On Friday 13TH October 2017, PISAI officially opens the Academic Year 2017-2018 with a solemn inauguration. The program begins at 09h00 with a word of welcome to the students and staff by the Rector, Don Valentino COTTINI, followed by an inaugural lecture delivered by an alumni of PISAI, Professor Clare E. WILDE, of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands. The lecture, entitled Approaching the Qur’ān through Chalcedon, will be in English. After a short break, at 11h30 PISAI will be honoured by the presence of His Eminence Cardinal Gianfranco RAVASI, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, who will preside at the Holy Mass celebrated in the chapel of the Institute