Week Against Racism 2025 - A matter of words and images

To mark the Cantonal Week against Racism 2025 from 21 until 30 March, 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), are proposing the project "A matter of words and pictures".

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 -10:30 am, ‘’Race as a category of difference" - Prof. Jolanta Drzewiecka, room A11, Red Building, West Campus. (In English)
• Wednesday, 26 March 9 - 10:30 am, "Understanding implicit communication to overcome discrimination" - Dr Claudia Coppola. Auditorium, Main Building, West Campus
• Wednesday, 26 March 1:30 - 3 pm, "Against diversity. Ethnocentrisms, racisms, nationalisms, sovereignisms" - Prof. Vicenzo Matera, Lecture Hall A13, Red Building, West Campus.
• Thursday, 27 March 11 am -12:30 pm, "Race’, racisms and exclusion" - Prof. Jolanta Drzewiecka, room 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 - 5:30 pm - Practical activity reserved to the USI and SUPSI community (registration mandatory). Room D1.14, Sector D, East Campus
• Thursday, 27 March, 12 - 5:30 pm - Practical activity also open to the public (registration mandatory). Room D1.13, Sector D, East Campus

To participate in the encounters and/or activities, please register at 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.