Announcing Our Fall 2015 Lecture Series
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For our annual Fall Lecture series we are pleased to announced the following two lectures:
Guest Lecture with Matthew Licht
Matthew Licht is the author of The Moose Show and Justine, Joe & the Zen Garbageman (Salt Pubs., UK), which were both nominated for the Frank O’Connor Prize. His novel, The Withering Fire, is due out later this year. He has been a Visiting Lecturer at John Cabot University in Rome, and at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he is under consideration to become the first-ever Professor of Creative Writing. He was a volunteer teacher specializing in literacy at P.S. 212 in New York City between 1995-2005. He is currently working on a book for young readers, with the editorial guidance of groups of Scuola media children in Bagno a Ripoli and Rignano sull’Arno.
Event Details:
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Lecture begins at 5:30pm
Villa le Balze, Via Vecchia Fiesolana, 26 – 50014 Fiesole (Fi) Italy
Food for the Mind: How to Nourish a Genuine Happiness
Villa Le Balze is pleased to host a guest leture with Dr. Valentina Dolara (Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom Honorary Faculty member – Member of organizing committees for the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Europe). Dr. Dolara has an academic background as a lawyer with a concentration in international protection of human rights and preventive measures to maintain peace.
For more than 20 years she has been a trainer and a consultant for various NGOs on nonviolent conflict management, intercultural communication, history of the mafia and contemporary antimafia, education to democratic legality and active citizenship, gender issues; and for 13 years she has taught these subjects in study abroad programs for American universities in Florence.
Event Details:
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Lecture begins at 5:30pm
Villa le Balze, Via Vecchia Fiesolana, 26 – 50014 Fiesole (Fi) Italy
We kindly ask that all guests interested in attending these lectures please RSVP at info@villalebalze.org.