Tuesday 14 November 2023, from 4pm. The 2023 Donna di Scienza awards ceremony in live streaming. Followed by the conference “Women in Science. The long road to equality” by Maria Pia Abbracchio.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLG2L_CgHnQ
[Ihithe, 1940 – Nairobi, 2011] Kenyan environmentalist and activist. In 2004 she was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She was a Kenyan parliamentarian and Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki, between January 2003 and November 2005.
[Turin, 1919 – Milan, 1998] Pediatrician, psychoanalyst, partisan and former deportee from Nazi concentration camps. Despite being from a Jewish family, he managed to graduate in Medicine in 1943, as the fascist racial laws allowed those already enrolled to complete their university studies. Thanks to her medical degree she managed to survive the concentration camps where she was interned.
[Shanghai, 1912 – New York, 1997] Chinese physicist, she carried out his research activity mainly in the United States. She participated in the Manhattan project and was among the first women to occupy a prominent place in the panorama of world physics in the twentieth century. She was the first winner of the Wolf Prize for Physics in 1978, for conducting the experiment that bears her name.
[Sassari, 1886 – Sanremo, 1978] Botany and naturalist, she was the first woman in Italy to obtain a teaching qualification in botany, in 1915, at the University of Cagliari. From 1926 to 1929 she directed the Botanical Garden of the University of Cagliari, before returning to carry out research at the Experimental Floriculture Station of Sanremo. Silver medal of merit of the Italian Red Cross and Bronze medal of civil valor.
We regret to inform you that the “Botanico per un giorno” event, scheduled for 9 and 10 November 2023, has been postponed to a later date due to force majeure. Those who have booked the activity will be contacted as soon as the new dates are established to confirm their availability to participate in the workshop.
The activity can be booked for individual visitors directly from the event sheet. Places are limited, booking is recommended. Book now
The guided tour can be booked for individual visitors directly from the activity sheet, booking is recommended due to limited places. Book now
Reservations are open, dedicated to schools and organized groups, for the activities scheduled in the Conference Room of the Banco di Sardegna Foundation on Saturday 11 November 2023. From 4pm to 5pm there will be a presentation of the book “S’Universu a bolu. Contixeddus po piticus e mannus po scoberri su mundu de sa fìsica […]
From Monday 16 October it will be possible to book activities for schools with the “package” system. You can select up to 4 activities over the course of a day for a single class. We are waiting for you at the Cagliari FestivalScienza!
The physicist and writer Antonino (Nino) Martino talks to us about his book “Goodbye Majorana“, Watson editions 2021, which tells a possible story of the disappearance of the physicist Ettore Majorana. Link: Interview with Antonino Martino
Newspapers, weeklies, radios and televisions have always dedicated ample space to topics such as paranormal phenomena, astrological forecasts, contacts with extraterrestrials, often treating all of this in an uncritical way, without any control criteria. Furthermore, today, thanks to the Internet, unverified claims in support of unproven therapies, urban legends, historical forgeries and conspiracy theories are […]
The recording of the Inaugural Conference of the XV Edition of the Cagliari FestivalScienza is online on our Youtube channel. Anna Grassellino, director of the Supercondicting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, Fermilab, Chicago – “From accelerators to quantum devices, at the frontier of science and technology”; (in video link) Alessandro Cardini, INFN Research Director – […]
13 November 2022 4:00 pm 7:00 pm AWARDS CEREMONY Woman of Science Award – IV edition Coordinated by Carla Romagnino, honorary president of the ScienzaSocietàScienza Association and president of the Prize Jury. Participants: Maria Maddalena Becchere, president of the ScienzaSocietàScienza Association The winners of the competition, the institutional and academic representatives, who contribute to the […]
13 November 2022 h 10:00 13:00 The round table to reflect on the works dedicated to science which aim to disseminate the results of scientific research and its many applications among a vast public. Coordinates Giovanni Spataro, head of service of Le Scienze Speakers: Marta Burgay, astrophysicist and INAF-OAC researcher Luciano Colombo, pro-rector for research, […]
12 November 2022 4:00 – 5:00 pm Paolo Alessandrini, mathematician and science communicator, author of the book Mathematical bestiary, Hoepli 2021, finalist for the ASIMOV 2022 prize. Mathematics is not always a predictable discipline, but it is full of unsettling, shocking and monstrous concepts. The performance recounts the centuries-old challenge of the “mathewizards” who have […]
12 November 2022 9:00 10:00 Silvia Bencivelli, scientific journalist and radio and television presenter, author of the book Suspicious us and our doubts about science, Einaudi 2019. Coordinated by Paolo Magliocco, scientific journalist. More and more people are relying on so-called alternative medicine, faux ancient remedies and new age practices, and trust Dr. Google’s answers […]
10 November 2022 h 10:00 11:00 Marco Ciardi, University of Florence. Author of the book Brief history of pseudosciences, Hoepli 2021, finalist for the Asimov prize 2022. Coordinated by Paolo Magliocco, scientific journalist. The book is divided into a chronological journey, reconstructing the relationship between science and pseudoscience, from alchemy to lost continents, from creationism […]
10 November 2022 9:00 10:00 Carla Romagnino, Honorary President of the ScienzaSocietàScienza Association. Coordinated by Paolo Magliocco, scientific journalist. The theme will be developed by drawing on some important historical facts with particular reference to the invention of the telescope by Galileo (1609) and the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn, Fritz Streissmann and […]
