Category: VDS
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Intro by our Moderator Laura Bassan.Speeches by Ludovica D’Orsa, Benjamin Clardy, Riccardo Jommi and Mariam Frangulyan. Nov 30, 2018 On October 18th 2018, Campus Treviso hosted the new edition of the Debate Society by the Venice Diplomatic Society. The event is an opportunity for the members of the association to practise their public and debating…
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Sara Dal Monico e Filippo Schena Apr 29, 2020 This is not supposed to be neither one of those articles describing the simulation, or the skills of the participants. With ‘this is not supposed to’ we don’t want to employ the negative connotation of the term, at all. Because it suggests the idea of underestimating…
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Sara Dal Monico e Filippo Schena Apr 29, 2019 63 editions before our arrival at the Boston Park Plaza; 63 editions of HNMUNs, with thousands of delegates participating in the committees. A story of implementations and improvements, a story of diplomacy and discussions, a story of cooperation and… youth. Quite weird being on the other…
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Laura Gaspari Nov 5, 2018 According to the definition of the Oxford Dictionary, a “debate” is “a formal discussion on a particular matter in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward and which usually ends with a vote”. This is exactly what the VDS Debate Society is. Taking…
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Filippo Schena Nov 5, 2018 We met in November 2017, when the Venice Diplomatic Society was organizing the second edition of the Venice Universities’ Model United Nations (VeUMUN). It was necessary to provide the selected participants with an appropriate preparation in order to face the Model: a contently and formally all-around preparation. And we couldn’t…
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Maddalena Sartor Nov 5, 2018 Have you ever wondered a place in which you can learn and laugh hard at the same time? A place in which your voice finds a space and your ideas are listened to and debated? A place in which differences harmonically mix together as if there were no borders nor…
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Ideas, opinions, stereotypes, misconceptions, misinterpretations… and we might endlessly go ahead enlisting the wide range of attitudes towards Africa. There’s the need of objectivity; there’s the need of appropriate study; there’s the need of keeping minds wide open. Possibly this was the attitude behind the necessity of organizing a lecture about “Discovering Africa” that Ca’Foscari…