Four evenings of the Emergenza Terra (Earth Emergency) cycle from September to December 2023 will focus on water, air, earth and fire (in the sense of energy) in the era of climate change, thanks to speakers who are among the leading experts on the subject, in keeping with the multidisciplinary nature of the cycle: from aerospace engineer to climate physicist, from philosopher to economist...

A fifth evening focuses on how the climate is narrated: a slightly different way, in short, of approaching the subject in order to understand how climate change is narrated.

Of the five events, one will have a film-musical prelude before the conference proper (Wednesday 27 September), while another will begin with excerpts from a play (Thursday 26 October).

The lectures in the Emergenza Terra cycle are free of charge and open to all interested persons, not just students and academics. Refreshments will follow.

Registration is required for organisational reasons.
The meetings are held in the Multipurpose Hall on the ground floor of the SUPSI Campus in Mendrisio (via Flora Ruchat-Roncati-15).

 

Programme 2023

​​​​​​​Wednesday 27.09.2023, ore 6:30 PM: Water

• 6:30 PM
  Screening of short films by Francesco Cara (professor of ecodesign, IED-Istituto europeo di design, Milan) and musical accompaniment by Zeno Gabaglio (cellist), in collaboration with Climate Space
   
• 7:15 PM
  Antonello Pasini (climate physicist, CNR-Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche): Siccità e alluvioni. Gli effetti del cambiamento climatico sul ciclo dell’acqua (Droughts and Floods. The effects of climate change on the water cycle)

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Wednesday 18.10.2023, 6:30 PM: Air

• 6:30 PM
  Amalia Ercoli Finzi (aerospace engineer): Terra in crisi: è ora di emigrare?​​​​​​​ (Earth in crisis: time to emigrate?)​​​​​​​

Thursday 26.10.2023: How to tell the climate?​​​​​​​

• 5:30 PM
  Excerpts from the play C’ero clima io by Ferruccio Cainero (author) with Franco di Leo and Federico Caprara (actors)
   
• ​​​6:00 PM
  Round table with Telmo Pievani (philosopher of science, University of Padua), Lisa Lurati (artist) and Cristian Scapozza (head of the SUPSI Centre for Climate Change and Territorial Competence), moderated by Clara Caverzasio (science popularizer), in collaboration with the cultural association Trame
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Wednesday 22.11.2023: Earth

• 6:30 PM
  Emanuele Coccia (philosopher): Non chiamatela Gaia. Per un teatro planetario​​​​​​​ (Don’t call her Gaia. For a planetary theatre)
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Friday 15.12.2023: Fire

• 6:30
  Julia Steinberger (professor of economic ecology, University of Lausanne)​​​​​​​: The role of energy for living well within planetary limits
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The Earth Emergency cycle is supported by Pro Elvetia, Swiss Foundation for culture and​​​ Quickly.