Full Program
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Thursday, 26 May
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9.15 AM – 9.30 AM
Welcome and Introduction
Tiziana Lippiello | Rector of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Giancarlo Bosetti | Chairman Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations
9.30 AM – 11.00 AM
Philip Pettit [online]: Liberty, Security and the State
Akeel Bilgrami: Culture, The Commons, The Law, and Capital
Chair: Volker Kaul
11.15 AM – 12.00 PM
Ananya Vajpeyi: From Republic of India to Hindu Rashtra: From Welfare State to Biopolitical State, From Secular State to Majoritarian State
Chair: Marta Craveri
1.30 PM – 3.45 PM
Nandini Sundar: From Artifice to Weapon: The Itineraries of Law in India
Marina Calloni: Civil Society, the State and the Struggle Against Gender-Based Violence: Towards a Comprehensive Approach
Amel Grami: Who Protects Individual Liberties and Human Dignity in Tunisia?
Chair: David Rasmussen [online]
4.00 PM – 5.30 PM
Lisa Anderson [online]: The Role of State in the Middle East: Guarantor of Rights or Protector of Privileges?
Mona Harb: Governing a Pandemic in a “Failed” State: Territories of Sectarianism and Solidarity in Lebanon
Chair: Barbara De Poli
Friday, 27 May
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9.30 AM – 11.00 AM
Subrata Mitra: “For Whom the Bell Tolls…?”: The State, Society and Human Dignity
Seán Golden: Roles and Rights in the Context of Just Governance and Just Social Mores
Chair: Jonathan Laurence
11.15 AM – 12.45 PM
Runya Qiaoan: Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State
Mengmeng Cui: From Resistance to Transformation – Activism and the Quest of Alternatives to Infrastructure-led Development Along the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Chair: Beatrice Gallelli
2.15 PM – 3.45 PM
Stephen Macedo: Rescuing Public Reason: Toward a New Constitution for Speech in the Age of Social Media
Giuliano Amato [online]: Defending Rights. Between Parliaments and Courts
Chair: Alessandro Ferrara
4.00 PM – 5.45 PM
Yael Tamir: Slippery Slope Morality
Walter Mignolo: The Two Faces of the Secular Nation-State
Chair: Toshio Miyake
Saturday, 28 May
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9.30 AM – 11.15 AM
ROUNDTABLE: Unpacking State-Society Relations in the Urban Space: What are the Limit(s) of Compromise?
Speakers: Silvio Cristiano, Mona Harb, Subrata Mitra, Runya Qiaoan
Chair: Beatrice Gallelli
11.30 AM – 12.45 PM
Presentations of the Summer School Workshops*
12.45 PM
Closing Remarks
Giancarlo Bosetti
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*Summer School workshops are conducted by Seán Golden (Tools for a Comparative Analysis of the Bases of Social and Political Dominance), Volker Kaul (Agency, Domination and Cultural Difference) and Richard Quang-Anh Tran (State and Civil Society in Authoritarian Regimes).
Venues
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The Seminars will be held in the following locations: (kindly be aware of location and room changes).
Thursday the 26th of May (Seminars opening) morning: Aula Mario Baratto, Ca’ Foscari, 2nd Floor, Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 Venice
Thursday the 26th of May afternoon: Spazio Espositivo, Ca’ Foscari, 1st Floor, Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 Venice
Friday the 27th of May all day: Spazio Espositivo, Ca’ Foscari, 1st Floor, Dorsoduro 3246, 30123 Venice
Saturday the 28th of May: Auditorium Santa Margherita, Dorsoduro 3689, Campo Santa Margherita, 30123 Venice
Scientific coordinators: Volker Kaul (Charles University, Prague/Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations) and Toshio Miyake (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).