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.
DIAMANTE #1
27–29 March 2026 – Villa Jano, Bologna
Roberto Esposito, A Philosophical Journey
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 Francesco Marchesi 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.
Speakers
Roberto Esposito
DIAMANTE
Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore. One of the leading figures of Italian Theory, he co-founded the Research Centre on European Political Lexicon and the International Centre for European Legal and Political Lexicon. His work appears regularly in Repubblica and has been translated into more than ten languages.
Francesco Marchesi
DISCUSSANT
Associate Professor of History of Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa. His research focuses on the philosophical relationship between history and politics in early modernity and contemporary thought, with particular attention to Niccolò Machiavelli and Louis Althusser.
Gian Marco Galasso
DISCUSSANT
PhD candidate in Legal Sciences at the University of Salerno and in Philosophy at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His work sits at the intersection of theoretical reflection and political questions, with a focus on contemporary philosophy.
Upcoming Seminars
The 2026 programme is currently being developed. It will bring a humanistic interpretive lens to some of the most pressing cultural, economic, and social challenges of our time — including identity and migration, data protection, and the media and artificial intelligence landscape.
Giusella Finocchiaro
19-21 June 2026
Guido Barbujani
10-12 July 2026