Luiss returns to the Trento Festival of Economics with an exceptional “team”: its entire top management, over 15 faculty members, and Luiss University Press.

Speaking at the 18th edition of the event, titled “The Future of the Future. The challenges of a new world,” organized from Thursday, May 25th, to Sunday, May 28th, by the 24 Ore Group in collaboration with Trentino Marketing on behalf of the Autonomous Province of Trento, with contributions from the Municipality of Trento and the University of Trento. Also present will be the leadership of the university named after Guido Carli: President Vincenzo Boccia, Vice President Paola Severino, Rector Andrea Prencipe, General Director Giovanni Lo Storto, and Luiss Business School President Luigi Abete.

Luiss University Press (LUP) will also be on hand, hosting the “Luiss Trento Café” for the first time at the Chiostro degli Agostiniani. Every afternoon, the Festival audience can look forward to presentations and “aperi-talks” with authors discussing their latest publications. The focus will be on today’s hot topics: from automation to entrepreneurship, and from geopolitics to leveraging the value of Made in Italy assets.

In detail:

Luiss Vice President Paola Severino, a former Minister of Justice who has always been attentive to the new frontiers of criminal law and the challenges of cybersecurity, will focus on the impact and challenges of artificial intelligence on the world of work and on the evolution of the legal professions. She will do so in an interview with Il Sole 24 Ore journalist Manuela Perrone (Thursday, May 25, at 11:15 a.m. in Palazzo Geremia).

Amid the war in Ukraine and migration policies, Sergio Fabbrini, Director of the Luiss Department of Political Science—this year ranked 14th globally in the QS international rankings—and leading columnist for Il Sole 24 Ore, will delve into Brussels’ latest challenges in the discussion “Europe’s Role in the New World Order” (Thursday, May 25, 9:15 AM – Palazzo Geremia).

Following that, in “Pandemic, War, and Geopolitical Risk: How Value Chains Are Changing” (Thursday at 2:30 PM, Department of Sociology), economists Valentina Meliciani and Maria Savona will discuss possible current and future geoeconomic scenarios in light of the transformations in the industrial economy and the development of new global supply chains.

On the same day (5:00 PM - Department of Sociology), Roberto D'Alimonte, founder of Luiss CISE (Italian Center for Electoral Studies), Sebastiano Maffettone, Director of Ethos Luiss Business School,  Leonardo Morlino, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, and Massimo Egidi, Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Economics, will discuss “Democracies under Stress: Inequalities, Identities, and Populisms.”

“Spirituality and the Technological Revolution” is the title of the event that Luiss General Director Giovanni Lo Storto will attend (Friday, May 26, at 10:30 AM at the Tridentine Diocesan Museum). Along with the Vicar General of His Holiness for the Vatican City, Mauro Gambetti, and the Editor-in-Chief of QN - Quotidiano Nazionale, Agnese Pini, they will explore the extent to which and how digital technology is reshaping our individual relationship with religion.

The developments in the European economic, monetary, and fiscal debate will also be analyzed in two events: “The Economic Consequences of the Euro” with Prof. Giuseppe Di Taranto (Friday, May 26, at 12:00 p.m. – Castello del Buonconsiglio, Sala Marangonerie) and “The Fate of the Stability Pact and Fiscal Policy” (Saturday, May 27, at 11:45 a.m. – Department of Sociology, Aula Kessler) with economists Veronica De Romanis and Marcello Messori.

In “The Real Economy and Banking Crises” (Saturday, May 27, 5:45 PM, Palazzo della Provincia - Sala Depero), Luiss President Vincenzo Boccia will provide an update on the opportunities and risks that Italy's industrial and banking sectors will face in the coming months. The same reflection, but for the creative and cultural sector, will be entrusted to the President of Luiss Business School, Luigi Abete, in his talk “Culture and Economic Development” (Saturday, May 27 at 12:00 p.m. – Castello del Buonconsiglio – Sala Marangonerie).

In “The Evolution of Education and Management Systems” (Sunday, May 28 at 12:00 PM in the Sala di Rappresentanza at Palazzo Geremia), Luiss Rector Andrea Prencipe will address the challenges facing the education sector internationally, discussing new learning techniques being pioneered by universities around the world. The Rector will share the university’s experience with the “enquiry-based” model, where students co-create knowledge through the scientific method (as researchers do) in an “investigative” process of continuous discovery.

Luiss and Luiss Business School will also feature talks by Mario Benedetto, Fabio Corsico, Massimo Egidi, Marco Magnani, Luigi Marengo, and Livia Salvini.

<p > Finally, at the Spazio Luiss Trento Cafè , throughout the Festival, 10 afternoon talks will feature a rotation of Luiss faculty—including Massimo Egidi—as well as authors of some of the latest LUP publications, such as Luca De Biase (“Eppur s'innova”) and Giovanna Mancini (“Icone”) from the “Bellissima” series curated by Nicoletta Picchio. Also featured are Aaron Benanav (“Automazione”), Stefano Pelaggi (“L'isola sospesa”), Marco De Masi (“Il mestiere dell'uomo”), Fabrizio Acanfora (“Di pari passo”), Massimo Chiriatti (“Incoscienza artificiale”), Paolo Iabichino (“Scrivere civile”), Raffaele Mauro (“I cancelli del cielo”), Carlo Bordoni (“Furor”), and Antonio Calabrò.

 

For all of Luiss's events at the Festival: https://www.festivaleconomia.it/it/programma/eventi