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2019 Programme

Event #2

Telmo Pievani

And they called it sapiens

We need the biosphere to breath and eat. But biosphere does not need the self-proclaimed Homo Sapiens. Climate heating is a dangerous planetary experiment that is already leading to harmful consequences. Deforestation, diffusion of invasive species, wild urbanization, pollution and the exploitation of natural resources have already reduced one third of our biodiversity, and our development and consumption models are making the situation even worse. This is not a “sapiens behavior” – especially from an economic point of view – because the depletion of our ecosystems will cost us a fortune. Let’s try to imagine how the Earth would be without our pervading presence in order to find our evolutionist humility as well as the awareness of our fragility.

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Telmo Pievani, science philosopher and evolutionist, essayist and communicator, holds Italy’s first chair in Philosophy of biological sciences at the Department of Biology of the University of Padua. He is president of the Italian Society of Evolutionist Biology, member of the Italian Department of Anthropology and a contributor writer for Corriere della Sera, Le Scienze, Micromega e L’Indice dei Libri del Mese. He is author of several books including Introduzione a Darwin (2012) ,Laterza; La fine del mondo (2012) , il Mulino; Evoluti e abbandonati (2014) and Libertà di migrare (con V. Calzolaio, 2016), Einaudi; Come saremo (con L. De Biase, 2016) for Codice; La vita inaspettata (2011) and Imperfezione (2019), Cortina. By the end of August his new book La terra dopo di noi (with Frans Lanting) will be published by Contrasto.

2019 Programme

Event #2

Telmo Pievani

And they called it sapiens

Space Exploration: today, tomorrow, and… the day after

And they called it sapiens

The future is history

Sketches

A time that is not near

Popular revolts in Medieval Europe. The Jacquerie of French peasants (1358)

Fragments of extinctions

Our future with A.I.

Will finance save the world?

Jokes on future

Taking care of oneself, of others, of the world

How is Earth’s climate changing?

The art of reading between past and future

The end of «the end of history»

Scott: future’s first explorer

Yesterday’s and tomorrow's diets. How to survive fake news?

Open Source Architecture

The inflamed mind

Will it still be possible to love you?

The race and the language: the future that does (not) expect us

Ernst Henry Shackleton. The hero who defeated the Arctic

The future of the theatre

Piano vs Groove

Popular revolts in Medieval Europe. The rebellion of the Ciompi (1378)

The destiny of a community and many religions: is there a dialogue for the future of humanity?

The Evil’s genes

The future of the word

Looking for immortality

Refugees’ future

What is the perspective of the future of Italy and of the world?

The real truth about plastic and bioplastic (maybe)

Robots of the future and plants

The chimera of peace

Re-writing the future of our children

City art versus outskirts art

Achilles, Odysseus and the truth of the future

Popular revolts in Medieval Europe.
The Jacquerie of French peasants (1358)