Alpine Seminar: Equal opportunities, inclusion and diversity

Starting in the 2025 - 2026 academic year, the optional interfaculty course “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender and Diversity”, coordinated by USI’s Equal Opportunities Service, has been included in the program of Alpine Seminars offered by the House of Sustainability. This new format offers an immersive learning experience that integrates the interdisciplinary study of equal opportunities, inclusion and diversity with a natural context focused on sustainability.

In the spring semester, from April 15 to 17, the second Alpine Seminar on Equal opportunities, Inclusion, and Diversity will be available. Through a program rich in experiential activities, group work, and guided discussion sessions, participants will be invited to recognize and overcome stereotypes, prejudices, and inequalities, promoting more aware and welcoming social and educational environments.

The course program begins with a theoretical introduction on sustainable development and planetary limits, presented by Giovanni Pellegri, lecturer at the House of Sustainability, followed by a contribution from Luca Visconti, full professor at the Faculty of Communication, Culture, and Society, who will offer a critical and intersectional reflection on the concepts of Diversity, Minority, and Vulnerability.

The second day will be dedicated to a practical and experiential workshop: “Gender differences in educational and professional contexts: how to foster dialogue and counter inequalities?”. Led by Danuscia Tschudi Von Kaenel, senior researcher at the Competence Center for Work, Welfare, and Society (DEASS), and Brita Kleindienst, actress and Director of the Dimitri Theater Academy, the workshop will combine theoretical insights with theatrical activities. Participants will reflect, through an intersectional approach, on gender differences and inequalities in educational and professional contexts and experiment with how these manifest in verbal and non-verbal communication.

The interfaculty perspective will encourage the meeting of different disciplinary backgrounds, creating a particularly rich space for learning and dialogue, in which the plurality of experiences, sensibilities and points of view represents a fundamental added value.

For more information on how to register for the seminar, please visit the website: Alpine Seminar - Equal opportunities, inclusion and diversity