Non-Transactional Forgiveness: Suffering and Forgiveness in Communist Prisons

Online (Zoom), August 7, 2020, 14.00-16.00 (Romanian time, in English) While forgiveness is often understood in transactional terms—the overcoming of vindictive passions is due to changes from the part of the wrongdoer that the victim cannot ignore—in this webinar I discuss one category of forgiveness that does not depend on...

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Urban Safety Policies – Integrating Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Developing Safer Cities

Online (Zoom), August 6, 2020, 10.00-12.00 (Romanian time, in English) Urban Safety becomes an increasingly important topic as concern for the development of safe and sustainable cities amounts throughout society. This is evident also in the fact that one of the SDGs (Goal nr. 11) is aimed at making cities...

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Postponed – Teaching tools for the Z-gen

Online (Zoom), August 9, 2020, 18.00-19.30 (Romanian time, in English) The education methodology fit for the Z-gens is based on a blended, online and offline, synchronous and asynchronous learning system. It is not a performance anymore having blended, highly visual, activity-oriented, edutainment-based activities but a basic request further enforced by...

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The Apprenticeship of the Masters: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Their Teachers

Format: Course Interval: August 11-14, 2019 (4 days, 3 hours/day) Level: Intermediate/Introductory Disciplines: Art History, Cultural History, Social History Audience: The course is open to art history students (all levels), as well as to art aficionados with no previous formal training in art history, who wish to widen their knowledge...

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Social Entrepreneurship Brainstorming Boot Camp

Format: Workshop Interval: August 13, 2019 Level: Introductory Disciplines: Social Impact/Entrepreneurship, Community Development Audience: Participants who are familiar with the challenges their communities are facing and are exploring various solutions to these issues; potential social entrepreneurs – no prerequisites needed. Workshop description: We all have a myriad of entrepreneurial ideas...

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Research in Action: Using data strategically in campaign advocacy

Format: Workshop Interval: August 11-12, 2019 (3h/day) Level: Introductory/mid-level Disciplines: Research, Advocacy, Campaigning, Strategy, Communication, Citizen engagement Audience: Accessible to all audiences Course description: Have you ever wanted to make a difference in your community? Did you ever think you would like your research to be able to have an...

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