2019 Programme
Event #1
Amalia Ercoli Finzi
Space Exploration: today, tomorrow, and… the day after
Missions to explore the solar system date back to the beginning of the space activity, since the discovery of new Worlds has always had an overpowering appeal – the same one that pushed our ancestors to find new lands as well as the traces of our past. But space probes do have something more – they can unveil the secrets of those distant and apparently unattainable worlds that may have hosted life in the past, or that may host life in future. In order to plan this, we need visionary minds. The Moon, Mars, comets and asteroids are waiting for us – if not today, tomorrow or the day after. Our future choices on where and when to go must be a collective effort and should not only involve advanced industrial Countries – such as Europe and the United States – but it should also allow the entire humanity to achieve an impossible dream and to reach a balance that is harbinger of wellness and piece.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/Amalia Ercoli Finzi, born in Gallarate in 1937, she graduated in Aeronautical Engineering and she has been focusing on spatial flight dynamics and space mission for 25 years. She teaches Orbital Mechanics at Milan Politecnico, and in 2010 she became a honorary Professor. She contributed to the realization of satellites and probes for the planetary exploration, and she works for the Italian Space Agency, the European Space Agency and the International Astronautical Federation. She was in charge of the SD2 experiment of the historic Rosetta Mission to perforate the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet surface and supply the samples to be analyzed; she was the director of the Milan Politecnico Aerospace Engineering Department, as well as the Italian representative for the Horizon 2020 European program; she was awarded the Gold Medal for scientific merits by the Italian President of the Republic.
Event #6
Alessandro Barbero
Popular revolts in Medieval Europe.
The Jacquerie of French peasants (1358)

Event #16Approfonditamente
Dario Bressanini, Lucilla Titta
Yesterday’s and tomorrow's diets. How to survive fake news?

Event #21
Paolo Colombo, Michele Tranquillini
Ernst Henry Shackleton. The hero who defeated the Arctic

Event #25
Roberto Celada Ballanti
The destiny of a community and many religions: is there a dialogue for the future of humanity?

Event #31Approfonditamente
Marco Ortenzi, Marco Parolini
The real truth about plastic and bioplastic (maybe)

Event #62didatticaMente
Alberto Pellai, Barbara Tamborini
The emotive education of the hyper-connected generation
