Culture - as a set of values, conceptions, beliefs, symbols and behaviors, artistic and spiritual manifestations - is a people's soul, its essence. Culture is its identity. Today, however, under the effect of "deconstructions" and "globalizations," it is hard to find shared values and beliefs in Italian culture that can unite the people. Will it be possible to return to the unifying and characterizing culture, the culture that is identity?

Culture Is Identity represents the theme of the first edition of the Machiavelli Culture Conference, an event intended to be repeated annually and which follows the experience of the similar Defense Conference, inaugurated last July. An afternoon of debates, with many distinguished guests, to imagine identitarian and national paths of culture.

The Conference will be held in Rome on April 12, 2023, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Chamber of Deputies (specifically at the Sala del Refettorio in Palazzo San Macuto, Via del Seminario 76).

Registration is required to attend (click to fill out the form otherwise send us an e-mail) by 10 a.m. on the day before the conference.

Detailed schedule:

2:00 p.m.: Opening of the proceedings

Ore 14.00 DISCORSO DI APERTURA:
On. Gennaro Sangiuliano (Ministro della Cultura)

Ore 14.30 LA CULTURA E L’IDENTITÀ ITALIANE
Sen. Roberto Marti (Presidente Commissione Cultura del Senato)
On. Federico Mollicone (Presidente Commissione Cultura della Camera)
Eugenio Capozzi (Presidente Consiglio Scientifico del Centro Studi Machiavelli)
Modera: Daniele Scalea (Presidente del Centro Studi Machiavelli)

Ore 15.50 EGEMONIA E PLURALISMO NELLA CULTURA
On. Alessandro Amorese (deputato ed editore)
Emanuele Mastrangelo (Ricercatore del Centro Studi Machiavelli)
Edoardo Sylos Labini (Presidente di “CulturaIdentità”)
Modera: Corrado Ocone (“Libero”, editorialista)

Ore 17.20 RIPORTARE LA CULTURA TRA I GIOVANI
Lorenzo Bernasconi (Ricercatore del Centro Studi Machiavelli)
Francesco Borgonovo (Vice-direttore de “La Verità”)
Francesco Giubilei (autore ed editore)
Modera: Silvia Roberto (Centro Studi Machiavelli)

Ore 18.30 DISCORSO DI CHIUSURA:
Beatrice Venezi (direttrice di orchestra)

7:00 p.m.: Conclusion of the proceedings

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