Daily conference pass to Sconfinare Festival 2025
Doors open at 9:00 a.m. Seats are not numbered.
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Sconfinare Festival 2025 OLTRE IL MURO: FIVE HOURS, FIVE PERSPECTIVES, ONE SQUARE | SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER | FROM 10:00 AM
What is a body, if not a crossroads of memories, passions, desires? A place where family stories, social norms and gender expectations are deposited. A space of freedom and, at the same time, a terrain of conflict. And what happens when we place it at the centre of public discourse, observe it closely, and traverse it with new words?
Once again this year, the Oltre il muro (Beyond the Wall) series of conferences invites the Sconfinare Festival audience to explore, through different perspectives, the theme at the heart of this edition: the body as our first and most immediate experience of boundaries.
In the heart of a square understood as an agora, as a symbolic place of exchange and discussion, five leading figures from the contemporary cultural scene will lead a reflection that will intertwine literature, psychoanalysis, sociolinguistics, gender studies and journalism. Complementary voices will compose a fresco capable of bringing to light the tensions and possibilities that define our relationship with the body.
10:00 a.m. | Concita De Gregio From mother to daughter: body, memory, voice
11:30 a.m. | Antonio Franchini The body of writing, the writing of the body
2:00 p.m. | Vera Gheno Normal bodies: on the concept of normality
3:30 p.m. | Porpora Marcasciano Gender, culture and politics: from personal experience to collective reflection