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Orientation days at the Università degli Studi di Torino

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13 February 2018 / in Events / by
Orientation Days

The first edition of the Orientation Days 2018, will take place from Monday 19th February to Friday 23rd February at Campus Luigi Einaudi (CLE) , in Lungo Dora Siena 100/A – Turin.

The event foresees the presentation of the academic offerings. The meetings will have a free entrance without reservation. During the entire duration of the meetings students will also be able to visit the stands of the Schools and of some student services.

Furthermore, it is also possible to see the orientation guide online.

More information is available in the dedicated section of the School website.

The Red Codex from Rossano, restoration and conservation at Accademia delle Scienze

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29 January 2018 / in Events / by

The series of meetings dedicated by Accademia delle Scienze to the themes of valorisation, restoration and conservation of Cultural Heritage reaches its second appointment: this will be the occasion to present the restoration work carried out on the Codex Purpureus of Rossano Calabro, a precious and particular red codex, recognized as a World Heritage Site and included by Unesco among the 47 new documents of the International Memory of the World Register.

The Codex,  kept in the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art in Rossano Calabro, is the surviving part of a Greek-Eastern Tetraevangel of great value, dated back to the sixth century A.D. It consists of 188 sheets written in silver and gold ink on purple dyed parchment. The now incomplete codex contains the text of the Gospel of Matthew and the majority of the Gospel of Mark, preceded by 13 illuminated pages with some significant moments of Jesus Christ’s life.

The Central Institute for Restoration and Conservation of Archives and Libraries proceeded to conduct a long and complex restoration, in order to analyze the codex with sophisticated techniques and to clarify its history and context of origin.

The conference will take place on Monday 22nd January in the Sala dei Mappamondi at Accademia delle Scienze, in Via Accademia delle Scienze 6, Turin. 4.00 p. m.

Download here the programme in pdf.

The impossible doesn’t exist: Hervé Barnasse, between alpinism and research

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26 January 2018 / in Events / by

His spectacular adventures on the top of the world, from the summits of his beloved Cervino to Pakistan, China and Patagonia, have made him very famous. Hervé Barmasse, mountaineer but also writer, photographer and director (he debuted in 2015 with the book “La montagna dentro” and filmed the award-winning films “Linea Continua” and “Not so far away”) tells his challenges to the impossible, face to face with its limits, his fear and his friend, the mountain. Because mountaineering is adventure, passion, love, but also difficulty and risk: it’s the courage of man who puts own his life at stake.

But the mountaineer “son of the Cervino” – guest on January 23rd of the NICO, the Institute of Neuroscience of the University of Turin – will also talk about a special challenge, the one with vertebromidollar pathology, won thanks to the progress of neurosurgery, exercise and willpower.

Spinal cord injuries – due to road accidents, sports accidents or accidents at home – are a problem with a dramatic impact on public health, as they cause serious disabilities with serious social, welfare and economic repercussions. “One of the greatest challenges of research is to be able to stimulate the regeneration of injured nerve fibres through innovative experimental therapies“, says prof. Alessandro Vercelli, scientific director of NICO, the Institute of Neuroscience of the Cavalieri Ottolenghi Foundation – University of Turin. ” To face it at best, we decided to join forces, creating a research group that brings together complementary approaches: the clinical approach of the neurosurgeon with that of basic research, developed by developed by NICO’s anatomists and physiologists”.

The new research group will be held by the Rector of the University of Turin and President of the Cavalieri Foundation Ottolenghi Gianmaria Ajani, Vice President of the Paolo Bertolino Foundation and Prof. Giancarlo Panzica, Director of the Department of Neuroscience “Rita Levi Montalcini”. The neurosurgeon Diego Garbossa (Director of the School of Specialization in Neurosurgery at the University of Turin – City of Health and Science of Turin) and the researchers Marina Boido and Annalisa Buffo (NICO – Department of Neuroscience) will explain to the public the transition from the clinical approach to basic research on spinal cord trauma and regeneration in the spinal cord.

On Tuesday 23rd January at 11:00 a. m. at the Aula Magna of the Institute of Anatomy of the University (ground floor – Corso Massimo D’ Azeglio 52, Turin). Free entry until all available seats are available.

 

Barbara Magnani – Communication and Press Office

Department of Neuroscience, University of Turin

Conference: “The forgotten slaughter”

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25 January 2018 / in Events / by

From 18 June 1931, after the publishing of the decree number 773 that authorized “cleaning measures” against all those who threatened the public morals and the public decency, there were almost seventy thousand deaths and other tens of thousands of people were deported to camps where they were imprisoned. These numbers, difficult to estimate, are the ones of the Homocaust, a still hidden page of the Nazi extermination against homosexuals.

Homocaust has been studied very late and much less than other deportations. This is due to the personal difficulties of the people that had to reveal their sexual orientation but, above all, due to the fact that homosexuality was considered a crime.

Even today, in about one-third of the countries in the world, homosexuality is considered a crime, sometimes punishable even with death.

The conference “The forgotten slaughter” of the Homocaust will take place on Wednesday, 24 January.

Lucy will participate in video conference together with some researchers and journalists. Lucy, born Luciano in 1924, is the last Italian survivor of the Homocaust, a “different” teenager of the Fascist Bologna, that was deported to Dachau.

Speakers:

Lorenzo Benadusi – The persecution of homosexuals in the Fascist Italy.
Maya De Leo – Homosexuality as an historic problem.
Giovanni Dall’Orto – The persecution of homosexual in the 1900s.
Claudio Vercelli – Deportation of homosexuals. The European framework.

Moderator:

Silvano Bertalot, journalist.

The initiative comes from the collaboration of Coordinamento Torino Pride with the Comitato Resistenza e Costituzione del Consiglio Regionale and the Università degli Studi di Torino.

When and where: from 9.30 am, Cavalleria Reale, Via Verdi 9.

Here you can find the poster of the event.

Six Characters in Search of an Author – Archive Alive Teatro

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25 January 2018 / in Events / by

On the occasion of the play “Six Characters in Search of an Author” directed by Luca De Fusco, on stage at the Teatro Astra from 24 to 28 January 2018, the television edition of the play of Luigi Pirandello is proposed. Selected by the Archivio Rai and interpreted by the Compagnia dei Giovani of Giorgio de Lullo, was broadcasted in 1965.

The recording is preceded by a testimony of Romolo Valli, interviewed by Mario Raimondo, about the importance of a television production to recreate the link between stage and empty parterre which is present in Pirandello’s play.

The show will take place on Monday, 22 January, at 5 pm, at the Mediateca Rai, in Via Verdi 31, Turin.

Free admission, booking compulsory: 011 8104858 – mediateca.torino@rai.it

 

The most lively party that exists: Torino Mapping Party

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19 January 2018 / in Events / by

On Saturday, October 14, “Torino Mapping Party – Collaborative mapping for a better mobility” will take place. It is the first mapping party of the City of Turin, organized by 5T and ITHACA  under the program of Torino Design of the City, a week of meetings, exhibitions and workshops about design.

The mapping party is an event in which experts meet less experienced users, citizens and whoever wants to participate and contribute to the sharing of maps and gain a shared and wide knowledge of the territory in which we live.

The aim of the first Torino mapping Party is to involve the citizens and the ones who live in the city to contribute to the OpenStreetMap maps, used by the information service Muoversi a Torino, with the collection and input of data and information of public interest for the benefit of all those who live, work or visit Turin. The district Barriera di Milano will be the first area to be mapped for this first edition.

For more information and to sign up (until October 12) please visit: www.muoversiatorino.it/mapping-party

Save the date: the European Researchers’ Night comes back on September 29

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19 January 2018 / in Events / by

The European Researchers’ Night comes back, simultaneously all around Europe, on September 29. It is a big event promoted by the European Commission to show the researchers’ work in an informal and fun context. Piedmont and Aosta Valley host the twelfth edition of the event thanks to the two-year project CLoSER- Cementing Links between Science&society toward Engagement and Responsibility, which in 2016 passed the selection carried out by the European Commission within the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizont 2020. The complete program can be found at the following link: http://nottedeiricercatori.piemontevalledaosta.it/programmi/torino

CHINA AND THE NEW URBAN WORLD

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12 May 2017 / in Events, News / by

Today, Thursday 4th May 2017, at MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale (Museum of Oriental Art), the series of meetings organized on the occasion of the exhibition Dall’antica alla nuova Via della Seta (From the ancient to the new Silk Road) continues. Taking the cue from the exhibition and the permanent collections of the museum, the speakers who will take part in the event will offer a precious opportunity to think about the new cultural challenges of the Eurasian vision that the New Silk Road wants to offer. The cooperation with Il Mulino, ToChina and the Polytechnic University of Turin gives the opportunity to talk about this topic under different points of view, with an interdisciplinary approach and with high-profile international speakers.

Today, talking about China often means facing the unprecedented process of urbanisation which is currently taking place, and not only as architects or city planners. For this reason, the percentage of the urban population went from 18% in 1978 to more than 55% in 2017, and every year more than 16 million people who live in rural areas move to the cities.

The Nuova Via della Seta (New Silk Road) is the latest important government project that wants to support the central role of the Country on a global scale, a position that our country had many times in the past, for example from the mercantile point of view, and that now it is forcefully reaffirmed thanks to the fundamental role given to urbanisation.

Different levels of government, driven by the thriving real estate market and by the profits coming from the right to build, have defined new development areas, scientific parks and industrial areas in ambitious plans for new developments and new towns. This is a strategic tool by which local governments increase their local revenues, attract companies and business activities and, more generally, spread the Chinese “urban dream”.

A special and symbolic example of the Nuova Via della Seta ambitions is the newly founded city of Lanzhou, built by the Government in the North central China as the focal point and the hub of the new expansion towards the West. Lanzhou has been recently visited by the Polytechnic University of Turin, the first western university to carry out field studies in this Chinese city.

Free entry to the conferences until all available seats are taken.

Free tickets will be distributed from half an hour before the beginning of the conference.

 

“Vie dell’Amianto” exhibition

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12 May 2017 / in Events, News / by

Wednesday 10th May 2017, at 12:30pm, at Salone del Rettorato of the University of Turin (Via Verdi 8 – Turin) there will be the presentation to the press of Le Vie dell’Amianto, an exhibition organized on the initiative of the Interdepartmental Centre for Studies on Asbestos and Other Toxic Particulates “G. Scansetti” of the University of Turin, the RSA – the Environmental Rehabilitation and Development Society of the former asbestos mine in Balangero e Corio – and the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, with the support of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, Agorà Scienza and Sistema Museale e Archivio Storico of Ateneo.

“Open Science” at the 2017 International Book Fair

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12 May 2017 / in Events, News / by

Thanks to the agreement between the Book, Music and Culture Foundation and the University of Turin, at the 2017 International Book Fair which will take place from 18th to 22nd May, in Pavilion 3 of the historical headquarters of Lingotto (Via Nizza 294, Turin), there will be an exhibition space called “Open Science” dedicated to science and its role in contemporary societies.

This space will be divided into the event space “Talking About: science to understand the world”, and the exhibition space “Science with and for Society”.

“Our presence at the International Book Fair underlines the role of University in the creation and promotion of culture in the territory”, says the dean of the University of Turin Gianmaria Ajani. “Thanks to the contribution of the professors and the cooperation of the students we will present the value of research, and we will shed light on the most crucial current problems, correcting the fake news and promoting accurate information on topics that too often are responsible for the spreading of misleading news”.

Mario Montalcini, the Vice President of the Foundation who last December signed the agreement, adds: “We are very proud of this cooperation that has set in motion experiences and experimentations that will be the lifeblood also for the next International Book Fairs. The University of Turin is an institution of the highest calibre, that will collaborate with the Foundation so that it can achieve its goals. The University has educated many experts and young people in different areas of knowledge, who are enthusiastic about what they do and want to get very positive results”.

 

During the eventful programme proposed by “Talking About: science to understand the world”, some experts of the University of Turin will rotate themselves in order to face some of the most significant topics about which too often fake news originate: these are incorrect and misleading pieces of information that are spread in order to manipulate public opinion.

 

In particular, from Thursday 18th May to Sunday 21st May at 12pm, you will have the opportunity to attend an event whose aim is to make people understand the most frequent manipulation of information and data in the different areas of policy, health, economy and work.

 

In addition, individual events taking place all the days will give the opportunity to shed light on crucial topics such as vaccinations, migrants, ethics and journalism, populism, Europe and post-truth.

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