2019 Programme
Event #14
Massimiliano Valerii
The end of «the end of history»
Thirty years ago the Berlin wall fell down. With optimism and ingenuity, on those ruins we celebrated the «end of history» and the triumph of liberal democracies and of capitalism. And we believed that it was a linear and normal process. Now it seems that we are approaching a new fracture of our history. Future is a gap that needs to be filled. How can we reach it? When history starts again, we hear again the scream of old battles, the sound of the arms and of the revolutionary parades. Are we really projected towards another epoch? Let’s rely on data – they will reveal more than we expect. How were Italians back in the days? What have we become? What will we be like in the future, in thirty years time?
Massimiliano Valerii is the general director of Censis, the Italian institute for socio-economical research. After graduating in Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome, he devoted his research to social, economic and territorial issues. He is curator of the yearly Rapporto sulla situazione sociale del Paese – the Report on the social situation of the Country – published since 1967 and considered one of the most qualified and complete instruments for interpreting Italy’s socio-economic reality. He was a columnist for Repubblica and teaches Media, Society, Institutions in the Master's degree in Publishing and Writing at Sapienza University of Rome. He wrote the essays La notte di un’epoca (2019), Il contagio del desiderio (2020) e Le ciliegie di Hegel (2022), all published by Ponte alle Grazie.
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