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| LUGANO SUSTAINABILITY FORUM 2011 | | Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Social Business: the new drivers of finance? The Lugano Sustainability Forum 2011 will take place on Friday, November 11, from 2pm, in the Auditorium of the
Lugano Campus. The Forum provides a platform for exchange between academia, the economy, and society, to debate issues of social responsibility, sustainability, and social business. The financial sector and its developments along these lines are occupying centre stage in this year's event, with valued contributions by professors, experts, professional figures, and
students. More information. | | MARE NOSTRUM. EUROPEAN CITY AND GLOBALIZATION | | Sustainability and Landscape in Contemporary Europe Antonio Angelillo is the director of the Italian Center of Architecture ACMA in Milan (Centro Italiano di Architettura). Throughout his career he promoted several cultural events and open forums worldwide on the subject of territory and landscape transformation. He will host the next meeting of the cycle of public lectures
organised by the Academy of Architecture next Thursday, November 10, from 8pm in the Aula Magna of the Mendrisio Campus (palazzo Canavée). More information. | | LECTURE | | The Tradition of Knowledge and Innovation in Universities The subject will be the focus of contributions by Prof. Adriano Fabris, philosopher and expert in communication ethics, and by the Rectors of three Swiss universities: Prof. Antonio Loprieno, a humanist and Egyptologist (Basle), Prof. Piero
Martinoli, scientist and physicist (USI-Lugano) and Prof. Paul Richli, distinguished jurist (Lucerne). Promoted by Circolo Culturale Nuova Antologia Lugano, the conference will be held on Saturday November 12, at 9.45am, Aula Magna, Lugano Campus. More information. | | PNR65: THE FUTURE OF THE "CITTÀ TICINO" | | Agricolture and Parks A meeting on the subject “Agricolture and Parks” will be held on Friday, November 11th, from 2pm to 6pm in the classroom C.0.62 (Palazzo Canavée, Mendrisio Campus). The event hosted by Paolo Poggiati, Tiziano Maddalena, Andrea
Kipar and Frederic Bonnet will be part of a cycle of six yearly public lectures which focus on issues such as quality of the public space and culture and territory. Subjects promoted by the research project PNR65 of the Swiss National Science Foundation conducted by professor and architect Michele Arnaboldi. More information. | | NOT TO BE MISSED | | Next Week at USI, the Sociologist and Philosopher Zygmunt Bauman: Modernity between Interregnum and Uncertainty
Organized by RSI and the Istituto di Studi Meditteranei, the event will take place on Tuesday, November 15th, at 8pm in the auditorium (Lugano Campus). Bauman will illustrate a concept of modernity in which everything seems to dissolve, liquefy, constantly mutate in a never ending and ever speeding flow that has no set standards. Professor Emeritus at the University of Leeds and Warsaw, Bauman is one of the most accredited theorist of our times. |
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Tuesday, November 8, 9pm | When a Single Look can Lead to Change: a meeting with Pietro Sarubbi, starring as Barabba in The Passion by Mel Gibson. The event is
organised by theStudent Point Association | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, November 9, 1pm | Working in the Banking Industry: Credit Suisse | Room 351, Lugano campus | Wednesday, November 9, 8.30pm | Paris, Texas (1984) by Wim Wenders, film screening with presentation and commentary by Marco Müller | Aula Magna, Palazzo Canavée, Mendrisio Campus | Thursday, November 10, 8pm | Sustainability and Landscape in Contemporary Europe. From the Lecture Series "Mare Nostrum" a public lecture by Antonio Angelillo | Aula Magna, Palazzo Canavée, Mendrisio Campus | Friday, November 11, 2pm | Lugano Sustainability Forum 2011 Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Social Business: the new drivers of finance? | Auditorium Lugano Campus | Friday, November 11, 2pm | Agriculture and Parks | Room C.0.62, Palazzo Canavée, Mendrisio Campus | Saturday, November 12, 9.45am | The
Tradition of Knowledge and Innovation in Universities | Aula Magna, Lugano Campus |
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