2011 Program
Evento n.36
Edoardo Boncinelli
What is life? Life yesterday, today and tomorrow
Life is probably a single, great event that has been going on for almost four billion years taking on very diverse forms and ex pressing itself in an impressive number of particolar events—the countless different individuals that have once lived and are now living. This is not a brand-new idea, but it is not easily accepted in its fullest meaning. Put it differently, it means that the DNA of the genome of an organism whose life is just beginning may be but a ‘summary’ of all previous events. On the other hand, havin a genome is just what makes a living being one—stones and clouds have no genome. In this broad scenario is there any room for new events, i.e., for a new life? With due precautions, the answer is yes, but under very specific conditions.
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
