Through the Diamanti programme, Fondazione Alsos seeks to promote and advance Italian culture in its many forms. The initiative aims to reaffirm the value of the humanistic tradition as a critical lens through which different disciplines—and their broader implications—can be understood.
The seminars will take place from Friday to Sunday, offering three days of dialogue with distinguished scholars who have significantly shaped and renewed their respective fields. The format is dialogical: each lectio is followed by an open discussion with students, practitioners, and professionals.
Upcoming Seminars
Past Seminars
The seminar follows the outline of Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic. In that section of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant subjected to critique, and essentially dismissed as unscientific, the three sciences of the so-called metaphysica specialis, whose objects are the idea of God, the idea of the soul and the idea of the world: rational theology, rational psychology and rational cosmology. Over its three days, the seminar will follow the same thematic structure.
AI between Law, Creativity, and the Data Market.
Three days of inquiry into the relationship between law and innovation in the age of artificial intelligence: do we truly need new rules, or can existing frameworks still guide us? Professor Finocchiaro, in dialogue with scholars, artists, and entrepreneurs, will explore with participants the impact of artificial intelligence on art and creativity, the dynamics of the global data market — with perspectives from Europe, the United States, and China — and the question of liability. The second day will include a mock trial in which AI stands accused of having killed human intelligence.
Over three days, Roberto Esposito will revisit the defining stages of his intellectual career — from the community/immunity dialectic to instituting thought, through to his work on the Adversary and fascism — in conversation with scholars Paolo Missiroli and Gian Marco Galasso. The seminar moves across disciplinary boundaries — philosophy, anthropology, politics, literature — tracing the conceptual thread that holds together the different thematic strands of his work.