Event Type : Talks

As 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the Italian Liberation, we invite you to the talk “Together and Free. The Women of the Resistance,” at the Historical Library of the Politecnico di Milano.
A multi-voiced conversation to trace the role, strength and experiences of a generation of women who, during World War II, contributed to changing the future with their choices and actions. A choral story, full of diverse individualities and histories, united in the struggle against Nazi-fascism.
Roberto Dulio, the Rector’s Delegate for the Archive, Library, and Museum System, will dialogue with Benedetta Tobagi, author of the book La Resistenza delle donne (2022) and Luisa Steiner, journalist and voice of the events experienced by her family during the years of the War.
The meeting will be held in the presence of the Rector, Donatella Sciuto, on May 5, at 6 p.m.

You can register for the event at this link.

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Graffito F. Lèger – Sala 11 Museo Monumento al Deportato di Carpi
Archivio fotografico Fondazione Fossoli

From May 6 to June 13, 2025, the 12th edition of MANTOVARCHITETTURA will take place, whose theme, “Architecture and Conflict,” will address the problem of armed conflict, forced migration, and climate change in contexts such as-among others-Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Myanmar, Sudan, and Yemen. Within this framework, MANTOVARCHITETTURA 2025 investigates the connection between architecture and conflict by analyzing the complexity of this binomial according to different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, and through the dialogue between multiple historical-critical narratives, in a contemporary perspective.

MANTOVARCHITETTURA invites students, professionals and citizens to an open discussion on the implications of architecture in these scenarios, stimulating a deep and multidisciplinary dialogue. The event investigates four different perspectives of conflict: architecture and armed conflict, conflicting memories, conflicts of interest and inner conflict. These paths offer alternative and complementary viewpoints to analyze architecture’s contribution to understanding and managing conflict.

MANTOVARCHITETTURA is an event launched in 2014 within the UNESCO Chair in Architectural Preservation and Planning in Heritage Cities, favored by the international dimension in which Mantova and the Politecnico di Milano are placed. The main protagonists have always been the students, who have the opportunity to listen to and meet architects from all over the world who develop the new architecture starting from the knowledge of the ancient roots of this art, thus making the confrontation between masters and students lively, in a perspective founded on the value of history as a ground on which to cultivate the design of living spaces.

Discover the full program on the website mantovarchitettura.polimi.it

Participation in the event is free. Registrations at this form.

Loves, intrigues, adventures, mysteries, dreams, passions in a spy story, raw and true, of the 19th century. A story of dukes, marquises and countesses, heretics, prelates, assassins, great wealth, ferocious poverty and hidden treasures. And the legend of an engineer, Eugenio Villoresi, ‘zuccone’ (a big head) loyal to the precepts of Saint Paul, and ‘his’ canal, opposed by the strong powers but providential for the people of the Po Valley. This novel reveals, 140 years later, the background of the ransom of the ‘papal nobility’ over the “caldarrostai” of the North’ through the use of ‘illicit’ capital saved by order of Pope Pio IX from the confiscation measures of the ‘manomorta’.

Valerio Villoresi talks with the actress Roberta Turconi. The event will be held in Italian and is open to the public while places are available.

Thursday, May 8, at 6:30 p.m., “Il quartiere competente. The open lecture dei vicini di casa” is back! Benedetta Crivelli, Professor of Economic History at the University of Parma, will present “Gender Pay Gap. Le radici storiche del divario salariale”.
During the meeting, we will explore the history of women’s work in the last century, addressing one of the themes that still most influences gender equality today. Through historical analysis, we will try to understand which factors have changed the relationship between work, family and economy during the twentieth century to understand what the lack of gender equality really tells us about today’s economy and society.

We look forward to seeing you at Off Campus Nolo, inside the Municipal Market in Viale Monza, 54.

Physicist and magician Lorenzo Paletti tries his hand at telling a mystery story centered on the figure of Ettore Majorana and a mysterious and revolutionary Machine designed by him in his book, which he presents with Prof. Maurizio Masi of Politecnico di Milano.

The event will be held in italian

From May 6 to June 13, 2025, the 12th edition of MANTOVARCHITETTURA will take place, whose theme, “Architecture and Conflict,” will address the problem of armed conflict, forced migration, and climate change in contexts such as-among others-Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Myanmar, Sudan, and Yemen. Within this framework, MANTOVARCHITETTURA 2025 investigates the connection between architecture and conflict by analyzing the complexity of this binomial according to different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, and through the dialogue between multiple historical-critical narratives, in a contemporary perspective.

MANTOVARCHITETTURA invites students, professionals and citizens to an open discussion on the implications of architecture in these scenarios, stimulating a deep and multidisciplinary dialogue. The event investigates four different perspectives of conflict: architecture and armed conflict, conflicting memories, conflicts of interest and inner conflict. These paths offer alternative and complementary viewpoints to analyze architecture’s contribution to understanding and managing conflict.

MANTOVARCHITETTURA is an event launched in 2014 within the UNESCO Chair in Architectural Preservation and Planning in Heritage Cities, favored by the international dimension in which Mantova and the Politecnico di Milano are placed. The main protagonists have always been the students, who have the opportunity to listen to and meet architects from all over the world who develop the new architecture starting from the knowledge of the ancient roots of this art, thus making the confrontation between masters and students lively, in a perspective founded on the value of history as a ground on which to cultivate the design of living spaces.

Discover the full program on the website mantovarchitettura.polimi.it

For the INCONTRI review Carlo Rinaldi presents his book Intelligenza Sensibile (Egea ed., 2025), dedicated to “relational” listening in organizational systems and in the interaction with artificial, natural and human intelligences, in dialogue with Fabio Fossa, researcher at Politecnico di Milano and member of META, Social sciences and humanities for science and technology.
A group that produces and disseminates knowledge about technoscience, and provides expertise on the philosophical, epistemological, ethical and societal issues that emerge from the processes of scientific research, technological development, design, and innovation.

The event will be held in italian.

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