Location: Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia

L’associazione “Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations” da anni promuove attività, ricerche e pubblicazioni sul tema del dialogo interculturale, del riconoscimento e integrazione delle minoranze, del pluralismo. A tal fine organizza incontri, seminari e dibattiti dall’alto profilo scientifico e formativo, ai quali prendono parte studiosi, intellettuali e studenti di tutto il mondo: all’appuntamento degli Istanbul Seminars, che da cinque anni l’associazione organizza in Turchia, si aggiungono ora i Venice-Delhi Seminars. Dopo una prima conferenza in India tenutosi nell’ottobre del 2010 insieme alla rivista «Seminar», a India Habitat Center e alla Università Jamia Millia Islamia, da quest’anno l’associazione intende tenere regolari appuntamenti, con una doppia cadenza annuale: in autunno a Venezia e la primavera successiva a Delhi.

Un progetto di Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations in collaborazione con Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Università di  Padova, Jamia Millia Islamia University (Delhi) e Seminar Magazine (Delhi).

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18-19-20 ottobre 2012

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia

-La pressione della crisi economica sulle linee di divisione economica, culturale ed etnica nella società. Un confronto India-Europa
-L’islam in Europa e in India tra storia e presente
-Radicalizzazioni identitarie e sfide globali per la politica
-L’Europa tra incertezza economica, disoccupazione e riemergere degli egoismi nazionali
-Cosa significa ‘modernizzazione’ in società multiculturali e multireligiose?

Intervengono:
Giuliano Amato, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Stefano Allievi, Rajeev Bhargava, AkeelBilgrami, Giancarlo Bosetti, Peter Ronald deSouza, Nilüfer Göle, Renzo Guolo, Dipankar Gupta, Najeeb Jung, Sebastiano Maffettone, Vincenzo Pace, GiangiorgioPasqualotto, Antonio Rigopoulos, Federico Squarcini, Olivier Roy, Georg HeinrichThyssen-Bornemisza, Roberto Toscano, Ananya Vajpeyi, Michel Wieviorka, Giuseppe Zaccaria.

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Program

Thursday, October 18^th  

Opening – 10.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.

Pasquale Gagliardi, Secretary General of the Giorgio Cini Foundation

Giuseppe Zaccaria, Rector, University of Padua

Nina zu Fürstenberg, President, Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations

 First session – 10.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.

The economic crisis and its impact on ethnic, cultural and class divisions in society. A comparison between India and Europe. 

Introduction by Giancarlo Bosetti, Director, Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations

Rajeev Bhargava, Director and Senior Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi

Stefano Allievi, Professor of sociology at the faculty of Communications and Political Sciences at Padua University, Italy

Discussion

Second session – 2.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m.

What is meant by ‘modernization’ in culturally and religiously diverse societies?

Dipankar Gupta, Indian sociologist and writer

Roberto Toscano, Former Italian Ambassador to New Delhi and Tehran, president of the Intercultura Foundation and a member of  Reset Doc’s scientific committee

Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, Faculty member of the Committee on Global Thought

Chair: Vincenzo Pace, Italian sociologist and Professor at the University of Padua, Director of the Department of Sociology and Intercultural Studies

Discussion

Friday, October 19^th

Third session – 10.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m.

Europe between fear for economic uncertainty, unemployment and re-emerging nationalisms

Michel Wieviorka, French sociologist and professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, President of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme

Nilüfer Göle, French-Turkish sociologist and Directeur d’études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Chair: Emanuela Magno, University of Padua

 

Roundtable 11.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.

Global challenges for politics and the radicalization of identities

 Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy, President of the Reset-Doc’s Scientific Committee

 

Mani Shankar Aiyar, Member of Parliament, India, former Minister and Diplomat

Rajeev Bhargava, Director and Senior Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi

Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, Faculty member of the Committee on Global Thought

Nilüfer Göle, French-Turkish sociologist and Directeur d’études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Sebastiano Maffettone, Professor in Political Philosophy and Dean of Political Science at LUISS University in Rome, Italy

Chair: Georg Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Honorary President, Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations

Discussion

Fourth session – 2.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m.

Contemporary India and its roots – culture, politics and society

Peter Ronald deSouza, Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla

Antonio Rigopoulos, Professor in Indian Philosophies and Religions, University of Venice, Italy

Ananya Vajpeyi, Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, and Senior Fellow with the American Institute of Indian Studies

Chair: Federico Squarcini, Professor in Indian Philosophies and Religions, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Italy

Discussion

Saturday, October 20^th

 Fifth session – 10.00 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.

Islam in Europe and India – past and present 

Mani Shankar Aiyar, Member of Parliament, India, former Minister and Diplomat

Najeeb Jung, Vice-chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Olivier Roy, Professor of Social and Political Theory at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy

Chair: Renzo Guolo, Italian sociologist, Professor at the University of Padua

Conclusions