OGR Talks | Tonight's the Day
OGR Torino welcomes back OGR Talks

October 10, 2023 | Jeffery Deaver in conversation with Stefano Nazzi
presents his new thriller published by Rizzoli Hunting Time

Past events:

October 03, 2023 | Donato Tramuto in conversation with Massimo Lapucci
An event in collaboration with RFK Human Rights Italy and TramutoPorter Foundation

September 22, 2023 | Giovanni Minoli e Lorenzo Pregliasco
Passato e presente. Divulgare la storia per (ri)conoscere il contemporaneo

June 28, 2023 | ASTEROID DAY @OGR Talks
in collaboration with PRISMA, coordinated by INAF and supported by Fondazione CRT

June 8, 2023 H 6:30 PM @Binario 3 | Gio Evan
in collaboration with Archivissima

March 27, 2023 h 6:30 pm @Binario 3 | Alessandro Barbero

April 13, 2023 H 6:30 pm @Binario 3 | Vera Gheno in dialogue with Murubutu

February 24, 2023 H 6:30 pm @Binario 3 | Michela Murgia
Educazione sentimentale coreana Imparare qualcosa dai K-Drama

February 21, 2023 H 18.30 @Binario 3 | Vera Politkovskaya
in collaboration with Rizzoli Libri

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Starting Feb. 21 at OGR Torino, OGR Talks will be back with a series of meetings on contemporary culture. Vera Politkovskaya will open the 2023 calendar, followed by Michela Murgia on Feb. 24; and April 13 will be Vera Gheno and Murubutu’s turn.
Hang tight, OGR Talks’ calendar of events is constantly updated.

If 2022 was the year devoted to the small and large evolutions and revolutions of our time, 2023 turns to the relationship and connections between systems and languages, between stories and people. Chaperoned as the moon and sun dance between night and day, the second season of OGR Talks borrows the title of a song - Tonight's the day - by Chicago rock band Wilco.
Like an eclipse, cyclical and mysterious, OGR Talks is an invitation to seize the moment, the one in which light becomes dark and vice versa, the one in which the present takes shape, as we listen to the stories of the invited speakers.

From the breathtaking tale of a daughter in search of truth, to the discovery of seemingly distant worlds, to the captivating insights on language and society, OGR Talks never fails to tap into some of the most pressing topics of our time.

OGR Talks begins Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 6:30 pm, with Vera Politkovskaya, who will present on Binario 3 at OGR Torino, her latest book published by Rizzoli UNA MADRE. La vita e la passione per la verità di Anna Politkovskaja. Written in collaboration with Sara Giudice, Vera Politkovskaya recounts the life and struggles for press freedom of her mother, Anna Politkovskaya, the prominent investigative journalist for the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, murdered in 2006. Vera Politkovskaya, author, journalist, and Russia’s new symbol of freedom of expression, has experienced all the slowness and ambiguities of the Russian justice system on her own skin and, above all, has struggled to keep her mother's message alive: "be brave and always call things by their name, including dictators."

A few days later, on Wednesday, Feb. 24, once again on the stage of OGR's Binario 3, the second star of OGR Talks, Michela Murgia, will hold her lecture titled Educazione sentimentale coreana Imparare qualcosa dai K-Drama.

On April 13, Vera Gheno, essayist, Italian translator, and sociolinguist specializing in communication, is expected to speak with Murubutu, pseudonym of Alessio Mariani, rapper, songwriter, and lecturer.

Protagonists of the past 2022 edition of OGR Talks were influential voices from the national scene - philosophers and thinkers, writers and musicians, creatives, and innovators - including Zerocalcare, Ligabue, Tlon, Francesco Costa, Cathy La Torre, Mario Calabresi, Cecilia Sala, and many more. Stories, testimonies, reflections, and questions towards a common goal: understand, dialogue and, together, reach further and further.

OGR Talks | Tonight's the Day

Tonight's the Day sings the band Wilko, the day is tinged with black, and stars sprout in the midday sky: it is the eclipse that, cyclical, revolutionary, and mysterious accompanies the history of humankind symbolizing the overturning of everyday beliefs.

Contemporary and limitless, OGR Talks, is more than a schedule of events, more than a calendar of lectures. It is an invitation to open ourselves to new connections between systems and languages, seize the moment, the one in which light becomes dark and vice versa, the one in which the present takes shape.

A unique program curated by OGR Torino together with communicators, visionaries, and innovators from every field. Open and flexible towards a common goal: understand, dialogue and, together, reach farther and farther.