Lisbon – “Truth and Democracy” is the title of a conference scheduled for Thursday, March 10 at 7pm at the Italian Cultural Institute of Lisbon. Held by Professor Sergio Belardinelli of the University of Bologna. During the evening, there will also will be a short presentation on the Magazine Paradoxa, followed by a speech by journalist Paolo Longo. Sergio Belardinelli is Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna, in the Forlì campus, where he teaches since 1982 Sociology of Cultural Processes. He also taught in several foreign universities between 2002 and 2006, and was part of the “National Committee for Bioethics”. Since September 2011, he is a member of the Italian Institute of Germanic Studies Board and is currently serving as Vice President of the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome. Paolo Longo, instead, served for many years as Rai worldwide correspondent, working in New York, Jerusalem and Beijing. After ten years in Asia, Longo is now focusing on his vocation as a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. The photo exhibition “The temptation of Asia” features 86 photographs taken between 1987 and 2014, representing thirty years of changes in Asia, from the Middle East to Japan. The exhibition has already toured Bari, Naples and many other Italian cities. (9Colonne)