Academic Year inaugurates on 16/02. Lectio Magistralis by Nicola Di Cosmo

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Save the date for Friday, February 16, 2024, for the Inaugural ceremony of the Academic Year at Ca’ Foscari, starting at 11:00 am at the Teatro Stabile del Veneto Carlo Goldoni.

Professor Nicola Di Cosmo, Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA will deliver a Lectio Magistralis on "Peoples without history and the sciences of the past: new frontiers of historical research."

Short welcome remarks will be delivered by representatives of the Municipal Administrations of Venice and Treviso, the Veneto Region, and the Ministry of University and Research.

Program

Academic Procession

Performance
Le Devisement dou monde ovvero Il Milione di Marco Polo


Welcome
Tiziana Lippiello
Rector, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Authorities
Mario Conte, Mayor of Treviso
Luigi Brugnaro, Mayor of Venice
Veneto Region
Stefano Bianco, Students’ Representative
Roberta D’Argenio, Representative of the Technical Administrative Staff and Foreign Language Assistants

Inaugural Address by the Rector

Address by
Anna Maria Bernini, Ministry of University and Research

Awards to outstanding students

Music performance
Music Conservatory Benedetto Marcello of Venice  - Perpetuo Saxophone Quartet
Pedro Iturralde, Suite Hellenique
Georges Bizet (arr. Ito Yasuhide), Carmen Fantasy

Lectio Magistralis
Prof. Nicola Di Cosmo
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, USA)
Peoples without history and the sciences of the past: new frontiers of historical research

Proclamation

Ca’ Foscari Choir
Anonymous, Gaudeamus igitur,
arr. Christian Wilhelm
Kindleben (1748-1785)

Attendance is by invitation only. For information please email:  inaugurationaa@unive.it

The ceremony will be translated into Italian Sign Language (LIS) and live streamed on Youcafoscari channel.

 

Nicola Di Cosmo – Short Bio

Nicola Di Cosmo is Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, USA) since 2003. After graduating in Oriental Languages at Ca’ Foscari in 1982, he earned his Ph.D. in Central Asian History from the Ural-Altaic Studies Department at Indiana University (1991). After a period of study at the University of Cambridge, he taught at Harvard (1993-99) and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (1999-2003).
His research initially focused on political, cultural, anthropological, and social aspects in the history of China's relations with Central Asia from ancient times to the modern era. In recent years, he has been researching the use of climatic data in historical methodology, with particular focus on the long-term relationship between climate change and nomadic migration in historical China.
His most recent monograph is "Venezia e i Mongoli" (Viella 2022), written in collaboration with Lorenzo Pubblici. His academic contributions include a dozen monographs, such as "Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History" (Cambridge 2002), and edited volumes, such as "Military Culture in Imperial China" (Harvard, 2009), and "Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity, Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250-750" (Cambridge 2018). He has also published over 150 essays and articles in collections and academic journals (including scientific publications such as PNAS, Scientific Advances, Climatic Change, etc.).