Modena: “Radical Times”, the Festival of the newspaper Tomorrow

Modena: “Radical Times”, the Festival of the newspaper Tomorrow.

It kicks off on Friday 31 March, with the "outside the salon" preview presentation of the book by Stefano Feltri “Inflation. What it is, where it comes from and how to defend yourself", the second Modena edition of "L'Italia di Domani", the festival promoted by the newspaper Tomorrow, titled this year “Radical Times”. The event takes place in the church of San Carlo, Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd April, offering two days of meetings and debates with ministers, party leaders, intellectuals, representatives of Italian and European institutions and of the Church to try to imagine and build the Italy of tomorrow in dialogue with today's politics.

The appointment on Friday 31 March is scheduled for 18pm, at the Ubik bookshop: Giuseppe Marotta, professor at the Marco Biagi Department of Economics of UniMoRe, will participate in the presentation of "Inflazione" together with Stefano Feltri, author of the book and director of the newspaper, and Professor Alfredo Roma. The "fuori salon" at the Ubik bookshop continues on Saturday 1 April, at 18pm, with a meeting on "Mickey Mouse, comics and the secrets of the new comics season", with Michela Rossi aka Sonno, illustrator and curator of the "Fumetti" insert of Tomorrow, Alex Bertani, director of Topolino and Stefano feltri.

The festival events all take place in the church of San Carlo and begin on Saturday 1 April, at 9, with a training seminar for journalists entitled "Political journalism in the era of social institutions".

At 12, the president of the Emilia Romagna Region Stefano Bonaccini will talk with Stefano Feltri on the topic “The Italy of Tomorrow between autonomy and centralism”. At 15 pm, the Minister of Business and Made in Italy will speak about the challenge of Made in Italy in the globalized world and at 16 pm, in the meeting “A new left is possible”, the new secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein will talk with the editor of Domani Carlo De Benedetti.

Saturday afternoon continues with an analysis of the first ten years of Pope Francis' pontificate, at 17pm, with Federico Ruozzi, professor of History of Christianity at UniMoRe; a meeting with the political scientist Nadia Urbinati on the phenomenon of populism (at 17.30 pm), and a debate on cultural hegemony, led by Beppe Cottafavi, with the writers Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Walter Siti. To close the day, at 19 pm, a panel on artificial intelligence with Rocco Tanica, Andrea Zanni and Beppe Cottafavi.

On Sunday 2 April the works will open at 10am with a panel entitled “Brothers of Giorgia”, with the political scientists Salvatore Vassallo and Sofia Ventura, followed by a dialogue on civil and social rights with Maria Cecilia Guerra, economist and politician, the philosopher Giorgia Serughetti, the professor of Philosophy of Law Gianfrancesco Zanetti.

The morning will end with a debate on freedom of the press by Domani journalists Nello Trocchia and Giovanni Tizian and deputy director Emiliano Fittipaldi.

The afternoon will be opened by a dialogue with the president of the Puglia Region Michele Emiliano on the topic of autonomy seen from the left to continue with a discussion entitled “Peace, war, a private matter” with Pina Picierno, vice president of the European Parliament, Gian Paolo Caselli, professor of Economic Policy, Marco Tarquinio, managing director of Avvenire.

The event will close with a speech by Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi, president of the CEI, scheduled for 19pm.

The detailed program of the Festival can be found online https://editorialedomani.it/modena-2023