The Balzan Foundation collects scientific contributions, and dissertations from its prizewinners for periodic publications. The Balzan Papers journal has been digital since 2024, and here, some updates on the research projects of the Balzan prizewinners are also gathered.
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Rosalind E. Krauss
In presenting her life’s work, Rosalind Krauss reflects on the intellectual figures central to the development of her ambitions as a writer on art, notably the art historian/critic Leo Steinberg and the literary theorist/semiotician Roland Barthes.
June’s “Odyssey” in cellular immunotherapy and CAR T cell research took him from the US Naval Academy and an MD at Baylor College to research posts in Switzerland and the US before setting up his own lab at the University of Pennsylvania, a hub of major breakthroughs. [Video]
Andrea Pronti and Roberto Zoboli
In the current geopolitical and technological landscape, we are at a crossroads: can the “climate change paradigm“ prevail over the “fossil paradigm” and enable a shift beyond the current “tragedy of the commons” toward a model of collective stewardship?
Massimiliano Mazzanti
Tackling the challenge of global warming involves three main issues: weak vs strong sustainability in macroeconomic interdisciplinary discourse; uncertainty and irreversibility; sustainability policies (mitigation, adaptation and innovation/knowledge-based).
Josiah Ober
Ober gives a synthetic view of his life’s work, from an early passion for ancient Greek history and archaeology to a wide-ranging academic career spanning rhetorical theory, political sociology and philosophy, behavioural sciences, classics, and political science. [Video]
John Olorunshola Kehinde
With the environmental turn in Nigerian literature in English, poetry has adopted more forceful decolonial aesthetics and heightened concern for the Nigerian environment – including its waters. The poets Kehinde cites embody this “decolonial ecology”.
