Curated by the Department of International Human and Social Sciences (SUSI)
Programme
Wednesday, 14 October
16:00 - Institutional welcome and opening remarks
Valerio De Cesaris, Rector of the University for Foreigners of Perugia
Paolo Morozzo Della Rocca, Director of the Department of International Human and Social Sciences
16:15 - Panel 1 | Conflicts, democratic crisis and peace. Dialogue among intellectuals and scholars
Anna Foa, Historian
Tommaso Greco, Legal philosopher
Maria Concetta Mattei, Journalist
Valerio De Cesaris, Rector of the University for Foreigners of Perugia
Massimiliano Marianelli, Rector of the University of Perugia
Moderator: Federica Guazzini, University for Foreigners of Perugia
Thursday, 15 October
09:30 - Panel 2 | War, peace, and international institutions
Alessandro Albanese Ginammi
The Unsustainability of War: Economic, Social and Environmental Costs in Historical Perspective
Salvatore Cingari
From the Great War to the "Great War". The militarization of culture and society from one century to the next
Francesco Duranti
Peace and democracy through law: the role and action of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe
11:00 - Coffee break
11:30 - Panel 3 | Conflicts, rights and new balances of power
Paolo Morozzo della Rocca
Sources of law and the conflict between powers. With the decline of norms, will new principalities arise?
Ottavio Quirico
The growing threat of nuclear weapons: limits in international law?
Filippo Sbrana
Cohesion policies and territorial conflict in Republican Italy
Alessandro Simoncini
In systemic chaos. Some concepts on the new (dis)order of the world
13:15 - Lunch break
14:30 - Panel 4 | Language, narratives and imaginaries
Antonio Allegra
Forms of conflict. Imaginaries of difference between separation and transformation
Alberto Azara
The power of artificial appearance: deepfake
Toni Marino
The symbolic narrative of power and the construction of consensus. The pandemic narrative as pre-attitudinal antidemocratic creation
Stefania Tusini
The use of the concept of madness as a political tool in conflict situations
16:00 - Panel 5 | Environment, resources and new conflicts
Luna Aristei
Outer space in the age of power
Chiara Chiatti, Francesco Asdrubali
The European Green Deal, between momentum and reconsideration
Tommaso Pacetti, Chiara Biscarini
Water Management in Times of Disasters and Conflicts
Closing discussion | Envisioning the future in the age of power
18:00 - End of proceedings
The conference is organized by the Research Monitoring Committee of the Department of International Human and Social Sciences (SUSI)
Scientific committee: Antonio Allegra, Francesco Asdrubali, Francesco Duranti, Filippo Sbrana, Giovanna Scocozza, Stefania Tusini
Secretariat: Rosanna Laguardia, Silvio Pietro Cerri