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2019 Programme

Event #3

Masha Gessen, Wlodek Goldkorn

The future is history

Masha Gessen – one of the most brilliant voices of international journalism, staff writer of The New Yorker and winner of the National Book Award – in an extremely intimate, social and political way tells us the story of the new Russia, a Country that used to be the guiding light of all left-wing parties and now it is the model of the conservative thought both in Europe and in the USA. According to Masha Gessen, the great expectations for the future of the new Russia have been dismantled by a regime that looks to the past and crave to go back to the myth of the great Russia. Gessen also tells about the rise of a Country that condemns any kind of diversity and defends the most conservative values, marking a conjunction line with the evolution of the Western democracies.

Interpreter: Marina Astrologo

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Masha Gessen (Moscow, 1967) moved to the USA in 1981 with her family, and ten years after she went back to Russia to work as a journalist and LGBT activist. Chief editor of the most long-running Russian magazine, Vocrug Cveta, in 2013 she moves back to New York because of the threads towards the gay community. She is author, among others, of I fratelli Tsarnaev (2017) and Perfect rigor (2018) published by Carbonio, and Il futuro è storia (Sellerio, 2019), winner of the National Book Award 2017.

Wlodek Goldkorn, journalist, writer, critic, is a contributor writer for L’Espresso and la Repubblica. He is author of La scelta di Abramo. Identità ebraiche e postmodernist (Bollati Boringhieri, 2006), Il guardiano. Marek Edelman racconta (with R. Assuntino, Sellerio, 2016). By the end of August his new book L'asino del Messia will be published for Feltrinelli.

2019 Programme

Event #3

Masha Gessen, Wlodek Goldkorn

The future is history

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)