Universa
Cultures and knowledge
Universa is a coordinated annual schedule of events that, from 2016 to 2022, has alternated in a planned and modulated way permanent reviews and festival events on various topics of cultural and social interest, including those of close relevance.
The schedule included cultural and science communication activities, the dissemination of excellent research, histories of the University's artistic, cultural and museum heritage, and interventions on urgent contemporary issues. Among its objectives is the interweaving of languages and skills and an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
The schedule of Universa also included the Padua Nobel Lectures, later renamed Nobel Lectures, which continue to this day.
A regular appointment with the public, to share the research conducted at the University on all disciplines, favoring interweaving different languages and cultures.
The occasion can be a discovery, an ongoing debate in society and in the press, an award, a publication, a topical issue.
To meet a scientific community with almost eight centuries of tradition that tells the story of a University attentive to the events of man, committed to the world, the territory and the people who live there.
January 21, 2021
Revolutionizing the present. Science and society between past and future
With Corrado Augias, dedicated to Pietro Greco
February 26, 2020
Tartini and Bach
Pierpaolo Polzonetti talks with Sergio Durante and Paola Dessì
24 October 2019
Six women who changed the world
Meeting with Gabriella Greison
20 May 2019
Few funds, great results
Meeting with Alison Abott. With the participation of Fabio Beltram and Francesca Pasinetti
11 April 2019
Vittorio Benussi: 100 years of psychology at the University of Padua
Meeting with Mauro Antonelli. Participants Alberta Contarello, Rossana De Beni and Giovanni Battista Flores D'Arcais
11 March 2019
There must be another way
Meeting with Noa. Participants Annalisa Oboe, Renzo Guolo and Giulia Albanese
13 December 2018
For 14 million trees
Meeting with Giancarlo Dalla Fontana, Raffaele Cavalli and Emanuele Montibeller
18 October 2018
Big Data and new vaccines
Meeting with Duccio Medini. With the participation of Cesare Montecucco and Marina de Bernard
5 October 2018
Robert Wilson. Hamlet, a monologue
Meeting with Robert Wilson. Participants Annalisa Oboe and Cristina Grazioli
6 June 2018
Migration, rights, survival: the role of the humanities
Meeting with Homi K. Bhabha
12 April 2018
From Obama's America to Trump's America
Anna Scacchi and Vincenzo Romania talk with Alessandro Portelli
15 March 2018
In the footsteps of Elena Ferrante. Who is behind the mystery?
Michele Cortelazzo and Arjuna Tuzzi talk with Serena Dandini
20 February 2018
Beautiful Mars
Meeting with Alfred McEwen and Gabriele Cremonese
28 November 2017
Science, innovation, global challenges
Meeting with Ernest Moniz, in dialogue with Piero Martin
24 October 2017
From microprocessors to awareness
Meeting with Federico Faggin, the Italian physicist who invented the microprocessor
28 June 2017
Strong powers (or almost)
Ferruccio De Bortoli talks with Antonio Parbonetti
18 May 2017
The language, the experience
A meeting dedicated to Luigi Meneghello ten years after his death
20 April 2017
Criminal companies. Business, money laundering and corruption
Meeting with Antonio Parbonetti, Paolo Biondani and Pierpaolo Romani
16 March 2017
Places of culture: institutions, landscapes, books and media
Meeting with Massimo Bray and Renzo Guolo
23 February 2017
Interweaving of notes
Meeting with Nuria Schoenberg, Sergio Canazza, Alvise Vidolin, Federica Bressan
15 December 2016
Gio Ponti al Bo: exercises in Style
Cecilia Rostagni, Francesca Ghedini, Francesco Dal Co
20 October 2016
The world of Steve McCurry
13 October 2016
Shakespeare's The Tempest and the Storms of Life
9 June 2016
A city that reads
12 May 2016
Europe and its jihadists
14 April 2016
The wrinkles of the Universe
Review of annual events of great appeal on issues related to human rights, inclusion, equality and differences, with an intersectional approach: gender, race, class, ethnic group, religion, disability...
The meetings promote awareness of social and cultural issues of the highest importance. They open up to awareness and discussion on the occasion of important celebratory dates, in which the University measures itself against the local and global debate.
To recognize and thank women of value, the University also promotes the #8marzoUnipd initiative, a social campaign in which everyone is invited to participate on the occasion of International Women's Day. The virtual campaign replaces the schedule of events for a widespread March 8, unfortunately suspended due to the health emergency situation due to the Coronavirus.
March 8, 2021
Tell me about her. The University of Padua for March 8
8 March 2019
Fuochi. Tales of rebellious, brave, free girls
Maternity is a master's degree
8 March 2018
8 March: the University of Padua is spectacular!
21 November 2017
Gender Equality and Inclusive Growth in India: The Importance of Educating Girls
9 March 2017
Our March 8th: "Is there gender in violence?"
30 May 2016
70 years since the vote for women
26 April 2016
Cooperation, human rights and inclusion
8 March 2016
For a new March 8
Spring festival of science communication, on all naturalistic disciplines, every year, lasting a week with heterogeneity of proposals (conferences, evenings, workshops for children), to be held at the Biodiversity Garden in April during the flowering period.
2020 Edition (30 April - 3 May 2020)
2019 Edition (24 - 28 April 2019)
2018 edition (27 April - 1 May 2018)
2017 edition (28 April - 1 May 2017)
2016 Edition (22-25 April 2016)
A special cycle of events dedicated in particular to the interactions between knowledge from different fields in which personalities from culture, art and literature dialogue with scientists interacting on a common theme addressed from different angles.
Interculturality, contemporaneity, interchangeability, for a wider dissemination of knowledge. Different approaches and ways of seeing and telling art, culture, science.
22 October 2019
The labyrindic of words around Joyce
Meeting with Alessandro Bergonzoni, Enrico Terrinoni and Fabio Pedone
29 May 2018
Zero, emptiness, nothingness, silence. The charm of absence
Meeting with Claudio Bartocci, Andrea Tagliapietra, Piero Martin and the Massimo Donà Trio
21 April 2017
Time. This well-known
Meeting with Vinicio Capossela, Piero Martin, Federico Taddia and the Matita family
A program of collective reading and sharing of a single important book, chosen for its cultural value and because, ancient or modern, it knows how to speak to the present and to readers of all ages.
One Book One City is a Universa project, organized with the Municipality of Padua, for the city and its territory, and includes a mix of heterogeneous initiatives, such as readings, meetings with authors or curators, events in universities, schools and libraries of the city, theatrical and film projects, exhibitions... It is aimed at the territory with the aim of creating communities by reading – sharing experiences, ideas, exchanges of opinions, debates and moments of creativity and celebration.
First edition, 2017: The work of Tito Livio
Second edition, 2017-2018: Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley
Third edition, 2018-2019: The Old Man Who Read Love Novels, by Luis Sepúlveda
Fourth edition 2019-2020: The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Fifth edition, 2021-2022: The Plague, by Albert Camus
An international dissemination event dedicated to astronomy and space exploration.
This year it will take place in October and will be dedicated to the study of comets, the conclusion of the Rosetta mission and the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Giotto mission to Halley's comet.
An interdisciplinary conference that will recall the salient facts of the two missions, both scientific and artistic and historical, with the latest studies on the Scrovegni Chapel, where Giotto represented the passage of Halley's comet in 1301.
30 November 2016
Planetary exploration
27 October 2016
From Giotto to Rosetta
19 October 2016
The University of Padua on the Rosso Planet
An event dedicated to children and young people aged 8 to 13, which involves schools, families and institutions with workshops, lessons and demonstrations.
To teach science to children, promoting an intriguing journey through the places of knowledge; to give them the experience of entering university classrooms; to create curiosity about the world of research.
The event closes with an award ceremony for the children-graduates.
- Science4 all: 26 September - 2 October 2022
- Fifth edition from 22 to 29 May 2021: family edition
- Kids University Padua - Gianni Rodari edition 24 October 2020
- Fourth edition from 14 to 19 October 2019
- Third edition from 15 to 20 October 2018
- Second edition from 16 to 21 October 2017
- First edition from 10 to 15 October 2016
Venetonight – Researchers' Night is an initiative that brings together researchers with the general public in different European cities on the same date at the end of summer, the last Friday of September. It represents an extraordinary opportunity to bring the public of all ages closer to the world of research in a fun way, to open a space for meeting and dialogue with citizens and to raise awareness of scientific careers.
26 September - 2 October 2022: Venetonight becomes Science4 all
September 24, 2021
27 November 2020 - online edition
27 September 2019
28 September 2018
29 September 2017
30 September 2016
The most recent format of the "Universa" review, created on the occasion of the Celebrations for the 800th anniversary to underline the founding value of libertas, that freedom that inspires our mission and is imprinted in the motto of the University, Universa Universis Patavina Libertas.
From 2020 to 2022, the University invites 10 leading voices for thought, culture, economics and politics worldwide, offering the public informative and high-profile meetings on the infinite declinations of the idea and exercise of freedom.
May 21, 2020
To free freedom
Lectio by Jean-Luc Nancy
June 4, 2021
Freedom is Peace is Freedom
Meeting with Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman
June 16, 2021
Arc of parity. How women are building an inclusive future
Meeting with Rula Jebreal
October 29, 2021
The Science of Freedom
Meeting with Elena Cattaneo
March 17, 2022
Chimes of Freedom
Meeting with Homi K. Bhabha
May 21, 2022
Stem cell science and genesis of new therapeutic strategies for new patients
Meeting with Derrick Rossi
May 23, 2022
Can non-humans speak? "Other beings" in myth, literature and ethnography
Meeting with Amitav Ghosh
June 22, 2022
Freedom - Telling an ancient story with new words
Meeting with David Grossman
October 14, 2022
On the absence of liberty: living and writing under a Roman emperor
Lectio by Mary Beard
The Innovation Talks at the University of Padua have as their main objective to promote and spread the culture of innovation through the promotion of a series of events of great local, national and international echo, capable of involving in particular the world of young people, research and business.
The Talks present success stories drawn from the business and academic world, told by testimonials who achieve innovation in their professional reality.
The 2020 edition, which will be held on 21 and 22 February 2020, will cover the following topics: Artificial Intelligence, Additive Manufacturing, Crypto Currencies, AgriTech and E-commerce.