The conference-performance Science and the Simpsons, by Marco Malaspina, as part of the COLPI DI GENIO (MOMENTS OF GENIUS) festival.
On Monday the 24th of May at 8.30 p.m. in Cinema Massimo, the National Museum of Cinema presents the conference-performance Science and the Simpsons by the Bologna-based freelance journalist Marco Malaspina. Admission free.
The Simpsons is a popular cartoon series created by cartoonist Matt Gröning as a satire on American family life, where many aspects of the human condition, of society and technical and scientific progress are tackled in a comic framework. Themes such as nuclear power, pollution, viagra, antidepressants, space travel and the theory of evolution are frequently tackled and transform the series into an interesting forum for analysing the relationship between science and society. Malaspina explains how the decision to do this lies in the fact that many of the series' authors are Harvard-graduate scientists who have grasped and exploited the narrative possibilities that scientific themes offer when related to daily life.