Book Launch, Talk & Slide Show: Mogadishu Then & Now, Nov. 22 2012 @ Italian Institute of Culture
Date: November 22, 2012
Venue: Italian Institute of Culture
Time: 6.30 pm
Entry: Free
Book Launch of Mogadishu Then & Now by Rasna Warah, Mohamud Diros & Ismail Osman
Presentation by Rasna Warah
The launch coincides with the closing of the exhibition Gates by Deqa Abshir
Lecture: For a new higher education initiative in cooperation and development in Kenya, Oct. 17 2012 @ Italian Institute of Culture
For a new higher education initiative in cooperation and development in Kenya
Lecture by Prof. Nelson Wawire, Dean of the School of Economics – Kenyatta University
The University of Pavia through the CDN (Cooperation and Development Network) is establishing a new Master Program in Nairobi in partnership with the Kenyatta University, CISP (Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli), UNDP (United Nation Development Program) and the Tangaza College.
The Master Program in Economics (Cooperation and Human Development) aims at training future professionals in the field of development cooperation, with a specific focus on human development. The Program has its own specificity in trying to meet the needs of local geographical and socio-political context, tackling and deepening understanding on the main issue of concern in the field of cooperation and development.
The objective of CDN and its partners is to establish international network and partnerships which can offer post-graduate programs for highly qualified practitioners who will play a key role in their societies: in this perspective the CDN has already established since 1997 the Master in Cooperation and Development (CD) in Pavia (Italy), since 2003 the Escuela Latinoamericana de Cooperation y Desarollo (ELACID) in Cartagena des Indias (Colombia) and since 2005 the Master in Cooperation and Development (MICAD) in Bethlehem (Palestine).
The choice of Nairobi for the establishment of a new Master in Economics (Cooperation and Human Development) is linked to its crucial role in current Sub-Saharan scenario as a centre for “experiments” in terms of social, economic and political dynamics and as a mirror of what is happening in many other countries in Africa.
when: October 17 2012 at 7:00 pm
where: Italian Institute of Culture – Michelangelo Hall – Grenadier Tower – 6th floor Woodvale Close n. 1 – Westlands (Opposite Jacaranda Hotel)
Piano Recital: Francesco Taskayali Piano Solo, Sept. 27 2012 @ Italian Institute of Culture Westlands
Date: September 27, 2012
Venue: the Italian Institute of Culture – Michelangelo Hall
Time: 7pm
Entrance: Free
Listen to his work on SoundCloud
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Concert: Francesco Taskayali, piano solo, Sep 27 2012 @ Italian Cultural Institute
Thursday 27th September 2012 at 7.00pm
ENTRANCE FREE
Programme
Music composed by Francesco Taskayali
Francesco Taskayali’s musical education mixes minimalism and jazz with the tradition of classical Masters and with cinema soundtracks, and is enriched with a singular experimentation on odd rhythms, typical of Eastern music traditions and really rare and unusual in Western music.
Listen to his entire album EMRE here – he will perform a number of tracks from the album at the concert :
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/1090379″ height=”200″ iframe=”true” /]Photographic Exhibition & Lecture: The Milky Way Through Science, History & Art, Sep 6-13 2012 @ Italian Institute of Culture
Presentation by Dr. Paola Platania, the curator of the Istituto di Fisica del Plasma of the Italian National Research Centre (CNR) at the Italian Institute of Culture on Thursday 6th September 2012 at 7.00pm.
The exhibition runs till 13th September 2012
Open from Monday to Thursday from 10.30am to 6.00pm.
On Friday from 10.30am to 4.00pm. – closed on Saturdays, Sundays & public holidays
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WHEREFORE SO MANY LIGHTS?
The spectacle of the arc of the Milky Way in the sky has filled every human generation with wonder, from prehistory to the present day.
Ancient civilizations the world over have built myths and legends attempting to express the intuition of a mysterious relationship between human life and the ineffable celestial nebula.
Throughout history, artists, poets and painters have been inspired by the faint silvery light of the Milky Way.
Starting from the 17th century, modern science has shown us the physical nature of the Milky Way. Today we know that the pale trail of light that we can see in the sky comes from the glow of the Galaxy in which we are immersed: a colossal structure made of hundreds of billions of stars – and we know that our Galaxy is not only made of stars: but also of dark matter, a giant central black hole and that it is in constant upheaval with violent explosions.
Have these new discoveries broken the enchantment? Is there still room for wonder? Have we lost hope for a relationship with the stars?
We will see that, unexpectedly, scientific knowledge itself shows us that life on the Earth has a deep and unforeseen correlation with the history and the structure of the Milky Way.
We will discover a relationship that could be even more intimate than the fabulous pre-scientific visions that were once daringly imagined.