The information session called Financial education for millennials will take place on May 8 th at Informa Giovani and will be held by Starting Finance, a community created by two university students for all economics and finance fans. The main topics that will be covered are public debt, spread and many others. The entry is free and subject to availability.
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You have until May 16 th to participate to the admission notice for the 200-hour project Progetto Buddy- Do you need suppor-TO?
It is an accommodation and assistance project for international students. In order to sign up for the project, you will have to be duly registered to the Università degli Studi di Torino. You will be also required to have adequate language skills to assist international students as a peer-to-peer tutor, with a part-time cooperation.
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Dall’orso alla Pantera. Le proteste studentesche come fattore di innovazione is the title of the exhibition curated by the Historical Archive of the University of Turin on the occasion of the Archivissima festival.
The exhibition will be open until June 21 st and will take place at the Palazzo del Rettorato in Turin. The show starts with an episode of 1755, when the students strongly opposed to the fact that the quadrangle of the Rettorato could host a show with animals, which was thought to be offending to the honor of the University. The exhibition shows with particular regard the student protests of the 60s. Photos and flyers of the Italian student movement la Pantera (1990) will be displayed as well.
The admission notice for Collegio Einaudi 2019/2020 has been issued.
CANTEENS
Principe Amedeo
From 2.30 p.m. of Friday 19 April 2019
To 12.00 p.m. of Tuesday 23 April 2019
Olimpia
From 2.30 p.m. of Friday 19 April 2019
To 12.00 p.m. of Tuesday 23 April 2019
STUDY HALLS – TURIN
Michelangelo
From 7 p.m. of Sunday 14 April 2019
To 8.30 a.m. of Monday 22 April 2019
Verdi
From 7 p.m. of Sunday 21 April 2019
To 8.30 a.m. of Monday 29 April 2019
Principe Amedeo
From 7 p.m. of Thursday 18 April 2019
To 8.30 a.m. of Friday 26 April 2019
Pietro Giuria
From 7 p.m. of Thursday 18 April 2019
To 8.30 a.m. of Friday 26 April 2019
Ormea
From 7.30 p.m. of Thursday 18 April 2019
To 9 a.m. of Friday 26 April 2019
On the first anniversary of the death of journalist Mauro Pianta, his colleagues decided to commemorate him with the creation of an award in his memory. The contest is open to all Communication Science students from the Department of Humanistic Studies of the University of Turin; it consists in writing a text about a character involved in nature conservation in Piedmont. The most interesting texts will be published
in the magazine Piemonte Parchi, but only one will win the prize.
You can read the rules of the competition here
On 21 and 22 April, Murazzi Student Zone will remain closed. It will open again on Tuesday 23 April,
according to usual working hours (9 a.m. – 7 p.m.). On May 1 (Workers’ Day), the Student Zone will be open
as well.
ArTorin is a project by a former Accademia Albertina student , known under the pseudonym “Michele Galli”. Using Photoshop, he gives famous paintings a new life by setting them in Turin. The project started in February 2018 and its idea reminds of Cartoorin’s, where characters from cartoons were used (instead of paintings) and placed in various contexts in Turin. A pop language which encourages reflection on contemporary society and also shows us glimpses of Turin and paintings.
Have you been to Biennale Democrazia?
We have. We attended three debates on very topical issues in our society: “Polvere di stelle” (“Stardust”) with Ambra Angiolini, Pif and Luis Sal; “Disinformazione” (“Misinformation”) with Serena Danna, Carlo Freccero and Walter Quattrociocchi; and “Politica Pop. L’esibizione
dell’autenticità” (“Pop Politics: the Display of Genuineness”) with Franca Roncarolo, Sofia Ventura and Filippo Ceccarelli.
The main subject of these debates was the Internet, the “battlefield” (as Freccero defined it) where all conflict and power gather. Quattrociocchi reiterated that the tendency to gather information that fits our perspective on the world has become more and more common. The problem which arose is that there is no longer absolute truth, and we are no longer able to prove whether information is true or false. In the past, this was the task of newspapers, then of the TV; with the birth of the Internet – the symbol of free information – we had the opportunity to access news with incredible speed. Still the problem which was pointed out is that, even though the total amount of news has grown, the
information we receive from them has not. Misinformation has also increased and the only weapon we have against it is cultural capital, as Freccero highlighted.
Stars Ambra Angiolini, Pif and Luis Sal talked about their relationship with visibility and celebrity on the Internet, in particular on social networks, where it seems possible for everyone to become famous but where, in order to last for a long time, you must have something to say. Meritocracy is a key principle of social networks and it is essential to gain credibility. The three stars have all pointed out that they do not want to be mistaken for “the arbiters of absolute truth”, since it is far too easy to blame famous people for influencing their followers. Ambra Angiolini thinks it is important to sensitize and not to reassure, because that is the governments’ duty. Luis Sal, a YouTuber whose videos have over 120 million visualizations, did not choose to take this responsibility but he constantly feels the weight of it, so much so that it has become a limiting factor for his creativity. What we must always keep in mind is that the Internet is the means, not the end.
Politics has probably forgotten that the Internet is just the means: as a matter of fact, nowadays politicians rule with selfies and videos. If, in the past, they tended to show that they were the same as their electorate, now there is a constant need for them to be seen at work: politicians want to show how to do politics, and the common practice of broadcasting important meetings live has simply created yet another format.
Every day we are offered images that convey only emotion and not information; politicians are becoming increasingly similar to celebrities and tend to share details about their personal lives, thus creating a bond of closeness with their voters. This way of using the Internet accelerated so much that “trash” has become an aesthetic regime and a government program.
After these debates, we would like to encourage you to inform yourself properly and critically, to admire your idols but always keeping in mind that they are part of the show business, and to demand for content responsibility from those people who have the duty to spread sound principles.
YEAH (Young European Activists’ Hub) is the first festival of European youth activism. Three days – 5, 6, 7 April – of meetings, debates and events, as well as round-table talks with guests. The aim of the festival is to bring young people closer to the world of volunteer work and to get them involved in active citizenship, putting them in touch with big and small organizations active in Turin. Workshops will be a chance to discuss the citizens’ participation in European elections, the politics of the EU and the cultural process behind its institutions.
In the evening, entertainment events will take place in various areas of the city.
Registration is open on the website
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