TEDxPioneerValley - Ginetta Candelario - Teaching and Learning (In)Justice
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Ginetta Candelario, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latina/o at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, describes her talk this way: "Over half a century ago, U.S. Sociologist C. Wright Mills coined the term "sociological imagination" to capture a core precept of Sociology: that the life of an individual is both the prod... Read more
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- -: TEDxPioneerValley - Ginetta Candelario - Teaching and Learning (In)Justice
February 24, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Ginetta Candelario, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latina/o at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, describes her talk this way: "Over half a century ago, U.S. Sociologist C. Wright Mills coined the term "sociological imagination" to capture a core precept of Sociolog...
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- -: TEDxLakeComo -- Diego Fornasari - to each his own medicine
December 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Professor of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine, University of Milan and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Institute of Neurosciences of the Milan branch of CNR .He studies the genetic mechanisms regulating the expression of proteins in the autonomic nervous system and the ge...
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- -: TEDxLakeComo -- Sivia Bossi - Neural interfaces for electronic devices
December 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Mechanical engineer and a PhD in Science and Engineering Biorobotics, has carried out research on neuroprosthesis at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa (www.sssup.it) where she worked to develop prototypes of new invasive neural interfaces. Winner of the Best 2011 Fulbright Scholarship, she a...
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- -: TEDxLakeComo -- Luciana Delle Donne - Made in Carcere
December 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Protagonist of successful cases in the banking sector (she was responsible for the design and development of the first model of virtual multi-channel bank in Italy). In 2004 she decided to change her life and after working as volunteer in Latin America, she returned to Italy with the desire to in...
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- -: TEDxLakeComo -- Luca De Biase - The quality in Internet
December 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Editor of Innovation at Sole 24 Ore and Nova24 (which he founded and led from October 2005 to June 2011 (www.ilsole24ore.com). Professor of journalism and new media at various universities including Iulm in Milan and Sciences Po, Paris, Master of Public Affairs since 2007. President of the Ahere...
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- -: TEDxLakeComo -- Davide Marrone - In Italy innovation is possible
December 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Davide, from Como, expert in security intelligence developed at the age of 24, the first application of texting via internet from a simple mobile phone. In 2007 he founded Skebby (www.skebby.it), of which he is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and shortly afterwards, the world of media...
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- -: TEDxEast - Nancy Callan - 21st Century Glassblower
May 17, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)May 9, 2011- Nancy Callan, a glass-blower from Seattle, WA- shares her craft , her passion and her journey in the field of glass-blowing.
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- -: TEDxPolverigi - Giulia Giacchè - Agriurbanismo
July 11, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)"Agriurbanismo, theories and practices of co-construction of territories" Giulia Giacchè presents a new displine: the agricultural urbanism. This field of research and practice borns to understand how planning and manage the periurban areas considering the agricultural issue. PhD in "Sustainab...
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- -: TEDxPolverigi - Francesco Mizzau - Open source, the social invisible revolution
July 11, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Software Producer and Designer based in Rome, he is one of the pioneers of multimedia technologies in Italy. He has produced and directed a long series of CD-ROM for important publishing groups in Italy and abroad, winning awards and prizes. Francesco Mizzau has worked as lecturer at the Universi...
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- -: TEDxPolverigi - Gianluca Busilacchi - La cultura come volano...
July 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)La Cultura come volano di un nuovo modello di sviluppo sociale Gianluca Busilacchi is lecturer of Sociology at the University of Macerata, Italy, and he is the Director of IRES Marche (Institute of Social and Economic Research). He holds a degree in Economics (cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Economic...
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