the first European festival on creativity

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.

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Carlo Alberto Redi, a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, president of the committee for bioethics of the Umberto Veronesi Foundation, teaches Zoology at the University of Pavia and is an honorary member of the Genetic society of Chile. He researches functional genomics and genetic reprogramming. As an essayist, he published DNA. La vita in tre miliardi di lettere (Carocci, 2019) and Prepararsi al futuro. Cronache dalle scienze della vita (Il Mulino, 2022).

Manuela Monti, PhD in bioengineering and medical bioinformatics, is a contract professor at the IUSS University of Pavia. She researches stem cell differentiation and ovogenesis in collaboration with research institutions in the USA and Japan. She is the author of several popular science essays. Her latest work is Prepararsi al futuro. Cronache dalle scienze della vita with C.A. Redi (Il Mulino, 2022).

2018 Program

Event #3

Carlo Alberto Redi, Manuela Monti

Community and DNA

Community or the eclipse of Us

Jungle Rudy – the loner and the community

Community and DNA

Olivia Sellerio sings Montalbano

Trio Malinconico unplugged

The community of valiant women

Knowledge in the wind

Our new Renaissance

School, community, justice

The Argonauts in pursuit of dark matter

Re-discovered roots

On a journey with wolves

The secret community

Space, modernity, community

What are today’s myths?

Immigration: changing everything

Architecture as a political action and an instrument for territories’ revitalization

Betraying a relationship: reasons for unfaithfulness

The Renaissance emporium – the heart of the artistic community.

In the name of love

Nom de guerre Lia

My life between zero and 8000

World War I May 24th: Italy enters the War

Adriano Olivetti: building a community

Against competition

World War I: Caporetto

Handwriting history

Back to community?

The wood as a community: cooperation and interdependence among plants

Community in the kitchen

Criticism 2.0. Cultural communication in the age of the web

Virtual communities: how Big Data reflects society

From community to citizenship: European Jews facing modernity

The community of theatre

Tales from the Tower of Babel

Duelling marionettes

World War I
May 24th: Italy enters the War