PROGRAM

Thursday, August 7th 2025

“I”

Morning

Sala Polivalente, Ponte di Legno

10 a.m. opening remarks

Introduction to the panels by Elena Lanzoni (Tonalestate president)

and introduction to the theme by Eletta Paola Leoni (director of the Tonalestate Study Centre)

10.30 a.m. Emanuele Ferrari (Castelnovo ne’ Monti mayor)  “Silence before moonshine. Being a mayor between law and justice.”

11.00 a.m. break

11.15 a.m. Gian Guido Folloni (professional journalist, former minister of the Italian Republic) “WAR; The KING’s war, Piero’s war (art. 11/bis: War as resolution for international controversies)”

12.00 p.m. Giovanni Battista Re (Dean of the College of Cardinals) “Fraternity is the key that lets us solve many problems”

12:45 p.m. closing remarks

Afternoon

Sala Presanella, Passo del Tonale

4.00 p.m. Felwine Sarr (philosopher and economist from Dakar, Senegal) “Afrotopies: in conversation with Felwine Sarr”

4.45 p.m. Anwar Abu Eisheh (former Minister of Culture of the Palestinian Authority and Law professor at the Al Quds University in Hebron) “Palestine: resilience, hope or optimism?”

5.30 p.m. break

5.45 p.m. panel discussion coordinated by Maria Chiara Riva (European institutions correspondent for Tonalestate) featuring: Gian Guido Folloni, Felwine Sarr, Anwar Abu Eisheh

7:00 p.m. closing remarks

Evening

Sala Paradiso, Hotel Mirella, Ponte di Legno

9.30 p.m. classical music concert

“Tales in music”

with Isabella Mastroeni (violin) and Luca Segnalini (piano)

Friday, August 8th 2025

“LOVE”

Morning

Sala Polivalente, Ponte di Legno

9.30 a.m.  Abraham Skorka (rabbi, former rector of the Rabbinical Seminary of  Buenos Aires) “The derelicts of the XXI century”

10.15 a.m. Tareq Oubrou (Bordeaux Imam) “Defeated: is it a fatality?”

11.00 a.m. break

11.15 a.m. Jean Marie Lassausse (Priest of the Mission de France in Algeria) “The experience of prison in migration, in Algeria”

12.00 p.m. panel discussion moderated by Angela Volpe (Christian Anthropology and Christianity and human dignity professor at the Global Liberal Studies faculty of the Nanzan University of Nagoya) featuring: Abraham Skorka, Tareq Oubrou, Jean Marie Lassausse

12:30 p.m. closing remarks

Afternoon

Sala Presanella, Passo del Tonale

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4.00 p.m. Jean Tonglet (ATD Fourth World movement permanent volunteer)

4.30 p.m. Beata Uwase (Rwanda genocide survivor)

5.00 p.m. Maida Ochoa (Literature professor at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazàn of Tegucigalpa, Honduras)

5.30 p.m. Merle Whistler (Oglala Lakota tribe representative)

6.00 p.m. break

6.15 p.m. Dialogue with the public

7:15 p.m. closing remarks

Evening

Sala Presanella, Passo del Tonale

9.30 p.m. Documentary projection evening with freelance reporter Giorgio Fornoni

“The last derelicts”

Saturday, August 9th 2025

“YOU”

Morning

Sala Polivalente, Ponte di Legno

9.30 a.m. Jean Marc Hovasse (French literature professor, La Sorbonne, Paris) “Victor Hugo, Virgil, misery and Les Misérables”

10.15 a.m. Ghaleb Bencheikh (islamic philosopher, President of the Fondation de l’Islam de France)

            “What misery makes one think about, dereliction: an ethic and philosophic question”

11:00 a.m. break

11.15 a.m. Paolo Ruffini (Prefect of the Ministry for the Communication) “A disarming and disarmed communication”

12.00 p.m. Matteo Maria Zuppi (Archbishop Cardinal of Bologna) “Hope today”

12.45 p.m. closing remarks

Afternoon

Sala Presanella, Passo del Tonale

4.00 p.m. panel discussion moderated by Anna Maria Cavalletti (associate at the Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale (CRCAO) and member of the Tonalestate Study Centre) featuring: Jean Marc Hovasse, Ghaleb Bencheikh, Paolo Ruffini

5.00 p.m. Peter Kuznick (History professor and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at the American University of Washington, USA) “80 Years of Madness and Still Counting: From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Ukraine, Taiwan, Iran, and Kashmir”

6:15 p.m. Michiko Kono (Hiroshima Peace Volunteer – A-bomb Legacy Successor – at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum)
“For the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”

7.00 p.m. break

7.15 p.m. closing remarks

Evening

Teatro polivalente di Vermiglio, Vermiglio

9.30 p.m. “124 seconds”

 theatre show by Teatro Telaio of Brescia