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)
“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)
“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)
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)
“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)
“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)