The Fourth World Conference on The Future of Science will explore a theme that brings science to the centre of social debate: Food and Water for Life. The aim is to offer a global vision about issues as water scarcity, development of a sustainable agriculture, food safety, food and health, improvements related to scientific and technological development and the economic, political and ethical involvements.
850 million people in the world suffer from hunger and over a billion have no safe drinking water. What can science do for them? Leading international experts will meet in Venice to illustrate how
science and technology can help solve a problem affecting everyone. The event is intended for scientists, economists, politicians, journalists, entrepreneurs, professionals, educators, students and anyone wishing to explore these issues in depth.
To attend the conference, please enrol at www.thefutureofscience.org.
On Friday, May 23 at 9.30 will take place, at Scuola Grande S.Giovanni Evengelista, a conference about the next scenarios of work, social inclusion and development.
This conference will take to an end the Equal Program, supported by the European Union.
Is it possible to figure out the activities and the products of this program on www.equalveneto.it
Through the specially created Committee for the Celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the death of the Rosalba Carriera (1757-2007), the Giorgio Cini Foundation and the Veneto Region wish to commemorate this major 18th-century Venetian painter throughout 2007. Born in Venice in 1673, Rosalba Carriera also died in the city in 1757.
Undoubtedly a leading European 18th-century artist, Rosalba Carriera is surely the greatest female painter of all time. Her portraits of leading figures from Venetian and European society were extraordinarily acute. She also made a great contribution to French portrait painting and was an unrivalled interpreter of the ideals of grace and elegance in an age when the “happy life” entered the collective imagination and was identified with the ancien régime.
Organised by the Institute of Art History, the conference has been held ahead of the exhibition dedicated to the great painter planned for autumn 2007. The aim is to update studies on Rosalba Carriera, and to tackle themes such as the position of a female painter in 18th-century Europe. The conference is opened by the writer Kuki Gallmann who speak on the topic of “A woman who painted other women”.
Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
26 – 28 April 2007
Information
Institute of Art History
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore – 30124 Venice
tel. +39 041 2710230 – fax +39 041 5205842
e-mail: arte@cini.it
As part of the series India: Divina Sensualità, in homage to Alain Daniélou in the year of his 100th anniversary, the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies of the Giorgio Cini Foundation organised a Round Table dedicated to its founder.
In addition to that, a concert by scholars who have studied Indian music at the Giorgio Cini Foundation takes place at 20.30.
This event is aimed at stressing the importance of Indian worskhops and classes that have been organised by the Institute throughout the years, following the mission that Daniélou always pursued: spreading great music traditions from the East in the Western world, with a special attention to Indian music.
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
25 October 2007, Venice, Round Table: 16.00 – Concert: 20.30
Information
Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies
tel. +39 041 2710357
e-mail: musica.comparata@cini.it
From September 19 to 22, the Third World Conference on the Future of Science takes place on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. Organized by the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the Umberto Veronesi Foundation and the Marco Tronchetti Provera Foundation, this year edition focuses on the topic “The Energy Challenge”. The three conference days, that see the participation of several experts from all over the world, is dedicated to the new energy sources, the effects of energy consumption on the environment and health, ethical, political and economical implications of energy consumption. Differently from other meetings focused on energy, the Venice Conference not features among its speakers energy producers, but rather scientists and economists, who engages in a debate on social and environmental emergencies related to energy consumption. Speakers include two Nobel Prize winners, Zhores Alferov and Carlo Rubbia, five researchers from MIT and several other international scientists.
Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
19 – 22 September 2007
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http://www.thefutureofscience.org
Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Giorgio Cini Foundation of Venice has performed the role of a powerful bridge across the inner frontier of the European Continent. Heir of the long-lasting Venetian tradition of curiosity and open-mindedness, it has been the critical knot of exchange and shared elaboration for scholars, experts and professionals who viewed it as an oasis of freedom and opportunity. The changes and transformations occurring in the world after the Nineties, and still evolving in indefinite directions, deserve new analyses, and induce new paradigms. Below the surface of the West-East conflict, and of the rise of Asian economies, the whole planet map of ideas and values is being re-designed by the spontaneous birth and growth of movements, trends and thoughts, in response to the complex needs of the Third Millennium.
The Giorgio Cini Foundation offers itself as the place where the new flows of creative ideas, innovative interpretations, new elaborations can be studied and promoted. This international workshop is the first step towards the elaboration of a new world map of ideas and values of cultural co-operation in the globalised world.
The workshop, which will consist of a multidisciplinary discussion, aims at favouring a critical analysis of forms, technologies, procedures and functions of cultural co-operation, by involving specialists, scholars and representatives of institutions.
The workshop focuses on three main issues pertaining the changing role of international cultural co-operation and the emerging perspectives in cultural exchange among individuals, communities, and nations.
1. Values, ideas, creativity – What are we exchanging when we communicate with other people?
2. Exchanges – In which way exchanges and shared views may (or should) occur? What are we exchanging ideas and values for?
3. Goals and expectations – What are the goals and objectives of cultural co-operation today?
Participants offer their specific point of view, and eventually the complex picture of new routes and relationships arise from this multidisciplinary dialogue that, rather than presenting experiences already carried out, intends to elicit imagination and forecast about our common future.
The official language of the workshop is English. Translation to Italian is provided.
Free entrance.
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Workshop Secretariat
tel. +39 041 2710280 – fax +39 041 5238540
e-mail: stampa@cini.it
The Institute of Art History of the Giorgio Cini Foundation intends to celebrate Giuseppe Santomaso’s 100th anniversary with an international conference organised in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. The conference, the first public date in a series of cultural events dedicated to the painter, is aimed at analysing Santomaso’s artistic personality and his international art network.
A big exhibition follows in 2008 at the Giorgio Cini Foundation.
Information
Institute of Art History
tel. +39 041 2710230 – fax +39 041 5205842
e-mail: arte@cini.it
in collaboration with Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio
Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
9 – 10 May 2008
Information
Institute of Art History
tel. +39 041 2710230 – fax +39 041 5205842
e-mail: arte@cini.it
INFO: http://www.andreapalladio500.org/
