Speakers

American journalist and historian, born in 1964, she studied at Yale and Oxford. She began her career as a correspondent in Warsaw for The Washington Post, covering the post-Soviet transition in Eastern Europe.

Born in 1966, he is an American film director who made his debut with the documentary The Cruise (1998). His films include Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014), which earned him two Academy Award nominations for Best Director.

Film director and screenwriter, born in New York in 1986, he studied at the AFI Conservatory. He made his feature debut with Hereditary (2018), followed by Midsommar (2019) and Beau Is Afraid (2023).

Born in Venice in 1944, he is a philosopher and university professor. After earning a degree in philosophy with a thesis on Lukács, he taught at several Italian universities and founded the Faculty of Philosophy at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.

Filippo Uttinacci, known as Fulminacci, was born in Rome in 1997. He released his debut album La vita veramente in 2019, winning the Targa Tenco award for best debut work.

Born in 1986, she lives between Paris and Berlin. She studied art history, dramaturgy, and philosophy, and writes for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and other French and German cultural outlets.

Born in Barbastro, Spain, in 1962, he is a poet, novelist, and essayist. He has worked as a literature teacher and regularly contributes to El País and ABC Cultural.

Born in Rome in 1974, he began his literary career as a poet and published his first novel, La casa degli sguardi, in 2018. It was followed by Tutto chiede salvezza (2020), which won the Premio Strega Giovani, and Sempre tornare (2021).

Melania G. Mazzucco, born in Rome in 1966, is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. She made her debut with Il bacio della Medusa (1996), followed by Lei così amata (2000) and Vita (2003), which won the Strega Prize.

Architecture graduate at Florence University, in 1984 Sandro Veronesi published his first and only collection of poems entitled Il resto del cielo (The Remainder of the Sky”) and in 1988 his first novel Per dove parte questo treno allegro (“For Where this Merry Train is Leaving”), followed by Gli sfiorati (“The Skimmed”, 1990) and Venite venite B-52 (“Come, Come, B-52s”, 1995).