2015 Programme
Event #29
Luca Mastrantonio
Cruciverba volant (unbuckle your seatbelts)
How mad has our language gone? Quite a lot, because we want to be linguistically trendy. Where’s the problem? We use too many English loan-words, a computer language that could be called “digitalian”, our left-wing jargon has turned right wing, the new economy rules, and Italian is a porno-emotional language… Can we still recover? Yes, by seriously playing with these words, and therefore with ourselves, and becoming more aware, and therefore responsible, of the thoughts we express “without our knowledge”. To train our minds – and our conscience – Luca Mastrantonio invents a “crazy” crossword puzzle with the help of the public of Festival della Mente; from “addicted” and “adoro” to “tanta roba” and “zombi”, not forgetting “piuttosto che” and “sapevatelo”, there are many terms void of sanity or sense to be analysed and placed in the puzzle’s boxes for the public to guess. A group therapy session for Anonymous Italianists.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/
journalist, born in Milan (1979), began his career in the culture section of Il Riformista, before moving to Corriere della Sera in 2011, where he designs and produces the insert la Lettura. He writes about culture, politics and society, He is among the founders of the blog solferino/28anni, and curates the webseries I ragazzi degli anni ’90 (Corrieretv, 2014). He teaches Multimedia Broadcasting at IULM. He is a presenter for Prima pagina (Radio3). His books include Irrazionalpopolare (Einaudi, 2008) and Pazzesco! Dizionario ragionato dell’italiano esagerato (Marsilio, 2015).
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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