Categoria Evento: Conferences and Seminars

From 8-13 October the laboratorioarazzi – the electronic music workshop of the Cini Foundation Institute of Music – will feature the renowned Institute for Living Voice (ILV), an international artistic educational project, dedicated to the diversity and richness of vocal art.
ILV is a project organised by the Muziektheater Transparant (Belgium) under the artistic direction of the American vocal artist David Moss, who is considered to be one of the most innovative singers and percussionists on the contemporary music scene.
The Venetian edition will be co-produced by the Claudio Buziol Foundation and laboratorioarazzi, in collaboration with the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory, Venice.
The 14th edition of ILV will be held on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Expert singers representing various vocal styles, genres and traditions will be involved in workshops, concerts, debates and lectures, while singers, performers and composers from all over the world are invited to enrol and attend the meetings.
In addition to David Moss, the instructors at this edition of the Institute for Living Voice will be Barbara Hannigan, who in an active explorative way aims to achieve an inspiring dialogue in which singers will learn about composition, whilst the composers learn about vocals; and Trevor Wishart, who will introduce the participants to various
extended vocal techniques and computer voice transformations.

In collaboration with the music section of the Studies and Documentation Centre of Armenian Culture, Venice, directed by Minas Lourian, the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies has organized a course on the duduk, a double-reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood. A symbol of the Armenian musical tradition, the duduk (conventionally called the “Armenian oboe”) is a very popular instrument with a warm slightly nasal tone creating evocative sounds. It is played to accompany songs and dancing in all the regions of Armenia and is the principal instrument at weddings and funerals.
In 2005 the duduk (or dziranapogh in Armenian) was decreed a masterpiece representing the Armenian musical tradition in the UNESCO “Programme of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”.

Gevorg Dabaghyan is a major living expert on this very ancient instrument. He has founded several ensembles, including Shoghaken, a group dedicated to conserving the very rich Armenian folk music heritage. Liturgical music also features prominently in Dabaghyan’s vast repertory and is a fundamental part of a thousand-year old tradition characterised by strong Christian roots, going back to when Armenia was the first country to proclaim Christianity as its state religion in 301.

17-19 September 2010
Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena – Biblioteca Zenobiana del Temanza –
Corte Zappa, Dorsoduro 1602 – 30123 VENEZIA

17 September > 2pm – 6pm
18 and 19 September > 11am – 3pm

Viruses: the invisibile enemy is the title of the Sixth International Conference on the Future of Science organised by the Umberto Veronesi Foundation, the Silvio Tronchetti Provera Foundation, and the Giorgio Cini Foundation, that will explore, as usual, a theme of major public interest, and subject of intense scientifi c enquiry. Internationally renowned scientists will gather at this conference to discuss how viruses have evolved and how humans have learned over time to defend against the invisible threat of viruses. They will also illustrate how a virus penetrates the body’s cells by bypassing its defence systems and the role of viruses in the onset of cancer. Other topics include the hopes for an AIDS vaccine and prevention of pandemics and new viruses, but also the so-called “good viruses”,
used in the development of gene therapy and cancer treatment.
The conference will post a clear direct message for society: viruses have a powerful economic, political and social impact, but science and technology are increasingly able to contain the threat and damage by developing new preventive vaccines and targeted therapies, based on the most advanced knowledge of molecular biology.

CONTACTS

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANISING SECRETARIAT

Lavinia
Galli

Fondazione Umberto Veronesi
Torre Velasca, Piazza Velasca 5
20121 Milano (Italia)
Fax +39 02 76406966

info@thefutureofscience.org

Lezione conclusiva del quarto Corso di Civiltà Italiana "Vittore Branca"
Venezia e la civiltà italiana nei secoli della modernizzazione europea: il secondo Novecento

tenuta da
Massimo Cacciari
Storia e destino

Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore – Venezia
Venerdì 2 luglio 2010, ore 17.30

Ingresso libero fino esaurimento posti

tel. 041 2710227 ore 9.30 – 10.30

Sono offerte borse di studio per la frequenza del Corso da Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Marsilio Editori,
Fondazione di Venezia, RCS Libri, Veneto Banca e Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

20th- 21st May 2010 – International Center for Climate Governance, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy

Agenda :: Location :: Secretariat

The International Workshop on "Institutions for Climate Governance" is organised by the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) and the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, and it will be held in Venice, on May 20th-21st, 2010.

The research workshop will provide leaders from the academic world an opportunity to engage in discussion of the institutional context of international climate change policy. Among the questions we will address are: what are the appropriate and most effective roles for existing or new organizations in negotiating and implementing a new climate agreement or set of agreements; what can research on the institutional context of public policy from the disciplines of economics, political science, international relations, and legal scholarship tell us about how to shape institutions for climate policy; and how does one overcome – or, perhaps, leverage – institutional path-dependence.
The workshop is upon invitation only.

The objective of this workshop is to consider theories, pilot studies and cases to increase our understanding of factors, barriers or drivers conditioning the social and behavioural dimension of adaptation to climate change.

Three main topics will be considered:

The workshop is structured around three main sessions, each composed by at most four papers in order to provide enough time for a in depth presentation of each participant’s research.

Workshop Secretariat

Ms. Angela Marigo
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Castello 5252
I-30122 Venice
Italy
Tel: +39 041 2711457
Fax: +39 041 2711461
E-mail: angela.marigo@feem.it

Il Corso dedicato al tema generale «Venezia e l’Oriente» e llustra ‘apporto che le civiltà dell’Asia hanno dato lungo i secoli, e particolarmente per il tramite di Venezia, allo sviluppo della civiltà occidentale, dal Medio Evo all’età contemporanea.
La grande Mostra «7000 anni di Cina a Venezia», promossa dal Comune di Venezia, e le celebrazioni dell’anno marcopoliano offrono utili occasioni di verifica e di riflessione.

Venezia e l’Oriente
a cura di Lionello Lanciotti – Olschki Editore, 1987

Background and Objectives of the Workshop

Sustainably managing the local and the global commons requires not only
an understanding of the environmental factors that affect them, but
also a knowledge of the interactions and feedback cycles that operate
between such resource dynamics and the socio-economic dynamics
attributable to human intervention. This, in turn, calls for an
investigation of the behavioural drivers behind human action.

The workshop aims to bring a multidisciplinary approach to the
environmental challenges inherent in the provision and utilization of
the services originating from common-pool resources. By establishing
bridges between the socio-economic, the ecological and the behavioural
traditions, the goal is to find new insights into the mechanisms that
can promote and sustain cooperation among the end-users of the commons.

The workshop will bring together a broad audience of selected
international researchers from fields ranging from theoretical biology
and economics, to behavioural and computational social science. Such
diversity of backgrounds will promote the exchange of the latest
research and policy proposals among the participants, as well as
provide an opportunity to embark in subsequent common efforts.

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Tutto è cominciato dall’intuito e dalla formidabile tenacia di un uomo deciso a comunicare senza fili attraverso lo spazio, provando e riprovando nella migliore tradizione galileiana: Guglielmo Marconi. Nel dicembre del 1901 il segnale radio lanciato dalla Cornovaglia attraversò l’Oceano Atlantico e fu captato a Terranova, provando per la prima volta l’esistenza della ionosfera terrestre. Oggi comunichiamo con satelliti e sonde spaziali, ricevendo un’enorme massa di dati dai limiti estremi del nostro sistema solare. Un racconto che ripercorre le tappe fondamentali di questa storia, dagli esperimenti che valsero a Marconi il Nobel per la fisica nel 1909 alle affascinanti scoperte di sonde interplanetarie come Voyager e del telescopio spaziale Hubble.

Francesco Paresce Marconi è il Responsabile Scientifico del Very Lage Telescope Interferometer dell’European Southern Observatory

26 September
4.30pm
Free entrance while seats last
Conference in Italian

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Se siamo i legittimi eredi di Galilei, in cosa consiste questa eredità? Per comprenderne la natura, è necessario capire quale forma Galileo ha dato all’abisso che da sempre separa la scienza dal senso comune e dalla metafisica. Si tratta di quanto di meglio la nostra specie ha costruito: la cultura, che amplia i nostri orizzonti e riduce gli antichi spazi che per millenni furono occupati dai misteri, dagli spiriti e dagli dei. L’abisso, insomma, ci salva, se riusciamo ad essere liberi di esercitare la nostra curiosità sulla natura e di fabbricare ponti e sentieri che sempre meglio colleghino ciò che percepiamo grazie ai sensi a ciò che evolve nelle nostre teorie sul mondo.

Enrico Bellone, storico della scienza, è stato titolare della Cattedra Galileiana dell’Università di Padova. È autore di numerosi libri di storia della scienza e della fisica, molti dei quali dedicati alla figura di Galilei.

28 September
7pm
Free entrance while seats last
Conference in Italian

More info on
www.imondidigalileo.it
info@imondidigalileo.it