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

Monday October 13th
Welcome & opening of the school

Pierluigi Campana (INFN), Director of the school

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)

Q&A
Science: lecture 2
Particle physics: methodologies, results and perspectives

Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)

Q&A

Coffee break

(terrace)

Journalism and communication: interactive session 3
Science communication to make a difference

Fred Balvert (Erasmus MC University)

Lunch break*

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

Science: lecture 4
Galactic Archaeology and galaxy formation

Emanuele Spitoni (INAF)

Q&A

Coffee break

Journalism and communication: lecture 5
The Manufacturing of AI: Myths, Ideology, and Political Economy in Relation to Journalism

Carola Frediani (Science journalist)

Q&A and closing
Tuesday October 14th
Science: lecture 6
The Universe Inside Us: A Story of Stellar Nucleosynthesis

Maria Luisa Aliotta (University of Ediburgh)

Q&A

Coffee break

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)

Q&A
Science: lecture 8
The origin of the universe as far as it gets

Antonio Walter Riotto (University of Geneve)

Q&A
Journalism and communication: interactive session 9
Media lab: Introduction of the Lab and group assignment

Lunch break*

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

Media la: Group work

Coffee break

Media lab
Group presentations& discussion
Wednesday October 15th
Science: lecture 10
The Denisovan Enigma: The Eastern Brother of Neanderthal and Homo sapiens

Silvana Condemi (University of Aix-Marseille)

Q&A

Coffee break

Journalism and communication: lecture 11
Reporting from the field

Jacopo Pasotti (Freelance environmental journalist and photographer)

Q&A
Final discussion & school closing

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