Pistoia - Dialogues on Man, the cultural festival of contemporary anthropology, presents its fifth edition, following the success of last year’s event, which registered over 15,000 attendees. This year’s theme – “Sharing the World. For an Ecology of Common Goods” – is of great anthropological interest and extremely topical at a time when financial and moral crises are forcing all of us to re-examine what it means to live together. Many feel that 2014 is the year of sharing. Journalists, economists and sociologists insist that sharing is our last option to overcome the crisis and other emergencies, and to enable us to face the future with confidence. Sharing has now become a part of our everyday lives, from spontaneous daily practices to more advanced and sophisticated forms. Nowadays, a sharing economy, co-working, crowdfunding, carsharing and book swapping are common buzzwords: out of both necessity and virtue, “sharing” is once again a widespread practice and notion, after decades of idealising consumption and individual ownership. Common goods are both tangible and intangible entities, which can define one’s sense of belonging to a territory or community. So this year’s theme is therefore central to understanding a new form of economy, democracy and society. As always, we will address these issues in a language that is accessible to all, with conferences, entertainment, film screenings and readings, in the company of some of the most influential and eminent Italian and international scholars. The festival is an important occasion for cultural sharing that helps us grow, expand our awareness and acquire new tools and stimuli. Giulia Cogoli, Creator and Director of Pistoia – Dialogues on Man Programme Friday 23 May - 5:30 pm piazza del Duomo 3 Opening Ivano Paci President, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia Samuele Bertinelli Mayor of Pistoia Giulia Cogoli Creator and Director of Pistoia – Dialogues on Man 1. Friday 23 may - 5:30 pm - piazza del Duomo - free admission Stefano Rodotà Common goods: “rational folly”

Why has the “rational folly of common goods” spread throughout the world, inspired numerous social actions and once again called into question established political and legal practices? There is growing awareness of the fact that we must look beyond current models of private and public property, beyond markets and nation-states, to create new conditions to give people access to those goods that are crucial to rendering their rights concrete. Water and knowledge are clear examples of this approach, which also implies all interested parties participating in their definition and management. This is the general description of a new relationship between people and goods. Stefano Rodotà is professor emeritus of Civil Law at the University of Rome. A former president of the Italian Personal Data Protection Authority, he was one of the authors of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. Rodotà presided over the EU Coordination Group of Trustees for the right to privacy and is a member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies and the Legal Advisory Board for Market Information of the European Commission. A columnist for the newspaper La Repubblica, his published works include Il terribile diritto (1990), Tecnologie e diritti (1995), Libertà e diritti in Italia (1997), La vita e le regole (2006), Repertorio di fine secolo (1999), Tecnopolitica (2004), Intervista su privacy e libertà (2005), Perché laico (2009), Elogio del moralismo (2011), Il diritto di avere diritti (2012), Iperdemocrazia (2013) and Il mondo nella rete. Quali i diritti, quali i vincoli (2014). 2. Friday 23 May - 7:00 pm - teatro Bolognini - €3 Luca Scarlini Mistresses of themselves: stories of women who shared their lives and thoughts Having found it difficult to express themselves throughout centuries of male domination, especially in Italy, women have often employed sophisticated and extensive mechanisms to share their thoughts. Here are five compelling stories of Italian women who led pioneering lifestyles, the secret to which was sharing. Women whose lives were often recorded only in the margins of official history, inspired as they were by a spirit of protest and open rebellion against the established order; and who used all available means to express themselves, from politics to romance novels. Women who had an extraordinary impact on society: Saint Guglielma and Sister Maifreda, who created a women’s community around a new school of political and religious thought in 13th century Milan; philanthropist Alessandrina Ravizza, a reformer of female workers’ rights in Italy in the 19th century; Maria Montessori, who reformed education worldwide; partigiana Teresa Noce, the mother of the Italian Constitution; and author Brunella Gasperini. Luca Scarlini is a playwright and essayist, and enjoys telling stories on stage, often together with singers, actors and other artists. Scarlini teaches at Milan’s European Design Institute and elsewhere in Italy and abroad. He has taken part in many festivals in Italy and in other countries. He regularly contributes to Channel 3 of Italian public radio, to Alias and L’indice dei Libri del mese. His books include: Alfabeto Poli (Einaudi, 2013); La musa inquietante. Il computer e l’immaginario contemporaneo (Cortina, 2001); Equivoci e miraggi. Pratiche d’autobiografia oggi (Rizzoli, 2003); D’Annunzio a Little Italy. Le avventure del Vate nel mondo dell’emigrazione (Donzelli, 2008); Lustrini per il regno dei cieli. Ritratti di evirati cantori (Bollati Boringhieri, 2008); Sacre sfilate. Alta moda in Vaticano, da Pio X a Benedetto XVI (Guanda, 2010); Ladri di immagini (Edizioni Ambiente, 2010); Un paese in ginocchio (Guanda, 2011); Ritratti dimenticati. Profili di scrittori e artisti a Firenze dal mondo (Mauro Pagliai Editore, 2011); Il Natale dei Magi (Einaudi, 2011); La sindrome di Michael Jackson (Bompiani, 2011); Il Caravaggio rubato. Mito e cronaca di un furto (Sellerio, 2012); Siviero contro Hitler. La battaglia per l'arte (Skira, 2014). 3. Friday 23 May - 9:15 pm - piazza del Duomo - €3

Alessandro Barbero A history of sharing: Frederick II One of Italy’s most brilliant historians tells the fascinating story of long-ago yet highly topical events. Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II elicited both admiration and dismay for his unbridled intellectual curiosity, so much so that contemporaries gave him the nickname stupor mundi (the marvel of the world); he even conducted philosophical correspondences with Moroccan scholars. The King of Sicily in the 13th century, at a time when the Arab presence was very strong, Frederick II issued laws in defence of his Muslim and Jewish subjects, banning discrimination against them by Christians. Forced by the pope to take part in the Crusades, he struck an agreement with the sultan to divide Jerusalem, which sparked an enormous scandal among fundamentalists on both sides. He deported the Sicilian Muslims who rebelled, but built them an Islamic city in Lucera, Apulia, with numerous mosques. It wasn’t easy to enforce sharing in a world dominated by hatred, even for an emperor, but it cannot be said that Frederick did not try. Alessandro Barbero has obtained a B.A. in Humanities, then a Masters Degree from the Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa. He is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Piedmont at Vercelli. He contributes to La Stampa and to TV shows Superquark, aC/dC and Il tempo e la storia. Barbero has written novels and a number of essays in medieval history. In 1995 he published his first historical novel, Bella vita e guerre altrui di Mr. Pyle gentiluomo (Mondadori, 1995) that won him the Premio Strega in 1996. Among his publications are: Storia del Piemonte (Einaudi, 2008), 9 agosto 378. Il giorno dei barbari (2005), La battaglia. Storia di Waterloo (2007), Barbari. Immigrati, profughi, deportati nell’impero romano (2006), Benedette guerre. Crociate e jihad («i Libri del Festival della Mente», 2009), Lepanto. La battaglia dei tre imperi (2010), I prigionieri dei Savoia. La vera storia della congiura di Fenestrelle (2012) all published by Laterza; Gli occhi di Venezia (Mondadori, 2011); Il divano di Istanbul (Sellerio, 2011); Dietro le quinte della Storia. La vita quotidiana attraverso il tempo (with P. Angela, Rizzoli, 2012). For the series «i Libri del Festival della Mente» has published: Donne, madonne, mercanti e cavalieri. Sei storie medievali (Laterza, 2013). 4. Friday 23 May - 9:00 pm - teatro Manzoni - €3 Babette’s Feast Lella Costa reads Karen Blixen The extraordinary Lella Costa reads one of the most beautiful and well-known short stories by acclaimed Danish writer Karen Blixen. Babette, a renowned Parisian chef forced into exile after the overthrow of the Paris Commune because of her Communard ideals, takes refuge in Berlevaag, a small town along a Norwegian fjord. Babette is welcomed into the peaceful and frugal lives of Martina and Philippa, two aging sisters who take her on as a housekeeper and who dedicate their lives to helping others, giving what little they have to the needy. But it is Babette who teaches them the value of true sharing, gifting her art and all her lottery winnings to prepare an unforgettable and exquisitely sophisticated French feast in commemoration of their deceased father. Through this extraordinary meal, the small community experiences a true, profound and joyous moment of sharing because, as Babette knows, “When I did my very best I could make [people] perfectly happy”. Lella Costa has worked in theatre, cinema, radio and television. She made her debut in 1987 with Adlib, which was followed by Un’altra storia (1998), Precise Parole (2000) and Traviata (2002) directed by Gabriele Vacis; Femminile e singolare. Vedi alla voce poetessa (2010); Alice, una meraviglia di Paese (2005), Amleto (2007), Ragazze, nelle lande scoperchiate del fuori (2009), Arie (2011) e Casomai senza un saluto (2013) directed by Giorgio Gallione. The texts of her theatre plays are included in La daga nel loden (1992), Che faccia fare (1998), In tournée (2002) and Amleto, Alice e la Traviata

(2008), published by Feltrinelli. She works for tv, cinema and radio, and has authored La sindrome di Gertrude. Quasi un’autobiografia (with A. Càsoli, Rizzoli, 2009); Come una specie di sorriso (Piemme, 2012). She took part in the tournée Ferite a morte with Serena Dandini and now she is acting in the show Nuda proprietà by Lidia Ravera. Karen Blixen (1885-1962) was born and died in Denmark. She moved to Africa with her husband, whom she then left after falling in love with an English hunter. She returned to Europe and began publishing under the pen name Isak Dinesen. Her works include Letters from Africa (1981), Seven Gothic Tales (1935), Out of Africa (1938), Anecdotes of Destiny (1958) and many more stories that have inspired great film directors, such as Orson Welles and Sydney Pollack. 5. Friday 23 May - 10:30 pm - teatro Bolognini - €3 Film screening: Closed Sea (Mare Chiuso) Directed by Stefano Liberti and Andrea Segre An “important and unsettling documentary” (La Repubblica) that Amnesty International used in 2012 as part of its campaign and petition against the Italian government, urging for an end to so-called “push-back operations” and for new immigration policies. From 2009 to 2010, over 2,000 African refugees were intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea and sent back to Libya by the Italian navy and police. When war broke out in Libya, thousands of African migrants fled, including the refugees who had been pushed back by the Italians, seeking refuge in a Tunisian camp. Their stories, recorded by Stefano Liberti and Andrea Segre, expose the violence and violations committed against defenceless and innocent people, for which Italy was condemned by the European Convention on Human Rights. The film offers examples of failed sharing and opens a discussion on an extremely topical issue, namely borders and the importance of immigration and multiculturalism. A writer, journalist, and director of reportages on international politics, Stefano Liberti has published Lo Stivale meticcio. L’immigrazione in Italia oggi (with T. Barrucci, Carocci, 2004), A sud di Lampedusa (2008, Indro Montanelli Award) and Land Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism (2013). His 2010 documentary L’inferno dei bambini stregoni won that year’s Weakest Link Award - TV. He is a recipient of the Marco Luchetta International Press Award and the Guido Carletti Prize for Social Journalism. A professor of Sociology of Communications, Andrea Segre makes narrative and documentary films for cinema and television. Filmography: South of Lampedusa (2006), The Bad Shadow (2007), Like a Man on Earth (2008), May Things Change (2009), Green Blood (2010), Shun Li and the Poet (2011), First Snowfall (2013) and Indebito (2013). Closed Sea (2012), co-directed with Stefano Liberti, has won numerous awards and honours. 6. Saturday 24 May - 11:00 am - teatro Bolognini - €3 Enrico Alleva Competition and cooperation in the animal kingdom From the earliest, ancient forms of animal life, competition (among and within species) and cooperation strategies have been used for biological adaptation, and thus individual survival. Typical examples are coral colonies, elegant chalky formations created by small polyps; and medusae, awe-inspiring, morphologically diverse organisms that organise into colonies that act as single individuals. Other examples are social insects: ants, bees, termites, wasps and the brightly coloured hemiptera, which strategically use competition and cooperation to ensure the survival of both the individual and the colony. More complex, lesser-known examples – among birds, fish and in particular monkeys (non-human primates) – inspire fundamental reflection on cooperation and competition in the animal world.

Enrico Alleva, ethologist, is the director of the department of behavioural Neuroscience at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and teaches Ethology at the University La Sapienza of Rome. He was the director of Società Italiana odi Etologia and Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples. He was scholar of Giuseppe Montalenti and Floriano Papi and partner of Rita Levi Montalcini, and he was member of the scientific board of ANPA, WWF, Legambiente, SZN and Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani. His field is behavioural genetics of mammals and the biological role of the “nerve growth factor” in stress. He received the Premio Grassi by Accademia dei Lincei and the Medaglia Anokin by Russian Academy of Medical Science. He has written a lot of articles for important newspapers and he wrote Il Tacchino termostatico. Un etologo e i suoi animali (Costa & Nolan, 1996), Consigli a un giovane etologo (with N. Tiliacos, Franco Muzzio, 2003), La mente animale (Einaudi, 2007). 7. Saturday 24 May - 11:00 am - piazza dello Spirito Santo - €3 Matteo Aria, Adriano Favole Sharing is not a gift! A gift is usually in contrast with the market. A present is considered to stem from reciprocity, trust and relationships, whereas market exchanges are purportedly based upon vested interests, selfishness and calculations. As this schism still poses a problem today, Adriano Favole and Matteo Aria propose a third option: sharing. A hidden practice rarely studied by anthropologists, sharing seems nevertheless innate to humanity and many aspects of contemporary life. “Working” together, “consuming” together and defying possessive individualism, competition and conflict are the main characteristics of sharing. However, we must beware of the rhetoric about sharing: as has happened with many aspects of the gift, sharing too risks being absorbed by homo economicus’ cunning, captivating paradigm that would portray it as the last frontier of capitalism. Matteo Aria teaches Development Anthropology at the University of Florence, African History at Rome’s La Sapienza University and Economic Anthropology at the University of Turin. His research has taken him to Ghana, French Polynesia and New Caledonia for studies on processes of patrimonialisation, passeurs culturels, cultural anthropology and gift giving. His publications include Cercando nel vuoto (2007), Il dono del sangue (with F. Dei and G.L. Mancini, 2008) and La densità delle cose (with A. Pani, 2014). Adriano Favole is professor of Cultural Anthropology at Turin University where he teaches History of Pacific Anthropology and Ethnology. He conducted most of his field research in the Pacific (Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia) and has studied Museum Ethnography in the Western Alps. His chief research interests are political anthropology, the anthropology of the body and death, the anthropology of patrimonial assets. He contributes to La lettura of Corriere della Sera. He has written Isole nella corrente (La ricerca folklorica, Grafo, 2007); Resti di umanità. Vita sociale del corpo dopo la morte (2003), Oceania. Isole di creatività culturale (2010) published by Laterza. He edited the Italian edition of Per un’antropologia non egemonica. Il Manifesto di Losanna (with F. Saillant, M. Kilani, F. Graezer Bideau, elèuthera, 2012). 8. Saturday 24 May - 12:00 noon - piazza del Duomo - €3 Remo Bodei A shared world: A utopia? The planet’s gifts (fertility, potable water, minerals) were assigned in a random fashion to the inhabitants of certain regions in a kind of natural lottery. There are the more fortunate, who own and appropriate the gifts, and the less fortunate, who have none, or only limited quantities. Peoples and individuals have always fought for their survival and for the control of resources. Yet with what right does humanity inhabit the earth and exploit its gifts in

such an exclusive manner, as a people, industrial enterprise or individual? Does being smiled upon by providence authorise the total availability of resources? Or, after subtracting the fruit of one’s labours, does everything else constitute a form of undeserved appropriation that should be redistributed? And how? For now, this is a utopia, yet the unavoidable problem is destined to come up time and again as the world’s population continues to grow and as migration from the planet’s poorer regions to its wealthier ones intensifies. Remo Bodei tought at the Scuola Normale Superiore and at the University of Pisa and at many american and european universities; now he teaches Philosophy at the University of California. He has worked on utopic thinking, on shapes of temporality in the modern world, and on shapes of memory and of individual and collective identity. Among his books: Una scintilla di fuoco. Invito alla filosofia (Zanichelli, 2005); Piramidi di tempo. Storie e teorie del déjà vu (2006), I sette vizi capitali. Ira (2011) by il Mulino; Paesaggi sublimi. Gli uomini davanti alla natura selvaggia (Bompiani, 2008); I senza Dio. Figure e momenti dell'ateismo (by Gabriella Caramore, Morcelliana, 2009); Destini personali. L'età della colonizzazione delle coscienze (2002), Immaginare altre vite. Realtà, progetti, desideri (2013) by Feltrinelli; Le logiche del delirio (2002), La vita delle cose (2009), Generazioni. Età della vita, età delle cose (2014) by Laterza. 9. Saturday 24 May - 3:00 pm - teatro Bolognini - €3 Mauro Agnoletti Culture, the environment and globalisation: a case study of the Italian landscape Along with economic globalisation, today there is also environmental globalisation, whose views and policies are shared by the majority of the world. This was a painful process not only for the Italian economy but Italian culture as well, in particular for one of its main manifestations: the landscape. After five centuries when it was described as the result of a virtuous “domestication” of nature (creator of beauty and utility), we now have scientific theories and public policies which consider that model inadequate, seeking to return the landscape to its original, natural state. Is this the right path for the Italian landscape, a common good we should all share? Some of our country’s strengths and weakness are buried precisely within the contrast between a good still recognised around the world as one of the symbols of Italy today, and a negation of its worth. Mauro Agnoletti is Professor at the Department of Agronomy of the University of Florence. He is director of the Laboratory on Landscape and Cultural Heritage and coordinator of Landscape at the Ministry of Agriculture. He is a consultant to the Council of Europe for the E.U. Landscape Convention, to UNESCO for the World Heritage List, to FAO. He is part of the steering committee of the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations. He has coordinated the National Catalogue of Historic Rural Landscapes. He is the co-director of the magazine Global Environment and of the book series about environmental history edited by Springer Verlag. He wrote Paesaggi rurali storici. Per un catalogo nazionale (Laterza, 2010). 10. Saturday 24 May - 4:00 pm - piazza del Duomo - €3 Marco Aime Too much sharing in families does not aid growth We are witnessing an increasing amount of sharing, complicity and resemblance between parents and their children. There is more sharing than ever among generations, but with what consequences? If this continues, young people risk losing even more independence from adults as they make their own way through life. So-called rites of passages are slowly disappearing; those hallmark moments in individuals’ lives that society considers fundamental because they lead to a change in status. This is precisely why these events

are dramatised in ritual form and become important collective moments. The most common are related to reaching an age that every society, each according to its own parameters, calls “adulthood". Yet over time, these moments of passage in our society have become increasingly more rare and rarefied, as everything in our lives is shared and everyone is eternally young. Marco Aime is professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Genoa. He has conducted research on the Alps and in West Africa. Aime has authored a number of books: Le radici nella sabbia (EDT, 1999); La macchia della razza (Ponte alle Grazie, 2009); Il primo libro di antropologia (2008), Il dono al tempo di Internet (with A. Cossetta, 2010), L’altro e l’altrove (with D. Papotti, 2012) published by Einaudi; Verdi tribù del Nord (Laterza, 2012); African graffiti (Stampa alternativa, 2012); Gli specchi di Gulliver (2006), Timbuctu (2008), Il diverso come icona del male (with E. Severino, 2009), Gli uccelli della solitudine (2010), Cultura (2013) published by Bollati Boringhieri; I piccoli viaggi di Beppe Gulliver (Emi, 2014); All'Avogadro si cominciava a ottobre (Agenzia X, 2014); L'oltre e l'altro (AA.VV., Utet, 2014); Etnografia del quotidiano (elèuthera, 2014). 11. Saturday 24 May - 5:00 pm - Sala Maggiore Palazzo Comunale - €3 Ugo Mattei What rights for sharing common goods? What are the rights for sharing common goods? What profound transformations must take place in the dominant mindset of contemporary societies in order to reach a solution that is coherent with the ecological and social needs of today’s world? Far from being an abstract theory, a generative right for sharing and common goods can only derive from concrete battles: for water, public universities and schools, and critical information; and against internet privatisation and the destruction and consumption of the territory. Common goods must not be seen as something to have, but a political and, above all, cultural practice that allows us to create a horizon of collective existence. Ugo Mattei teaches Civil Law at the University of Turin and International and Comparative Law at the USC Hastings College of the Law. He served as vice-president of the Rodotà Commission for the reform of public goods and was co-editor of referendums on water as a common good, the legal eligibility of which he defended before the Italian Constitutional Court. A columnist for the daily newspaper Il Manifesto, his most recent published work includes: Invertire la rotta. Idee per la riforma della proprietà pubblica (with E. Reviglio and S. Rodotà, 2007), Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal (with L. Nader, 2008), La legge del più forte (2010), L’acqua e i beni comuni raccontati alle ragazze e ai ragazzi (2011), Beni comuni. Un manifesto (2011) and Contro riforme (2013). 12. Saturday 24 May - 6:30 pm - teatro Bolognini - €3 Giorgio Scaramuzzino Children’s show What beautiful diversity! Why do we have different kinds of noses? Why do we live in different kinds of homes? Why do we pray to different gods? Because from the day that human beings realised they had feet they started travelling, and in doing so, they transformed. Yet we all share our humanity and the world in which we live together. This show, for children aged eight and over, is a cheerful and engaging response to an increasingly topical problem: learning to accept those who speak different languages, with different religions and cultural and social habits from our own. This entertaining and educational monologue uses stories from countries both near and far to teach the importance of all types of diversity. Because sharing the world begins with sharing our DNA and the fact that we are all the same and, at the same time, all different!

Based on the text by Marco Aime. Written and directed by Giorgio Scaramuzzino. Produced by the Teatro Archivolto theatre company of Genoa. After studying acting at the school of the Teatro di Genova, actor-director Giorgio Scaramuzzino joined the newly formed Compagnia dell'Archivolto (directed by Giorgio Gallione) in 1986, where he now works in its School and Education Department. Besides directing and acting, he also teaches group theatre courses at the University of Genoa, for teachers, educators and librarians. His numerous published works include texts on theatre education and children’s stories. He edited and wrote the preface to Gianni Rodari’s Libri d’oggi per ragazzi d’oggi (2000). Authors who most inspire his theatre work include Gianni Rodari, Stefano Benni, Ian Mc Ewan and Daniel Pennac, whose Reads Like a Novel he successfully adapted for the stage. He has also written plays featuring the character Pimpa, in collaboration with Francesco Tullio Altan. 13. Saturday 24 May - 6:30 pm - piazza del Duomo - €3 Gustavo Zagrebelsky Culture as the “third pillar” of social life What are the pillars that hold society together? The economy, politics and culture – all of which are equally important. Culture is the spiritual, cohesive pillar, without which the lives of individuals would succumb to selfish and overbearing economics, or cede to the brute force of political power. In fact, when left unchecked, the economy sparks competition over the appropriation of wealth and creates a schism between rich and poor. Even politics, when left to its own devices, triggers power struggles and creates a divide between the powerful and the powerless, between masters and subjects. In both scenarios, the results cause disintegration. Culture, intended as a social fact, is that which “makes up” a society, and even the Italian Constitution recognises the place it must hold in social life: Article 33 enshrines the idea that the essence of culture is freedom and that enslavement to economic or political interests betrays the function of culture. Gustavo Zagrebelsky, a former President of Italy’s Constitutional Court, is professor emeritus at Turin University. He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He often contributes editorials to la Repubblica news daily. Following are some of his latest books: La legge e la sua giustizia (Il Mulino, 2008); Questa Repubblica (Le Monnier, 2009); La leggenda del grande inquisitore (Morcelliana, 2009); L'esercizio della democrazia (with G. Napolitano, Codice, 2010); Principi e voti (2005), Imparare democrazia (2007), Intorno alla legge (2009), Sulla lingua del tempo presente (2010), Giuda (by G. Caramore, 2011), Simboli al potere (2012), Fondata sul lavoro (2013), Fondata sulla cultura (2014) by Einaudi; La virtù del dubbio (2007), Contro l'etica della verità (2008), Scambiarsi la veste (2010), La felicità della democrazia (with E. Mauro, 2011), Contro la dittatura del presente (2014) by Laterza. 14. Saturday 24 May - 9:15 pm - piazza del Duomo - €3 Serge Latouche Recovering a sense of moderation and overcoming the lack of limits The younger generations are the first to witness the new phenomenon of impassable limits. Climate change, nuclear pollution, new pandemics, the depletion of renewable and non-renewable natural resources, the deleterious effects of synthetic chemical products, social crises and the resounding defeat of the promise of wellbeing, fundamentalist and terrorist threats and identity revolutions are all forms of excess that merge, intertwine and are reinforced. The modern-day lack of limits is a unique and protean monster, above all geographical and anthropological, then economic and, lastly, cultural and political. Even if it were possible to transport the human species to colonise other galaxies before the earth becomes uninhabitable, or to manufacture humanoids that could prosper in a degraded

environment, would that be at all rational? In order to build a future for humans it is necessary to overcome the lack of limits, and to recover and share a sense of moderation. A French economist and philosopher, Serge Latouche is the main proponent of degrowth theory and a staunch critic of the dominant notions of development and economic rationality and efficacy, maintaining that Western society must be emancipated from universal economicism. An objector against growth, and advocate of localism and the dialogue between diverse cultures, he is an illustrator for the magazine La Revue du MAUSS, president of the cultural association La ligne d’horizon, and professor emeritus of Economics at the University of Paris-Sud (Orsay). His published works include L'Invention de l'économie (2005), La fine del sogno occidentale (2010), Le Temps de la décroissance (with D. Harpagès, 2011), Sortir de la société de consommation (2010), Vers une société d'abondance frugale (2010), De-growth: an electoral stake? (2007), L'âge des limites (2012), Usa e getta (2013), Chroniques d’un objecteur de croissance (2012) and Jacques Ellul contre le totalitarisme technicien (2013). He is also editor of the series “Precursori della decrescita” (“Precursors to Degrowth”) for Italian publishing company Jaca Book. 15. Saturday 24 May - 9:15 pm - teatro Manzoni - euro 7.00 L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio Sharing the world. A concert from faraway lands Renowned for their vibrant music and innovative line-up, these musicians of diverse nationalities and languages transform their experiences and cultures into a single, universally understood language: music. Through this orchestra, they share life stories in their fusion of voices, rhythms, sounds old and new, classical and unfamiliar instruments and universal melodies. Building upon the traditional music of six of the countries from which the singers and musicians hail (Senegal, Cuba, Tunisia, Italy, Ecuador and Argentina), with rock, pop, reggae and classical music, the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio performs original, infectious concerts that celebrate the value of diversity and the wealth of multiculturalism. Join them on a journey around the world, in discovery of new musical horizons. Founded in Rome in 2002, L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio comprises 18 musicians from 10 countries who speak nine different languages. They perform throughout the world and promote the exploration and integration of diverse musical repertoires often unknown to the general public, as a way to also help other foreign musicians who often live at the margins of society. It is the first and only orchestra to have been formed through the self-taxation of various citizens, and has procured jobs and legal documents for musicians of various nationalities living in Italy. In 2006, Agostino Ferrente captured the genesis of the Orchestra and its message of brotherhood and peace in his documentary L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio. Currently, the Orchestra is on tour with the shows Around the World in 80 Minutes and The Magic Flute. Its latest album is called L’Isola di legno (2013). 16. Saturday 24 May - 10:30 pm - teatro Bolognini - €3 Film screening: The Wind Blows Round Directed by Giorgio Diritti In this film, which gives “one has the sensation of auscultating the characters’ biological mutation” (Corriere della Sera), the aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps is surprised when a former French professor, Philippe, settles there with his young wife and their three children in order to escape the wrongs of civilisation and to produce goat cheese. Initially suspicious of his unconventional ideas and lifestyle, the villagers are eventually conquered by the young family’s enthusiasm, kindness and helpfulness, and start to see in them a possible rebirth of the place. But, little by little misunderstandings arise and Philippe is increasingly shunned by most of the

locals. A small community is not always a place of sharing, as communal life can be rife with jealousy, xenophobia and envy. An extraordinary story of failed sharing. A director and screenwriter of narrative and documentary films, Giorgio Diritti also directs for the theatre. He founded and runs the Aura Film School in Ostana with screenwriter Fredo Valla. His feature debut The Wind Blows Round (2005) – with Thierry Toscan, Alessandra Agosti, Dario Anghilante, Giovanni Foresti; written by Valla – picked up numerous international awards and five David di Donatello nominations. Made on a small budget as a unique joint venture with the cast and crew, and through synergies created with the territory, it was hailed as the film phenomenon of the year. His other films include The Man Who Will Come (which triumphed at the 2009 Rome International Film Festival and the 2010 David di Donatello Awards) and There Will Come a Day (2013), starring Jasmine Trinca, a performance awarded with the Silver Ribbon for Best Actress. 17. Sunday 25 May - 10:30 am - piazza dello Spirito Santo - €3 Luca Serianni When did Italian become a language shared by all? There are two ongoing, contradictory and false convictions about the Italian language. The first is that, in the wake of the patriotism fuelled by the Risorgimento and the country’s subsequent unification, the wealth and variety of Italy’s dialectal heritage and the use of dialects in daily communication have been lost. The second is that Italian became the language used by just a very limited elite of literati. However, research in the last 20 years has unearthed evidence that radically changes this picture. Luca Serianni, one of Italy’s preeminent linguists and philologists, offers us a fascinating historical analysis of what it means for a people to share a language and the path that led to this linguistic sharing: the evolution of Italian from a language of diplomatic correspondence, to the massive amounts of popular (and especially epistolary) writing that was produced, and ultimately to a shared language, or at least one understood by the illiterate masses, in particular through the work of the Catholic Church. Luca Serianni is Professor of History of the Italian Language at Rome’s University ‘La Sapienza’. He is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and the Accademia della Crusca. He holds an honorary PhD from the University of Valladolid, Spain. He is the editor of two journals, Studi linguistici italiani and Studi di lessicografia italiana. He is the vice president of the Società Dante Alighieri. In 1988 he published a widely acclaimed Grammar of the Italian Language that obtained many subsequent editions, he studies a variety of aspects of the Italian language, not only literary, since its origins to the present. Together with M. Trifone he is editing the new edition of the Devoto-Oli Italian vocabulary. His latest books are: Italiani scritti (il Mulino, 2007); La lingua poetica italiana. Grammatica e testi (2009), Scritti sui banchi. L'italiano a scuola tra alunni e insegnanti (with G. Benedetti, 2009) by Carocci; Italiano in prosa (Franco Cesati, 2012); Prima lezione di grammatica (2006), L'ora d'italiano (2010), Leggere, scrivere, argomentare. Prove ragionate di scrittura (2013) by Laterza. 18. Sunday 25 May - 11:30 am - teatro Bolognini - €3 Alain Caillé From gift to Convivialism (or the art of living together: co-living) For over 30 years, the monthly journal Revue du MAUSS (of the Anti-utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences) has been developing what it calls the “gift paradigm”, following Marcel Mauss’ renowned The Gift, in which he claimed that we must seek not only possible foundations for a general social science (that includes moral philosophy and politics), but also a new, ideological alternative to neoliberalism. Many are still sceptical of such an ambitious undertaking. But one thing is certain: we cannot defeat financial and

speculative capitalism – the main cause of the economic, social, environmental and moral crises plaguing us today – unless we adopt another way of understanding and inhabiting our world. One alternative comes from the Convivialist Manifesto, published by MAUSS in France a year ago and signed by 64 world-renowned intellectuals of vastly diverse schools of thought and action. A French sociologist of international renown, Alain Caillé teaches sociology at the Université Paris X Nanterre. He and Serge Latouche are among the founders and leading figures of the MAUSS movement, whose journal La Revue du MAUSS he founded and edits. In 1989 he published the movement’s manifesto, maintaining that an alternative must be found to the reigning utilitarian paradigm in the social sciences. He has published essays on the importance of the gift economy for the development of human society and collaborated with Jacques Godbout on The World of the Gift (1998), L’Esprit du don (2000), and Il terzo paradigma: antropologia filosofica del dono (1998). His publications include: Splendeurs et misères des sciences sociales (1986), Critique de la raison utilitaire (1991), Critica dell’uomo economico (2009), Pour un manifeste du convivialisme (2013) and the Convivialist Manifesto (May 2014). 19. Sunday 25 May – 3:00 pm - teatro Bolognini - €3 Derrick de Kerckhove Sharing, transparency and appropriation: the three faces of the web The internet is sharing; that is its nature. Through new and ever-diversifying methods it allows us to share information, opinions, emotions, knowledge, memories, intelligence and even our identity. So many social and personal benefits derive from this sharing that it could be considered more a civilisation than technological phenomenon. In sharing our personal data, activities and even our geographical location, however, we become transparent, though sometimes more to others than to ourselves. In fact, we can’t access everything that’s known about us, the so-called “digital unconscious”, meaning the information that can be found out about us online unbeknownst to us. So, if managed well, is online transparency a good thing or not? The problem is that in this transitional era there is no symmetry between the user and the web: “Big Data”, in fact, allows companies and governments to appropriate our information. How can we strike a social and psychological balance in all this transparency? Sociologist Derrick de Kerckhove, a naturalised Canadian of Belgian origin, teaches at the University of Toronto, where from 1983 to 2008 he directed the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology; and at the University of Naples Federico II. A student of Marshall McLuhan, he specialised in the neurosocial and anthropological influences of new technologies and developed the theory of connected intelligence. He has contributed to the international communications journal Mass Media. His published works include Brainframes: Technology, Mind and Business (1991), La civilisation vidéo-chrétienne (1990); The Skin of Culture (1995), The Architecture of Intelligence (2001) and Transpolitica: nuovi rapporti di potere e di sapere (with V. Susca, 2008). 20. Sunday 25 May - 4:00 pm - piazza dello Spirito Santo - €3 Laura Bosio Eyes wide open: watching, seeing and sharing with others The expression “eyes wide open” implies something less visible; the total awareness derived from seeing, acknowledging what one sees, and noticing others and “the other”. Is sharing possible if one’s eyes aren’t wide open? Without this kind of scrutiny or attitude that fuels the continuous examination of everything that happens before and around us? Laura Bosio turned her gaze to traditional literature, poetry and spirituality and the answers she “saw” are more multi-faceted and broader than evidence would have us believe. The

eyes through which we see here belong to Fernando Pessoa, Umberto Saba, Angela da Foligno, María Zambrano, the Buddha, Al-Ghazali, Wislawa Szymborska (who shares with us the “courtesy of the blind”) and Baudelaire who, after having looked through a closed window at the life he was living, dreaming and suffering, observed: “I go to bed proud that I have lived and suffered in someone besides myself”. Laura Bosio was born in Vercelli and now lives and works in Milan as an editorial consultant. In 1997 she collaborated on the treatment and screenplay for the film Le acrobate by Silvio Soldini. She was a lecturer in Writing Techniques for the Master in Journalism at the Università Cattolica in Milan, and she is a contributor to the newspaper Avvenire. Her first foray into fiction came with I dimenticati (Feltrinelli, 1993) winning the Bagutta Prize for a first novel. This was followed by Annunciazione (Mondadori, 1997, new edition Longanesi 2008), awarded the Moravia Prize; Le ali ai piedi (2002), Teresina. Storie di un’anima (2004) by Mondadori; Le stagioni dell’acqua (2007, a finalist in Italy’s top literary award, the Strega Prize), Le notti sembravano di luna (2011) by Longanesi; D'amore e di ragione. Donne e spiritualità (Laterza, 2012). 21. Sunday 25 May - 5:00 pm - Sala Maggiore Palazzo Comunale - €3 Chiara Saraceno Welfare as a common good? Welfare is not simply an unproductive expenditure. On the contrary, it is, and can be, a tool for social and human investment. This is why it would be opportune to (re)evaluate it through the prism of common goods, on the one hand reinforcing the concept of equal citizenship, on the other developing a notion of “public” that is not exclusively tied to “state”. Welfare is also the responsibility of citizens, not merely as honest taxpayers, but also as active participants in its construction. It is not a question of merely improving traditional forms of volunteering and the third sector, but developing a concept and practice of active citizenship. Participation is achieved politically and through trade unions; through the co-construction and maintenance of services, self-help/mutual aid and the circulation of skills. Of course this form of participation cannot replace the type of welfare that is guaranteed by the state, but it can integrate with it on a practical and conceptual level, helping to circulate and pool human and material resources. Chiara Saraceno was a former research professor at Berlin’s Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung (Scientific Center for Social Research) and has taught Sociology of the family at Turin University. She was a member of the Investigative Committee on Poverty and Social Exclusion in Italy, which she then chaired from 1998 to 2001. She is honorary fellow of the Collegio Carlo Alberto of Turin and she regularly contributes to the newsdaily la Repubblica.She has conducted research on family, gender and generation relations, social policies, and poverty. On the latter subject, she has produced two reports, both published by Il Mulino: Povertà e benessere. Geografia delle disuguaglianze in Italia (2007, with A. Brandolini) and Dimensioni della disuguaglianza in Italia, povertà, abitazione, salute (2009, with A. Brandolini, A. Schizzerotto). Among her other publications are: I nuovi poveri (with P. Dovis, Codice Edizioni, 2011); Cittadini a metà (Rizzoli, 2012); Coppie e famiglie (Feltrinelli, 2012); Eredità (Rosenberg & Sellier, 2013); Sociologia della famiglia (with M. Naldini, 2007 and 2013), Onora il padre e la madre (with G. Laras, 2010), Conciliare famiglia e lavoro (with M. Naldini, 2011), Il welfare (2013), Stranieri e disuguali (with N. Sartor, G. Sciortino, 2013), all published by Il Mulino. 22. Sunday 25 May - 6:30 pm - piazza del Duomo - €3 Roberto Vecchioni, Marco Aime The craft of sharing music and words Roberto Vecchioni has always shared many words with the public, as a singer-songwriter

and, perhaps to even larger audiences, as a high school and university professor of Ancient Greek and Latin. In his dual roles of singer and educator, Vecchioni skilfully forges a captivating language that is at times tender, at times heart-rending, at times even biting. His two callings eventually, and naturally, intertwined, and he has dedicated many beautiful songs to his pupils, the youngest ones in particular. Italy’s most creative and intense singer-songwriter will use both his words and songs (accompanied on the guitar by Massimo Germini) to recount his zigzag course through music, language and teaching. Roberto Vecchioni studied Ancient Literature at Milan’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; taught Latin and Ancient Greek in secondary schools for over 30 years; and taught and continues to teach at various universities in Italy and abroad. He began working with many established musicians in the 1960s and in 1971 released his debut album, Parabola. Widespread success came in 1977 with Samarcanda. His many albums include: Luci a San Siro (1980), Il Contastorie (2005), Di rabbia e di stelle (2007), In Cantus (2009), Chiamami ancora amore (2011), I colori del buio (2011) and Io non appartengo più (2013). A winner of prestigious awards and honours, he has written numerous books and essays, among them the collection of poetry Di sogni e d’amore (2007), Viaggi del tempo immobile (1996), Le parole non le portano le cicogne (2000), Parole e canzoni (2002), Il libraio di Selinunte (2004), the anthology of fairy tales Diario di un gatto con gli stivali (2006) and Scacco a Dio (2009).