Conferences
2 - 3 May 2009, piazza Martiri VII Luglio
There will be various discussions on the topic of this year.
JEAN CRISTOPHE BAILLY
Saturday 2 May, 11.30
Contemplation: the moment and its shadow
A reflection on photography as the silent contemplation which is exposed to the duration and vertigo of time. In its will to stop the duration of time, photography inserts the moment in a cone of darkness and sometimes the image becomes the visible surface of a moment of eternity. The author talks to Federico Ferrari.
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EDOARDO BONCINELLI
Saturday 2 May, 15.30
The moment of conscience
Is the subject of the intervention of the geneticist who, talking to Armando Massarenti, leads a discussion on time and eternity in the field of science. Physics, biology, neuroscience all deal with the time of things and the time of life, but how can we explain interior time, as perceived by the human conscience?
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CLAUDIO MAGRIS
Sunday 3 May, 11.30
Time and non-time of the legend: Ulysses after Homer
The modern Ulysses does not return home with his identity confirmed, but loses himself and becomes his own stranger, no longer recognising the faces he takes on and loses in his centrifugal rush … Only homesickness, the painful desire to return, as its etymology declares, can understand the impossibility of the destination, the new odyssey with no return”. Introduced by Alberto Bertoni.
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REMO BODEI
Sunday 3 May, 11.30
Time and eternity. From philosophy to photography
A philosophical look at the issue of time in the image, the materialisation of the age-old philosophical theory which considers eternity to coincide with the moment in photography. Looking at a photograph means going beyond its flat surface and finding oneself before a kind of “miniature of eternity”. Introduced by Riccardo Panattoni.
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ALDO BONOMI
Sunday 3 May, 17.30
Too much and nothing, large and small, ephemeral and eternal in the troubles of the present
In the midst of a global crisis, not just economic but also anthropologic, some of the enormous contradictions which cross society are examined with the help of one of our most acute and fervent sociologists. Among the shadows of this moment, Bonomi chooses the lights which make us hope for positive change, starting with the signals coming from the hard-working Italian community. Led by Annarosa Buttarelli
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