2018 Program
Event #3
Carlo Alberto Redi, Manuela Monti
Community and DNA
The acceptance and inclusion of “others” is not characterized just for its proper moral and social aspects but also operates on a biological level ensuring benefits to the members of the community. Homo sapiens’ evolution is therefore characterized by the development of reciprocal strategies that ensured success in the competition with other species. On the contrary, inequalities and exclusion are able to mark the genome and increase the rate of serious illnesses. In this case, the biological disadvantage will transmit from one generation to the other: the social becomes biological, determining major conflicts in society and high health costs. On the other hand, spreading a culture of sharing and altruism ensures a harmonic development of a new form of democracy: a cognitive democracy.
Carlo Alberto Redi, a scholar at Pavia’s Collegio Ghislieri, teaches Zoology at the University of Pavia and is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, an honorary member of the Genetic society of Chile, and vice-president of the committee for bio-ethics of the Umberto Veronesi Foundation. He researches functional genomics and genetic reprogramming. As an essayist, his latest work is Genomica sociale with M. Monti (Carrocci, 2017)
Event #17
Mario Cucinella
Architecture as a political action and an instrument for territories’ revitalization

Event #24Approfonditamente
Beniamino de’ Liguori Carino, Giuseppe Lupo, Alberto Saibene
Adriano Olivetti: building a community

Event #31Approfonditamente
Giulia Alonzo, Marco Belpoliti, Adriana Polveroni, Oliviero Ponte di Pino
Criticism 2.0. Cultural communication in the age of the web

Event #59Children / Kids
Caterina Giannotti, Maria Pia Montagna
Writing is a game if you know the rules!
