The EU in Focus Working Group and Trip to Brussels
What is the EU? How does it work? What is its role on the world stage? The EU has the world’s largest GDP, the world’s third largest...
Photographer Shahidul Alam arrested in Bangladesh
Acclaimed Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam, who presented his work Hejara’s Family at La Pietra in November 2015, was arrested on...
Bearing Witness at the Son My Memorial
The Son My Memorial in Vietnam is a direct example of the “memory boom”- the emergence of sites of memory depicting scarring events...
1968-2018: The Past, Present and Future of Social Movements
The 50th anniversary of the epic year 1968 seems to have coincided with the potential birth of another student led social movements...
Activism at an Intersection: A Conversation with Angela Davis & Gina Dent
Davis and Dent sat down with La Pietra Dialogues Editing interns, Tia Glista and Katia Taylor, on May 1, to discuss different challenges in
The Evolution of a Tourist
When the prospect of traveling to Europe first became a reality to me, I was a sophomore in high school. My school organized spring break...
Who Is Angela Davis?
On Monday, April 23 at Spazio Alfieri, activists and scholars Angela Davis and Gina Dent delivered a dialogue about their past and...
What is Prison Abolition and Why Does it Matter?
Understand incarceration in the United States - from for-profit prisons, to human rights abuses, and what is being done to change the system