VIULECTURES 2|10

VIULECTURES is an initiative promoted by VIU to provide a platform for international and local professors to discuss key and current issues. This semester the VIULECTURES series will focus on the Safeguard of Cultural Heritage.
Two lectures will be given: "Why the health of the Venice Lagoon has implications for the City's Heritage" by Jane da Mosto and "Muslims and Modernity" by Herman Beck.


Friday 19 November 2010, 10.30

Why the health of the Venice Lagoon has implications for the City's Heritage
Jane da Mosto, British Pavilion, XII Venice Architecture Biennale

Room F. Bartolini, Central Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale

The event will be held in the framework of the project Destination Biennale di Venezia: Universities meet in architecture.

Jane da Mosto will talk about the connections between processes and conditions in the Venice Lagoon and their effects on the city, past present and future.

Jane da Mosto is an Environmental scientist (MA, Oxford University, MSc Imperial College) and international consultant on sustainable development in the broadest sense.

Discussant: Stefania Tonin, IUAV researcher in Economics of Sustainable Development.

Wednesday 1 December 2010, 17.30

Muslims and Modernity
Herman Beck, Tilburg University

Room 9A, Venice International University, Isola di San Servolo

Herman Beck shall analyze and challenge the statement, frequently put forward in the West, that Islam and modernity are incompatible.

Herman Beck from Tilburg University is Professor of Transnational Muslim Movements and Islam and the Making of Europe at Venice International University.

Discussant: Barbara De Poli, Professor of Contemporary History of Islamic Countries at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.