Explore the World with Extracurricular Courses from Sapere a Tutto Campo
Design, ethics, genomics, geopolitics and contemporary history will be the topics covered in the second half of Sapere a tutto campo (Round Out Your Knowledge). This interdisciplinary program is for students who want to get deeper into subjects of interest but not closely related to the economic and legal topics discussed during lectures . Six lessons conducted by Francesco Trabucco, Professor of Design at the Politecnico di Milano, from 9 February and entitled "Designing the contemporary", will constitute a kind of pragmatic apology of design as a tool to build pieces of the future because, through the objects it creates, design allows you to learn a lot of information about places, people, cultures, technologies and languages.
"Ethiconomics. ethical reflection on economic behavior "is the title of the lecture series, which kicks off on February 6, coordinated by Giovanni Piazza, writer and teacher of history and philosophy, which aims to be an occasion to discuss the relationship between economics and ethics. We will discuss the concepts of profit and interest, greed as a vice or virtue, "equitable" distribution of resources, the profile (moral) of the businessman, and the ethical outcomes of economic actions.
Paolo Magri, vice president and executive director of ISPI, starting 7 February will face the delicate topic "The future of the European Union", in a time when the Old Continent is facing difficult challenges related to migration, terrorism, Brexit and populism. What are the consequences for the structure of European governance? What are the repercussions on relations with the rest of the world ? These are among the questions that the course will try to answer.
In English, from February 6, the course "Genomic Tales" will be held. What genomics is and how it might change our lives ", taught by Pier Paolo Di Fiore, a physician and professor of general pathology at the University of Milan, director of molecular medicine at the IEO. He will address issues such as the discovery of DNA and its implications, both positive, - for example the possibility to develop more personalized treatments for the future - and problematic, such as the ethical aspects.
"Continuity or break between the First and the Second Republic?" This is the question at the center of the course of contemporary history, entitled "Italy from the First to the Second Republic", which kicks off on February 14, held by Giovanni De Luna, professor of contemporary history and iconographic and audiovisual sources for historical research at the University of Turin, which will be compared with the various stages experienced by the political system of republican Italy, from its origins to the late twentieth century. A lot of time will be reserved for the narratives; the way, that is, that cinema, literature, television, photography and other media reported the events and characters that have marked recent decades.
Registration for the courses is open until 31 January