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2024

“But my predominant feeling is gratitude. I loved and I was loved; I was given much, and I gave something in return […] but above all else, I was a sentient being, a thinking animal on this beautiful planet: and this has been a great privilege and a huge adventure.” In 2014, after receiving a dire diagnosis, Oliver Sacks wrote a brief essay titled My Own Life, later included in the enlightening collection Gratitude, to bid farewell to life peacefully, praising and thanking it: grateful for the beauty of the world and for having been a part of it.

 

The reflections of the great British neurologist inspired me to choose gratitude as the theme for the 21st edition of the Festival della Mente. Nowadays this concept is often overlooked: we live in a society marked by resentment, restlessness, and confusion. To look towards the future with hope, it is essential to “embrace life” with charis, a Greek word that means “joy” and “gratitude,” as Luigina Mortari will discuss in the opening lecture.

Programme of the 21th edition

Festival Opening

Cristina Ponzanelli Mayor of the Municipality of Sarzana
Andrea Corradino President of Fondazione Carispezia
Giacomo Raul Giampedrone Councillor of Liguria Region
Benedetta Marietti Director of the Festival della Mente

Event #1

Luigina Mortari

On gratitude, or the joy of care

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Event #3

Silvia Avallone

Why are we grateful to literature? 

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Event #5

Matteo Nucci

The gratitude of lovers

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Event #6

Chandra Costanza Coletti

Cultivating the flow of spontaneous joy

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Event #7

Chiara Mercuri

Women’s eros. Marie de France and courtly love 

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Event #8

Massimiliano Valerii, Luigi Zoja

Italy: splendour and decline, emotions and numbers

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Event #9

Nello Cristianini

Re-reading Alan Turing in the GPT era 

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Event #11

Telmo Pievani

An adventure in the great library of evolution

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Event #12

Pierre Magistretti

Mind and body: a connection that produces gratitude     

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Event #16

Francesca Cappelletti

A forced gratitude. The portraits of Beauties in 17th Century Europe

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Event #17

Matteo Nucci

The gratitude of friends                                                                 

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Event #18

Alessandro Barbero

The murder of Matteotti, or on ingratitude

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Event #20

Elena Granata, Annalisa Metta

A free city: why cities should not be shopping centres

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Event #24

Matteo Lancini

Beyond gratitude: teenagers and adult fragility

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Event #25

Piero Maranghi

Grateful and ungrateful: a semi-serious journey through music history

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Event #28

Matteo Nucci

The gratitude of enemies

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Event #29

Fabio Genovesi

The eternal grace of giving thanks

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Event #31Children / Kids

Drogheria Rebelot

Taking flight

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Event #32Children / Kids

Beatrice Zerbini

Thank you, houses! Thank you, things!

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Event #33Children / Kids

Agnese Baruzzi

Planet, I'll Help You!

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Event #34Children / Kids

Ester Armanino

Living our emotions

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Event #35Children / Kids

Io Do Una Mano ETS, MadLab 2.0

Let’s lend a hand!  

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Event #36Children / Kids

Sonia Maria Luce Possentini

The notebook of little things

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Event #38Children / Kids

La Tata Robotica

Me… and my intelligent robot

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Event #39Children / Kids

Silvia Neri

Calm as a panda, agile as a cat

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Event #40Children / Kids

SolfanaRia

Seeds of gratitude 

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Event #41Children / Kids

Claudia Palmarucci

The game of darkness                                                                                          

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Event #42Children / Kids

Mascia Premoli

I'll leave you a knot

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