Repertoire of Events
AL SÂS - Marconi Special
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January 25th 2010 al sâs n. 20
MARCONI SPECIAL
A special issue of the magazine AL SÂS, published by the association “Progetto 10 righe” in cooperation with the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, was presented at Sasso Marconi town hall. The issue, entirely dedicated to the famous scientist, contains articles by the following authors: Cinzia Cavallari, Gabriele Mignardi, Gabriele Falciasecca, Glauco Guidastri, Giancarlo Dalle Donne, Annamaria Patacchia, Carla Cenacchi, Franca Foresti, Paolo Michelini, Barbara Valotti, Gian Marco Ganna, Mario Giorgi, Alessandro Onofri, Dario Zanini, Cecilia Pelliconi Galetti, Giovanna Bassi, Gianni Beccaro, Maurizio Finelli, Mara Cini, Elena De Angelis, Maria Denti, Luigi Ropa Esposti. Also documents, photographs and images plus 10 “marconian questions” to Stefano Mazzetti, Mayor of Sasso Marconi.
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Conference on Marconi
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January 19th, 2010 CONFERENCE ON MARCONI Professor Gabriele Falciasecca has given a conference at Rome’s Hunting Club to remember the centenary of the Physics Nobel Prize awarded to Guglielmo Marconi. The conference was attended by the inventor's daughter, Mrs Elettra Marconi Giovanelli.
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Marconi Nobel Prize Winner
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December 19th, 2009 CELEBRATION OF THE GUGLIELMO MARCONI NOBEL PRIZE CENTENARY 1909-2009 coordinator: Fausto Casi, Director of the Museum of Mass Media welcome speech from the Town Hall Administration Fausto Casi - Introduction and presentation of the subject other speeches conclusions and announcement of the A.I.R.E.'s Twentieth Anniversary Celebrations (June 1990 - June 2010) showing of a holographic film with three-dimensional effect showing of a holographic film on Galileo Galilei Promoted by: “il Mondo in Casa” Cultural Association, Arezzo Museum of Mass Media, the Italian Association of Antique Radios - A.I.R.E., Tuscany Regional Authority, Arezzo Provincial Authority and Arezzo Town Hall. Sponsored by: the Ministry of Education, University and Research (Dept. of Tuscany Regional Authority), “Leonardo da Vinci” National Museum of Science and Technology (Milan), University of Arezzo, University of Siena, Arezzo Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Galileo Museum (Institute of the History of Science – Florence), Guglielmo Marconi Foundation (Pontecchio M., Bologna), Science and Technology Foundation (Florence).
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Radio Ritmo
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December 19th 2009 Atti Sonori RADIO RITMO (Radio Rhythm) Atti Sonori Ensemble music by artistic director, Giambattista Giocoli On October 30th 1938 Orson Welles' radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds panicked the American public because it suggested that an interplanetary conflict had begun with an alien invasion in New York. Inspired by Welles' experience, "Radio Rhythm - performance of voices and sounds" wishes to remember the impressive communicative power of the radio, a prima donna in the communications world at the time. In "Radio Rhythm" one rediscovers the extraordinary absorbing capacity of sounds and voices that were still autonomous from images. A capacity that we feel has remained unchanged even today.
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First Centenary since the Nobel Prize to Marconi
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December 18th, 2009 FIRST CENTENARY SINCE THE NOBEL PRIZE WAS AWARDED TO GUGLIELMO MARCONI Welcome speech from the Headmaster Prof. Giovanni Giri Speeches to follow by: Ambassador Luigi Solari, homonymous nephew of Marconi’s collaborator Chairman: 1° M.rs. L.gt MM Filippo Pacelli, coordinator of the Rear-Admiral Guglielmo Marconi Museum Pole of Ancona
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Un Nobel senza fili
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December 15th, 2009 presentation of the volume speakers: Gabriele Falciasecca, Barbara Valotti, Alessandro Zucchini The volume has been conceived and completed for the centenary of the Nobel Prize for Physics to Guglielmo Marconi, together with the exhibition "Guglielmo Marconi Nobel Prize Winner 1909-2009" that was inaugurated on Thursday December 10th in the Sala d'Ercole of Palazzo d'Accursio in Bologna. The publication was promoted by Emilia-Romagna Regional Authority, Bologna City Hall, the Marconi Foundation, with the scientific contribution of the “Leonardo da Vinci” National Museum of Science and Technology, sponsored by Bologna Provincial Authority, Sasso Marconi Town Hall, Bologna University, Emilia-Romagna Educational Office, and with the subsidies of Telecom Italia, the Ministry for Arts and Culture – Regional Direction for arts and culture and landscape of Emilia-Romagna, the Monte Foundation, Bologna Chamber of Commerce for Industry, Trade and Agriculture.
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Il pioniere del wireless
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December 12th 2009 IL PIONIERE DEL WIRELESS (A Wireless Pioneer) National preview of the documentary film on Guglielmo Marconi’s life, inspired by Giorgio Comaschi's theatrical performance Quello della radio (The Radio Man). Directed by: Enza Negroni produced by POPCult A Wireless Pioneer is a documentary on the life of one of the greatest inventors of our time: Guglielmo Marconi.
Giorgio Comaschi, narrator and eyewitness of an extraordinary existence, alternates between moments of joviality, romanticized anecdotes, reflections on the great bolognese inventor and accounts of Marconi's life, highlighting the importance of his discoveries, that today allow us to use mobile phones, remote controls, electronic toll collector and satellite technology. Director Enza Negroni takes on a weaving of theatrical dramaturgy, cinematographic techniques and journalistic reportage, recreating a collective memory of Marconi's life and the places he frequented from his first discoveries and successes, to the moments of great suffering, his change in character and lifestyle, the international repercussions of his career, up until the final chapter. Beyond the stage, the play transforms itself into a true movie script that adheres to the needs of cinematographic language utilizing photographs as well as visual and sound repertory of that time period. The result is a portrait of a different and unknown Marconi, in many ways more human. Alongside the faults of common men, what transpires, however, is the ingeniousness of one of the greatest inventors of our era.
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Marconi, Radio, Nobel Prize
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December 11th, 2009 GUGLIELMO MARCONI: RADIO, NOBEL PRIZE, AND THE 100 YEARS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD in the presence of the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano Opening Enrico Manca, President of the Ugo Bordoni Foundation The challenges of research Carlo Rubbia, Physics Nobel Prize Winner (1984) Guglielmo Marconi, launching the era of Telecommunications Piero Angela: Biographical excursus with audiovisual documents ICT: economic development, competition, rules Giuseppe Richeri, Lugano University – Scientific Committee Ugo Bordoni Foundation (Chairman) Hamadoun I. Touré, Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union The enterprises that have changed our way of communicating Gianni Letta, Undersecretary of the Presidency of the Council of Ministries (Opening) Franco Bernabè, Telecom Paolo Romani, Vice Minister of Economic Development - Communications Research, innovation: a path for the future of new generations Mario Frullone, Research Director of the Ugo Bordoni Foundation (Chairman) Cesare Avenia, Ericsson
Events dedicated to the study of Marconi organised by the Ugo Bordoni Foundation
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Postcards from Pontecchio
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September 12th-20th, December 10th -13th 2009 POSTCARDS FROM PONTECCHIO MARCONI actors script and direction A multimedia show largely based on the use of new technologies and with very special effects. Eleven visual pictures depicting Marconi’s stubbornness as inventor and his intelligence and intuition as a man.
The show is not a biography, much more than that it wants to be the archetype of the never ending human desire to attain knowledge. The story starts a hundred years ago in a place between Livorno and Pontecchio, and ends with the famous gun shot. You will be moved by the humanity of Professor Rosa, Marconi’s first teacher, and by Nello Marchetti, a blind telegraphist who teaches him the use of the telegraph key. You will be smiling at the incredulous and stupefied looks of the attendant Marchi, who helps Marconi during his experiments, or at the groundless fears and silly disbelief and superstition of the Pontecchio peasants, who watch Marconi while he is handling odd and noisy equipments. Still, you will be more than else suffering with this twenty years old boy, who is longing to prove that the pretentious theories of the great scientists are not always right, especially when compared with the intuition, strong will and intelligence of the gifted. Finally you will be happy as he is, when from the distant valley comes the powerful and innovative echo of the famous gun shot. From that very moment onwards, communications will be available all over the world. All that happens under the cold and merciless eye of the computer and its virus.
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Requalifyng Marconi Sites
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A Wireless World
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December 4th, 2009 A WIRELESS WORLD Ann Follin, Director of the Tekniska Museet
Anna Della Croce, Ambassador of Italy Åsa Torstensson, Swedish Minister of Communications Paolo Romani, Italian Deputy Minister of Communications Gabriele Falciasecca, President of the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation Franco Angotti, President of the Committee for Antonio Meucci celebrations Enrico Manca, President of the Ugo Bordoni Foundation Karl Grandin, Director of Center for History of Science of the Royal Academy of Sciences
The awarding process and motivation for Nobel Prize
Luciano Maiani, President of the Italian National Research Council (CNR)
Guglielmo Marconi as CNR President: his commitment for the acknowledgement of the Italian contribution to telecommunications
Guglielmo Marconi: the men of the third millennium, screenplay of the documentary from RAI Educational
Stefano Selleri, University of Florence Enrico Del Re, University of Florence Organised by the Embassy of Italy in Stockholm, the National Museum of Sciences and Technology (Tekniska Museet), the MarconiCentenarioNobel Committee, the Committee for Antonio Meucci celebrations.
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Wireless, Telecommunications, Space
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December 3rd, 2009 WIRELESS, TELECOMMUNICATION, SPACE: FROM MARCONI TOWARDS THE FUTURE Speakers:
organised by the Embassy of Italy in Brussels in cooperation with Finmeccanica, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Enel
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Our Wireless World
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November 23rd, 2009 The Institute of Physics, London
OUR WIRELESS WORLD In 1909 the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Guglielmo Marconi for his pioneering experiments in wireless telegraphy, including a number of key milestones achieved in the UK. Marconi was not only a great scientist but also a successful entrepreneur, founding a company which was a major force in technological developments throughout the 20th century, and still exists today.
His breakthroughs in wireless communication triggered a revolution in the way we live our everyday lives. Long range communications, radio and TV broadcasting, GPS, telemedicine… so many of the technologies we take for granted today are the direct consequences of that faint signal sent from Cornwall and captured by a remote antenna in Newfoundland more than one hundred years ago.
This event celebrated the award of the Nobel Prize to a great Italian scientist, and his connections with the UK. It also provided an opportunity to review the practical impact of his discoveries, and to hear from scientists and engineers working on new frontiers in the field of wireless communications.
Posters about Marconi’s activity and documents from the Italian Navy’s archives. Organised by the Italian Embassy in London, the Institute of Physics, UK, the Marconi Foundation, Italy, the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, CNR (National Research Council), Italy, and sponsored by Ericsson.
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A Nobel Century
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November 21st - 29th, 2009 1909/2009 MARCONI AND SCIENCE: A NOBEL CENTURY A multidisciplinary project, sponsored by MIUR-USR Abruzzo (Department of Education - Regional Office), in cooperation with Pescara Museum of the People from Abruzzo, the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation in Bologna, Di Renzo Publisher in Rome, General Francesco Cremona (the largest worldwide collector of Marconi antiques), Pescara Art Institute “V. Bellisario”, the Marconi Association in Pescara, and with the subsidies of Pescara Town Hall, Pescara Provincial Authority, Abruzzo Regional Authority, the Pescara-Abruzzo Foundation and the Rotary Club Pescara Ovest. The exhibition was inaugurated on November 21st at the Caffè Letterario in the Museum of the People from Abruzzo with the participation of the President of the City Council Licio Di Biase, the Marconi Institute Headmaster Angelo Lucio Rossi, the Museum Director Ermanno De Pompeis, the event organizers Fiorella D'Amico and Cesidia Bruno, the local authorities and of course, the students of the Marconi Institute. The exhibition was visited by city residents as well as students from secondary schools. For the entire period of the showing, the exhibition dedicated to Marconi was organized and presented by students as part of a technical and scientific program on the history and evolution of technologies, on instruments and work methods, on the mechanization of productive processes and the ability to develop the territory's resources at their best. The book “Marconi my father” by Degna Marconi Paresce - published by Di Renzo Editore - was presented on November 24th in the Auditorium of the Museum of the People from Abruzzo in Pescara, and organised by the Marconi Association. The event was attended by the local authorities, the Marconi Institute headmaster Angelo Lucio Rossi, the Museum Director Ermanno De Pompeis, the project organizers Fiorella D'Amico and Cesidia Bruno, the President of the Marconi Association Giuseppe Ciardulli, as well as Marconi's nephew and astrophysicist Francesco Paresce and of course, the students of the Marconi institute. The conference-debate was held on November 25th at the Cinema Teatro Massimo in Pescara in the presence of all of the “Marconi” students and their families. The main themes were: “Man and scientist”, “Marconi and Astrophysics”, “Young people and science”. The conference was attended by the Executive Director of the USR – Abruzzo Carlo Petracca, the President of the City Council Licio Di Biase, the Headmaster Angelo Lucio Rossi, the project organizers Fiorella D'Amico and Cesidia Bruno, Marconi's nephew the Astrophysicist Francesco Paresce, the scientific journalist and physics teacher Marco Gargantini, and the local authorities. |
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Marconi was the creator of the present day civilization of the radio. All of those who, with spirit of initiative and perseverance, have brought us to the present stage of development have built on the foundations laid by Marconi. Everyone considered him the tutelary genius of their work. |
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