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| USI IN THE CANTONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SETTING | | USI's XVI Dies academicus to be held on Saturday The Dies academicus is the most important occasion for convening and for informing the public about USI's latest developments. The ceremony will open at 10am in the Aula Magna (Lugano Campus) with the address from President Piero Martinoli. The keynote will be given by Enrico Decleva, Rector of the University of Milan, followed by a speech by Thomas Zeltner
former Director-General of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health and by Antonietta Mira, Full Professor of Statistics at USI. More Information. | | MARE NOSTRUM, ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE | | City Air sets people free: the city as urban order and political space The series of public lectures Mare Nostrum, città europea e globalizzazione organised by the Academy of Architecture continues with Political Scientist Maurizio Viroli, Full Professor of Political Theory at Princeton University and of Political Communication for the Faculty of Communication Sciences at USI. The lecture will be held on Thursday, 10 May at 8pm in the Aula Magna of Mendrisio Campus (Canavée Building).
More Information. | | EUROPEAN JOURNALISM OBSERVATORY (EJO) | | Can the Vatican still communicate? From John Paul II to Benedict XVI: catholic communication between new media and tradition The event will be held on Thursday, 10 May at 6.15pm in room A11 (Lugano Campus). Among the speakers, Andrea Tornielli, Vatican correspondent for the newspaper La Stampa and author of several essays, Lorenzo Cantoni, Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences and Marcello Foa, CEO of TImedia and cofounder of EJO. Please register at the following e-mail address natascha.fioretti@usi.ch. More
Information. | | EPIDAY 2012 | | A Day dedicated to young Researchers of the Faculty of Communication Sciences The event, now in its fourth edition, was created to offer young researchers of the Faculty an opportunity to present and discuss their work. To start off
the day PhD Coordinator Professor Michael Gibbert will discuss
the issue of cumulative dissertation. To follow, PhD students will present the theoretical and empirical researches they are working on. During lunch break a poster session will take place and in the afternoon a lecture by a guest speaker will be held. More Information. | | ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE AND PRO JUVENTUTE SVIZZERA ITALIANA | | Young People and the City The workshop is dedicated to everyone actively involved in youth politics, to delve into the ways of appropriation of the urban space by young people and adolescents. The day is to be regarded as a preliminary phase of a study which aims at becoming a scientific contribution for city design. The goal will therefore be to provide factual information for analysis and discussion of the topic among education professionals, recreation workers and town representatives. Registration deadline on Tuesday, 8 May. More Information. | | ARCHILETTURE, ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE | | Presentation of the Documentation of the Milan Underground Construction Site
1958-1962 On Tuesday, 8 May at 8pm in the Library of the Academy of Architecture the Writer and Architect Gianni Biondillo will hold a lecture entitled Un filo rosso nella storia di Milano as an introduction to the documentation. A selection of the images of the construction site will be set up and the official website http://metromilano.biblio.arc.usi.ch, will also be presented. The complete collection of 269 photos is available online filed according to topographic and chronologic criteria. More
Information. | | SEMINAR, FACULTY OF INFORMATICS | | Research and Development at Facebook Friday, 11 May at 4.30pm in room SI-008 (Lugano Campus) Dr. Rodrigo Schimdt will present the different aspects of Facebook, from engineering to company culture with focus on several
projects that he's been involved with directly. After becoming in a few years one of the world's largest companies
in the field of technology, today Facebook employs hundreds of highly qualified engineers who carry out research and development in different areas of informatics, from user interface to hardware design. More Information. | | PNR65: PUBLIC SPACE IN "CITTÀ TICINO" OF TOMORROW | | Nutrition and Landscape Michele Arnaboldi, Pietro Leeman and João Nunes will hold a lecture entitled Nutrition and Landscape on Friday 11 May from 2pm to 6pm in room C.062 (Mendrisio Campus). The lecture is part of the series of public lectures that tackles issues such as quality of the public space and culture of the territory, promoted by the research project PNR65 Spazio pubblico della Città Ticino di domani of the
Swiss National Science Foundation, conducted by Professor and Architect Michele Arnaboldi. More Information. | | CONFERENCE | | The new Challenges of Cultural
Mediation Wednesday, 9 May, on
the occasion of the European Project PLACES, USI will present in cooperation with the City of Lugano a day of reflection on "cultural mediation". The aim is to favour exchange among key figures who deal with culture and communication in Lugano and its surroundings. An exchange of views and experiences among different active partners of the territory, but also the first step to plan possible synergies between different fields. More Information. |
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Monday, 7 May, 5.15pm | Seminar of the Institute of Economics Selection on Anticipated Driving and the Consumer
Response to Changing Gasoline Prices | Room EL PC004 (former lab basement), Lugano Campus | Tuesday, 8 May, 6pm | ArchiLetture Milano Underground | Library of
the Academy of Architecture, Mendrisio Campus | Wednesday, 9 May, 12.15pm | PostFinance Company Presentation organised by the USI Career Service | Room A12, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 9 May, 2.30pm | Bloomberg Assessment Test (BAT) | Room 156, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 9 May, 6pm | Award Ceremony for the 2012 Prize of the Fondazione del Centenario della Banca della Svizzera Italiana to Prof. Carlo Ossola | Auditorium, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 9 May, 6.30pm | Impossibile to lie Lecture organised by the USI Alumni Association | Room A11, Lugano Campus | Wednesday, 9 May, 6.30pm | Screening of La Forteresse by Fernand Melgar (Switzerland 2008) for the series Storie e confini | Teatro Foce, Lugano | Thursday, 10 May, 8.30am | Workshop Young People and the City | Canavée Building, Mendrisio Campus | Thursday, 10 May, 6.15pm | Can the Vatican still communicate? From
John Paul II to Benedict XVI: catholic communication between new media and tradition | Room A11, Lugano Campus | Thursday, 10 May, 8pm | City Air sets people free: the city as urban order and political space Lecture by Maurizio Viroli for Mare Nostrum | Aula
Magna, Canavée Building, Mendrisio Campus | Friday, 11 May, 2pm | Nutrition and Landscape | Room C.0.62, Canavée Building, Mendrisio Campus | Friday, 11 May, 2.30pm | Seminar of the Faculty of Informatics Research and Developement at Facebook | Room SI-008, Lugano Campus | Saturday, 12 May, 10am | XVI Dies academicus | Aula Magna, Lugano Campus | Friday, 18 May, 5pm | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus at USI for the Social Business Conference 2012 | Aula Magna, Lugano Campus |
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