ISA Topic

To whom do ideas belong? Every aspect of culture and knowledge and every discipline deal with the subject of intellectual property. Whether it is the production and reproduction of a text or a song, or patents on medicines, or the plagiarism in a thesis, or protecting models or prototypes... The Internet, access to scientific results, open access, ... The consequences on law, politics, health, human relations - of stolen, sold, bought ideas or ideas kept hidden - are several and far-reaching. The purpose of this ISA Topic is to open an interdisciplinary discussion on the different aspects of intellectual property and its impact on the research and education system.

• To whom do innovations in science and technology and cultural heritage belong? The challenges of intellectual property after the pandemic experience
• Who is afraid of Open Science? - April 5, 2022
• Who is afraid of Open Science? - May 12, 2022

Every aspect of culture and knowledge and every discipline can be the object of falsification. "Fake" has many origins: it can be premeditated, accidental and unintentional, or an unavoidable consequence of the normal evolution of knowledge that leads to discard beliefs and false myths as a result of new discoveries.
In a hyper-connected world, "fake" has the same, or even greater, spreading power than "truth", generating phenomena of misinformation and rejection of knowledge based on the results of study and research. The consequences on health, human relations, society and politics are far-reaching. The purpose of this ISA Topic is to open an interdisciplinary discussion on the different aspects of "fake" and its the consequences on the research and education system.

• Art of fake, fake in art and in the art market
• Fake and fashion
• "Il Falso”: digital exhibitions at MOdE - Museo Officina dell’Educazione
• A phoney war. The Pandemic and the medical-political analogy: reasons and consequences
• "Le forme del falso" (Customs of fake)
• On the falsity of certainty and the necessity of error

The transformations of this period of human history raise the issue of the continuous definition and re-definitions of the different identities that characterize persons, societies and knowledge.

The current challenge is that of navigating and choosing among numerous identity alternatives which arise from thousands of areas of our lives: personal and group identity; gender identity; cultural identity; ethnic, territorial, religious, historical identity; identity and language of knowledge; legal, genetic, digital identity; human identity and artificial intelligence.

• Idem et alius - classical culture and European identity: others' perspective
• Flowing identities: historical and current representations and perspectives
• Media identities. Between television, popular music and social media
• Populism and European Identity
• Intellectual Property in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
• Conquest of the moon and human identity
• The network and the "trilogy" of identity
• Language and identity of new Italians: a survey in Bologna schools

We live in the age of great fears: mostly well-founded and concrete, but also fears often with no rational or scientific foundation.

Fear is a huge subject: immigration, vaccines, earthquakes, GMOs, poverty, gender-based violence, food, scepticism about medicine and search for alternative remedies, etc. What impact do these fears have on our lives? What instruments can the scientific community offer to face them? What is the relationship between fears, beliefs, and facts?

• Hospitality, immigration and demographic decline
• Fearful imagery
• Do information and media reduce or amplify fears? The case of childhood immunization
• The politics of fear
• Real diseases, pseudo-medicines