Cortona Week 2023 Programme
The 2023 edition Cortona Week will take place between the Sunday morning July 16 and Sunday July 23 in the beautiful Certosa di Pontignano, near Siena, Tuscany, Italy. The Week’s theme is Science and the Wholeness of Life
All lectures include discussion; the afternoon is reserved to workshops (with Wednesday afternoon free). Breakfast till 9.00, lunch at 13.00, dinner at 20.00
Sunday 16 June 2023
Arrival and Registration at front desk: get your room and check Workshop List
18:30 – Presentation of the Workshops
20:00 – Dinner – every night at same hour
Lectures
Monday 17 July 2023
9:15-9:30 – Opening presentation by Chairman Pier Luigi Luisi
9:30-10:15 – Why we humans are different from chimpanzees, bonobos, Denisovas and Neanderthals – Giuseppe Remuzzi, Mario Negri Institute
10:15-10:45 – Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 – The Earth re-news its body rapidly – Marko Pogacnik, UNESCO Artist for Peace
Tuesday 18 July 2023
9:15-10:00 – Let’s share new thoughts for a regener-Action – Barbara Nappini, Slow Food Italy
10:15-10:45 – Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 – Changing the world, one child at a time – Giovanni Volpe, Still I Rise
Wednesday 19th July 2023
9:15-10:00 – Feeling of mind: from CELL to SELF – Daniela Lucangeli, University of Padova
10:15-10:45 – Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 – On epigenetics and consciousness – Ernesto Burgio, European Cancer and Environment Research Institute
Afternoon : Free – Optional excursions to Siena and/or Florence, Dinner (free) available in the hotel
Thursday 20 July 2023
9:15-10:00 – The meaning of life and origin of counciousness – Federico Faggin, Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation
10:15-10:45 – Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 – Contemplative science insights on the flexibility of the mind and the plasticity of the brain – Antonino Raffone, Sapienza University of Rome
Friday 21 July 2023
9:15-10:00 – Complex Systems and Emotional Sentience – Katherine Peil Kauffman, EFS International
10:15-10:45 – Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 – Partecipants‘ presentations
Saturday 22 July 2023
9:15-10:00 – The Light and Shadow of Historical Trauma: Art as Visual Conscience of Society – Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Stellenbosch University
10:15-10:45 – Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 – Do we need God in the 21st Century – Stuart Kauffman, ISB Institute for System Biology
21:30 – Evening/Night Party – ask and collaborate with Tony Majdalani
Sunday 23 July 2023
Last breakfast together
luggage please out of the room
10:30-11:30 – Cortona Association annual assembly All welcome
Departure before Lunch – Lunch at Certosa possible (self-pay)
See You NeXT year
Workshops
These will be held in parallel in the afternoon in three distinct shifts:
15.00-16.15; 16.45-18.00 and 18.30-19.45.
There is the morning one held from 7.30-8.15
In addition the ATELIER is always open.
On Wednesday the afternoon will be free (only the lectures in the morning, no workshops in the afternoon). Dinner served in the hotel for those who stay.
How to select your workshop? Choose By Web, communicate by email.
Each Workshop is unequivocally characterized as by a label, e.g. M2, A2, F6 etc.
Important! You should indicate the desired workshop(s) t the time of registration -or immediately after- directly at staff@cortonafriends.org
Distribution of the participants will be communicated by web and it will be posted in the gazebo before the beginning of the meeting.
The workshop(s) is to be maintained during the entire week (please no free jumping from one workshop to the other).
The working rooms indicated below may undergo some adjustment in situ.
MORNING ACTIVITIES: 7.30-8.15
M1: VARUN AGARWAL and VASUDEVA RAO, Bhaktivedanta Institute, Kolkata, India, Morning meditation, EVERY MORNING, OUTSIDE CHIOSTRO PRINCIPALE
M2: HANS-PETER SIBLER, SCHOOL FOR TAIJI AND QIGONG, ZÜRICH, Teacher and lecturer Taiji, Qigong, EVERY MORNING, OUTSIDE CHIOSTRO GRANDE
ATELIER, (always open, by appointment)-limited to 15 people
A1 ANDREA SCHNEIDER, artist in Zurich, Sculpting marble and alabaster, every day (atelier)-OUTSIDE IN GIARDINO ITALIANO
A2 HONG ZHANG, Artist, Rome Italy and Dalian China, Painting together, SALA FOCOLARE
A3 SIMONE FERRERO, Italian Artist and Innovator, Mosaics Creations in Certosa, outside IN GIARDINO ITALIANO
FIRST AFTERNOON SESSION: 15.00-16.15
FA1 JORG RASCHE, psychologist, Berlin: Psychological orientation, one orientation workshop unit on Monday the 17.th, SALA LOGGIA, then 1h single conversations with participants, one at a time, per appointment.
FA2: SUSAN EIRICH, Earthfire Institute, Idaho, USA: Reconnection Ecology: Storytelling Our Way to a Livable Planet, three workshop units, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday SALA CARATELLI
FA3: ANNA BACCHIA, Honor Guest of Cortona week, Consciousness Institute, An Evolution coherent with the Life we are, two workshop units, Monday and Tuesday, SALA PALIO
SECOND AFTERNOON SESSION: 16.45-18.00
SA1: SHAMS ANWARI ALHOSSEYNI, University of Köln, Germany, on Islamic calligraphy, every day exc. weds SALA PALIO
SA2: HORTENSE REINTJENS, ethnologist and theologian, Köln, Germany, with a workshop On Philosophy and Ethics: Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), two workshop units Tuesday and Thursday, SALA VERANDA
SA3: DORIS LAESSER STILLWATER and MICHAEL STILLWATER, Helsinki, Finland, Transformational breathwork techniques, every day exc. weds) SALA RIUNIONI
SA4: MARKO POGACNIK: Spiritual ecology of the surroundings, Monday and Wednesday, meet at the Caffè
THIRD AFTERNOON SESSION: 18.15-19.30
TA1: OTTAVIO ROSATI, psychodramatist, Rome, Italy, workshop on Fashion as art: a multi-awarded video-movie about Roberto Capucci, two workshop units, Tuesday and Thursday SALA VERANDA
TA2: FRANCO GIOVANNELLI, INAF- Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, The Impact of Space Experiments on Our Knowledge of the Physics of the Universe (Ethical and social responsibility of scientists), Emeritus Senior Scientist at INAF, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma. three workshops units, Tuesday Thursday and Friday SALA PALIO
TA3: TONY MAJDALANI, Musician, Zurich, Drumming as self-experience and communication, every day (exc. weds), OUTSIDE IN THE FRUTTETO
TA4: IRENE REINTJENS, artist, Italy, dance workshop, Uniting Diversity in Dance, three times-and final dance, OUTSIDE CHIOSTRO CONVERSI