Tag: Public Events

Friday, October 15, 6.00pm - 7.00pm KEYNOTE How to Talk About the Weather: Interventions in Social Infrastructure Astrida Neimanis (Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities at the University fo British Columbia, Okanagan Campus) Once upon a time, talking about the weather was a neutral

Friday, 15 October, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm SCREENING & ARTIST TALK (in collaboration with Teatro Ca’ Foscari Santa Marta) Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine (artists, Venice) in conversation with Miriam De Rosa (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) and Susanne Franco (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) This

Thursday, October 14, 6.00pm – 7.30pm ARTIST TALK (In collaboration with Ocean Space–TBA21–Academy, part of OCEAN / UNI ) Giorgio Andreotta Calò (artist, Venice/Amsterdam) in conversation with Barbara Casavecchia (curator, Venice/Milan). This conversation focuses on the conception and evolution of lacuna (2021), a new site-specific

Thursday, October 14, 2.30pm – 4.00pm ARTIST TALK (In collaboration with Science Gallery Venice ) Emma Critchley (artist, Brighton) and Haseeb Ahmed (artist, Brussels) in conversation with Ariane Koek (creative producer and curator, London/Venice). Due to a technical problem, this video will not be streamed

Thursday, October 14, 10.00am – 12.00am EVENT (Inauguration of the Max Planck Partner Group The Water City) The inauguration of the Max Planck Partner Group The Water City will take place during the Anthropocene Campus. The inauguration sets in motion a five year collaboration between

Wednesday, October 13, 5.30pm - 6.30pm KEYNOTE Water Politics in the Anthropocene: A Systems Perspective Mark T. Brown (Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida) We humans have unknowingly embarked on a grand experiment with our planet. The outcome of this experiment is unknown,

Tuesday, October 12, 5.30pm - 6.30pm KEYNOTE Water as a way of life (and death): Holland, 20th-16th centuries Florike Egmond (University of Leiden) Much of the Netherlands would be under water – and would have been under water for the past 500-800 years – if

Tuesday, October 12, 11.30am – 1.00pm SCREENING & ARTIST TALK (Opening event of the online exhibition and project Aquaphobia: Fear of Water) Jakob Steensen (artist, Berlin) in conversation with Daniel Birnbaum (director and curator, Acute Art), introduced and moderated by Cristina Baldacci (Università Ca’ Foscari

Monday, October 11, 6.00pm - 7.00pm KEYNOTE Beyond the Great Derangement Amitav Ghosh (writer) in conversation with Francesca Tarocco (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) and Serenella Iovino (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Amitav Ghosh will reflect on the anthropogenic condition from the vantage