Alia
I have always been committed to creating and maintaining an environment free from any discrimination.
Intercultural dialogue
When I was at high school and university I was a member of the non-profit ‘AFS-Intercultura’, which promotes intercultural learning and education in schools all over the world. Its aim is to help students develop the skills needed to accept diversity and to create a world based on tolerance and peace.
Inter-Faith
My passion for diversity grew even stronger in Hong Kong, where I pursued my PhD. There, I had the privilege to lead a university-based interfaith fellowship which was open to students not only of any religion but also of no religious affiliation.
No Harassment
During my PhD studies at the University of Hong Kong I became the first Anti-sexual-harassment contact person for the School of Humanities. Here are some materials that can be useful to raise awareness on sexual harassment among university students:
Know your Rights (ppt)
Know your Rights (Handout)
Sexual Harassment at Hong Kong Universities
This is an interesting article on how behaviors that are typical (and innocuous) in one culture can be regarded as sexual harassment in other cultural contexts:
Sexual Harassment: An Analysis of an Intercultural Communication Break-down
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS
PHILOSOPHICAL CAFE': TO AND FRO, PHYSICS AND MODERN APPLICATION OF RATIONALITY
On the Relation between Ontology and Epistemology in Physical Theorizing (Prague)
Since modern physical theories are formulated in mathematical language, we must look at mathematics in order to understand what these theories tell us about the physical world. But in what ways does mathematics reveal the nature of the world? Either we let mathematics dictate the structure of our physical world, or we use our intuitions and subjective understanding of the world as guides to interpret mathematical formalism. In my talk, I will discuss these two options and argue for a middle way that appeals to some new epistemological principles.
APERICERCA: LA CRISI DELLA REPLICABILITA' NELLE SCIENZE (THE REPLICABILITY CRISIS IN THE SCIENCES)
Un percorso filosofico per comprendere il problema della crisi della replicabilità scientifica e scoprire quali strumenti concettuali ci permettono di affrontarlo al meglio
Robinson's Podcast: Is Astrophysics Science?
with Nora Boyd and Siska de Baerdemaeker
Incontro tra Fede e Scienza
L'intreccio tra fede e scienza nell'Umanesimo di James Clerk Maxwell