in materie fondamentali.
Far con-vivere più visioni etiche dandosi delle norme su materie che sono ritenute cruciali per ciascuna “parte sociale”, per ciascun “gruppo”, è forse la mission più delicata delle democrazie tardo-moderne.
È qui che nascono conflitti e dissidi che investono cittadini e istituzioni. Come affrontarli?
Fred Dallmayr
Professor in the departments of philosophy and political science at the University of Notre Dame. He has been a visiting professor at Hamburg University in Germany and at the New School for Social Research in New York, and a Fellow at Nuffield College in Oxford. He has been teaching at Notre Dame University since 1978. During 1991-92 he was in India on a Fulbright research grant. He is past president of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP). Among his pubblications: "Dialogue among Civilizations", Palgrave 2002; "Peace Talks - Who Will Listen?", Notre Dame Press 2004; "In Search of the Good Life", U. of Kentucky Press 2007; "Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars", Kentucky Press 2010.
He is also a senior fellow in the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at Notre Dame and honorary chair of the International Coordinating Committee of "World Public Forum - Dialogue of Civilizations".
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Varieties of Cosmopolitanism
Abstract
"Cosmopolitanism" has become a popular and widely used term in contemporary literature; however, it is not quite clear what is
meant by this term. My aim is to explore the meaning or possible meanings of the term. A promising way to proceed in this inquiry is to delineate first of all the variety of types or modalities of the "cosmopolitan" idea. For purposes of discussion I distinguish tentatively between seven modes of cosmopolitanism: (1) world state (unitary or federal); (2) absolute (Stoic) universalism; (3) Kantian moral universality; (4) liberal-individualist approach; (5) agonistic cosmopolitanism; an (7) dialogical or hermeneutical
cosmopolitanism. I shall sketch the main features and the strengths and weaknesses of these types. In my own writings I have given preference to the dialogical approach (sometimes captured by the phrase "dialogue among civilizations").
Josè Pascal Da Rocha
Professor at Columbia University and a UN Mediator at the Department of Political Affairs. He has gained extensive conflict resolution expertise in non-permissive environments since 1991 and has constantly expanded his knowledge into the corporate arena. Apart from being deployed on Crisis intervention missions, he teaches on Conflict Resolution and Negotiation at Columbia University, at the Cardozo School of Law and on Gender and Diversity at the University of Norwich, UK. His latest book contribution is a chapter “The Intercultural Task of Living Together: An Essay” in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Work (ed Ozbilgin), Edward Elgar Press, 2009, and his forthcoming publication is a chapter on mediation entry in post-conflict transformation settings in Africa.
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Social conflict resolution and intercultural dialogue
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Typically, individuals articulate their needs, interests, and rights through the formation of collective groups that advocate, compete or collaborate for the preservations of those needs. In Conflict Resolution, the social conflict is understood as an event evolving from and producing changes in the personal, relational, structural, and cultural dimensions of human experience. This workshop will be discussing these dimensions in order to assess entry points for improved social relations and interconnection between individuals, groups and generations. It will also present notions of conflict transformation and enhanced dialogue and deliberation in order to strengthen the weaving of social fabric in challenged communities of today's world. This workshop is intended for intermediate and advanced target audiences of humanities, social sciences, political sciences, law, and all practitioners working as agents of change in societies and cultures. The workshop will be held in english language and it will incorporate a facilitative mechanism.
Vishakha N. Desai
President and CEO of the Asia Society, an international educational organization dedicated to strengthening connections between the peoples of Asia and the United States. She sets the directions for the Society’s diverse set of programs — in the areas of policy, business, arts, culture and education — throughout the vast network of Asia Society’s regional centers in the U.S. and in Asia, including its New York headquarters. She is a frequent speaker and participant at major conferences around the world addressing business, policy and cultural issues.
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Intercultural education in the framework of ASIA Society
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Preparing the next generation to be globally competent and globally literate. In the context of rapidly changing global dynamics, greater interconnectivity and inevitable shift of global power to multiple centers including Asia, our students need to be prepared in a radically different way from the way they have been traditionally taught. I plan to discuss the importance of cultural literacy in the 21st century education work. I will highlight Asia Society’s global competence work from the vantage point of both equity and excellence in education.
Alessandra Facchi
Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Milan, where she teaches General Theory of Law and History of Individual Rights. From 1995 to 2005 she taught Sociology of Law and Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law and Humanities, University of Bologna and Human Rights and Women's Rights at the Master of Equal Opportunity, University of Milan. She is a member of the faculty of the Ph.D. in Philosophy of Law, University of Milan. Among her recent publications: The rights in the multicultural Europe (Yale University Press, 2001, ed. Spanish La Ley - UBA, 2005), A Brief History of Human Rights (Princeton, 2007).
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Diritti umani e questioni di genere
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“I diritti delle donne sono diritti umani”, quest’affermazione diffusasi a partire dalla Dichiarazione di Pechino delle Nazioni Unite del 1995 (http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/declar.htm), è l’approdo di un lungo percorso. Essa non soltanto ribadisce che le donne sono titolari dei diritti umani, ma afferma la specificità dei diritti delle donne rispetto ai diritti dell’uomo, una specificità che caratterizza le loro origini, i loro sviluppi storici, le loro attuali configurazioni e garanzie. In tutto il mondo i diritti delle donne si sono consolidati come un riferimento fondamentale non soltanto nel dialogo politico e istituzionale sovranazionale, ma anche all’interno delle società nazionali come espressione di rivendicazioni di associazioni e movimenti femminili. I diritti umani delle donne hanno tuttavia mostrato di essere un terreno particolarmente influenzato dal pluralismo culturale e religioso; si tratta dunque di un terreno in cui dialogo interculturale e prospettiva di genere devono unirsi per delineare contenuti e tutele dei diritti che non accentuino il conflitto ma permettano la conciliazione tra le diverse appartenenze delle persone.
Francesco Favotto
Professor of Business Administration in the new Faculty of Economics, University of Padova. After graduating in Economics at Ca 'Foscari, Venice, he worked in Finland and Sweden and has deepened his studies at the School of Management of California at Berkeley and at MIT in Boston. In 1971 he began teaching business administration at the University of Padova. Here he holds several positions over the years: Director of Department, Principal of Faculty and Deputy-Rector. In 2002 he started with the University of Michigan, Dearborn, a School of Management and with the University of Versailles, a "Master in International Business and Management ", specialized in perfumery and cosmetics. He is currently also chairman of course in” Science and Culture of Gastronomy and Catering”, a member of the National University Council (CUN) and board member in several companies, including Banca Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze (Intesa Sanpaolo Group ). Since 2009 he is chairman of Associazione Intercultura Onlus
Closing panel
Thierry Gaudin
He is an Engineer and Doctor of Science in Information and Communication and an international expert (OECD, European Commission, World Bank) in innovation policy. Primarily known in France for two publications: "L’ écoute des silences, les Institutions contre l'innovation" and "2100, récit du prochain siècle." In 1993 he created "Prospective 2100", an international association with the aim of studying the universal programs for the twenty-first century.
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The future of religions
Bettina Gehrke
Bettina Gehrke is professor for Organizational Behavior and member of the Diversity Management Monitor of University Bocconi School of Management. Her research, teaching and consulting has always focused on a deeper understanding of the complexities of cultural differences. In the last decade she worked mainly with multinational corporations designing tailor-made programs for management development and facilitating change during their globalization process. A major focus of her teaching is the development of intercultural leadership skills.
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"Making Global Citizen": the role of teaching and learning
Abstract
University students are growing up in a multicultural world, and it is important that their experiences and learning prepare them for this. Universities have responded to these needs: international exchange programs, multicultural student classes, international management courses, global perspectives and issues as integral part of textbooks.
But is it enough to bring a global dimension to the curricula? Are the knowledge and the understanding of the impact of globalization enough to take the future responsibilities for Global Citizenship? Do we teach our students to become proactive in making the world a more sustainable place? Are they prepared to manage the complex connections across societies?
In this workshop we will discuss how global citizenship could become a core of the education system. Ideas will be developed of how universities could become showcases of global citizenship. In particular, we will focus on how to teach students the necessary values, attitudes and intercultural competencies.
Jagdish Gundara
Emeritus Professor of Education at the Institute of Education at the University of London. He holds the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Studies and Teacher Education at the School of Culture and Lifelong Learning. He is the founding member and the current President of the International Association of Intercultural Education. He is the author of Interculturalism, Education and Inclusion (Paul Chapman, 2000)
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Intercultural education in the framework of UNESCO
Paolo Inghilleri
Full Professor of Social Psychology, University of Milan (Italy), Director of the Department of Geography and Environmental Human Sciences. His main areas of research include the relations between biology, mind and culture, the study of optimal experience, creativity, cultural psychology, transcultural psychiatry, environmental psychology. He is the author of seven volumes and more than 80 articles published in Italy and abroad.
Closing panel
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Well-known Iranian-Canadian philosopher. He is presently a Professor of Political Science and a Research Fellow in the Centre for Ethics at University of Toronto and a member of the advisory board of PEN Canada. He is the winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain (2009) for his extensive academic works in promoting dialogue between cultures and his advocacy for non-violence. He published among twenty books in English, French and Farsi.
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Is Cosmopolitanism a common horizon for humanity?
Abstract
In 1539, the Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria delivered a now celebrated lecture at the University of Salamanca with the title “On the American Indians.” He began with a question: “By what right (ius) were the barbarians subjected to Spanish rule?” [1]Though imperialistic in nature, Vitoria was also drawing on a long ancient and humanistic discourse in favor of a peaceful access to all parts of the world, itself Stoic in origin. We all therefore can be said to possess as humans an innate urge to a shared humanity. As Kant also remarked “a universal cosmopolitan existence” was the “highest purpose of nature,” and the “matrix within which all the original capacities of the human race may develop. As it turns out, the Gandhian moment of cosmopolitan citizenship has been a constant experimentation with modes of cross-frontier cultural constellations. The capacity to engage constructively with conflicting values is an essential component of practical wisdom and empathetic pluralism in Gandhian nonviolence. Needless to say, in an age of increasing globalization, we need to reevaluate the two concepts of “citizenship” and “cosmopolitanism.” In other words, the limited scope of citizenship with its preoccupation with Western philosophy preclude any further exploration of the possibilities in which to capture the wider range of cosmopolitan citizenship beyond the Western paradigm of cosmopolitanism a la Kant. It would be wrong to suggest that “cosmopolitanism” is only thinkable in the context of European civilization or European thought. To put it another way, it is an error to hope that we can ever achieve a truly cosmopolitan vision without an intercultural approach to the idea of civilization.
Marialuisa Lavitrano
Closing Panel
John R. Lupien
Former Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) Division of Food and Nutrition is currently an Adjunct Professor of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts, an Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at the Pennsylvania State University, and Guest Professor of Food Science and Nutrition at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. He has worked for both FAO and the US Food and Drug Administration in the areas of food quality, safety and nutrition policy formulation at the international level, and in implementing these policies in over 50 countries . He is a Charter Member of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology, and served for 10 years as the chairman of the scientific advisory committee of the European Food Information Council."
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Environment, food culture, quality, safety, nutrition and urbanization
Abstract
The world population has more than tripled in the last 70 years, and is projected to grow from the present 6.5 billion to 9-10 billion people by the year 2150. At the same time, urban areas have grown dramatically with overall increased population and migration of rural populations to urban areas. At present more than 50% of the world’s population live in urban areas. Increased overall population, urbanization and better economic circumstances all have important implications for sustainability of favorable environmental conditions, including climate change, changes in food cultures, and problems of food quality, safety and nutrition. At present more that one billion suffer from lack of access to adequate amounts of food, with resulting high rates of infant mortality and a wide range of malnutrition problems among infants, children, teens and adults. At the same time, and in many countries, health related problems of non-communicable diseases in overweight and obese individuals, with a WHO global estimate of about one billion people affected. Awareness and knowledge of these problems, and effective solutions is urgently needed by all, especially the young who will have to try to combat these problems over the years to come.
Susanna Mantovani
Professor of General and Social Pedagogy at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca where she is Deputy-Rector since 2007.Her national and international research activity pertains to early child development and education, early childhood and family policies, children and technologies, intercultural education, home-school relationships and adults’ professional development.
She is a member of the Scientific Committee of Fondazione Intercultura Onlus and a member of the Board of the committee Unicef - Italy. She has been a member of the OCSE project Starting Strong and involved in several projects for the Bernard Van Leer Foundation; Recent research activities include: La scuola che vorrei. La voce dei giovani sulla scuola (founded by Intercultura Foundation); Children Crossing Borders. Children of Immigrants in Early Childhood Settings in Five Countries. A Study of Parents and Staff Belief ( www.childrencrossingborders.org) and Facilitating Dialogue between Parents and Teachers (both founded by the Bernard Van Leer Foundation ); Digital Kids (IBM Foundation)
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Vahid V. Motlagh
Member of the World Future Studies Federation and also a board member of the Shaping Tomorrow's Foresight Network. Since 2000 he has been an active blogger and in 2003 he transformed his weblog into a website, VahidThinkTank.com, to better and more easily share his knowledge with other Iranians and Farsi-speaking individuals. He was for ten years a strategic and scenario planning analyst, editor, and translator at diverse Iranian Think Tanks and was also the editor in chief of the Persian Encyclopedia of Future. He has published two English articles in the peer reviewed Journal of Futures Studies about the multiple scenarios of Iran and Asia, and has authored and translated (often with others) more than ten Farsi books.
Workshop
Global and placeless brains: a third culture perspective
Abstract
Galileo and Darwin busted two big historical myths: the centrality of our planet and our species. Scientific progress and technological advances may help us bust yet another strong myth in which the majority of contemporary people still strongly and wrongly believe. This myth encourages the centrality of certain nation-states, cultures, languages, and in short the cherished mental model. It seems that most, if not all, of the particular mental models we are used to them to make sense of the world around us seek not only survival but also dominance. Genetics has already provided the clear insight into the diversity in genes, the material root that all Homo Sapiens share with each other. Any two people of the globe (estimate population about 6.7 billion in July 2008 ) differ from each other only 0.1% which is five times less than the amount of variation among chimpanzees (population just 125,000). Nonetheless, there is some incomparable diversity in memes that are the equivalents of genes in building mental models of, sometimes radically different, human populations. The human brains that incorporate the sticky ideas and memes are indeed evolving not only naturally but also artificially and thus their futures are changing and probable as opposed to being fixed and certain. Also, combined with the brain natural and artificial evolutionary events, a sustained rising demographic trend showing the multilingual and placeless people living among us suggests that in the long term future the average humans may accommodate simultaneously numerous mental models, identities and “cultural chunks” as well, maybe up to the magical cognitive number of Seven Plus Minus Two. The present day exceptional people will be the future normal people. Thanks to the information revolution the harbinger of such developments can now be identified. The Internet age Noosphere which sometimes is termed as the global brain has proved remarkably helpful to overcome the challenges of moving in the temporal-spatial matrix plus to remove the usual memetic barriers such as effective communication. Technical infrastructures and interfaces are vastly available and ready to be used; however, the education and deliberate growth of future placeless brains that will enjoy some increased memetical degrees of freedom may require first passing the psychological denial of technology applications and next encouraging shifts in the current dominant values systems through utilizing the amoralization/moralization mechanism as the most prominent and effective tool.
Salvatore Natoli
He is full professor of theoretical phylosophy at the School of Education of the Bicocca University in Milan. Salvatore Natoli's leading thought revolves around neo-paganism: an ethical system that derives from the tragic sense of Greek philosophy and builds on the pursue of happiness on hearth, with an awareness of human limitations in opposition to Christian traditions.
Workshop
Cittadinanza e diritti umani
Marino Niola
Professor Niola teaches the Anthropology of Symbols, Cultural Anthropology, Nutrition Anthropology at the "Suor Orsola Benincasa", University in Naples. Formerly he taught at the Universities of Padua and Trieste where he was among the founders of the first university course in Science and Technique of Interculturality. He serves on the board of AISEA (the Italian Association for Ethno-Anthropological Studies). Since 2008 he is also the chairman of the board of the City theatre in Naples.
Workshop
Con il pane e il vino si fa il cammino
Mariella Pandolfi
Mariella Pandolfi is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Montreal. Visiting Professor at the Universities of Siena, Bologna, Tarragona, Harvard, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She introduced in Italy the North American medical anthropology and French ethnopsychiatry. She was an advisor to the United Nations and IOM in Kosovo and Albania in the years 1999-2001.
Workshop
Governare la globalizzazione
Abstract
Sull’onda della fine del mondo bipolare complesse e antagoniste figure del nuovo ordine mondiale occupano la scena della politica contemporanea . Da un lato osserviamo i “migranti”, immigrati legali e illegali, rifugiati, richiedenti asilo, spesso declassati a clandestini e confusi nelle reti internazionali della criminalità e del terrorismo, e tutta una serie di altre figure d'ombra sospese in campi, aree di trattenimento, centri di accoglienza, di detenzione extraterritoriale e extragiudiziaria e/o centri di identificazione. Dall’altro appaiono sempre più numerosi e opachi nei loro ruoli, la presenza di attori, che si sottraggono alle categorie relativamente chiare di cittadini, società civile e militari: forze armate internazionali di peace-makers, peace-keepers, e peace-builders sotto il comando delle Nazioni Unite o di intercambiabili "coalizioni di volontariato", gli “esperti-senza-confini” come le organizzazioni non governative, le agenzie governative e internazionali, o di auto-proclamato mandato di aiutare, consigliare, organizzare, il soccorso o lo sviluppo. Qualsiasi tentativo scientifico di analizzare questo nuovo scenario della politica internazionale, deve confrontarsi rapidamente con i limiti delle convenzionali categorie disciplinari. L'antropologia, ad esempio, non può affrontare queste nuove tipologie dell’ esperienza umana, senza comprendere le basi giuridiche, politiche, e materiali che caratterizzano le forme emergenti di autorità e di dominio, oltre, al di fuori e accanto al quadro concettuale della sovranità territoriale dello stato. Allo stesso modo, la teoria politica e sociale non può comprendere il significato di queste nuove forme di ordine, o meglio di disordine organizzato, senza ricorrere all’esplorazione etnografica delle pratiche, delle condizioni e delle esperienze proprie delle nuove figure della scena mondiale.
Giorgio Rembado
Principal in high schools since 1982, has always dealt with the professional development of school leaders and institutional change in schools. After having established ANP, at first "National Association of Principals, " today "National Association of Principals and Professional Managers in High School", he is since 1990, continuously, it’s chairman. From 1999 to 2003 he acts as the chairman of the “Federazione della Funzione pubblica” member of the CIDA, finally passing to the presidency of CIDA itself. Is editor of the review “A&D” and author of numerous publications in newspapers and magazines regarding high school.
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Milena Santerini
Full Professor of General Pedagogy and researcher in Education Science at the Catholic University of Milan. Courses: General, Social and Intercultural Education (Degree in Education), Pedagogy of the person and of educational emergencies (Master's Degree in Educational Science). Coordinator of the Course in Primary Education. Director of the Centre for Research on intercultural relations. Scientific Director of the Master in "Intercultural education. Skills for integration and social inclusion."
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Saskia Sassen
Dutch sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is currently Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Saskia Sassen’s research and writing focuses on globalization (including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions.
Workshop
The global city
Dada Shambhushivananda
Dr. Shambhushivananda, alias Dadaji, is the Chancellor (Kulapati) of a neohumanist global education network called Gurukula [www.gurukul.edu], which runs over 1200 educational institutions in over 80 countries and blends ecological and self-realization ethics. He is also the resident Rector of Yoga Seminary and International School for Social Service in Sweden [www.cns-se.org]. He is also the Chairman of the Global Subcommittee on PROUT, the progressive utilization theory [www.prout.org] propounded by Shrii
P.R. Sarkar. Dr. Shambhushivananda holds a Ph.D. in business and applied economics from the Wharton School of Business, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania (1978). He has been a globetrotter speaker since the early 1970s and was a keynote speaker at numerous forums around the world. As a yogic monk, Dr. Shambhushivananda writes and speaks on issues related to world peace and establishment of a just and spiritual world.
Workshop
Roots of societal transformation
Abstract
Roots of Societal Transformation lie in individual transformation and progressive collective movement. Most efforts at social transformation are structural, trying to make changes in society by changing social structures. Metamorphosed sentimental strategies or vocal revolutions can easily end up dispersing the energy of social change. However, a real social transformation grows from a transformation in the inner condition of individuals. If we examine those things which are praiseworthy in developed countries (the 8 hour work day, women's rights, pensions, medical care, etc.) we find that they were the result of a collective movement of individuals to oppose the structure and the societal systems which were unjust. This collective movement of individuals represented an inner transformation, a shift in consciousness which recognized that "my individual good lies in collective welfare and vice versa." A continuous process of thesis, anti-thesis and synthesis is the rotary force behind the evolving of the social cycle. Education today needs a new focus--aimed at liberation of human intellect. Nerohumanist Education should go beyond dogmas in science, psuedo-culture, neo-imperialism and limitations of nation-states. The future of education lies in integrating the inner consciousness with renaissance in all walks of life. Education for liberation will develop the feeling of solidarity and gratitude within coming generation. Only when the inner transformation and welfare are the summum bonum of society and of the education system can Societal Transformation happen through the governmental and societal systems rather than in opposition to them.
In this workshop Dr. Dada Shambhushivananda will explore the different facets of neohumanist education futures along with all participants.
Giulia Sissa
She is a researcher at Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique and works with the Social Anthropology Laboratory of the Collège de France. Author of numerous books and articles on the history, anthropology and philosophy of the ancient world. Her interest for the past is always connected to major contemporary issues, such as feminism, sexuality, addiction, democratic theory, utopian thinking, and political emotions. Giulia Sissa is currently working on ancient democracy and imperialism, on politics and the passions, and on the political pursuit of pleasure, from Athens to Utopia.
Workshop
Da Atene all'utopia: politica e piacere
Jean Louis Ska
He entered the Society of Jesus in 1964 and was ordained a priest in 1976. He studied philosophy in Namur (Belgium), theology in Frankfurt am Main and Scripture in Rome, where he received the licentiate and doctoral degrees (1980 and 1984) at the Pontifical Biblical Institute. He has published articles and numerous book reviews in several periodicals. Since 1983 he has been teaching Pentateuch at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
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One city and one tower (Gn. 11.1-9)
Abstract
Genesi 11,1-9 è tradizionalmente intitolato "La torre di Babele" e il racconto è annoverato fra i molti episodi biblici che si possono entrano nella categoria dei racconti di "delitto e castigo". Sempre secondo l'esegesi tradizionale, il racconto descrive un'impresa umana macchiata sin dall'inizio dalla presunzione. Gli uomini uniscono le loro forze e cercano di raggiungere il cielo costruendo una torre altissima. Dio reagisce, come ben si pensa, e per condannare l'impresa al fallimento, confonde le lingue degli uomini che non riescono più a capirsi, abbandonano di conseguenza la loro impresa temeraria e sono dispersi su tutta la terra. L'esegesi tradizionale s'imbatte però in una difficoltà maggiore. Perché parlare solo della torre e non della città che gli uomini costruiscono insieme? Cercherò di mostrare che il nostro racconto è, in realtà, una critica ironica di un sogno testimoniato in Mesopotamia, in particolare sotto l'impero neo-assiro: unire diversi popoli sotto l'egida di un potere, quello neo-assiro. Il racconto biblico di Genesi 11,1-9 critica questo sogno totalitario e imperialista, e afferma che non si può sopprimere la diversità di lingue e di culture senza danneggiare il disegno del creatore, vale a dire la natura stessa della creazione e dell'umanità.
Claudia Sorlini
Full professor of Agriculture Microbiology and Dean of the the School of Agriculture at the University of Milan. She is the co-ordinator of the PhD on “Chemistry, Biochemistry and Ecology of the Pesticides”. She is the author of more than 200 papers on the above mentioned topics. Member of the National Committee of Stone Cultural Heritage, an official organ of the Cultural Heritage Ministry. She is involved in numerous European projects and she is the coordinator in a project to open a training center in Cairo. She is also a member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry of Italy (from 2002).
Workshop
Agricoltura e alimentazione
David Sutcliffe
A modern languages graduate of Cambridge University, David Sutcliffe spent a year in France before teaching for four years in Salem in Southern Germany and one year at Gordonstoun School in Scotland. He was then invited by Desmond Hoare to join the founding staff of the Atlantic College in Wales. After 13 years as the Headmaster of the Atlantic College he became the Founding Head (Rettore) of the United World College of the Adriatic in 1982, from where he retired in 2001.
The United World Colleges were created by the German educationalist Dr. Kurt Hahn in 1982. There are now 13 colleges across the world. With some variations between colleges, they bring together young people between the ages of 16 and 19 for their final two years of secondary education. The majority are selected for scholarships administered by some 130 national and selection committees. The academic programme is the International Baccalaureate Diploma, and all colleges have strong programmes of physical and cultural activities and of community service.
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Roberto Toscano
Former Ambassador to India, after being for five years (2003-2008) Ambassador to Iran. Until 2003, he was Head of Policy Planning at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and chaired the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee network on conflict, peace, and development co-operation. As a career diplomat, he has served in a number of other posts (Chile, USSR, Spain, United States, as well as at Italy’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations at Geneva). He holds a degree in law from the University of Parma and an M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, which he attended as a Fulbright fellow. In 1987-88 he was a Fellow at the Center for International Affairs of Harvard University. From 2000 to 2003, he was a visiting professor of international relations in the Department of Political Science at LUISS University in Rome. He is the author of books and articles (on human rights, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, ethics and international relations) published in Italy, the U.S., France, Spain and India.
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Thomas Uthup
As Research and Education Manager, Dr. Thomas Uthup coordinates research and education activities for the UN Alliance of Civilizations. Dr. Uthup’s academic focus has been on the complex relationships between culture and society. He has taught at Binghamton University-New York, and the College of Wooster-Ohio, and been a guest lecturer in classes at Oberlin College-Ohio, and Cornell University-New York. As a freelance journalist and as an academic professional, Dr. Uthup has published well over 90 newspaper, journal and reference articles. He has also served as a panelist on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation and several television interviews.
Workshop
The role of international organizations in promoting global citizenship
Abstract
This workshop will discuss the current and future roles of international organizations to promote global citizenship. A preliminary understanding of global citizenship would indicate that global citizens care about the world and humanity, with special attention being paid to issues that require global attention and action. These issues, at minimum, may include peace, justice, sustainability, diversity, and human rights.
During this discussion, participants could focus on the following topics, particularly with reference to educating for global citizenship:
1) What is “global citizenship,” and what do international organizations currently do to promote it?
2) What are some practical initiatives that international organizations can do in the future, with partners, to promote global citizenship?
Gianni Vattimo
Internationally recognized Italian author, philosopher, and politician. Many of his works have been translated into English.
He studied philosophy under the existentialist Luigi Pareyson at the University of Turin, and graduated in 1959. After studying with Karl Löwith and Hans-Georg Gadamer in Heidelberg he returned to Turin where he became assistant professor in 1964, and later full professor of Aesthetics in 1969. While remaining at Turin, becoming Professor of Theoretical Philosophy in 1982, he has been a visiting professor at a number of American Universities. After being active in the Partito Radicale, the short-lived Alleanza per Torino, and the Democrats of the Left, Vattimo joined the Party of Italian Communists. Between 1999 and 2004 he was a member of the European Parliament. In 2005 he was nominated for a civil list to become the mayor of a town in Calabria, San Giovanni in Fiore (CS). On March 30, 2009 announced his candidacy for the European Parliament on the lists of Italia dei Valori Antonio Di Pietro, being elected in the Northwest. His philosophy can be characterized as postmodern with his emphasis on "pensiero debole" (weak thought). This requires that the foundational certainties of modernity with its emphasis on objective truth founded in a rational unitary subject be relinquished for a more multi-faceted conception closer to that of the arts.
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Salvatore Veca
He graduated in philosophy at the University of Milan. His thesis, supervised by Enzo Paci and Ludovico Geymonat, dealt with epistemological aspects of Kant’s philosophy.Ever since he followed two main lines of research: the interest for Kantian phylosophy and contemporary ideologies. Today he is a Professor of Political Philosophy and the Vice-director of the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori in Pavia. From 1984 to 2001, he was the president of the Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan and the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Pavia (1999-2005). From 2001 to 2005, he was Pro-rector at the same University. Professor Veca is now a member of the editorial board of the Rivista di Filosofia and of the European Journal of Philosophy.
Workshop
Le culture nel tempo e un'idea di incompletezza
Abstract
Nel seminario mi propongo di suggerire una riflessione su due credenze che considero fallaci, a proposito della pluralità di culture, della loro incommensurabilità e della loro incompatibilità. In primo luogo, le culture sono spesso considerate come campi di credenze stabili e coerenti e ciò genera la falsa credenza che la distanza fra culture differenti equivalga alla distanza fra blocchi fissi. Questa credenza non prende sul serio gli effetti delle interazioni nel tempo fra persone che si identificano a vario grado in differenti culture. In secondo luogo, sono convinto che il semplice fatto della pluralità delle culture dovrebbe indurci a rifiutare l’idea che ciascuna cultura sia un dominio chiuso e saturo, dai confini definiti. La credenza nella saturazione dei campi culturali deve lasciare il posto al riconoscimento della essenziale insaturazione o incompletezza di qualsivoglia cultura.
Educare la cosmopolitismo richiede, in ogni caso, la critica e l’abbandono delle due credenze fallaci.
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