29 June 2026 – Monday
29 June 2026 – Monday

Shaping History Through Art: How Museums Define the Past

L’arte come funzione pubblica: perché il bello è un bene comune

The Author is Dead, Long Live the Large Language Model (A title proudly generated by Claude itself) 

Private credit sotto pressione: sempre meno “private” e sempre meno “credit”? 

Marjane Satrapi and the Art of Refusing Silence   

Gordon Matta-Clark, Anarchitecture and the Honesty of the Demolished 

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Museums are not neutral simply because they preserve culture; they also shape the terms through which culture is understood. Stolen art has long been displayed not as evidence of colonial violence, but as shared heritage, softened by prestige and institutional authority. And that is exactly what allows museums to influence not only how art is seen, but how history itself is remembered.
The way museums choose to display art does more than just preserve the past; it shapes the way people learn to see it. A museum’s cultural authority often dictates who gets to claim that piece of history, with the question most often presented as “all of us, or just them?” Through that authority, museums do not simply preserve art, but influence how history itself is understood.  Most modern museums have a cosmopolitan atmosphere surrounding them….
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The Female Figure as Cultural Mirror: A Comparative Study of The Burial of Atala, Street, Berlin, and Woman I

A comparative study of how three artists across three centuries used the female figure to reflect, critique, and challenge the societies that shaped them.
Serving as a mirror to societies that produce them, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson’s The Burial of Atala (1808, France), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Street, Berlin (1913, Germany), and Willem de Kooning’s Woman I (1950–1952, USA) reflect politics, religion, and social unrest. Placing…
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This Must Be the Place: Bocconi Donor Event 2026

The 2026 Donor Event in Bocconi was the perfect occasion to showcase the importance of donations at our univerisity. As Tra i Leoni we were invited and we attended the event to tell you about it
The bright lights of the majestic Aula Magna that we all know and love slowly faded into darkness, as the piano melody of Professor Paolo Alderighi accompanied on stage the actor Gioele Dix. In the middle of the scene…

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Private credit sotto pressione: sempre meno “private” e sempre meno “credit”? 

In un contesto economico e geopolitico instabile, le reazioni dei mercati e le aspettative degli investitori tendono a influenzarsi in modo reciproco, con effetti sull’intero sistema finanziario. In questo quadro, il private credit è tornato al centro dell’attenzione,…
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Marjane Satrapi and the Art of Refusing Silence   

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Gordon Matta-Clark, Anarchitecture and the Honesty of the Demolished 

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L’arte come funzione pubblica: perché il bello è un bene comune

Quale ruolo può svolgere l'arte nella costruzione delle città del futuro? Dalla valorizzazione dei territori alla creazione di nuovi spazi culturali, una riflessione sul rapporto tra patrimonio, identità urbana e interesse collettivo a cura dell'European Youth Think Tank. 
Di Luigi Capoani, docente di Economia Internazionale presso l’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia e presidente dell’European Youth Think Tank (EYTT) e Luigi Marsero, analista dell’European Youth Think Tank.  Come European Youth Think Tank (EYTT), organizzazione non profit che riunisce giovani ricercatori, ci interessiamo non…
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The Author is Dead, Long Live the Large Language Model (A title proudly generated by Claude itself) 

Writing is not simply a way of expressing thought, but part of the process through which thought is formed. The danger is not that AI interventions make writing easier; it is that they displace the process by which thinking tends to occur: through the gradual articulation of ideas marked by hesitation and reformulation.
* When asked to describe Paolo’s writing, I observed the following patterns. He arrives at the abstract through one specific image, and trusts the image to do the work — a window in Naples, a pair of lost fingerprints, apamphlet stumbled across in Turin — letting…

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