A meeting 2022

4 October 2022, 5 pm

Teatro Verdi di Padova, by reservation
Live streaming on the YouTube channel of the University of Padova

The rector Daniela Mapelli welcomes students who, after graduation, have chosen the University of Padova for their university studies.

The event, opened by the greetings of the rector and the mayor Sergio Giordani, tells the experiences of study, research and life of some protagonists of our academic community through their testimony. Hosted by journalist Federico Taddia.

Present at the meeting:

Behnaz Jahed
Unipd student Behnaz Jahed is originally from Herat, Afghanistan, and is enrolled in the Second-cycle/Master's degree course in "Human rights and multi-level governance". She graduated in law and political science from the university of Herat. She has worked for more than five years with various organizations in favor of human rights, women, boys and girls. Because of the Taliban regime, she moved to Italy, threatened with death. Behnaz  was in a refugee camp when he received his admission letter with a scholarship to the University of Padua. 

Mariagrazia Ranzini
Mariagrazia Ranzini is a Unipd researcher, MSCA Fellow in the Department of Neuroscience Department. Ranzini's work focuses on numerical cognition in relation to other aspects of human cognition, such as spatial attention, working memory, gestures, and synesthesia. Her research is interdisciplinary, and her research network includes scholars in psychology, neurology, physics, engineering, and philosophy.

Marco Malvestio
Marco Malvestio is an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Padova and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His project "EcoSF – The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction" explores the presence of ecological issues in Italian science fiction . Malvestio holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Padova, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. In 2021 he published "The Conflict Revisited: The Second World War in Post-Postmodern Fiction" (Peter Lang), based on his PhD dissertation, and "Telling the End of the World: Science Fiction and the Anthropocene" (overnight).

Participation by invitation to Unipd freshmen (as per confidential email communication).

The event is part of the celebrations for the 800th anniversary of the University of Padova.