Collegio Volta is pleased to join the Oasi Cardinale Martini, la Consulta Volontariato Comune di Pavia and il Centro Servizi Volontariato di Pavia e Provincia in organising a public lecture, entitled The Muslims and Us, by Maurice Borrmans to be held in College in the main Lecture Theatre on the 24th of October at 9.00 pm. Maurice Borrmans is a Catholic scholar and a member of the Society of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers). He has a doctorate in Letters from the University Paris-Sorbonne; lived in Algeria and Tunisia for twenty years and has been teaching Muslim law and History of Islamic-Christian relations at the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome over very many years. He has also been director of the journal Islamochristiana from 1975 to 2004 and has actively participated over the years in many Islamic-Christian Conferences in Mediterranean countries.
M FRACCARO LECTURE 2022/23
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A Volta Lecture 2020/21
Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate in Physics (2020), delivered the 2020/21 A Volta lecture online on 20 January 2022 on 'From Black-Hole Singularities to Cosmic Cosmology'.
M Fraccaro Lecture 2018/19
Harald zur Hausen, Nobel Laureat in Physiology and Medicine (2008), delivered the 2018/19 M Fraccaro lecture on 8 April 2019
Volta Lecture 2016/17
Sir Richard Peto, the 2016/17 Volta Lecturer, discussed on 25th May 2017 how the world can and should halve premature death.
M Fraccaro Lecture 2016/17
Mario Capecchi, 2007 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine, delivered the 2016/17 M Fraccaro Lecture on 6 April 2017.
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A major seminar series on Research Assessment in France, Germany, the UK and Italy took place in College from November 2016 to February 2017.
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