Lecture series on individual and social well-being

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The health area of SUPSI Continuing Education is organizing a series of evening lectures devoted to topics central to human well-being. The evenings will answer the fundamental question, "How can we take care of ourselves to live a healthy and fulfilling life?"

The meetings will be led by national and international experts from different disciplines such as helping relationship, medicine, philosophy, anthropology, spirituality, sociology and pedagogy. The aim of these lectures is to provide, through the personal experiences and life narratives of experts, meaningful insights for the ethical development of participants, stimulating reflections that can enrich their individual and collective growth path.

The lecture series is organized as part of the DAS training Individual and social well-being: a pathway in integrated humanities.

The evenings are held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. followed by refreshments.

Calendar of appointments

  • Saturday, January 11, 2025
    La felicità. Vantaggi e rischi. Istruzioni per l’uso.
    Speaker: Igor Sibaldi
    Where: Auditorium Centro Professionale Tecnico, Via Trevano 25, 6952 Canobbio
  • Friday, February 21, 2025
    Verità e mondi multipli. Un approccio antropologico.
    Speaker: Gaetano Mangiameli
    where: SUPSI, Stabile Piazzetta, Via Violino 11, 6928 Manno

To whom they address

The conferences are intended for health and wellness professionals, teachers, trainers, educators, social workers and anyone wishing to develop skills in listening, relating and psychosocial counseling.

Registration required

By January 4 for the first appointment and by February 14 for the second appointment.
www.supsi.ch/go/conferenze-benessere

Cost

CHF 35 per conference (online paymentpagamento online).

Speakers

Igor Sibaldi is a novelist, philologist, philosopher, theological scholar, playwright and theater director. He has published many books and lectured thousands of times in Italy, Switzerland and Central America. His favorite topics are the structure of the psyche, the philosophy of history, and the Christian and Hebrew Scriptures, especially the book of Genesis and the Gospel of John: two texts in which he outlines a wonderful, as yet unknown religion, devoid of commandments and centered on the discovery of happiness and individual freedom.

Gaetano Mangiameli is an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy "Piero Martinetti" at the University of Milan - La Statale, where he has been working since 2017, and currently teaches Cultural Anthropology and Environmental Anthropology. Previously, he taught at the University of Bologna, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and the Catholic University of Milan, teaching general courses in Cultural Anthropology and others in Political Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Ethnographic Research Techniques, and Theory and History of Anthropology. He has conducted field research in Ghana, Emilia-Romagna, Sicily and Lombardy. His main research interests are society-environment relations, mythology in West Africa, urban agriculture, social media and funeral rituals. He has published the monographs "Water Habits. Anthropology, Environment and Complexity" (2023), "The Plural Origin. Kassena foundation myths" (2017), as well as numerous essays in Italian and English.

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