Online (Zoom), August 14, 2020, 15.00-18.00, (Romanian time, English/Romanian – depending on the audience) Of the visual arts that make up the core of the discipline of Art History, architecture is the one that touches unswervingly our daily lives. We all live and work in buildings or built functional spaces...
Online (Zoom), August 14, 2020, 18.00-20.00 (Romanian time, in English) The COVID-19 outbreak has forced us all to stay at home or to keep distance from one another, and it has impacted most of what we are used to call `reality.` For social scientists, this represents a huge challenge, as...
Online (Zoom), August 13, 2020, 18.00-20.00 (Romanian time, in Romanian) This webinar invites you to explore the field of Ergonomics. You will learn about how our body works, what it needs to stay fit, how we could adapt the work space to cater for the needs of our body, and...
Online (Zoom), August 11, 2020, 9.00 – 12.30 (Romanian time, in English) This course provides a hands-on overview of applied social network analysis techniques and their theoretical underpinnings in political and social sciences. By the end of it, you will be able to understand the opportunities and limitations of basic...
Online (Zoom), August 12, 2020, 18.00-20.00 (Romanian time, in English) Cyber-security and privacy are issues of increasing concern in today’s digital world. Whereas perfect security does not exist, there are many tools and practices that can answer to someone’s specific security needs. To choose among them, it is important to...
Online (Zoom), August 12, 2020, 9.00-12.30 (Romanian time, in English) This workshop provides an overview of applied social network analysis techniques in the fields of organizational development, change management, and people analytics. By the end of it, you will be able to understand the basics of using relational data and...
Online (Zoom), August 12, 2020, 16.00-18.00 (Romanian time, in English) Looking back at controversial historical episodes has become a widely spread reference point in nowadays public debates and politics. Recently, monuments of figures like Christopher Columbus were targeted and destroyed during protests against racism in the US. Another example is...
Online (Zoom), August 13, 2020, 16.00-17.30 (Romanian time, in English) Spirituality has been disregarded by the development field. Researches have shown that the replacement of traditional manifestations including spirituality with modernity has provoked changes in all fields of humanity, including global development. During this webinar we will see how spirituality...
Online (Zoom), August 11, 2020, 13.00-15.00 (Romanian time, in English) The webinar will focus on the relevance of experiential learning for undergraduate education and, more specifically, on designing such courses. The presentation builds on a course that I developed and am currently teaching at the University of Toronto Scarborough –...
Online (Zoom), August 10, 2020, 18.00-19.30 (Romanian time, in English) The webinar is an invitation to explore differences and similarities between the lived experiences of colonialism & postcolonialism, as well as totalitarianism and the transition to democratic regimes in Africa and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). In more specific terms,...