2017 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

128 2017 Yearbook CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2017 Prof. Anna Westerstahl Stenport (United States) Chair and Professor, School of Modern Languages, Georgia Institute of Technology. She visited the university and held meetings with Julio Fernández, Ph.D., Vice Rector for Academic Affairs; Eduardo Hipogrosso, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Communication and Design; and María Azpiroz, Ph.D., Director of International Relations, on August 1. Mag. Sohvi Sirkesalo (Finland) Professor at the School of Art, Music, and Media at Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK). She delivered the international lecture “How to Work in a Networked Society,” November 23. She led workshops for high school, college, and graduate students as part of the Erasmus+ International Mobility Project developed by Universidad ORT Uruguay TAMK, November 13–24. Department of Jewish Studies Dr. Santiago Kovadloff (Argentina) Writer, philosopher, translator, and professor. He led the seminar “Where Should We Go?”, May 28 and 29. Dr. Efraim Zadoff (Israel) Secular humanist rabbi from the International Institute of Secular Humanist Judaism – Tmura Israel. He delivered the lecture “The Ghetto in the Holocaust – Evolution, Characteristics, and Vicissitudes,” June 8. Mag. Sohvi Sirkesalo Dr. Efraim Zadoff