2017 Programme
Event #1
Elena Cattaneo
The networks that are good for science
In the 1980s a group of scientists from various parts of the world landed on lake Maracaibo, in the North-West of Venezuela, to study the origin and causes of a neurodegenerative disease known as Huntigton’s chorea, which has its highest incidence in those areas. This year, some of the Venezuelan families struck by the disease were welcomed in Rome by researchers, scientists and representatives of Italy’s highest institutions. The network that connects these two experiences starts with Maria Concepción Soto – who lived in the village of Lagunetas at the end of the 19th century and is considered one of the progenitors of the disease – and, from generation to generation – an estimated 20.000 descendants – it reaches Maria Esther Soto Soto and her brothers, Franklin and Yosbely; Pope Francis expressed to them that the disease they’ve inherited from their father should never again be hidden, because the frailty of their bodies is not a sin to be ashamed of. This network intersects laboratories all over the world that study the gene that causes the disease, testing new treatments and medicines to alleviate its symptoms until a cure is found. It traverses the desks of the American, British and Canadian researchers who in 1993 identified the mutated gene responsible for Huntington’s, and current experiments on neuron transplants from stem cells and gene silencing which aim to defuse the diseased genes. As research focuses on how this billion-year old gene has survived through our species’ evolution, relationships and connections between laboratories continue to be formed, interconnecting with society, the people afflicted, associations, institutions and vice-versa. These are the networks that are good for science, that support the ill and allow many people to live their humanity to the fullest.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/is a full professor at the University of Milan. She directs the Stem cell biology and neurodegenerative disease pharmacology laboratory of the Department of Bioscience, where she researches Huntington’s disease. She is a confounder and director of the UniStem stem cell research center and coordinator of the new European Neurostemcellrepair commission and of an Italian network that studies stem cells in Huntington’s. Her awards include the Gold Medal assigned by the Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, for her research in Huntington’s and stem cells (2001); the Luigi Tartufari Prize for Molecular biology and genetics awarded by the Accademia dei Lincei, which she has been a member of since 2013; the Public Service Award, International Society for Stem Cell Research ISSCR (USA, 2014). She was nominated Senator for life by the president of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano, in 2013. In 2016 she published the book Ogni giorno. Tra scienza e politica (Mondadori).
Event #3
Sunday 3 September 2017, 07.00 pm
Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti
The net of Eros. Seduction
Event #5
Friday 1 September 2017, 09.15 pm
Marco Albino Ferrari
Enchantment. From Val Grande to the polar icecaps
Event #6
Friday 1 September 2017, 11.00 pm
Alessandro Barbero
Clandestine networks. A network of spies: doctor Sorge in Tokyo
Event #8
Saturday 2 September 2017, 10.00 am
Elliot Ackerman, Imma Vitelli
Experiencing and relating war
Event #9
Saturday 2 September 2017, 10.00 am
Franco Lorenzoni
Weaving relationships through silence and listening
Event #10
Saturday 2 September 2017, 11.45 am
Axel Fiacco, Massimo Scaglioni
From networks to formats: creativity on television
Event #11
Saturday 2 September 2017, 12.00 pm
Marco Malvaldi, Claudio Bartocci
The Web as a mathematical structure
Event #13
Saturday 2 September 2017, 12.15 pm
Giorgio Manzi
In the web of deep history: Lucy, Neanderthals and other stories
Event #14Approfonditamente
Saturday 2 September 2017, 02.45 pm
Matteo Cerri
Keeping cool: hibernation and the exotic network of its physiology
Event #15
Saturday 2 September 2017, 03.00 pm
Nicola Gardini
The beauty of occurring. Ovid and the network of metamorphoses
Event #21
Saturday 2 September 2017, 07.00 pm
Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti
The net of Eros. Betrayal
Event #24
Saturday 2 September 2017, 11.00 pm
Alessandro Barbero
Clandestine networks. A network of partisans: the GAP groups in Rome and the attack in Via Rasella
Event #26
Sunday 3 September 2017, 10.00 am
Emanuele Biggi
Spiders, silk and spider webs: wonders of the unloved
Event #28
Sunday 3 September 2017, 12.00 pm
Aravind Adiga, Marcello Fois
In the web: narrating families
Event #31Approfonditamente
Sunday 3 September 2017, 02.45 pm
B. Fantini, T. Pievani, S. Pimpinelli, F. Rufo
The code of life
Event #32
Sunday 3 September 2017, 03.00 pm
Anna Salvo, Tiziana Iaquinta
Adolescents caught in the Web
Event #33Approfonditamente
Sunday 3 September 2017, 03.00 pm
C. Borgomeo, U. Bressanello, G. De Michelis, G. Giunta, V. Linarello
From silent social work to community networks
Event #36
Sunday 3 September 2017, 07.00 pm
Paolo Gavazzeni, Omer Meir Wellber
The conductor, the orchestra and the score
Event #37
Sunday 3 September 2017, 07.00 pm
Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti
The net of Eros. Reconquering
Event #39
Sunday 3 September 2017, 09.00 pm
Centro Formazione Supereroi
Neverending stories. A challenge in literary improvisation
Event #40
Sunday 3 September 2017, 09.00 pm
Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari
Aung San Suu Kyi’s life under arrest
Event #41
Sunday 3 September 2017, 11.00 pm
Alessandro Barbero
Clandestine networks. A network of terrorists: the Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro
Event #44Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September_ 9.30 am_3.00 pm
Geena Forrest
Pencil-carrying naturalists
Event #46Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September_10.00 am_3.45 pm
Fabrizio Silei
Once upon a time there was a city
Event #47Children / Kids
Saturday 2 _10.00 am_11.30 am/Sunday 3 September_11.30 am_4.30 pm
Raffaele Cesano, Print About Me
Coloring a hundred miles a minute
Event #48Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September_11.00 am_5.00 pm
Mook
The art of reclamation. DIY construction of a network of animals
Event #49Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September_ore 11.15 pm_4.45 pm
Cinzia Ghigliano
Pictures tell stories, so do we!
Event #51Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September 2017, 03.30 pm
Franco Lorenzoni
How was music born into the world?
Event #52Children / Kids
Saturday 2 _4.00 pm_5.15 pm/Sunday 3 September 10.30 am_3.30 pm
Anna Resmini, Virginia Zini
Shapes of sound. Stories of encounters between sound and color
Event #53Children / Kids
Saturday 2 _ore 4.45 pm/Sunday 3 September ore 9.30 am
Marianna Merisi
Vagabonds on a voyage
Event #54Children / Kids
Saturday 2_ore 17.30/Sunday 3 September_10.30 am
Noemi Bermani, Salvatore Panu
Suoni di c/arte
Event #55Children / Kids
Saturday 2_6.00 pm/Sunday 3 September_10.00 am
Gian Marco Malagoli, Elisa Passerini
Numerincoding
Event #56Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September 2017, 09.00 pm
The Teatro dell’Orsa Company, Michele Ferri
Strange stories
Event #57Children / Kids
Sunday 3 September_ 9.30 am_11.15 am
Students of the I.I.S. Capellini-Sauro school of La Spezia, ScienziataMente
Find the culprit… with math!
Event #59Children / Kids
Sunday 3 September_ 10.30 am_2.45 pm_5.30 pm
Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura, REMIDA
Irreverently entwined
Event #60Children / Kids
Sunday 3 September_2.45_4.30 pm
P4C – Research center on philosophical inquiry
Can thoughts be drawn?
Event #61Children / Kids
Sunday 3 September_4.00 pm_6.00
Else Edizioni
In your own words: from silent books to silk screen printing