... three days of intense, full, stimulating and relaxing, three-day listening and reflection, as well as entertainment! I'm talking about this weekend he spent in Ferrara with a small band of political scientists at the "meeting" organized by International who managed to bring this jewel of a city (UNESCO UNESCO) thousands of people hungry for information and counter-information, incentives and dialogue.
IEH already, because we were always so many waiting hours in line in front of that blessed Apollo cinema for a meeting with journalists like David Rieff on the war on terrorism in the USA, for the screening of a film and delicious as bitter as Persepolis, for a comparison between Arundhaty Roy and other great writers and journalists from various places on the planet on the contamination between journalism and non-fiction literature of commitment "civil" were many to follow in silence the stories of Amira Hass on the tragedy of the Palestinian territories occupied by Israeli settlers, many were mainly around the city with the look a bit 'dazed and amazed, to cross each other and smile, to ask advice on where to eat in the evening or for better Time will not find too many rows at a conference. It 'great to see so much curiosity, you realize how many beautiful people, after all, share your interests, your same concerns, m espite certainly different paths from which they come.
And even though I am always arises the doubt and fear that events like these are likely to become a mere "exercise intellectual exercise" for fake highbrow who feel gratified by the knowledge and confirmations, or white young Westerners think they can change things through just as their white and Manichean world views, or still might be a refuge for the defeatists cronic luxuriating in the bad news that can be heard here, that I have left this weekend is still a feeling of positivity and desire to do, continue to inform, to listen, to study, to fight, to write ...
Today Jerome has displaced me, making me come to terms with an implicit choice, perhaps not yet definitive and certainly not yet metabolized I try to constantly remove from my brain. I am afraid to confront with certain things and I often pretend to dismiss and bury them under a heaps of other smaller daily choices ... but it is clear that it is not. I just wanted to thank those who helped me to remember.
last few days in this part is officially started my life as a graduate student: I have to start a thesis a bit 'odd and even move to complete it! But above all I have to decide what to do with my future: All proposals are welcome, even the most extravagant.
The best will win a coveted prize ...
plug in! Hugs and kisses
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Benni
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