Everything is ready for the inauguration of the new edition of Festival Cosmosthe international scientific dissemination event promoted by the Metropolitan City which includes the Award Cosmoscreated in synergy with the Ministry of Education and Merit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Astronomical Society.
On Thursday 10 October, at 6.45 pm, the curtain of the CineTeatro Metropolitano del Dopolavoro Ferroviario will open on one of the most important events in the world panorama of literature dedicated to Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics.
The institutional greetings of the metropolitan mayor Giuseppe Falcomatà and the Councilor delegated to Culture, Filippo Quartuccio, will lead the way to the show “Newton’s Specters – a human history of light”, proposed by Teatro Rossosimona with the scientific consultancy of the University of Calabria, and four days full of events, workshops and seminars which will culminate with the awarding of the Prize Cosmos to the best work selected by the scientific jury, chaired by Gianfranco Bertone, of the University of Amsterdam, and composed of experts and luminaries from the main scientific institutions and major Italian and foreign universities.
The finalist books are: “Heroic, crazy and visionary. Stories of reckless medicine” by Silvia Bencivelli (Bollati Boringhieri Editore); “When Darwin met Flash Gordon. Science and mass culture between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries” by Marco Ciardi (Carocci Editore); “Before the Big Bang. How the universe began and what happened before” by Gian Francesco Giudice (Rizzoli Editore); “Maksimovich. The story of Bruno Pontecorvo” by Giuseppe Mussardo (Castelvecchi Editore) and “Journey to the center of the brain. Exploring the mind with words, images, comics” by Fabrizio Benedetti and Luca Morici (Carocci Editore) already winner of the Award Cosmos Students.
From 10 to 13 October, therefore, theatrical, musical and reading spaces will take place in a well-articulated program along the key points of the city and, in Palazzo Alvaro and the Aragonese Castle, there will be active scientific laboratories organized by the Cnr-Ipcf, the Mediterranean University and Unical with the coordination by Riccardo Barberi. An exhibition will then be held in Piazza Italia in collaboration with Unirc, Unical Inaf, Ispra, as well as the Carabinieri, State Police, Coast Guard, Metropolitan Planetarium and publishing houses.