Week Against Racism 2025 - A matter of words and images

On the occasion of the forthcoming Cantonal Week against Racism 2025 (21-30.03.2025), the Equal Opportunities Service and the International Relations and Mobility Service of USI, in collaboration with SUPSI, Zonaprotetta and the Centre for the Prevention of Discrimination (CPD), invite you to take part in the initiative ‘A matter of words and images’, within which a series of practical and informative activities will be proposed, aimed at raising awareness throughout the academic community by promoting an inclusive culture and respect for diversity in order to combat all forms of prejudice and discrimination.

Below is the programme with the activities:

Voices against prejudice: a series of meetings on racism - didactic-educational meetings to raise awareness of the issue of racism integrated into the regular USI study programmes;

• Tuesday 25 March 9.00-10.30, ‘’Race‘ as a category of difference’ - Prof. Jolanta Drzewiecka. Lecture room A11, Red Building, West Campus. (In English)
• Wednesday 26 March 9.00-10.30, ‘Understanding implicit communication to overcome discrimination’ - Dr. Claudia Coppola. Auditorium, Main Building, West Campus.
• Wednesday 26 March 1.30-3.00 p.m., ‘Against diversity. Ethnocentrisms, racisms, nationalisms, sovereignisms’ - Prof. Vicenzo Matera, Lecture Hall A13, Red Building, West Campus.
• Thursday 27 March 11.00-12.30, ‘Race’, racisms and exclusion’ - Prof. Jolanta Drzewiecka, Lecture Hall A31, Red Building, West Campus. (In English)

Bias and algorithms: can AI fight racism? - A practical and experiential activity with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) carried out in collaboration with the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Studies USI-SUPSI (IDSIA), through which we will explore the learning process of AI tools and its link with the reproduction of implicit biases.

• Tuesday 25 March, 12.00-17.30 - Practical activity on registration for USI and SUPSI public. Room D1.14, Sector D, East Campus
• Thursday 27 March, 12.00-17.30 p.m. - Practical activities on registration also for external public. Classroom D1.13, Sector D, East Campus

To participate in the meetings and/or activities, please register via the following link  

Through the various initiatives proposed, the topic of racism will be addressed from a scientific as well as an experiential and practical point of view, benefiting from the contribution of different disciplines, such as argumentation, scientific literature and new technologies. The distinct but complementary approaches will contribute to deepening the topic by demonstrating its effects in various fields and phenomena, enabling people to acquire a broader and more conscious view of the subject.

During the course of the week, a virtual notice board will be disseminated containing titles of films, songs, magazines, podcasts, books, etc. that address the issue of racism and discrimination in general as food for thought.

Attached is the event poster.

Below is report of Il Quotidiano.