Sorry. the Camilla Hawthorne Event was cancelled for April 12th.
Food for Profit
Free Docufilm Screening & Q&As with the director Pablo D'Ambrosi
Projection in English
April 17, 2024
2.00 pm
403 Alexander Library, College Avenue
The Italian Graduate Society, the Italian Department, and the Graduate Student Society invite you to the free screening of the docufilm Food for Profit, realized by Giulia Innocenzi and Pablo D'Ambrosi.
Number four in the Italian box office, Food For Profit is the first feature documentary that exposes the links between the meat industry, lobbying, and the corridors of power. It denounces how Europe is transferring hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ money into the hands of intensive farms, which mistreat animals, pollute the environment, and pose a potential danger for future pandemics.
In the perspective of multispecies and environmental studies, this documentary not only discloses the horror of intensive farms and the political corruption behind it, but with a pool of international experts, it tackles and analyses the many problems related to factory farming: from water pollution, to exploitation of migrants, and from biodiversity loss to antibiotic resistance.
Multispecies Humanities Graduate Roundtable
Cybercene Launch Party - April 24, 2024
430pm in Room AB-4052
WHAT LIES BEFORE THAT MARVELOUS BACKDROP? LA SCUOLA 725
Richard Bonanno, Rutgers 2000
Assumption University
Abstract
In 1968, Fr. Roberto Sardelli decided to abandon the comfort of his parish church on the outskirts of Rome, San Policarpo all’Acquedotto Claudio, in order to live and practice his ministry among a group of immigrants living in a nearby encampment. The homes of these families were part of a surprisingly vast network of shacks that had been illegally erected beneath the Acqua Felice aqueduct within the Parco degli Acquedotti. The baraccopoli that they called home stood in a sharp contrast to the city of Rome as an alluring emblem of promise and of artistic marvels and offered an infelicitous, palpable reminder of the austere socio-economic reality of some Italians living on the margins in the post-war years. Convinced that a novel educational mission would serve to liberate the underprivileged residents from the enduring oppression of this dehumanizing liminal space, Fr. Sardelli ultimately established within the Acqua Felice baraccopoli a school that would soon be named “Scuola 725.” This unique pedagogical experiment marked a radical change in Catholic teaching and put Fr. Sardelli at odds with the hierarchy of the Church. More than fifty years later, the story of Scuola 725 offers powerful lessons on the value of a liberal education, the foundational principles of Catholic charity and social teaching, and the ways in which we perceive reality. I intend to discuss these lessons while presenting the details of Fr. Sordelli’s enterprise and the unique character of Scuola 725 in light of the challenging social and political conditions that Italians faced on the heels of the “miracolo economico.”
Intercultural Practices in Language Teaching Virtual Conference – Friday, May 17, 2024
From: 8:00 am (NY time)/14:00 (Italy time) To: 3:00 pm (NY time)/21:00 (Italy time)
Opening Remarks – 8:00 am/14:00
Carmela Scala, Rutgers University
Keynote Speaker – 8:15 am/14:15
Paola Biavaschi, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, La conoscenza dei sistemi giuridici dei migranti come strumento di comunicazione e confronto.
Session 1 – 8:15 am-9:30 am/14:15-15:30
Session 2 – 9:30 am-10:45 am/15:30-16:45
Session 3 – 10:45 am-12:00 pm/16:45-18.00
Keynote Speaker – 12:15 pm/18:15
Paola Dusi, Università degli Studi di Verona,
Un Pensiero "Abissale": dalla Colonialità del Sapere al Deficit Thinking.
Session 4 – 12:45-2:00 pm/18:45-20:00
Note: Details about sessions and full program will follow soon.
Register here:
https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtfuuqrDMjGtyldq3rRKUCbA-U77C0043C
