India, Cultures in Crisis. Venice-Delhi Seminars in Collaboration with Reset Dialogues on Civilizations

The 2016 edition of the Venice-Delhi Seminars will focus on thinking about Indian society and politics, still faced with the centuries-old challenges of inequalities and social, economic and cultural differences. The ancient conflicts, such as the contrast involving Hindus and Muslims, have degenerated and have reopened old wounds between religions, casts and tribes. The largest world democracy still has a spectacular plurality of faiths, identities, and ways of living, eating, thinking and dying.

This edition marks a return for the series of international seminars involving philosophers and sociologists from Europe, America and India. The experts will set out to explore the consequences of globalisation and changes that have created unprecedented tensions in this part of the world, but at the same time reveal some possible new directions for a future of dialogue and cooperation between cultures.