Events
ResetDOC Activities
The Association Reset-DOC (Dialogues On Civilizations) – whose main aim is promoting dialogue and intercultural relationships throughout the world – organizes several public meetings both at national and international levels, and it regularly produces publications dedicated to the promotion of dialogue in the world.
A website for all world tribes: RESETDOC.ORG
In Fall 2006 the Association launched its website. Resetdoc.org is a magazine specialized in issues related to intercultural dialogue and offers to its readers a multilingual version with contents in Italian, English, Arabic and French. ResetDoC exploits the Association activities as well as the contributions of its international scientific committees. The editorial staff, by working in cooperation with Reset magazine, produce articles, book reviews and interviews about cultural conflicts - addressing them from a political, philosophical and historical point of view –, the methods and contents of dialogue among civilizations, and human rights. The editorial staff are carrying out two particularly relevant initiatives: the creation of a Lexicon of Interculture and ResetDoC Dialogues - prominent intellectuals who belong to different cultural areas exchange their ideas on a key-issue of the intercultural debate today. International media and press have been attentively following ResetDoC publications and the Association activities and events - from «Die Zeit» to «Corriere della Sera», from «la Repubblica» to «SignandSight», from «AlAhram» to «Frankfurter Rundschau».
You can visit the Association website at: www.resetdoc.org
Cairo, Egypt - Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism
In 2006, the Association opened its first year of activities with an international conference in the Egyptian capitol city of Cairo. The subject addressed was: “Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism. Thinking Dialogue Among Civilizations”, papers were presented by the Italian Minister of Domestic Affairs Giuliano Amato, Former German Minister of Domestic Affairs Otto Schily, Fred R. Dallmayr, Charles Burnett, Dimitri Gutas, Nina zu Fürstenberg, and Egyptian intellectuals among whom Gaber Asfour, Hassan Hanafi, Emad Abu Ghazi, and Mohamed Salmawy.
The meeting took place on March 4, 5 and 6, and was carried out in cooperation with the Egypt Supreme Council of Culture and the Italian Embassy in Cairo.
Rome, Italy - Margalit-Kermani
“Taming Fundamentalism” is the second event organized by the Association. It took place in Rome on March 17, 2007 in the Lecture Hall of LUISS University. How can we tame the violence rising from radical hatred? How can we dilute fundamentalism and make it disappear? The Israeli philosopher, Avishai Margalit and the German writer of Iranian background, Navid Kermani answered those questions.
Rabat, Morocco - Philosophy
In November 2006 the Association gave its contribution to the UNESCO World Philosophy Day (Rabat, Morocco; 15 -18 November) by organizing in that context a roundtable around the issue “Religious Revivals and Open Society”, with Italian Minister Giuliano Amato, intellectuals Sadik Al-Azm from Syria, Abdou Filali-Ansary from Morocco, Fred Dallmayr from United States, Giancarlo Bosetti, Alessandro Ferrara and Sebastiano Maffettone from Italy. Nina zu Fürstenberg, director of the Association, introduced the debate.
Rome, Italy - Eliseo Theatre - Differences 2006
At the end of 2006, the Association launched a series of conferences under the title “Differences”, with internationally prominent intellectuals, artists, philosophers exploring key-issues of the cultural debate today on the stage of one of Italy’s main theaters, the Eliseo of Rome. In order to go beyond borders and create new connections, on November 24th, two Muslim philosophers, the Algerian Mohamed Arkoun and the Iranian Abdulkarim Soroush exchanged their ideas on humanism and secularism. Giuliano Amato, Giancarlo Bosetti and Renzo Guolo debated with them.
On December 1 the British historian Timothy Garton Ash and the editor-in-chief of the Italian daily la Repubblica Ezio Mauro discussed stereotypes and liberty.
Rome, Italy - Eliseo Differences 2007-8
Two meetings about “The voice of Religions”: the first conference hosted philosopher Jürgen Habermas (September 2007) and the second one philosopher Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (October 2007). In December 2007, it was the time of internationally renowned writer Claudio Magris that lectured about “literature and its ‘day and night’ sides”.
Istanbul, Turkey - Philosophy
The Association renovated its participation to the UNESCO World Philosophy Day which took place in Istanbul, Turkey on November 22, 2007. The Association presented a roundtable involving Giancarlo Bosetti, Alessandro Ferrara, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Faruk Birtek and Nina zu Fürstenberg.
Doha, Qatar - Media and Dialogue
The Association international activities continued with a new annual conference. On 26 February 2008, intellectuals, politicians and mass-media experts from all over the world gathered in Doha, Qatar in order to discuss “Global Media between Dialogue and Clash. When Enemies Boost the Ratings”. The aim was analyzing the effects of TV on the understanding among peoples of different cultures, verifying the distortions brought about in the Other’s images by news fragmentation and dramatization, as well as political partisanship and prejudices, and, ultimately, identifying new proposals. The conference was organized in cooperation with Georgetown University. Among the participants, Giuliano Amato, and the former Minister of Domestic Affairs of Germany, Mr. Otto Schily, Ibrahim Helal, AlJazeera deputy managing director, Arab scholars such as Ashraf Galal and Mohamed Zayani, Italian scholars such as Paolo Mancini, American experts Lawrence Pintak and Steven Livingston. Carlo Sartori (NewCo, Rai Group) launched the project of a new Italian-Arabic tv channel, while Iranian movie-maker Hossein Dehbashi presented a documentary on the war as seen by Arab tvs and by big international networks.
Istanbul Seminars
It is again in Istanbul that the Association is planning to carry out an annual meeting – starting from June 2008 – that, for one week, will involve academics and post-lauream students belonging to different geographical and cultural areas of the East and the West. ResetDoC annual seminars are intended to promote, develop, and eventually consolidate a network of cultural and scientific relationships in social sciences, political philosophy, political theory, sociology, law studies, and religion studies. The issues that will be addressed will deal with the relationships among different civilizations facing the challenges of today world. In order to develop program and contents of the Seminars, an executive committee has been established. Its members are: Seyla Benhabib, Giancarlo Bosetti, Alessandro Ferrara, Abdou Filali-Ansary, Nina zu Fürstenberg, Ferda Keskin, Nadia Urbinati. Istanbul Seminars Resource Persons include academics such as Jürgen Habermas, Hassan Hanafi, Michael Walzer and Charles Taylor and many others.
Sicily, Italy - Philosophy
The Association will renovate and enhance its participation to the UNESCO World Philosophy Day. In November 2008 it will be in Sicily, and ResetDoC will work in close cooperation with the UNESCO organization.