June 2017

We are going to close our first semester of activities with the fourth appointment of our series ‘Religions: local and global scenarios’: next Thursday 13th July 2017, in our headquarters in Piazza di San Firenze in Florence, prof. Tabona Shoko, from Zimbabwe University in Harare, who is in town with the project of the ‘Florence Short Term Fellowships’, financially supported by the Fondazione Cassa di risparmio di Firenze, will talk about christianity, traditional African religions and human rights in his country, martyrized by the inter-ethnic conflicts as it was. Together with him, Mariella Abruzzo, from the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Italy, a young scholar who has studied the women condition in Zimbabwe, both chaired by the journalist Michele Brancale. Download here the program for more details.

Third appointment with our series ‘Religions: local and global scenarios’: our Institute, in collaboration with the Jewish Community of Florence, next Tuesday 20th June 2017, at the Florentine Synagogue, will organize a lecture of prof. James W. Nelson Novoa, from the University of Ottawa, who is in town with the project of the ‘Florence Short Term Fellowships’, financially supported by the Fondazione Cassa di risparmio di Firenze. Chaired by chief rabbi Joseph Levi, prof. Novoa will discuss about the Jewish Diaspora from Spain and Portugal in the early modern centuries. Download here the program for more details.