Podcast di Palazzo Ducale di Genova

Podcast di Palazzo Ducale di Genova is less a conventional studio series than a continuing public archive. Its episodes capture lectures, book presentations, festival panels, and cultural cycles held before audiences at Palazzo Ducale. The sound is formal, occasionally rough, and shaped by the rituals of live events: greetings, acknowledgments, introductions, readings, questions, and closing thanks. That texture is part of the identity. The show gives time to people who build arguments slowly. A talk connected to a Moby Dick exhibition begins with Melville and moves through Toni Morrison, whiteness, slavery, abolitionism, ghosts, the sea, and what American literature has had to erase in order to appear whole. A Paradigmi event with Ines Testoni moves between critical thinking, death, sacred meaning, technoscience, cryo-conservation, sexism in religious institutions, and the responsibility of faith. A book conversation around ‘U MAXI follows the maxi trial against Cosa Nostra through Falcone’s insistence on holding the trial in Sicily, the search for financial proof, and the civic stakes of confronting mafia power. A democracy session links neoliberalism, authoritarianism, techno-feudalism, big data, artificial intelligence, surveillance, and Europe’s technological dependence. An architectural talk on Carlo Felice and Gustavo Modena treats theaters as civic machinery, joining urban planning, class encounter, public space, and Genoa’s nineteenth-century transformations. A legal lecture on church and state returns repeatedly to freedom, secularism, Catholic influence, symbols, and the difficult balance between belief and citizenship. The result is demanding audio, but not remote. It carries the rhythm of rooms where culture is still argued aloud. Listeners hear the historical sweep, the caveats, the corrections, and the moment when a broad thesis narrows into a single example. The show is best for people who want public scholarship with civic weight, literary seriousness, and the grain of live thought still intact.