Rahvusvaheline konverents "Travelling and Mapping the World: Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Di
31.05.2008 kell 15.00 - 15.00
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Ülikooli auditooriumis U-225 rahvusvaheline konverents "Travelling and
Mapping the World: Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Discourse"
(koordinaatorid: Bologna ülikool ja Ӱ ülikool). Konverentsi
töökeeleks on inglise keel.
Programm:
31st May
9: 15
Uus-Sadama 5,
Room U-225
Welcoming addresses
Dr. Mart Rannut
Director of the Institute of Estonian Culture
Tina Aunin
University of Tallinn
Vita Fortunati
General coordinator Acume2
Adriana Corrado
Coordinator subproject n. 3
10: 00
Session 1
The Discovery of New Worlds
Chair: Vita Fortunati (University of Bologna)
Manfred Pftister (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Drawing a Line: The Early Travellers and
the Distinction between Man and Animal
Davide Bigalli (University of Milan)
The Two Faces of the Unknown:
the Garden of Eden and the Cannibal
Adriana Corrado (University Suor Orsola Benincasa Napoli)
Are Religion and Science really incompatible?
A few, rhapsodic and asystematic Considerations on a perpetual and endless
Conflict starting from Christopher Columbus’s Descriptions of the New
World
11: 30 Coffee Break
(Atrium)
11: 45
Session 2
Mapping Utopian Worlds
Chair Adriana Corrado (University Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli)
Vita Fortunati (University of Bologna)
The Ambiguous Metaphor of Voyage in Francis Bacon’s New
Atlantis: Exploration or Domination?
Tina Aunin (Tallinn University, Estonia)
Bernhard Schmidt – the Great Stellar Optician from the Island of Nargen
Jüri Talvet (Tartu University)
Constructing a Mythical Future City for a Symbiotic Nation from the
European ‘Periphery’. Fr. R. Kreutzwald’s Epic Kalevipoeg
13: 30 Buffet
(Atrium)
15: 00
Uus-Sadama 5,
Room U-225
Session 3 (part 1)
Discoveries, Contaminations and Infectious Exchanges
Chair: Manfred Pfister (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Gastone Castellani (University of Bologna)
Physics, Journeys, Adventure and Discoveries in Science, Speculations on
Space-Time, Earth and beyond
Massimo Rizzardini (University of Milan)
A “lightning” in the Renaissance: Tomaso Zefiriele Bovio, physician,
alchemist and astrologer
Francesca Russo (University Suor Orsola Benincasa Napoli)
The first syphilis pandemic in Florence: description and ‘political’
interpretation
16: 45 Coffee Break
(Atrium)
17: 00
Session 3 (part 2)
Concetta Pennuto (University of Geneva)
Syphilitic Confessions in Renaissance Medicine:
Grünpeck’s ‘De mentulagra’
Alfredo Pennica (University of Roma, La Sapienza)
Treponematoses and Columbus’s travels:
one way or round trip?
Planning Teaching Modules for Subproject 3:
Proposals and Suggestions
Tallinn 1st June
9: 30
Uus-Sadama 5,
Room U-225
Session 4 (part 1)
New Worlds on the Page
Chair: Tina Aunin (University of Tallinn
Annamaria Lamarra (University Federico II, Naples)
The passage from natural history to the
History of Nature in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko
Eleonora Federici and Renata Oggero (University of Calabria)
Of Earthquakes and Identities: Naming Southern Italy in the works of Sir
William Hamilton and Patrick Brydone
Anne Lange (Tallinn University, Estonia)
On the Relevance of Statistics to Poetry
11: 00 Coffee Break
(Atrium)
11: 30
Session 4 (part 2)
Antonella Piazza (University Suor Orsola Benincasa Napoli)
Meta/Physical Journeys: Ariel and Satan
Claudia Richter (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Cannibalism in Early Modern Drama
General Discussion
13: 00
End of Conference
algusega kell 9.15 ja pühapäeval 01. juunil algusega kell 9.30 Ӱ
Ülikooli auditooriumis U-225 rahvusvaheline konverents "Travelling and
Mapping the World: Scientific Discoveries and Narrative Discourse"
(koordinaatorid: Bologna ülikool ja Ӱ ülikool). Konverentsi
töökeeleks on inglise keel.
Programm:
31st May
9: 15
Uus-Sadama 5,
Room U-225
Welcoming addresses
Dr. Mart Rannut
Director of the Institute of Estonian Culture
Tina Aunin
University of Tallinn
Vita Fortunati
General coordinator Acume2
Adriana Corrado
Coordinator subproject n. 3
10: 00
Session 1
The Discovery of New Worlds
Chair: Vita Fortunati (University of Bologna)
Manfred Pftister (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Drawing a Line: The Early Travellers and
the Distinction between Man and Animal
Davide Bigalli (University of Milan)
The Two Faces of the Unknown:
the Garden of Eden and the Cannibal
Adriana Corrado (University Suor Orsola Benincasa Napoli)
Are Religion and Science really incompatible?
A few, rhapsodic and asystematic Considerations on a perpetual and endless
Conflict starting from Christopher Columbus’s Descriptions of the New
World
11: 30 Coffee Break
(Atrium)
11: 45
Session 2
Mapping Utopian Worlds
Chair Adriana Corrado (University Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli)
Vita Fortunati (University of Bologna)
The Ambiguous Metaphor of Voyage in Francis Bacon’s New
Atlantis: Exploration or Domination?
Tina Aunin (Tallinn University, Estonia)
Bernhard Schmidt – the Great Stellar Optician from the Island of Nargen
Jüri Talvet (Tartu University)
Constructing a Mythical Future City for a Symbiotic Nation from the
European ‘Periphery’. Fr. R. Kreutzwald’s Epic Kalevipoeg
13: 30 Buffet
(Atrium)
15: 00
Uus-Sadama 5,
Room U-225
Session 3 (part 1)
Discoveries, Contaminations and Infectious Exchanges
Chair: Manfred Pfister (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Gastone Castellani (University of Bologna)
Physics, Journeys, Adventure and Discoveries in Science, Speculations on
Space-Time, Earth and beyond
Massimo Rizzardini (University of Milan)
A “lightning” in the Renaissance: Tomaso Zefiriele Bovio, physician,
alchemist and astrologer
Francesca Russo (University Suor Orsola Benincasa Napoli)
The first syphilis pandemic in Florence: description and ‘political’
interpretation
16: 45 Coffee Break
(Atrium)
17: 00
Session 3 (part 2)
Concetta Pennuto (University of Geneva)
Syphilitic Confessions in Renaissance Medicine:
Grünpeck’s ‘De mentulagra’
Alfredo Pennica (University of Roma, La Sapienza)
Treponematoses and Columbus’s travels:
one way or round trip?
Planning Teaching Modules for Subproject 3:
Proposals and Suggestions
Tallinn 1st June
9: 30
Uus-Sadama 5,
Room U-225
Session 4 (part 1)
New Worlds on the Page
Chair: Tina Aunin (University of Tallinn
Annamaria Lamarra (University Federico II, Naples)
The passage from natural history to the
History of Nature in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko
Eleonora Federici and Renata Oggero (University of Calabria)
Of Earthquakes and Identities: Naming Southern Italy in the works of Sir
William Hamilton and Patrick Brydone
Anne Lange (Tallinn University, Estonia)
On the Relevance of Statistics to Poetry
11: 00 Coffee Break
(Atrium)
11: 30
Session 4 (part 2)
Antonella Piazza (University Suor Orsola Benincasa Napoli)
Meta/Physical Journeys: Ariel and Satan
Claudia Richter (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Cannibalism in Early Modern Drama
General Discussion
13: 00
End of Conference