• Wolfgang Achtner

  • Giovanni Legnini

  • Paco Mendez

  • Andre Singer

  • Jimmy Nelson

The future of the past

Languages and values at risk

Sunday, 8 March 2015 5:15 PM - Ex Aurum "Fabbrica delle idee"

An extraordinary journey around the world and the people living in it. A multimedia path with memorable pictures of forgotten cultures and values, the heritage of our future.

Programma

 

Lectio Magistralis

  • Ethics is memory

    A mission, an act of courage, a precious communication tool, celebration and documentation: Jimmy Nelson, author of the reportage "Before they pass away" dedicated to endangered peoples, explains the power of photography for contemporary culture and collective memory.

Ethic Award

  • Ethics is storytelling

    Storytelling as the antidote to the collective oblivion on the atrocities backed by the political machine: the anthropologist and director André Singer reflects on the ethic role of storytelling and images, starting from the documentaries "The Act of Killing", on the genocide in Indonesia, and "Night Will Fall" on the extermination by the Nazis.

Speeches

  • Ethics is law

    Indulge the extent and the intensity of globalisation or support the opposite need to control them? Giovanni Legnini, Vice-president of the Superior Council of Magistracy, reflects on the present, the past and the future of law. 

Moderator

  • Wolfgang Achtner

    Journalist, news correspondent for CNN, ABC News, Press TV

    TV journalist, documentarian, author. Reporter and war correspondent for CNN, ABC News, Press TV. He contributed to producing some important TV documentaries for BBC and Channel 4. Correspondent from Italy for The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. Reporter for several Italian newspapers, among which La Repubblica, Il Mondo, Mondo Economico, Il Manifesto and Reporter. Professor of journalism at the University of Perugia and Siena. He trained the team of Repubblica TV about the rules of video-journalism.