TONALESTATE INTERNATIONAL
SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2026

NOLI TIMERE

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Saturday, 8th August 2026
“amicus Plato vel magis amica veritas?”

Ponte di Legno, Sala Polivalente

9.30AM opening remarks and introduction to the panels by Elena Lanzoni, President of Tonalestate and Paola Eletta Leoni, Director of the Tonalestate Study Centre

10.00AM Giovanni Battista Re

Dean of the College of Cardinals

“Magnifica Humanitas”

10.30AM Peter Kuznick

professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University in Washington, USA

“Why the Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer and Closer to Midnight”

11.15AM break

11.30AM Giovanni Di Martino

lawyer, former mayor of Niscemi – Caltanissetta

“Going over fear together: the strength of the community that cures and lets us grow”

12.15AM Anwar Abu Eisheh

former Minister of Culture of the Palestinian Authority and Law professor at the Al Quds University in Hebron

“La Peur, est elle positive? Négative? Et la résiliance dans la peur”

Closing remarks 

Passo del Tonale, Sala Presanella

4.00PM Arnaldo Scarpa

co-founder of the Rwm Reconversion Committee and of the Warfree – Lìberu dae sa gherra Network

“From Sardinia, for an unarmed and disarming economy”

4.45PM Anwar – Kuznick – Di Martino – Scarpa

Panel discussion: coordinated by Nicolò Ferrari, professor in Political Sciences, Ethics, Philosophy, Critical Thinking and Public Politics at the Superior School of Economics and Commerce in San Salvador

6.00PM break

6.15PM Katsumi Hashimoto

what the war brings: witness of the tragedy of Japanese colonisers in Manchuria

“Sowing for peace”

7.00PM closing remarks 

Passo del Tonale, Sala Presanella

9.30PM Giorgio Fornoni 

freelance journalist

“Noli timere”

interviewed by Helena Lanza and Letizia Mazariegos students of the international university student movement “The Others”

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Sunday, 9th August 2026
“tentare non nocet?”

Ponte di Legno, Sala Polivalente

9.30AM Introduction to the panels by Elena Lanzoni

9.45AM Jeremy Milgrom

rabbi and activist for peace in “Clergy for Peace”

“The God of Love and Fear: don’t be afraid to be afraid”

10.30AM Andrew Abdulrahman Bangura

priest charged with the university pastoral care of the Makeni diocese, Sierra Leone

“University as expression of intellectual charity”

11.15AM break

11.30AM Annalisa Marangoni

missionary of the Little Sisters of Gospel of Charles de Foucauld

“From the experience of fear, walking together under the light of the Promise: “I am with you””

12.15PM          Jean Marie Lassausse

priest of the Mission de France in Algeria

“La rançon de l’émigration clandestine”

Passo del Tonale, Sala Presanella

4.00PM Gad Fernando Piperno

chief rabbi of the Jewish Community of Florence, member of the Standing Committee of the European Rabbi Conference

“Living as Jews today in Italy and Europe”

4.45PM Ghaleb Bencheikh

islamic philosopher, president of the Fondation de l’Islam de France

“Comment apaiser les cœurs”

5.30PM break

5.45PM Anna Maria Cavalletti

ph.D in Chinese literature Université Paris Cité and member of the Tonalestate Study Centre

“Even in fear you can hear your heart’s voice”

6.30PM Questions to the speakers of the day

coordinated by Angela Volpe, professor of Christian Anthropology and Christianity and dignity and the Global Liberal Studies faculty of Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan

7.30PM closing remarks

Vermiglio, Giovanni XXIII Square

9.30PM Corpo Bandistico of Ossana-Vermiglio concert

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Monday, 10th August 2026
“sursum corda!”

Ponte di Legno, Sala Polivalente

9.30AM Jean Marc Hovasse

professor of French literature, La Sorbonne, Paris

“Victor Hugo, la peur des misérables, la peur dans Les Misérables”

10.15AM Tommaso Greco

professor of Philosophy of Law, University of Pisa

“Overcoming fear. For a society based on trust”

11.00AM break

11.15AM Luis Carlos Orellana – Giovanni Spallanzani – Ester Vecchi

Presentation of the Centro Universitario Diocesano “Giovanni Riva”

11.30AM Gian Guido Folloni

professional journalist, former minister of the Italian Republic

“Rereading Manzoni”

12.15PM Marcello Semeraro

prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints

“Do not fear, for I am with you”

Passo del Tonale, Sala Presanella

4.00PM International perspectives of university students; 

Peter Kuznick and Gian Guido Folloni will contribute

Panel discussion: coordinated by Monica Lanzoni, Ph.D in Contemporary History of foreign worlds and international relations at the Paris 8-Vincennes-Saint-Denis University, France

5.15PM break

5.30PM Pasquale Cucco

Professor of Technical Architecture, University of Salerno

Simona Salvo

Architectural Restoration professor, La Sapienza University of Rome

Pietro Vecchi

Architecture professor, Aichi Shukutoku University, Nagoya, Japan

coordinated by Cecilia Ferrari, Ph.D at the Caen Basse Normandie University, Plastic arts teacher

“We will make a beautiful home”: the architectural space as place of shelter and meeting

7.00PM Paola Eletta Leoni

Closing remarks

Passo del Tonale, Sala Presanella

9.30PM “Their cry is my voice”

Haidar Al Ghazhali, poet from Gaza

With the music accompaniment by Luis Carlos Orellana (violin)