The International Advanced Culture Course will start up again from 16-19 November 2021. Renewing this legacy means pursuing the Fondazione Giorgio Cini\u2019s twofold vocation of helping keep alive and fecund the roots of Venetian humanism in its Mediterranean context and of studying trends in the contemporary world and contributing to them for the future.<\/p>\n
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Although the difficulties introduced by the pandemic in public and private life throughout the world have brought to the surface latent tensions and have made contradictions explicit, they have also suggested the possibility of lasting solutions. The topics to be discussed on the course are intended to reflect this idea: not just point out limits but seek new ways forward. To this background, \u201cDistant closeness<\/strong>\u201d is a theme rich in implications and possibilities: the distance imposed on us is not only prophylactic distancing, absence of conviviality, loss of dialogue and isolation but also a convergence towards new forms of interpersonal exchanges, respect for the \u201caura\u201d in the careful, accurate use of words and listening. This may also involve re-gauging the distances between the typical world of the individual and the infinities that surround us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The participants on the course will be:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n