Meetings with authors and scientists, between present and future
edited by Alfonso Cornia
CARPI
Auditorium Library A. Loria
Sunday 15 October 2023 at 6.00 pm
All the Rock Stars: 50 years of astronomy through a musical revolution
with Ilaria Arosio, astrophysicist and popularizer. She currently holds the role of coordinator and manager of the public conference cycles “I Cieli di Brera” and edits the blog www.rockandscience.com
leads Daniela Davinoprofessor
8 June 2010. On a sultry Milanese evening, thirty-five thousand people shout in unison the words “supermassive black hole”. It is the audience present at the San Siro stadium for the Muse concert. From Pink Floyd to Genesis, passing through Queen, Pearl Jam, David Bowie, Police and arriving at Bruce Springsteen, Radiohead and Coldplay, for 60 years rock’n’roll has drawn on science and astronomy, everyone lives them, many they catch and someone gives them back… in time to rock!
Sunday 5 November 2023 at 6.00 pm
More and more alone: The planet, man and the biodiversity crisis
with Maurizio Casiraghi, biologist, professor of Zoology and vice-rector of teaching at the University of Milan-Bicocca. “Biodiversity” and “evolution” are the two key words in his research.
leads Alfonso Corniaprofessor
We are the first species to have understood many mechanisms that regulate life on Earth, but we behave arrogantly, ignoring the consequences of most of our actions. The result is that time passes and we find ourselves increasingly alone on this planet.
Sunday 3 December 2023 at 6.00 pm
Postcards from an invisible present: Why the climate crisis doesn’t worry us as much as it should
with Fabio Deotto, Doctor of Biotechnology, novelist, science journalist and translator. His latest book is the essay-reportage The Other World: Life on a Changing Planet.
leads Alfonso Corniaprofessor
The climate crisis is the greatest existential threat that human beings have ever faced. In order to stem the climate emergency it is necessary to take note of the limits of our view of the world in order to learn how to build a different one.
Sunday 7 January 2024 at 6.00 pm
Quantum Monologue: The wonderful world of quantum physics
with Gabriella Greisonphysicist, writer, playwright, TV presenter and science communicator is called ‘the rock star of physics’.
leads Alfonso Corniaprofessor
This is the story of how quantum physics was born. Starting from the famous photo dated 1927, in which the greatest scientists in history are portrayed, Gabriella Greison reconstructs the dialogues, the evenings, the debates, during the greatest meeting of brains in history.
Free entry, subject to availability
Info:
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Extraordinary opening of the A. Loria multimedia library on Sunday 5 November, 3 December 2023 and 7 January 2024 from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm, on the occasion of DomenicheInCarpi.
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