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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

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