VIU is pleased to facilitate the dissemination of the many excellent opportunities offered by our partners. The valuable relationships we engage in with many partner organizations result in a plethora of additional opportunities to which VIU students have access.

Here you will find information about opportunities such as summer schools, internships and conferences that are open to VIU students or the broader VIU community. These opportunities are offered by members or partners of Venice International University, but not directly by VIU itself.

Experiencing China 2017
Tsinghua Summer School
July 16-28, 2017

Tsinghua University is offering 2 scholarships to VIU students.
Download brochure
Download application form

International Summer Program in Management in China (ISPM-China)
University of Padova
26 June - 7 July 2017

Open also to students enrolled in the Spring 2017 semester of the Globalization Program at VIU.
Download call for applications

Biennale College
Internship opportunities at La Biennale di Venezia 2017

VIU students are eligible for curricular internships at the Biennale di Venezia.
Students can apply directly to the Biennale and if selected, VIU will support the students as the "sending organization" and will provide a supervisor for the learning agreement.
Application details and deadlines
 

Sexuality in Perspective
KU Leuven Summer School
13-18 August 2017

VIU students and alumni are invited to apply.
For more information

Clinical Nutrition - North-South Experience
VLIR International Training Programme
Visit the program website for application criteria and deadlines

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VIU students have the extraordinary opportunity to live in a world heritage city with a great concentration of arts, architecture and history. But it is not only the signs of the past that make Venice an interesting place to live: the city is a living machine in a unique setting on water, which represents an alternative urban and social concept which extends from the mainland to the many islands in the lagoon and estuary.

The rich co-curricular program offers students the opportunity to discover and relate to the city of Venice, its lagoon and hinterland, taking teaching out of the classroom and in to the field, and creating opportunities for students to socialize with their peers.

Activities include visits related to the courses to some of the traditional sights and tours of cultural sites of interest with experts in different fields, a weekly movie series and a variety of guest lectures and cultural events.

During Spring 2020 semester, due to the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy, the normal Globalization Program activities have been suspended, as the courses have been transformed into elearning format.

In an effort to reunite the Spring 2020 community, the RED scholars are organizing Tea2B meetings online, to virtually gather students and professors in front of their computer screens, with the accompaniment of a cup of tea, to discuss the current global situation and other hot topics.

Please find the program of the meetings in the box at the side of this page. The Webex invitation for each meeting is sent out to professors and students by email.

Prof. Miles Orvell, Temple University, Philadelphia

Spectacular Ruins: Photography as Cultural Narrative

We have one word—“ruin”—to cover a multitude of objects, all of which share the fact that they have suffered change, whether from the force of hurricanes and floods, gradual collapse, the ravages of war or the devastations of environmental waste.  The concept of ruins embodies time and change, and yet we contemplate ruins as moments in time, frozen scenes of destruction.  Since the mid-19th century, the camera has been the principal means by which we have seen and remembered ruins, establishing an archive of material destruction that we have taken as an objective record, even though we know that photography is not innocent of an implicit epistemology. This talk will explore the ways that photography has structured our knowledge of ruins through a discussion of a series of paradigms for thinking about ruins, paradigms that derive from photographic practices, which in turn are based on cultural narratives that have emerged historically.

Miles Orvell is Professor of English and American studies at Temple University, Philadelphia. He is the author of  the prize-winning The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (25th anniversary reprint 2014); American Photography (Oxford History of Art Series, 2003); and The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community (2012).  Orvell has also co-edited Rethinking the American City: An International Dialogue (2013). He was Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online from 2004 to 2011, and he received the Bode-Pearson Prize for lifetime achievement, awarded by the American Studies Association (2009). Orvell is presently working on a book on photography, ruins, and contemporary culture.
His talk will be accompanied by photographic slide images and it will be in English.

This open lecture forms a part of prof. Benesch's courses at VIU on Identity, Heritage and Globalization (Art in/and the City: The Urban Imagination in a Global Perspective), and The Aesthetics of Privacy: Reading and Writing under Conditions of Globalization.