Societies
Volta Debating Society (VDES)
Debate is the the cornerstone of democratic culture and a quintessential feature of University life. There is tradition of formal University-based debates in a number of Institutions in the English-speaking world and, following in this tradition, Volta has promoted its own Volta Debating Society (VDES) with the aim to offer students basic debating skills, foster internal debate on major topics and encourage an inter-collegiate debating context. The style of these debates will follow that of British Parliamentary debates and the ultimate aim of these activities is to assemble a University-wide team that will represent the University of Pavia at the annual World Universities Debating Championship due to take place in Belgrade in 2022 and in Madrid in 2023.
The College thanks Arianna Armanetti (currently an MSc student in Physics, earlier a College undergraduate) for promoting the debating culture inside Volta and for providing a basic course of debating sklls in the academic year 2020/21and for acting as the first secretary to the Volta Debating Society for the academic years 2020/21 and 2021/22. The following College students were the the first members of tthe VDES: Federico Bertelli, Giulia Bonasegale, Raffaele Castellucci, Andrea Cerbone, Mircea Codrea, Davide Gianatti, Giacomo Maggiorano, Chiara Mogliazza, Alessandra Ria and Marco Silvestri. Internal and inter-collegiate debating events will be reported in the News & Events section of the College web site and details of the 2021/22 'The Art and Technique of Debating' Course will be published alongside the details of other College Courses (personale development, language, computing, etc) in the earlier part of the 2021/22 academic year.
The following students enrolled in the VDES for the academic year 2021/22. Arianna Armanetti has agreed to act as Secretary to the Society for ths academic year.
Leonardo Beretta
Raffaele Castellucci
Federica Paparella
Elia A Perli
Ines Shopi
Mehdi Alipour Masoumabad
Arianna Armanetti
Annalisa Barone
Andrea Caiulo
Paolo Catarsi
Mircea A Codrea
Davide Gianatti
Abimbola C Ogunyele
Alice Salacrist
Marco Silvestri
Image: a debate of the Cambridge Union, the oldest known University Debating Society (founded 1815).
Volta Freshers' Society (VFRS)
The Volta Freshers' Society (VFRS) aims to help the new students of Collegio, especially year one undergraduates to find their way in College reaching out to students of higher years and becoming rapidly productive. The College Master will ask the Fresher's Society to arrange and coordinate at least two meetings in October devoted to the preparation of the study plans due at the end of October and to the personal development plans. The College Office will offer special help to College Freshers on all house matters from access to College facilities, College payments, etc and College will encourage and support social and sport events promoting the presence and the role of freshers in College clubs, sport teams and study groups..
The following students have enrolled in the VFRS for the academic year 2021/22. Sladjana Ajdinovic has agreed to act as Secretary to the Society for this academic year.
Sladjana Ajdinovic
Beatrice Cicchetti
Martina Forlani
Federico Ghirelli
Giulia Gossetti
Maral Kazemian
Maria Pia Longo
Veronica Maresca
Erica Peria
Basma Ragab
Odunayo D Adeniyi
Mehdi Alipour Masoumabad
Annalisa Barone
Adnane Boumaiza
Ricardo Trujillo
Emanuele Tumbiolo
Ivan Voloshyn
Ragip S Yilmaz
Volta Society for International Students (VSIS)
The Volta Society for International Students (VSIS) aims to provide support to all foreign students who join College during their studies in Pavia. These include undergraduate students (Erasmus students and students of other exchange schemes) and graduate students who join the University of Pavia for MA and PhD courses or as post-doctoral fellows. VSIS organises social events, as well as meetings and seminars, with the purpose of ensuring that the foreign students of Volta feel welcome in College and have every opportunity to contribute to College life in line with the College mission that Volta aims to be a truly international community of scholars.
The following students have enrolled in the VSIS for the academic year 2021/22. Alain P Peleu Ngate has agreed to act as Secretary to the Society for this academic year.
Sladjana Ajdinovic
Amina Amer
Ludovica Ferrero
Martina Forlani
Ali Ghanbari
Elisa I Hobelsberger
Shamim Joudakidinarvandi
Aida Karimian
Maral Kazemian
Ana Kovic
Eleonora Nicodemo
Giulia Maria Nicoletta
Basma Ragab
Serra Sahin
Arber Selimi
Ines Shopi
Stefany M Vecchio
Mehdi Alipour Masoumabad
Odunayo D Adeniyi
Romina Bahrami
Sharareh Banihashemi
Adnane Boumaiza
Shayan Kamalzadeh
Aisyah R Laily
Lam V Le
Abimbola C Ogunyele
Tuba Özcan
Alain P Peleu Ngate
Michelle E Rygus
Mohammad Tamadoni Ghanbalani
Ricardo Trujillo
Ragip S Yilmaz
Volta Society for Economics (VSEC)
The Volta Society for Economics (VSEC) has produced several major seminar series in previous years including one devoted to the 2008 Financial Crisis and as well as general lectures on global issue, poverty and inequality.
The following students have enrolled in the VSEC for 2021/22 and the following students have enrolled in the Spciety for 2021/22. Emanuele Tumbiolo has agreed to act as Secretary to the Society for this academic year.
Gabriele Acquaviva
Matteo Lo Porto
Xiaowei Liu
Ricardo Trujillo
Emanuele Tumbiolo
Volta Science Society (VSCS)
Science is the major subject in the College named after physicist Alessandro Volta. However, science is also a subject that increasingly distant and remote from the interests of very many people in Italy as well as in other first world countries. The College as a whole has a strong interest in the public understanding of Science, an interest highlighted by the Volta lecture and by the topics of the Volta seminar programme. The work of the Volta Science Society (VSCS) follows and extends this approach and aims to promote discussions of scientific advances and important topics at the interface between science and society. Discussions will be promoted through interviews, meetings, photographic exhibitions and any other tool available to College that may further the understanding of Science as the highest - or certainly one of the highest - cultural expressions of mankind and not just as a provider of technological advance.
The following students have enrolled in the VSCS for the academic year 2021/22. Simone Filiippi has agreed to act as Secretary to the Spciety for this academic year.
Amina Amer
Elena Andreoletti
Andrea Baraldi
Ilaria Campese
Demis Capodagli
Michela Cocchetti
Michele Colombelli
Simone Filippi
Valerio Florestano
Giorgia Fontana
Lucrezia Fontanari
Federico Ghirelli
Giulia Gossetti
Oussama Harti
Giulia Maria Nicoletta
Erica Peria
Elia A Perli
Ilaria Petrizzi
Dario Pulito
Basma Ragab
Ines Shopi
Ines Skuqi
Francesca Villa
Odunayo D Adeniyi
Gabriele Adobati
Rossella M Aiuto
Mehdi Alipour Masoumabad
Sharareh Banihashemi
Andrei S Blindu
Paolo Catarsi
Claudia Cavaliere
Farhad Ekramitalab
Neda Fariborzi
Hanaa Jad
Shayan Kamalzadeh
Aisyah R Laily
Giovanni Marchese
Elena Mariani
Tuba Özcan
Carolina Piva
Diego Riva
Hadiseh Safari Zavaraki
Maurizio Sanna
Davide Sogliani
Martina GRM Soresi
Ricardo Trujillo
Emanuele Tumbiolo
Ivan Voloshyn
Volta Political Society (VPOS)
A number of Volta students have a strong interest in social and political issues. The Volta Political Society (VPOS) catalyses these interests that have yielded numerous initiatives in previous years from an open debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Arab Spring, the future of the European Union, etc.
The following students have enrolled in the VSEC for the academic year 2021/22. Ludovica Ferrero has agreed to act as Secretary to the Society for this academic year.
Sladjana Ajdinovic
Amina Amer
Ilham El Ouizi
Ludovica Ferrero
Valerio Florestano
Elisa I Hobelsberger
Maria Pia Longo
Eleonora Nicodemo
Dario Pulito
Ines Shopi
Michele Songini
Sharareh Banihashemi
Paolo Catarsi
Davide Sogliani
Volta Music Society (VMUS)
The College needs to develops Music at Volta through a proper Music room, to be located in the new College wing, the purchase of additional musical instruments, College-based Concerts and meetings with distinguished Musicians and Composers. The Volta Music Society (VMUS) aims to encourage and coordinate all these activities in order to ensure that Music constitutes a strong component of the life and education of College students.
The following students have enrolled in the VMUS for the academic year 2021/22. Elia A Perli has agreed to act as Secretary to the Society for this academic year.
Amina Amer
Elena Andreoletti
Andrea Baraldi
Davide D'ambrosio
Shamim Joudakidinarvandi
Aida Karimian
Maral Kazemian
Ana Kovic
Matteo Lo Porto
Maria Pia Longo
Elia A Perli
Serra Sahin
Soheil Shishehbor
Stefany M Vecchio
Mehdi Alipour Masoumabad
Odunayo D Adeniyi
Romina Bahrami
Sharareh Banihashemi
Giacomo Casucci
Neda Fariborzi
Davide Gianatti
Mohammad Tamadoni Ghanbalani
Hisham Wazeer
Volta Medical Society (VMES)
The Volta Medical Society (VMES) aims to promote discussions in College on any medical topic of broad interest. These may include specific advances in medical sciences that are of sufficient interest to be discussed or broad medical issues that have strong implications for society and for understanding the social basis of health and disease. The Volta Medical Society aims to achieve these goals with interviews, meetings and exhibitions with physicians, scientist and social scientists who have made significant contributions to modern health. The Society has organised numerous seminar series on topics of broad medical interest spanning from Ethics and Medicin, Infectious Diseases, Personalised Medicine as well several lectures from scientists who have made fundamental contributions to modern Medicine.
The following students have enrolled in the VMES for the academic year 2021/22. Lorenzo Mancini and Luigi Sallustio have agreed to act as Secretaries to the Society for this academic year.
Ramin Alavi Houshmand
Amina Amer
Ilaria Campese
Davide D'ambrosio
Ilham El Ouizi
Giorgia Fontana
Ali Ghanbari
Federico Ghirelli
Shamim Joudakidinarvandi
Aida Karimian
Maral Kazemian
Ana Kovic
Lorenzo Mancini
Irene Nicosia
Pinar Olguner
Erica Peria
Basma Ragab
Serra Sahin
Luigi Sallustio
Angelica Scarpellini
Iris M Scholz
Arber Selimi
Soheil Shishehbor
Ines Shopi
Ines Skuqi
Andrea Trabacca
Alessia Traversa
Francesca Veneziani
Maryam Yazdani
Rossella M Aiuto
Annalisa Barone
Claudia Cavaliere
Mustafa Gultekin
Aisyah R Laily
Lam V Le
Xiaowei Liu
Elena Mariani
Ilaria Petrizzi
Carolina Piva
Arian Sadeghi
Davide Sogliani
Volta Literary Society (VLIS)
The Volta Literary Society (VLTS) aims to promote an interest in literature among Volta students, the majority of which read science, engineering or medicine. The scope of the Literary Society is literary work - Italian and foreign - including the work of major writers from North and South South, Africa, the Arab world, India, China and Japan. Informal College activities will include group readings and dicussion groups on specific authors and topics as well as essay and poetry competitions. More formal activities will include meetings and debates with individual authors, especially authors who have published recent work and are willing to explain it and discuss it with College students.
The students enrolled in the VLTS for the academic year 2021/22 are listed below. Francesca Veneziani has agreed to act as secretary to the Society for this academic year.
Amina Amer
Michela Cocchetti
Michele Colombelli
Roberta D'agostino
Aurora Legittimo
Ines Shopi
Michele Songini
Alessia Traversa
Stefany M Vecchio
Francesca Veneziani
Rossella M Aiuto
Claudia C Alfaro Contreras
Giacomo Casucci
Agnese Zambinelli
Volta Drama Society (VDRS)
The Volta Drama Society (VDRS) has produced several pieces in previous years including a beautiful and large production of the of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatr involving approximately twenty actors between College and a choir from Collegio Cairoli.
The College hopes that the VDRS can resume its work after the Covid pandemic and the following students have enrolled in the Society for the academic year 2021/22. Federica Paparella has agreed to act as Secretary to the Society for this academic year.
Amina Amer
Beatrice Cicchetti
Samuele Di Cugno
Alisha Gembali
Federica Paparella
Odunayo D Adeniyi
Gabriele Adobati
Claudia C Alfaro Contreras
Arianna Armanetti