2017 Programme
Event #34
Peter Frankopan
The silk road
We are living through an age of transition. The world is changing quickly around us. To prepare and adapt, the first thing is to understand what is happening and why. That begins with radically changing the way we look at the past and the present – and changing the way we look at history.
Many think of the Silk Roads as an exotic curiosity from the past. But the networks linking Asia to Europe and Africa, and eventually to the Americas are – and always have been – the world’s central nervous system. And in the 21st century, the Silk Roads are rising again. And the fate of the Western world shall continue to be inextricably linked to the East.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/is a historian at Oxford University and a senior research fellow at Worcester College. He also directs the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. His research is focused on the history of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Persia, central Asia and on the relationship between Christianity and Islam. He is a contributing writer for international newspapers such as the New York Times, the Financial Times and the Guardian. The New Statesman called him «the rock star of History». His new book, Le vie della seta (Mondadori) comes out at the beginning of September.
Event #3
Sunday 3 September 2017, 07.00 pm
Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti
The net of Eros. Seduction
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Event #5
Friday 1 September 2017, 09.15 pm
Marco Albino Ferrari
Enchantment. From Val Grande to the polar icecaps
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Event #6
Friday 1 September 2017, 11.00 pm
Alessandro Barbero
Clandestine networks. A network of spies: doctor Sorge in Tokyo
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Event #8
Saturday 2 September 2017, 10.00 am
Elliot Ackerman, Imma Vitelli
Experiencing and relating war
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Event #9
Saturday 2 September 2017, 10.00 am
Franco Lorenzoni
Weaving relationships through silence and listening
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Event #10
Saturday 2 September 2017, 11.45 am
Axel Fiacco, Massimo Scaglioni
From networks to formats: creativity on television
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Event #11
Saturday 2 September 2017, 12.00 pm
Marco Malvaldi, Claudio Bartocci
The Web as a mathematical structure
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Event #13
Saturday 2 September 2017, 12.15 pm
Giorgio Manzi
In the web of deep history: Lucy, Neanderthals and other stories
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Event #14Approfonditamente
Saturday 2 September 2017, 02.45 pm
Matteo Cerri
Keeping cool: hibernation and the exotic network of its physiology
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Event #15
Saturday 2 September 2017, 03.00 pm
Nicola Gardini
The beauty of occurring. Ovid and the network of metamorphoses
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Event #21
Saturday 2 September 2017, 07.00 pm
Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti
The net of Eros. Betrayal
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Event #24
Saturday 2 September 2017, 11.00 pm
Alessandro Barbero
Clandestine networks. A network of partisans: the GAP groups in Rome and the attack in Via Rasella
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Event #26
Sunday 3 September 2017, 10.00 am
Emanuele Biggi
Spiders, silk and spider webs: wonders of the unloved
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Event #28
Sunday 3 September 2017, 12.00 pm
Aravind Adiga, Marcello Fois
In the web: narrating families
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Event #31Approfonditamente
Sunday 3 September 2017, 02.45 pm
B. Fantini, T. Pievani, S. Pimpinelli, F. Rufo
The code of life
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Event #32
Sunday 3 September 2017, 03.00 pm
Anna Salvo, Tiziana Iaquinta
Adolescents caught in the Web
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Event #33Approfonditamente
Sunday 3 September 2017, 03.00 pm
C. Borgomeo, U. Bressanello, G. De Michelis, G. Giunta, V. Linarello
From silent social work to community networks
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Event #36
Sunday 3 September 2017, 07.00 pm
Paolo Gavazzeni, Omer Meir Wellber
The conductor, the orchestra and the score
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Event #37
Sunday 3 September 2017, 07.00 pm
Matteo Nucci, Valentina Carnelutti
The net of Eros. Reconquering
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Event #39
Sunday 3 September 2017, 09.00 pm
Centro Formazione Supereroi
Neverending stories. A challenge in literary improvisation
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Event #40
Sunday 3 September 2017, 09.00 pm
Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari
Aung San Suu Kyi’s life under arrest
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Event #41
Sunday 3 September 2017, 11.00 pm
Alessandro Barbero
Clandestine networks. A network of terrorists: the Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro
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Event #44Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September_ 9.30 am_3.00 pm
Geena Forrest
Pencil-carrying naturalists
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Event #46Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September_10.00 am_3.45 pm
Fabrizio Silei
Once upon a time there was a city
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Event #47Children / Kids
Saturday 2 _10.00 am_11.30 am/Sunday 3 September_11.30 am_4.30 pm
Raffaele Cesano, Print About Me
Coloring a hundred miles a minute
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Event #48Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September_11.00 am_5.00 pm
Mook
The art of reclamation. DIY construction of a network of animals
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Event #49Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September_ore 11.15 pm_4.45 pm
Cinzia Ghigliano
Pictures tell stories, so do we!
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Event #51Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September 2017, 03.30 pm
Franco Lorenzoni
How was music born into the world?
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Event #52Children / Kids
Saturday 2 _4.00 pm_5.15 pm/Sunday 3 September 10.30 am_3.30 pm
Anna Resmini, Virginia Zini
Shapes of sound. Stories of encounters between sound and color
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Event #53Children / Kids
Saturday 2 _ore 4.45 pm/Sunday 3 September ore 9.30 am
Marianna Merisi
Vagabonds on a voyage
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Event #54Children / Kids
Saturday 2_ore 17.30/Sunday 3 September_10.30 am
Noemi Bermani, Salvatore Panu
Suoni di c/arte
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Event #55Children / Kids
Saturday 2_6.00 pm/Sunday 3 September_10.00 am
Gian Marco Malagoli, Elisa Passerini
Numerincoding
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Event #56Children / Kids
Saturday 2 September 2017, 09.00 pm
The Teatro dell’Orsa Company, Michele Ferri
Strange stories
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Event #57Children / Kids
Sunday 3 September_ 9.30 am_11.15 am
Students of the I.I.S. Capellini-Sauro school of La Spezia, ScienziataMente
Find the culprit… with math!
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Event #59Children / Kids
Sunday 3 September_ 10.30 am_2.45 pm_5.30 pm
Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura, REMIDA
Irreverently entwined
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Event #60Children / Kids
Sunday 3 September_2.45_4.30 pm
P4C – Research center on philosophical inquiry
Can thoughts be drawn?
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Event #61Children / Kids
Sunday 3 September_4.00 pm_6.00
Else Edizioni
In your own words: from silent books to silk screen printing
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