2016 Program
Event #3
Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti
The space of words: Helen and Odysseus
“Fair-tressed” Helen and Odysseus who “excels all men in wisdom” are the heroes of seduction. Charming, irresistible, they come across as models of persuasion in Homer’s poems. Helen due to eros inducing her devastating beauty. Odysseus due to the cunning intelligence with which he is always able to circumvent obstacles and beguile his adversaries. Neither, however, would be what they are without their artistry with words. Evoking past moments, depicting an instant, relaying sensory perceptions through accounts. Like Homeric bards, they are narrators and cantors above all else. And their song is the life they’ve lived and witnessed. A life transformed into epos which is reserved for heroes after death, in a sort of literary eternity. For, at its essence, life is logos and mythos – that is, word. Readings by Valentina Carnelutti.
actress and author, nominated this year for the Nastro d’Argento, has been directed by M. T. Giordana (La meglio gioventù), T. Angelopoulos (La polvere del tempo), P. Virzì (Tutta la vita davanti, La pazza gioia), C. Maselli (Le ombre rosse), A. Orlando (Sfiorarsi) and many others. She is the author of Sfiorarsi (A. Orlando) and of the film ReCuiem which she also directed. She also directed the documentary Melkam Zena in Ethiopia and the videoclip Le conseguenze dell’ingenuità.
Matteo Nucci was born in Rome in 1970. He is a scholar of ancient thought and editor of a new edition of Plato’s Symposium (Einaudi, 2009). His first novel, Sono comuni le cose degli amici, was finalist at Premio Strega 2010. In 2011 he wrote the novel-essay Il toro non sbaglia mai, published by Ponte alle Grazie. The narrative essay Le lacrime degli eroi (Einaudi, 2013) is about the weeping in homeric poems. In 2017 he wrote the novel È giusto obbedire alla notte (Ponte alle Grazie), also finalist at the Premio Strega. L’abisso di Eros, narrative essay on seduction from Homer to Plato, published by Ponte alle Grazie in 2018. His short stories have been published in main magazines, anthologies and e-books (such as Mai, 2014). He principally works with Il Venerdì di Repubblica and L’Espresso. He takes care of a taurine culture web: www.uominietori.it
Event #7
Alberto Mantovani
Immunity and the brain: a dialogue between two chief systems. From memory to vaccines.
Event #8Approfonditamente
Simona Argentieri, Stefano Gastaldi, Giovanna Montinari
New males: as teenagers, in couples, as fathers
Event #10
Ramak Fazel, Giorgio Vasta, Michele Lupi
Across the American deserts: a voyage through 20th century collective imagination
Event #15Approfonditamente
Paolo Boccara, Paola Carbone, Giuseppe Riefolo
The analyst at the movies: thinking by images
Event #25Approfonditamente
Paolo Cornaglia Ferraris, Giorgio Gazzolo, Nicola Gomirato, Gianvito Martino, Luca Pani, Enrico Valtellina
Asperger Talk Show
Event #30
Bruno Arpaia, Alessandro Zaccuri
The memory of space. The rubble of climate and rubbish in our homes
Event #31Approfonditamente
Alessandro Dal Lago, Serena Giordano, Ex Voto
Graffiti, tags and murals: when art extends to walls
Event #38
Paolo Rumiz, Alessandro Scillitani
The voice of the road. Words, sounds and images gathered along via Appia
