The weekly meetings program, Tea2B, returns on Monday afternoon at 4.30 pm, in Baden-Powell courtyard (next to the bar).
The Tea2B will be an opportunity for professors and students to discuss several topics in a friendly environment.
Tea2B n°10 | LA DOLCE VITA
December 5, 2022 | 4.30 pm, over tea, coffee etc. and biscuits
Students and professors are invited to San Servolo Café for an informal meeting to discuss the concept of Italian "dolce vita". Together we will discuss the myth that Italians know how to live easily, how the concept of "dolce vita" and "dolce far niente" affects the everyday life of Italians, and who and how maintains this notion in popular culture.
Tea2B n°9 | PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
November 28, 2022 | 4.30 pm, over tea, coffee etc. and biscuits
Students and professors are invited to the San Servolo Café to an informal collective conversation on the connection between mental and physical health. Together we will discuss why and how mental and physical health are linked together and how the discourse on mental health has changed over the last centuries. We will also inquire about the current trends and important updates on the present state of mental health in our home countries and the world in general.
Tea2B n°8 | ON LIEUX DE LA MEMOIRES
November 14, 2022 | 4.30 pm, over tea, coffee etc. and biscuits
Students and Professors are invited to discuss Lieux de la Memoires across the world, i.e. symbolic places, objects and concepts (a river, monument, museum, song, flag, dance, performance, event...) which have come to represent the memorial heritage of any community in a shared relevant way.
Photo: Monumento alla partigiana (Monument to the Woman Partisan)
Venezia, riva dei Partigiani
Statue by Augusto Murer, 1961, Installation by Carlo Scarpa, 1968
Photo by Jacqueline Poggi, 2015.
Tea2B n°7 | FIGHT FOR SPACE: LOCAL VS GLOBAL (EXAMPLES OF MODERN METROPOLISES)
November 7, 2022 | 4.30 pm
Students and professors are invited to have a drink with us at the San Servolo Café and to participate in a conversation on the interaction of the global and the local in contemporary megacities. Together we will discuss how globalization is changing the face of modern cities, what community strategies contemporary cities use to preserve their identity, and what the future of globalization will hold.
Tea2B n°6 | STEREOTYPES
October 24, 2022 | 4.30 pm
Students and professors are invited are invited to have a drink with us at the San Servolo Café and to participate in a casual conversation on stereotypical assumptions about nationalities and countries. Together we will discuss how the ethnocentric view can compartmentalize and over-generalize ethnicities, classes, religions, peoples and genders. We are looking forward to hearing personal stories and examples relating to the topic and how being aware of your own cultural lens can benefit society.
Tea2B n°5 | LIFE IN VENICE: EXPECTATIONS VS REALITY
October 17, 2022 | 4.30 pm
Students and professors are invited to the San Servolo Café to an informal collective conversation discussing the expectations versus reality of life in Venice.
Together we will discuss what expectations we had prior to arriving in Venice, how reality has changed our perception of the City of Love and Romance and how Venice is perceived from the different corners of the world and of the different fields of study.
Tea2B n°4 | MEDIA CENSORSHIP
October 10, 2022 | 4.30 pm
Students and professors are invited to the San Servolo Café to an informal collective conversation on banned books and media censorship. Together we will discuss what and how media censorship has taken place throughout time and dig into why certain representations in books and other forms of media like movies have been critiqued, criticized and banned in different countries.
We will also inquire about why some modern curriculums encourage the teaching of famously banned books such as To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak, and more.
Tea2B n°3 | DATING CULTURE AND THE FUTURE OF MARRIAGE
October 3, 2022 | 4.30 pm
Students and professors are invited to San Servolo Café for an informal meeting to discuss dating culture and the future of the institution of marriage. Together we will discuss the specificities of dating in the contexts of different countries and cultures, as well as generations.
How have dating apps influenced our choice of partners? Is the idea of monogamous relationships in crisis today? How does media today shape the idea of a happy relationship? Also in the context of the meeting we will discuss the future of the institution of marriage from the perspective of diverse cultures.
Tea2B n°2 | WEST CENTRISM AND THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA
September 26, 2022 | 4.30 pm
Students and Professors are invited to the San Servolo Café for an informal collective conversation on West-centrism and the communication of global conflicts. Together we will discuss how current conflicts are perceived in our countries and what role the media play.
Tea2B n°1 | DRINKING CULTURES
September 19, 2022 | 4.30 pm
Students and Professors are invited to the San Servolo Café for an informal collective conversation on drinking habits and rituals to discuss cultural differences and discourse around alcohol, including whether or not education on drinking culture should be taught in schools.
