Forum

The Balzan Prizewinners Interdisciplinary Forum is held every year in conjunction with the Balzan awards ceremony. Open to the public and guided by members of the Balzan General Prize Committee, it serves as a platform for the four Prizewinners to present their careers and groundbreaking research.

Natural sciences

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Johannes (Hans) Oerlemans

Ice in the Climate System

English April 2024

Video link to Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Hans Oerlemans as they give accounts of their careers during the 2022 Balzan Prizewinners Forum at the Accademia dei Lincei.

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Arts

German April 2024

Performance of Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets, Christoph Rilke (music by Viktor Ullmann; prose-poem by Ranier Maria Rilke) by Philip Bohlman (narrator) and Christine Wilkie Bohlman (piano) for the 2022 Forum at the Accademia dei Lincei.

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Mathematics, physics, and technology

Robert Langer

Panoramic Synthesis

English April 2024

Video link to Robert Langer’s account of his career during the 2022 Balzan Prizewinners Forum at the Accademia dei Lincei.

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Medicine

English March 2024

Jeffrey I. Gordon provides a panoramic synthesis of current human microbiome research and gives an account of how his lab’s work research on gut microbiome development and childhood undernutrition has evolved.

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History

English March 2024

The Buccellatis’ finds from the excavation of Urkesh (4000 BCE) reveal the intricate relationship between artifacts, the dirt they are found in, and the digital tools employed to decipher their meaning.

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Mathematics, physics, and technology

English March 2024

Buonanno and Damour present the field of gravitational-wave astronomy, opened in 2015, 100 years after Einstein’s theory of General  Relativity, when gravitational waves were first observed using laser interferometers.

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History

Italian March 2024

Friedländer reflects on his Holocaust experiences, suggesting that the lessons of history are often overlooked and emphasizing the need for continued exploration of historical evidence to uncover hidden or heretofore unrevealed perspectives.

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Philosophy and Letters

Martha C. Nussbaum

Career Narrative

English November 2022

Video link to Martha C. Nussbaum’s account of her career during the 2022 Balzan Prizewinners Forum at the Accademia dei Lincei.

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