IANR Faculty Forum

1) How we got here - the budget situation 2) Our good work needed now, more than ever, by Nebraska - huge needs3) What can you do?

Nebraska Winery and Grape Growers Forum and Trade Show

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this 11th annual Nebraska Winery and Grape Growers Forum and Trade Show. I'm John Owens, University of Nebraska Vice President and Harlan Vice Chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. I'm delighted to be with you on this second day of a very fine and informative conference.

Forum: social network for the surveillance and prevention of workplace accidents

In 2008, academic researchers and public service officials created a university extension studies platform based on online and on-site meetings denominated "Work-Related Accidents Forum: Analysis, Prevention, and Other Relevant Aspects. Its aim was to help public agents and social partners to propagate a systemic approach that would be helpful in the surveillance and prevention of work-related accidents. This article describes and analyses such a platform. Online access is free and structured to: support dissemination of updated concepts; support on-site meetings and capacity to build educational activities; and keep a permanent space for debate among the registered participants. The desired result is the propagation of a social-technical-systemic view of work-related accidents that replaces the current traditional view that emphasizes human error and results in blaming the victims. The Forum uses an educational approach known as permanent health education, which is based on the experience and needs of workers and encourages debate among participants. The forum adopts a problematizing pedagogy that starts from the requirements and experiences of the social actors and stimulates support and discussions among them in line with an ongoing health educational approach. The current challenge is to turn the platform into a social networking website in order to broaden its links with society.

Green Line Peace Forum (Beirut: Lo spazio del dialogo nella città spartiacque tra Occidente ed Oriente)

Come al giorno dʼoggi si verifica lʼintegrazione (o più spesso lʼemarginazione) della cultura islamica, dalle caratteristiche così differenti e lontane dalla cultura occidentale, con la società contemporanea nella quale viviamo? Riflettendo sulla risposta a tale quesito, alla luce delle conoscenze intraprese durante lʼesperienza erasmus, ho pensato a quale fosse il contesto migliore nel quale investigare e tentare una connessione tra queste due culture. Ho quindi individuato alcune città “modello” per quanto riguarda la convivenza di differenti religioni, crogiuoli di diverse etnie e culture, con una storia radicata di interculturalità: in particolare Sarajevo, Tirana e Beirut. La scelta di allontanarmi da un contesto europeo od addirittura italiano è stata dettata da ragioni storiche e di apertura mentale: in quelle città da anni, forse secoli si verifica la convivenza di differenti confessioni, spesso allʼinterno dello stesso quartiere.