Social Transformation and Spirituality: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Ernesto Balducci

Social Transformation and Spirituality: The Works of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Ernesto Balducci

Mary Malucchi, MA and Alessandro Mariani, PhD

Mary Malucchi is pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Bergamo in the area of the anthropology and epistemology of complexity. She has worked with many universities and also with the Ernesto Balducci Foundation in Fiesole, Italy. She contributed to Looking to the Future: Hopes, Expectations, and Responsibilities, and also to the magazines “Equilibri” and “Testimonianze.” She is the author of Ernesto Balducci: Catholicism, Marxism, and Planetary Ethics. She will be speaking on the topic of Ernesto Balducci’s holism and global ethics.

Alessandro Mariani is currently Professor of General and Social Pedagogy at the University of Florence. He is also Vice-Director of the Department of Education Sciences. Dr. Mariani edited the volume Origins: The Birth of Modern Science and New Perspectives and is the author of several books, including Foucault: Toward a Genealogy of Pedagogy and Deconstruction in Pedagogy: Theoretical and Educational Frontiers of Postmodernity. He will be speaking about the spiritual pedagogy of Pier Paolo Pasolini.


Reception begins at 6:30pm


SPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AT CIIS
http://www.ciis.edu

This event is free, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public.