2026 Midsummer Rendezvous Program
9August
10August
Program of Sunday 9 August 2026
- Opening day
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- All day
- Until dinner time: Welcome members, room and apartment assignment.
- 7.30pm
- Simon addresses the members and gives a short explanation of how the Rendezvous will be structured and the objectives of our gathering.
- 8pm
- Dinner
- 9.30pm
- Presentation. Lucas La Rosa: 20 years after: A Cortona Friend Tale
- 10.15pm – 10.45pm
- Self-introduction of all participants (Lecturers, Workshop Leaders, Attendees)
Program of Monday 10 August 2026
First day of Lectures
and Workshops
- 7.30am – 8.15am
- Workshop: Body and Mind Awakening with Manuel
- 8.15am – 9.15am
- Breakfast
- 9.15am – 10am
- Lecture: Jovana Isevsky, University of California, Riverside: Biophysics, Neuroscience and Political Philosophy: the physical substrate necessary for producing conscious objects.
- 10.00am
- Coffee Break
- 10.45am – 11.45am
- Past lecture of Brother David
- 11.45am – 12.45pm
- Break-out groups
- 12.45pm
- Lunch
- 3pm – 4.15pm
- Workshop
- 10.00am
- Coffee Break