| LABORATORY OF MEDITTERANEAN STUDIES | | New Configurations of the Mediterranean: the role of women The Laboratory of Mediterranean Studies organises on May 28th and May 29th in Lugano a convention to tackle issues related to the role of women in the southern Mediterranean region, four years after the “Arab Spring”. Thanks to the presence of international experts, among whom many women hailing from the area, a space for
dialogue will be designed to promote new models, methods and ways to foster equality in these countries. >>> | |
SALVATORE SETTIS, CHAIR BORROMINI 2014-2015 | | "Right to Landscape": future generations become citizens The last lecture of the second Chair Borromini will be held on Thursday, May 28th at 6pm in the Auditorium of Lugano Campus. This year the encounters organised by the Academy of
Architecture for the Chair Borromini are held by Salvatore Settis, art historian, classical scholar, archaeologist and philologist. The series of public lectures Theatre of Democracy. The European landscape among beauty, environment and human rights, aims at highlighting the essential role of human sciences in
the creation of artistic and architectural works. >>> | | #USIEXPO2015 | | Registration to USI’s round table at EXPO2015 closes on Sunday As announced earlier this month, on Saturday, September 26th USI’s students, professors, researchers, graduates and staff members will meet at the Universal Exhibition EXPO Milan 2015. Registration for the round table
organised in the Swiss Pavilion will close on Sunday, May 31st. Visit www.expo2015.usi.ch to register, to view the programme and to get special tickets reserved for students and staff. | | INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION | | Global Conference on Research on Transparency The 4th international conference organised by USI’s Institute for Public Communication will be held from June 5th to June 6th on Lugano Campus. A chance for researchers and interest group representatives to discuss transparency in the public sector and delve into issues such as data management to safeguard the private sphere and national security, and opportunities and challenges of new technologies. >>> | | TOURISM OBSERVATORY (O-TUR), INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH | | ConfronTi-tourism 2015 The encounter organised in the framework of O-Tur researches will be held in the Auditorium BancaStato in Bellinzona on Tuesday, June 23rd. The 2015 research
delves into issues related to the existing relationship between the tourism sector and transportation. Careful attention will be given to the role and impact that the field of transportation has on tourism, in Ticino and on both national and international level. >>> | | LABORATORY OF PUBLIC ARGUMENTATION | | Argumentation in the media and in Swiss direct democracy These themes will be
tackled during a study afternoon open to the public organised by LaCoPS on Wednesday, May 27th at 2pm in room 402 of Lugano Campus. On the mechanisms of the Swiss political system LACoPS will also hold a debate with the title “Does direct democracy need to be corrected?” on June 1st at 6.30pm in the Auditorium of Lugano Campus. Among many guests also Tibère Adler, editor in chief of Avenir Suisse of the French speaking region of Switzerland. The encounter will be moderated by the editor in chief of Corriere del
Ticino Giancarlo Dillena. >>> | | ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE: ISA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | | Architecture and globalization of knowledge in the
19th
century The conference aims at analysing the figure of Architect Gottfried Semper during his exile in London from 1850 to 1855, and discuss the redefinition of the subject “art history”. The conference organised by the Institute for the History and Theory of Art and Architecture of the Academy (ISA) in cooperation with ETH, and with the support of the Swiss National Fund, will be held on June 2nd and 3rd on Mendrisio Campus (Canavée building). It will host several academics from different European universities like Harvard, Princeton and Cambridge to name a few. >>> | | FACULTY OF INFORMATICS | | 2015 Spring Semester Projects Presentation The event will be held on Friday, May 29th from 2pm in the Auditorium of Lugano Campus. After an introduction by prof. Kai Hormann, several professors will illustrate what buzzes in the construction sites of their courses, through a presentation of the work carried out by students in different fields: Human-Computer Interaction Atelier (M. Landoni), Software Engineering Atelier (M. Pezzè), Bachelor INF Projects (M. Jazayeri), Physical Computing Lab (M. Langheinrich) e Master INF Theses (A. Carzaniga). | | PLATFORM FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING (PASC) | | PASC 2015
Conference From therapeutic research to weather forecast, to big data analysis to the discovery of new materials, the power of computing and super computer simulations influence more and more the research in most disciplines. The latest frontiers of computational sciences and their applications will be the topic of discussion during the annual conference promoted by PASC: the supercomputing platform that unites Swiss universities and the CSCS, coordinated by USI. Special guests Thomas Sargent (2011 Nobel Laureate in Economics) and other internationally renowned researchers will take part in the event scheduled for June 1st until June 3rd at ETH
Zurich. >>> | | WEBATELIER.NET - FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION SCIENCES | | Una guida multimediale sulla storia del Monte verità USI’s laboratory webatelier.net, with prof. Lorenzo Cantoni as its scientific director, has developed a multimedia guide on the cultural and conference complex of Monte Verità in Ascona. Available for all mobile devices with the name Mediaguide Monte Verità, the application allows to trace the historical evolution of the site with the aid of audio, video, text in four languages, maps and old photographs, with quizzes and a high level of user interaction. The guide will be presented on Saturday, May 30th during the celebrations for 25th anniversary of the Fondazione Monte Verità: an open day to visit the premises and to
take part in the inauguration of the restored House of the Russians. |
| | Tuesday, 26 May, 5.15pm | | Room PC-04, Lugano Campus | Tuesday, 26
May, 6.00pm | | Studio 2 RSI, Lugano-Besso | Wednesday, 27 May, 10.30am | | Room A22, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 27 May,
2.00pm | | Room A21, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 27 May, 2.00pm | | Room 402, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 27 May, 5.30pm | | Room 231, Lugano Campus | Thursday, 28 May, 6.00pm | | Hotel Villa Castagnola, Lugano | Thursday, 28 May,
6.00pm | | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Friday, 29 May, 2.00pm | | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Monday, 1 June, 6.30pm | | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Thursday, 4 June, 8.00pm | | Lugano Campus | Monday, 8 June, 5.00pm | | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Tuesday, 16 June, 6.00pm | | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 17 June,
9.00am | | Lugano Campus | Tuesday, 23 June, 8.00am | | Auditorium BancaStato, Bellinzona | Saturday, 11 July, 10.00am | | Swiss Pavilion, EXPO Milan 2015 | |