School Program 2025

Erice Science Communication and Journalism International School

ORIGINS. How it all began

October 13 – 15, 2025

Ettore Majorana Foundation. Richard Feynman lecture hall

School Program

Fellows & Speakers

Monday October 13th
  • 9.00 - 9.20
Welcome & opening of the school

Pierluigi Campana (INFN), Director of the school

  • 9:20 - 10:20
Journalism and communication: lecture 1
Science Journalism and the Three Ps (polarization, populism and post-truth)

Kai Kupferschmidt (Science journalist, contributing correspondent for Science magazine)

  • 10:20 - 10:30
Q&A
  • 10:30 - 11:30
Science: lecture 2
Particle physics: methodologies, results and perspectives

Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

  • 11:30 - 11:40
Q&A
  • 11:40 - 12:00

Coffee break

(terrace)

  • 12:00 - 13:00
Journalism and communication: interactive session 3
Science communication to make a difference

Fred Balvert (Erasmus MC University)

  • 13.00 - 15:00

Lunch break*

*There is a list of restaurant partnered with the school. Please check the list.

  • 15:00 - 16:00
Science: lecture 4
Galactic Archaeology and galaxy formation

Emanuele Spitoni (INAF)

  • 16:00 - 16:15
Q&A
  • 16:15 - 16:30

Coffee break

  • 16:30 - 17:30
Journalism and communication: lecture 5
The Manufacturing of AI: Myths, Ideology, and Political Economy in Relation to Journalism

Carola Frediani (Science journalist)

  • 17:30 - 18:00
Q&A and closing
Tuesday October 14th
  • 9.00 - 10.00
Science: lecture 6
The Universe Inside Us: A Story of Stellar Nucleosynthesis

Maria Luisa Aliotta (University of Ediburgh)

  • 10:00 - 10:15
Q&A
  • 10:15 - 10:30

Coffee break

  • 10.30 - 11:30
Journalism and communication: lecture 7
The power of a story in communicating space science to the public

Emily Baldwin (Freelance space writer, North Star Content)

  • 11:30 - 11:45
Q&A
  • 11:45 - 12:45
Science: lecture 8
The origin of the universe as far as it gets

Antonio Walter Riotto (University of Geneve)

  • 12:45 - 13:00
Q&A
  • 13:00 - 13:30
Journalism and communication: interactive session 9
Media lab: Introduction of the Lab and group assignment
  • 13.30 - 15:00

Lunch break*

*There is a list of restaurant partnered with the school. Please check the list.

  • 15:00 - 16:30
Media la: Group work
  • 16:30 - 17:00

Coffee break

  • 17:00 - 18:30
Media lab
Group presentations& discussion
Wednesday October 15th
  • 9.00 - 10.00
Science: lecture 10
The Denisovan Enigma: The Eastern Brother of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens

Silvana Condemi (University of Aix-Marseille)

  • 10:00 - 10:15
Q&A
  • 10:15 - 10:30

Coffee break

  • 10.30 - 11:30
Journalism and communication: lecture 11
Reporting from the field

Jacopo Pasotti (Freelance environmental journalist and photographer)

  • 11:30 - 11:45
Q&A
  • 12:00 - 13:00
Final discussion & school closing

Nicola Nosengo (Nature Italy), Chief Editor
Eleonora Cossi (INFN Communications office)