“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
09:30-10h Open Ceremony (Auditori Josep Irla) Conducted by Sr. Juan Ortega, director of Grup Clínica Bofill. Autoritaties: Sra. Natàlia Garriga, consellera de Cultura CONFIRMAR Laia Cañigueral i Olive, delegada territorial del Govern de la Generalitat a Girona. CONFIRMAR Il·lm. Sr. Miquel Noguer i Planas, president de la Diputació de Girona. CONFIRMAR Sra. Marta Madrenas, alcaldessa […]
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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
Parallel session 1: “Science and Religion”
“Philip Sherrard – Poet-Prophet of Climate Change.”
>Christopher Howell (Elon University)
“18th and early 19th centuries in Greece: the conflict between positive sciences and the Greek Orthodox Church.”
>Maria Terdimou (Hellenic Open University)
by Dr. George N. Vlahakis
Parallel session 2: “Poesía y ciencia”
“Processes of Empathy in Olvido García Valdés’ Poetry”
>Friederike Foedtke (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
“Existencias sensibles a través del movimiento en André du Bouchet.”
>Candela Salgado Ivanich (Salamanca University)
“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 Dra. Amelia Gamoneda
Parallel session 1: “Audiencing: Cognitive Theories and Literary Texts”
“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)
“The Importance of Failure.”
>Ellen Spolsky (Bar-Ilan University)
by Dr. Carlos Gámez
Parallel session 2: “Science in Cultural Contexts”
“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”
“Dr. Micrococus o cómo aprender a dejar de preocuparse y amar la pócima. Regeneracionismo distópico en dos cuentos de Ramón y Cajal.”
>Julio Salvador Salvador (Complutense University, Madrid)
Science and Literature: Innovative methodological approaches for teaching Sciences
>Manolis Kartsonakis (The Hellenic Open University)
Some aspects of a dystopian science
>Rodrigo Guimarães Soares (UFSC)
“Expressive Writing in the Intercultural Context.”
>Dustin Helberg (University of the Bahamas) & Margaret LeMay (Boise State University)
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)
“Turning the aristocrat into a doctor and the doctor into an aristòcrata.”
>Ana Carneiro, Teresa Salomé, Isabel Amaral (Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), NOVA-New University of Lisbon)
by Dr. Humbert Massegur
Parallel session 2 “Metaphor, Creativity and Science”
“Shakespeare’s Genesis: Poetry, Emergence, and Biosemiotics.”
>Timothy Ryan Day (Saint Louis University-Madrid)
“The Power of Artistic Imagery to represent the ideas of Science.”
>Igal Galili (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
by Dr. Carlos Gámez
Coffe 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)
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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)
“Fantasies of Life Extension: New Lives in New Bodies.”
>Aline Ferreira (Aveiro University)
“Shreds of the Decidua”: Layers of Maternal Anatomy in Victorian Female Poetry.”
>Sarah Wegener (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)
by Dr. Juan F. Campo
Coffe 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.”
>Eusebio Llácer & Teresa Sauri (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)
“TThe 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
11:30-12:30h Plenary Lecture: George Vlahakis (Hellenic Open University) (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: “Cognitive Poetry”
“Imágenes mentales y empatía en la poesía de Olvido García Valdés”
>Friederike Foedtke (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
“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)
“Divulgació de la ciència a través de la literatura.”
>Núria Ruiz Morillas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
by Dr. Angel Quintana Morraja
Presentation of the film: Pepe Benítez. Technique and creativity.
16:30 -17:30 Presentation of the film: Pepe Benítez. Technique and creativity.
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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
