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Stefano is University Lecturer at Institute for History

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What does Technology do to Humans? Lessons from the UN and Leiden University

Stefano Bellucci responds to the International Studies inaugural lecture on Artificial Intelligence at the United Nations and the controversy surrounding smart cameras on campus. “A world ruled according to a technological logic is a world indifferent to the beauty and the uniqueness of humans.”

Dr. S. Bellucci • March 01, 2022

Covid-19 and labour: Workers are set to pay the price of the pandemic

Shakespeare once wrote “the web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together”. In the book The Great Leveler, Walter Scheidel claims that violence has historically reduced economic inequality, and catastrophes are therefore somehow a historical human necessity since the Stone Age.

Dr. S. Bellucci • May 28, 2020

Sovereignism

A new concept is spreading. An idea that is shaping the political landscape of the Global North, and it will continue to do so in the future. Let’s prepare to deal with it, let’s understand it.

Dr. S. Bellucci • April 02, 2019

On the Side of the Victims: Aerial Bombing in History and International Law

On 18 April 2018, the International Studies programme hosted Professor Tullio Scovazzi (University Milan-Bicocca, Italy) as guest lecturer. The theme of the lecture was aerial bombing in history and in international law.

Dr. S. Bellucci • May 18, 2018