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April 18, 2021



The threat of the Islamic State 


For years, Daesh has terrorized the world, but since Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, head of the self-styled Islamic State, was killed, its scope seems to have stopped. It's really like this? What does the history of the jihadist group teach us? Farhad Khosrokhavar, Franco-Iranian sociologist, lecturer at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and scholar of the Arab world and Islamic fundamentalism, will discuss it with Marta Serafini, journalist of Corriere della Sera and author of The shadow of the enemy. A history of Islamist terrorism (Solferino, 2020), moderated by Catherine Cornet, during “Where has the Islamic State gone”. An analysis that starts from the birth of the caliphate up to the military defeat, which however has not eliminated the threat. 






Women's history of the Internet


The history of technology that we have been told to date is a masculine narrative that speaks only of men, completely ignoring the contribution of women. Yet at the origin of computer science there are female minds, programmers who have allowed the development of the internet. Some then created empires in the world of the web or were among the first to found the virtual communities that we now call social networks. We talk about it with "Connection" starting from the book by Claire L. Evans Connection. Women's history of the internet (Luiss University Press, 2020). The author is part of the cyberfeminist collective Deep Lab and not only is a Grammy-nominated singer, but also deals with technologies and the future for various publications. With the writer Claudia Durastanti,it will bring to light the lives of many who have made revolutionary technological discoveries and in return have not even had the honor of memory.