Provisional 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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