2011 Programme
Evento n.21
Edoardo Boncinelli
What is life? Life is communication
Let us look closely at a living being: like all things of the world, it made up of matter, energy and information. Information, which we measure every day in bits and bytes, iso f fundamental importance with regard to living beings, that could not be such without a very peculiar management of the information they contain. Such information is stored in the DNA of their genome and is transmitted to the cell that hosts it, and from this to all the other cells in the body, in a constant flow of information and communication. But the information contained in the DNA would not be sufficient if we did not incessantly acquire new information by eating and breathing. Someone has called living beings ‘information eaters,’ meaning that what we can really not do without is information and its communication.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/trained as a physicist and head of prestigious research institutes, he is committed to studying and teaching genetics and molecular biology. He contributes to Corriere della Sera and to Le Scienze. His writings include: Prima lezione di biologia (Editori Laterza, 2007); I nostri geni (Einaudi, 2008); L’etica della vita (2008), Perché non possiamo non dirci darwinisti (2009), Lo scimmione intelligente (con G. Giorello, 2009), Lettera a un bambino che vivrà 100 anni (2010), La scienza non ha bisogno di Dio (2012), Quel che resta dell’anima (2012) all for Rizzoli; Mi ritorno in mente (Longanesi, 2010); Come nascono le idee (2008) and La vita della nostra mente (2011), for the series «i Libri del Festival della Mente» published by Editori Laterza; Vita (Bollati Boringhieri, 2013).
Evento n.6
Zygmunt Bauman
Reflections on the notions of community and network, on social networks and Facebook

Evento n.14
Gian Carlo Calza
Different, eccentric, extraordinary: aesthetics and creativity between Asia and the West

Evento n.26
Franco Borgogno
In other people’s hearts and minds. A psychoanalyst between tradition and creativity

Evento n.37
Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni
A quiet sunny day. Attilio Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a friendship in verse
