Conference program

The University and Civil Society: Autonomy and Responsibility
Bologna, May 17/19, 2006
Wed, May 17, Cappella Farnese, Palazzo d’Accursio
2.00 – 4.00 p.m.: speakers’ arrival and registration
4.30 – 6.00 p.m.: Conference Opening
Welcome remarks: Sergio Cofferati - Mayor of Bologna; John J. Sie & Anna Maglione-Sie Representing Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper; Pier Ugo Calzolari, Rector Magnificus - Alma
Mater Studiorum University of Bologna; Gregg Kvistad - Interim DU Provost; Nora B. Dempsey Consul General United States of America; Alberto Destro, Dean, Faculty of Foreign Languages and
Literatures.
Introduction to the Conference:
Roberto Grandi, Vice-Rector International Relations
Giovanna Franci, Roberta Waldbaum, Sheila Wright
Conference Organizers
Thursday, May 18, Aula Prodi, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2
9-11.30 a.m., Plenary Session: The Bologna Process and Beyond
Under the patronage of the Osservatorio Magna Charta
Chair: Fabio Roversi Monaco
Andris Barblan, “Towards 2010: the Universities’ Role in Building the European Civil Society”
Roberto Grandi, “The Challenge of the Bologna Process”
Ved Nanda, “Civil Society'
s Role in Shaping the International Agenda”
Giliberto Capano, “Governing Higher Education: Problems, Facts, and Trends from a Comparative
Perspective”
11.30 – 11.45: Coffee break
11.45 – 12.45: Keynote Speaker, Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck College, London
“The End(s) of Human Rights”
Event sponsored by ETNP Acume – Cultural Memory in Europe
Chair: Vita Fortunati
13.00: Lunch Buffet, Dept. of History, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2
2.00-4.00 p.m.: Parallel sessions
Theoretical
Approaches to Civic
Engagement
AULA PRODI
Chair: Deana Ahmad
Case Studies
SALA CONVEGNI
Chair: Christina Kreps
Mind, Body,
Environment &
Health
ROOM V
Chair: Dario Braga
Pedagogical
Approaches to
Service Learning &
Civic Engagement
ROOM VI
Chair: Terri-Jo
Woellner
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Eric Gould,
“Globalization’s
Ethical Challenges to
the University”
Vita Fortunati, “The
Ethics of Memory and
the Debate on
Reconciliation”
Patrizia Violi & Ruba
Salih, “Academic
Networking and the
Peace Process: the
Israeli-Palestinian
Case”
Miriam Capri &
Claudio Franceschi
(GEHA European
Project), “Longevity in
a Global Perspective: a
Right or a Privilege?”
Kelly Driscoll,
“Addressing Global
Issues: The Role for
Creative Scholarship”
Josef Hellebrandt,
“Preparing Foreign
Kari Hartwig, “Moving Language Students for
Galina Bityukova,
from the Usual One“When Desire Meets
Civic Engagement at
Reality: Transforming Sided Relationship
Home and Abroad”
Thomas Auf der Heyde, Higher Education in
Common to Research
“Toward a Managerial Kazakhstan”
Projects”
Barbara Wilcots,
Framework for
“Community
Community
Carolyne Call, “The
Alper Akyuz,
Sustainability and
Engagement and Public “University as Agent in Faith-Based College in Cultural Preservation:
Scholarship”
the Modern World:
and for the
A Study of the Plumpy’
Nut Project in Uganda”
Development of a Civil Educating for
Engagement”
Society: Case of
Takoi Hamrita,
Lorraine McIlrath, J.
Istanbul Bilgi
“Working Towards a
Boland, D. Casey
University NGO Centre Luisa Brunori
Comprehensive Model
“Evidence-Based
“Civic Engagement in
Annamaria Gentili,
Policy Towards Civil
for International
Higher Education – an
Society: the Case Study Irish Perspective”
University Community "Politics of
Development in
of Micro-Credit”
Engagement”
Subsaharan Africa: The
Role of University
Research and
International
Cooperation."
4.00 – 4.30 p.m.: Coffee break
4.30 – 5. 30 p.m.: Keynote Speaker, Rosi Braidotti, University of Utrecht
“Transposing the Axes of Difference: the Humanities in the Post-Human Era”
Event sponsored by ETNP Acume – Cultural Memory in Europe
Chair: Annamaria Tagliavini
5.45 – 7.15 p.m.: Parallel sessions
Theoretical
Crossing Borders
Approaches to Civic
and Bridges
Engagement
AULA PRODI
SALA CONVEGNI
Chair: Roberto
Chair: Lucia Rossi
Scazzieri
Tom Farer, “The
Rita Monticelli, “The
University as Neutral
Potentate and the
Forum in a Conflicted
Traveller: Identity,
World?”
Freedom,
Interculturality and the Robert W. Franco,
Mind, Body,
Environment &
Health
ROOM V
Chair: Louann
Haarman
Mauro Agnoletti &
Gil Latz “Instruments
for Analysis and
Conservation
Management of the
Agricultural and
Pedagogical
Approaches to
Service Learning &
Civic Engagement
ROOM VI
Chair: Romana Zacchi
Stefano Bianchini,
“Interdisciplinarity,
International Programs
and Education of Area
Experts in East Central
Asia”
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University”
“Roots, Resilience, and
Reach: Closing the
Minority Achievement
Gap”
Susan Stroud, “The
Talloires Network:
Promoting the Civic
Engagement Rights
Michael Rowe, “A Foot
and Responsibilities of in Both Worlds:
Higher Education”
Crossing Boundaries
Between the Academy
Amit Bhaduri,
and Civil Society”
“Decentralization and
the Civil Society”
Forested Landscape in
Tuscany”
Serdar Degirmencloglu,
Can Gezgor & Sedat
Robert Sanford,
Yagcioglu, “Young
“Urban Ecology in the People Doing
Contexts of Public
Democracy: Public
Scholarship and
Achievement as a
Research”
Model of Civic
Engagement”
Claudia Green, “High
Tech and High Touch
in the Brazilian
Atlantic Rainforest”
Friday, May 19
9-11 a.m.: Parallel sessions
Theoretical
Case Studies
Approaches to Civic
SALA CONVEGNI
Engagement
Chair: Gianmario
AULA PRODI
Chair: Elena Lamberti Anselmi
Implementing
Service Learning &
Civic Engagement
Programs
ROOM V
Chair: Dennis Wittmer
Naomi Scheman, “A
James DeBoy, “The
Linda Olson, “The
Post-Modern
Role of the Historically Pioneer Leadership
Epistemology for 21st Black University in US” Program As a
Century Universities”
Pedagogy of Citizen
Ana Ruiz & Judith
Engagement”
David Decker, “Civic Warchal, “Identifying
Role of the Global
and Resolving Ethical
Daniel West, R.
University”
Issues that Emerge
Spinelli & S.
Through Civic
Szydlowski,
Julie Hatcher & Gerda Engagement”
“Implementing
Bender, “Civic
International
Engagement and
Susan Sterett, “The Role Community-Based
Faculty Work:
of Public Scholarship:
Partnership”
Institutional Strategies Settlement of Evacuees
from Cross-Cultural
of Hurricane Katrina in Antoinette SmithPerspective”
Denver CO”
Tolken, “Service
Learning in
David Fraser,
Kathi Ketcheson &
International
“Universities and
Chris Carey, “The
Education: A Case
Democratic
University and Civil
Study”
Citizenship: Some
Society: Ten Years of
Lessons from Modern Innovation at Portland
Amy Driscoll & Sheila
History"
State University”
Wright,
“The Carnegie
Pedagogical
Approaches to
Service Learning &
Civic Engagement
ROOM VI
Chair: Franco Minganti
Rosa Eberly,
C. Flanagan, L. Yapa,
J. Cohen, C. Colbeck,
“Penn. State As a
Laboratory for Public
Scholarship and
Democracy”
Spencer Wellhofer &
Roberta Waldbaum,
“Pedagogies of
Engagement: Using
Technology to Enhance
International
Understanding”
Roscoe Hill,
N. Bolling &
C. Agnoletti,
“Public Achievement
Project in Colorado”
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Classification for
Institutions Engaged
with Community”
11.00 – 11.15: Coffee Break
11.15 – 13.15: Presentations of University Civic Engagement Groups,
Aula Prodi, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2
Last Minute Market; Tolerance; Human Rights Film Festival; Harambe; Nuove Povertà, Nuove
Solidarietà.
Chair: Antonio Genovese
3.00 – 4.00 p.m.: Keynote Speaker, KUMI NAIDOO, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen
Participation
"Citizen'
s Education and Governance in the Global Context"
Chair: Susan Sterett
4.00 – 4.15 p.m.: coffee break
4.15 – 6.15 p.m.: Round Table and Wrap Up, Aula Prodi, Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2
Chair: Margaret Brose
Partecipants: Giovanna Franci, Justin Frosini, Gregg Kvistad, Andrea Segré, Roberta
Waldbaum, Benedetto Zacchiroli.
During the conference it will be possible to visit the permanent exhibition of peace posters in the
courtyard of the Dept. of History (in collaboration with “Casa per la Pace-La Filanda”, Casalecchio
di Reno).
Conference venues: Cappella Farnese, Palazzo D’Accursio, Piazza Maggiore; Aula Prodi, Piazza
San Giovanni in Monte, 2; Sala Convegni, Room V, Room VI, Dipartimento di Lingue e
Letterature Straniere Moderne, via Cartoleria, 5.
In collaboration with:
Anna and John Sie Foundation; Associazione Orlando - Biblioteca Italiana delle Donne; Collegio
Superiore Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna; Comune di Bologna; Dipartimenti di
Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Archeologia, Paleografia e Medievistica; ETNP ACUME,
European Project on Cultural Memory; Fondazione Carisbo; ISA (Institute of Advanced Study);
Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna; Casa per la Pace; Office of the Mayor, Denver Colorado;
Osservatorio Magna Charta; Provincia di Bologna; Regione Emilia-Romagna; The Johns Hopkins
University; UNIBO Cultura; US Consulate, Florence.
Under the High Patronage of:
Comune di Bologna; Regione Emilia-Romagna, Assessorato alla scuola, formazione professionale,
università, lavoro e pari opportunità; Provincia di Bologna; US Consulate, Florence.
Promoted by:
Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna; International Center for Civic Engagement/Centro
Internazionale per l’Impegno Civico; University of Denver.
Co-sponsored by: Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna.
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