Cortona 2022 – Rebirth
by CortonaFriends | August 2nd, 2021Dear Cortona friends You know too well that because of the Covid, we had to cancel the Cortona week for the last two years. We are now perhaps at the end of th...
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Cortona Pearls 2021 Announcement
by CortonaFriends | December 17th, 2020Dear members of the Cortona friends Association, we are already in December, soon will be Christmas and the New Year. We all hope that the year 2021 will be mor...
Ready for another great adventure?
by CortonaFriends | November 13th, 2019Dear friends this is the first official mail about Cortona Week 2020, and it opens with a very important news: the next Cortona Week will be held in Cortona, at...
Cortona Week – “Science and the Wholeness of Life”
by CortonaFriends | November 13th, 2019The concept Cortona Week, a Summer School named after the small medieval town in Tuscany where it was initiated, has been for over 30 years an annual interdisci...
Todi Week 2019 – A summary in big brushstrokes
by CortonaFriends | September 26th, 2019What does “being human in a technological world” mean? The theme of the 2019 edition of Todi Week, concluded few weeks ago, was formulated not by chance as ...
Disconnect between Intelligence and Consciousness in The Brave New World
by Pier Luigi Luisi | March 31st, 2019Today there is worldwide concern over ecological problems and climate change in particular. A systems-view of the world shows us that pollution and climate chan...
A Journey of Hope, Trust, Imagination and Healing for the Common Good
by Kamran Mofid | July 24th, 2018In Search of the Good Life? Then, everything is sacred A Journey of Hope, Trust, Imagination and Healing for the Common Good Prof. Kamran Mofid This arti...
After the Hero: 1968, between Restoration, Revolution and Reenactment
by Jörg Rasche | May 9th, 20181968 – 2018. It is a challenge to go back these 50 years of my life, to talk about memory, changing views, changing identities. In 1968 I was 18 years. ...
Thank you Aboca!
by CortonaFriends | April 25th, 2018We acknowledge with gratitude the financial contribution of Aboca, which has given a grant to some students, allowing them to join us in Todi. Aboca, in San Sep...
Culture Jazz
by Jean Buzelin | March 12th, 2018En 2012, le pianiste écossais John Wolf Brennan, le percussionniste et vocaliste palestinien Tony Majdalaniet le guitariste calabrais Marco Jencarelli s’...
The Cortonaweek experience
by CortonaFriends | February 1st, 2018Cortonaweek, an immersive, interdisciplianery experience that will open your mind...
BEING NATURE
by Andraes Weber | December 27th, 2017Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and ove...
Christmas Wishes
by Brother David Steindl-Rast | December 19th, 2017My dear Friends, This year, too, i’d like to send you warm greetings and good wishes at this festive season. However, it will be festive only if we learn to p...
Wall Street International about us
by CortonaFriends | November 14th, 2017Todi-week is the prosecution of the renowned Cortona-week: a unique interdisciplinary residence where graduate students and young managers from all over the wor...
Message from Iso Camartin
by CortonaFriends | September 28th, 2017Iso Camartin wrote a letter to Pier Luigi Luisi whose first part I was asked to translate and publish. It is a wish for the future of the Todi week. Thank you s...
Dear Friends
by CortonaFriends | August 23rd, 2017With some delay, and thanks mostly to the team of Simon (a special thanks to Rafael and Daniele), we can offer now this very Cortona Friends website. In these C...