“Science is everything about which there is always discussion.”
José Ortega y Gasset
Following the successful three International Conferences on Science and Literature which took place in Athens, Poellau and Paris, this Conference is the fourth to be organized under the aegis of the Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST.
The fourth International Conference will be organized by the Càtedra Dr. Bofill de Ciències I Humanitats (Dr Bofill Chair on Science and the Humanities) integrated at the University of Girona (UdG) with the technical support of the Commission on Science and Literature. As it was the case with the first three Conferences, the fourth one does not have a specific theme, as its intent continues to be the creation of an open forum for all scholars interested in Science and Literature.
Attendees
150+
Speakers
50
Academics
56%
Sessions
10+
Event schedule
Open Ceremony
Conducted by Sr. Juan Ortega, director of Grup Clínica Bofill.
Authorities:
Dr. Miquel Carreras, en representació delegada territorial del Govern de la Generalitat a Girona.
Sra. Marta Madrenas, alcaldessa de Girona.
Dr. Gerardo Boto Varela, en representació Rector Magnífic de la Universitat de Girona
George Vlahakis PhD, Assistant Professor in Hellenic Open University in Patras, Greece, and Fellow Researcher in the Institute of Historical Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation
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Inaugural Conference: “The Plague in Western Art”
10-11:00h Inaugural Conference: “The Plague in Western Art.” Dr. Juan F. Campo (Càtedra de Ciències i Humanitats Dr. Bofill) (AUDITORI JOSEP IRLA)
by Dr. Juan F. Campo
Session 1: “Science and Religion” & “Poesía y ciencia”
“18th and early 19th centuries in Greece: the conflict between positive sciences and the Greek Orthodox Church.”
>Maria Terdimou (Hellenic Open University)
“Processes of Empathy in Olvido García Valdés’ Poetry”
>Friederike Foedtke (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
“Ilación perceptivo-literaria en la poesía meditativa de Dominique Sampiero: fenómeno y cognición.”
>Lorenzo Piera Martín (Salamanca University)
“Poetry as a (not scientific) realism: G. Ferrater on the function of poetry in culture.”
>Lucas Capellas Franco (Pompeu Fabra University)
by Dr. George N. Vlahakis
Parallel session 2: “Audiencing: Cognitive Theories and Literary Texts”
(Room CARLES RAHOLA)
“Narrative Empathy and the Fight Against Gender Violence.”
>Isabel Jaén Portillo (Portland State University)
“Violence, Murders, Suicides and the Making of a “Best-seller” in the Early Days of the Printing Press: Affect and Reception of Celestina (1499/1502).”
>Julien J. Simon (Indiana University East)
by Dr. Carlos Gámez
Parallel session 1: “Science in Cultural Contexts”
(AUDITORI JOSEP IRLA)
“Parallel universes in superhero còmics.”
>Francisco Saez de Adana (Instituto Franklin. Universidad de Alcalá)
“Divulgació de la ciència a través de la literatura.”
>Núria Ruiz Morillas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
“Blue Was The Water That Inked The Portuguese Route from Science to Empire.”
>Joana Lima (Lisbon University)
“A Science Implant in Fiction: Organ Transplants in Literature.”
>Xavier Duran (Scientific Journalist)
by Dr. Juan F. Campo
Parallel session 1: “Scientific Poetry and Experiments with Epic Form”
“Life built herself a myriad forms”: Epics of Gestation and Co-Operation in Late Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry”.
>Wolfgang Funk (Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz)
“Situating Selfhood in a Scientific Universe, 1925-1931.”
>Michael Whitworth (Oxford University)
“This too is poetry”: Ronald Duncan, Science and Ignorance.”
>John Holmes (Birmingham University)
by Sr. John Holmes
Parallel session 2: “Science Issues and Literature”
Chair: Carlos Gámez (Càtedra de Ciències i Humanitats Dr. Bofill, Universitat de Barcelona)
by Dr. Carlos Gámez
Parallel session 1 “Literature & Medicine”
“Deprivation and Attachment in William Faulkner’s Pylon: A Darwinian Alternative to the Freudian Family.”
>Michael Wainwright (Royal Holloway, University of London)
“Shakespeare’s Genesis: Poetry, Emergence, and Biosemiotics.”
>Timothy Ryan Day (Saint Louis University-Madrid)
by Dr. Humbert Massegur
Coffee Break
Pati de les Magnòlies
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Plenary Lecture: Ciencia, filosofía y literatura en la primera ilustración española: el caso de Martín Martínez
11:30-12:45h Plenary Lecture: Ciencia, filosofía y literatura en la primera ilustración española: el caso de Martín Martínez Dr. Jorge García López (Universitat de Girona) (AUDITORI JOSEP IRLA)
by Dr. Jorge García López
General Assembly
14:30 -16:00 h: General Assembly (AUDITORI JOSEP IRLA)
by Organization
Parallel session 1 “Literature and Philosophy”
“Boyle and Spinoza: A scientific Controversy via an indirect Correspondence.”
>Filip A. Buyse (CSMBR Pisa)
“When a woman becomes a plant: Philosophical discourses and metaphorical narratives in the modernity.”
>Constantin Canavas (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences)
“El interdiscurso científico de la semiòtica.”
>Manuel González de Ávila (Salamanca University)
by Dr. Carlos Gámez
Parallel session 2 “Literature, Medicine & the Arts”
“The Chromatic Contrast of the First Mural about the History of Cardiology (1944) by Diego Rivera (1866-1957).”
>Javier Castro & Justo Hernández (La Laguna University)
“Dengue fever in 1889 in Smyrna and its description in the satirical poem of Miltiades Emmanuel (1825-1916).”
>Konstantinos Konstaantopoulos (Hellenic Open University)
by Dr. Juan F. Campo
Coffee Break
17:30h-18h – Coffee Break – Pausa
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Plenary Lecture: “¿Civilización contra barbarie? Euclides Da Cunha, Mario Vargas Llosa y la guerra de Canudos”
18h-19.00h – Plenary Lecture: “¿Civilización contra barbarie? Euclides Da Cunha, Mario Vargas Llosa y la guerra de Canudos” Jordi Canal. Professeur de L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) (AUDITORI JOSEP IRLA)
by Dr. Jordi Canal
Parallel session 1 “Physics, Chemistry and Literature”
“Refractions of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity on William Faulkner’s works.”
>Teresa Sauri & Eusebio Llácer (Universitat de València)
“Flatland and Chemistry.”
>Miquel Duran (Girona University) & Fernando Blasco (Universidad Politécnica, Madrid)
“Primo Levi’s Other Double Bond: Chemistry and Literature in Horrible Times.”
>Kostas Tampakis (National Hellenic Research Foundation)
by Dr. Joan Saurina
Parallel session 2 “The politics of bodymind: cognitive approaches to film and literature”
“Body, Interiority and Affect in Memoria Histórica Cinema: Can Cinema of Empathy Advance the Cause of the Victims of Fascism?”
>Isabel Jaén Portillo (Portland State University)
“Embodied Reading: Where Are We Today?”
>Pierre-Louis Patoine (Sorbonne Nouvelle University)
“The monstrification of readership. Empathic reading and body resonance in texts with monstrous characters.”
>Benito García-Valero (Alicante University)
by Dr. Angel Quintana Morraja
Coffe Break
11:00-11:30h Coffe Break-Pausa
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Plenary Lecture “Science and Literature in European authoritarian regimes”
George Vlahakis (Hellenic Open University)
presented by Dr. Carlos Gámez (AUDITORI JOSEP IRLA)
by Dr. George N. Vlahakis
Parallel Session 1: “Digital Humanities”
“Complex networks reveal emergent transdisciplinary knowledge in Wikipedia”
>Gustavo Ariel Schwartz (Centro de Física de Materiales CSIC-UPV/EHU)
Complex networks for transdisciplinary knowledge in Wikipedia: A longitudinal perspective
Carlos Gámez Pérez (Universitat de Barcelona)
“Decentralized Ledger Technologies for Consensus in History”
>Juan-Luis Suárez (University of Western Ontario)
“Multilingual Language Models for Poetry.”
>Javier de la Rosa, Álvaro Pérez Pozo, Laura Hernández, Aitor Díaz Medina, Salvador Ros, Elena González-Blanco (UNED)
by Dr. George N. Vlahakis
Parallel Session 2: “Dialogues between Science and Literature”
“The Magic Lantern as a Gothic Literary Instrument”
>Maria Vara (Athens School of Fine Arts)
“Sherlock Holmes saving Mr. Venizelos: Using science in an early Greek crime fiction novel”
>Sophia Denissi (Athens School of Fine Arts)
by Organization
Presentation of the film: Pepe Benítez. Technique and creativity.
16:45 -18Presentation of the film: Pepe Benítez. Technique and creativity.
by Organization
Closing Ceremony
18:00 Closing Ceremony
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What's happening
at conference?
Those proposed by the Organizing Committee are:
Science in Western Art
Literature and Medicine
Science and Religion
Poetry and Science
