2013 Programme
EVENT #21
Ilvo Diamanti
The future? It is past
Nowadays we are all young until age 60 and over, so who are young people? Did they disappear together with their future? Did they escape, and where? Or perhaps they no longer exist? The best or luckiest of them tend to leave the country, and those who are left behind can no longer see the future as it is hostage to an eternal past-present, or it is compensated for by adults and by the Italian family. The future has dissolved to the point that there is no more social conflict, no striving for something new, but only promises, and the dream that everything can happen now, instantly, as if time no longer existed. If we are all young then no-one is really young. There is no future but an eternal past. The future is yesterday. A portrait of a country and a people crushed by a time which has come (or that we have brought) to a standstill.
teaches Political Science and Communication at the University of Urbino, where he founded and directs the Laboratory of Political and Social Studies (LaPolis). He also teaches Régimes Politiques Comparés at the Masters course in Etudes Politiques at the Paris II Panthéon-Assas University. He undertakes periodic investigations into Italian society and is a contributor to the newspaper la Repubblica. He is a member of the scientific/editorial advisory boards of many journals. His published works include Mappe dell’Italia politica. Bianco, rosso, verde, azzurro... e tricolore (2009), Gramsci, Manzoni e mia suocera. Quando gli esperti sbagliano le previsioni politiche (2012) for il Mulino; Tempi strani. Un nuovo sillabario (Feltrinelli, 2012); Un salto nel voto. Ritratto politico dell’Italia di oggi (with F. Bordignon and L. Ceccarini, Editori Laterza, 2013).
EVENT #18
Stefano Bartezzaghi, Massimo Recalcati
To inherit or to be creative? Art in the time of disoriented generations
