2015 Programme
Event #34
Chiara Montanari
Into the wild
What is the role of leadership in extreme conditions? How do you manage the every day life of a team of scientists at -50°C? Starting from her own experience as the leader of a research group in Antarctica, Chiara Montanari explains how, in difficult environments, logistical and health emergencies are only a few of the variables that a leader needs to know how to handle. She also must consider homesickness, the desperate search for a shred of privacy, the individual differences and dynamics of a small community isolated within a desert of ice. In a place where resources are limited and survival depends upon the group, it is the boss’s duty to bridge any differences and to instruct her team on how to manage uncertainty, pay close attention to change, recognize opportunities and place trust in one another.
, engineer, is an expert in innovation management, strategic leadership and team building in extreme environments. She has taken part in four research missions and was the first Italian to lead a mission to Antarctica. Most recently, in 2013, she managed logistics for the Concordia Base camp at 1200 km from the coast and 4000 metres of perceived altitude. She researches strategic development and scientific calculations at Politecnico in Milan. She is also collaborating with Università di Bergamo to study team building and the theory of complexity in managerial environments. In 2015 she published Cronache dai ghiacci. 90 giorni in Antartide (Mondadori Electa).
Event #6
Alessandro Barbero
The historian's responsibility. Gaetano Salvemini: from Socialist interventionism to anti-Fascism
Event #8Approfonditamente
Marco Rossi-Doria, Giulia Tosoni
Kids and school: what, how and where are they learning
Event #13Approfonditamente
Adolfo Ceretti, Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Alfredo Verde
Gender-based violence: Perpetrators, victims and models of intervention.
Event #22
Alessandro Barbero
The historian’s responsibility. Marc Bloch: from the Sorbonne to the Gestapo prisons
Event #25Approfonditamente
Marco Belpoliti, Gianfranco Marrone, Anna Stefi
Laziness, fatigue, and our constant running
Event #26
Eugenio Borgna, Simonetta Fiori
Knowing ourselves and knowing others: a different way of being responsible
Event #35
James R. Flynn, Armando Massarenti
Without an alibi: a voyage across life’s greatest questions
Event #38
Alessandro Barbero
The historian’s responsibility. Ernst Kantorowicz: from the Freikorps to McCarthyism
Event #57Children / Kids
Sante Bandirali e Lorenza Pozzi di uovonero
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