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Events organized by Pandora Rivista in collaboration with Fondazione MAST, as part of the 2025 edition of the Festival del Presente – Dialoghi di Pandora Rivista, “Forms of Chaos. Disorder, Complexity, Transformation” (October 1–19, 2025).
SUNDAY 05 OCTOBER 2025 – 6.30 PM
MAST.AUDITORIUM
AUTHOR'S TALK
MAURIZIO LANDINI
UN'ALTRA STORIA
(PIEMME, 2025)
The General Secretary of the CGIL shares, through memories, anecdotes, and key personal and professional turning points, the story of the past forty years in Italy, with a focus on some of the major social wounds of yesterday and today.
Maurizio Landini speaks about rights to defend, battles still to be fought, and the future.
Maurizio Landini will be in conversation with Eleonora Capelli.
FREE ADMISSION BY RESERVATION
Maurizio Landini began his career as an apprentice welder, first in a small artisan company and then in a cooperative operating in the metalworking sector. He later became a union official and then General Secretary of the FIOM (Federazione Impiegati Operai Metallurgici) in Reggio Emilia.
He went on to serve as General Secretary of FIOM Emilia-Romagna, and subsequently of FIOM Bologna. In early 2005, Landini joined the national leadership of FIOM. On March 30 of the same year, he was elected to the national secretariat of CGIL’s metalworkers' union. On June 1, 2010, he was elected General Secretary of FIOM-CGIL. In July 2017, he stepped down from his role as General Secretary of FIOM to join the national secretariat of CGIL. On January 24, 2019, he was elected General Secretary of CGIL during the 18th National Congress in Bari. He was re-elected on March 18, 2023, at the 19th National Congress in Rimini.
Eleonora Capelli is a journalist for La Repubblica
SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER 2025 – 9 PM
MAST.AUDITORIUM
TALK
PAOLO BENANTI, MATTEO MARIA ZUPPI
THE HUMAN ANIMAL AND THE MACHINE
MODERATED BY MARCO DAMILANO
The growing use of artificial intelligence is raising profound ethical and philosophical questions about the role and identity of the human being. Paolo Benanti and Matteo Maria Zuppi reflect on the implications of technological development in our society and on the balance between digitalization and the protection of the human dimension.
FREE ADMISSION BY RESERVATION
Paolo Benanti, A Franciscan of the Third Order Regular, theologian, and professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University and LUISS “Guido Carli” University. He has served as an advisor to Pope Francis on issues related to artificial intelligence and the ethics of technology.
Matteo Maria Zuppi, Cardinal, Archbishop of Bologna, and President of the Italian Episcopal Conference
Marco Damilano, Journalist, essayist, and host of Il cavallo e la torre on Rai 3.
Full program of Festival del Presente – Dialoghi di Pandora Rivista 2025