Cortona Week in Todi, 22-29 June 2019 – Being Human in a Technological World
Programme
All lectures are followed by discussion sessions. The afternoons are reserved to workshops (except for Wednesday). Breakfast is served till 9.00, Lunch begins at 13.00, and dinner starts at 20.00 in the Hotel Bramante.
- Friday June 21, afternoon
- Registration at the Hotel Bramante followed by dinner buffet.
- Saturday June 22
- Opening
- Morning workshops: see program below
- 09.00
- Opening of the week (by Pier Luigi Luisi)
- 09.15 – 10.15
- Opening lecture by David Steindl-Rast, Benedictine monk, What will make us Human?
- 10.15 – 11.15
- Kamrad Mofid, Founder of the Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative, The Recovery of Wisdom: in this Age of Virtual Reality and Faking, what can I teach my Students?
- 11.15
- Coffee break
- 11.45
- Participants present the speakers
- 13.00
- Lunch
- 15.00
- Presentation of the workshop leaders followed by assignment of workshops to paricipants
- 22.00
- Organ concert by Jörg Rasche (Chiesa della Consolazione, Todi)
- Sunday June 23
- Artificial Intelligence
- Morning workshops: see program below
- 09.00-10.00
- Federico Faggin, Physicist and Entrepreneur, The fundamental differences between human and artificial intelligence
- 10.00-11.00
- Luisa Damiano, Professor at University of Messina, Social Robots: an Opportunity?
- 11.00
- Coffee break
- 11.30
- Breakout discussion groups
- 13.00
- Lunch
- Afternoon workshops: see program below
- Monday June 24
- Neurobiology
- Morning workshops: see program below
- 09.00-10.00
- Cliff Saron, Neuroscientist, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis. There’s an App for That, or is There? Scientific Investigations of Intensive Meditation
- 10.00-11:00
- Tania Singer, Head of Social Neuroscience Lab at MPI Berlin, Beyond Mindfulness: A Social Neuroscience Perspective on How to Cultivate Mind and Heart
- 11.00
- Coffee Break
- 11.30
- Breakout Discussions
- 13.00
- Lunch
- Afternoon workshops: see program below
- Tuesday June 25
- Bioethics
- Morning workshops: see program below
- 09.00-10.00
- Benjamin Hurlbut, Ethics at the Edges of Life: Deliberation and Responsibility at the Frontiers of Human Biology
- 10.00-11:00
- Ernesto Burgio, Medical Doctor and Epigenetist, Neurodevelopment Disorders: from Genetics to Epigenetics
- 11.00
- Coffee break
- 11.30
- Breakout discussion groups
- 13.00
- Lunch
- Afternoon workshops: see program below
- Wednesday June 26
- Social Aspects
- Morning workshops: see program below
- 9.00-10.00
- Patricia Jennings, Professor at University of Virginia, Mindful Awareness and Compassion: Educational Necessities in the 21st Century
- 10.00-10.30
- Renuka Singh, Professor of Sociology, Cross-Cultural Marriage
- 10.30-11.00
- Coffee break
- 11.00
- “Selfie” of the Participants. Do you have a new book, or a new idea, to share? Do you want to tell us who you are, what is your endeavor? (Max 7 minutes each)
- Free afternoon. Optional excursion to Orvieto, UNESCO world heritage site
- Thursday June 27
- Science and Art
- Morning workshops: see program below
- 09.00-10.00
- Marko Pogacnik, Artist, Educator and Author, Climate Changes as Opportunity for the Evolution of Gaia and the Human Culture
- 10.00-11.00
- Luis De la Calle, Researcher at University of Geneva, Music’s Role in Education and Human Development
- 11.15
- Coffee Break
- 11.15
- Breakout Discussions
- 13.00
- Lunch
- 21.00-22.00
- Cortonafriends Association General Assembly Meeting
- Afternoon workshops: see program below
- Friday June 28
- Philosophy of Science
- Morning workshops: see program below
- 09.00-10.00
- Mauro Bergonzi and Roberto Ferrari, Phenemonology East and West – a dialogue
- 10.00-11.00
- Varun Agarwal, Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute, The Spirituality of Mathematics | Computer Science and Spirituality
- 11.00
- Coffee Break
- 11.30
- Breakout Discussions
- 13.00
- Lunch
- Afternoon workshops: see program below
- Saturday June 29
- Educational Aspects
- Morning workshops: see program below
- 9.00 -10.00
- Alexander Laszlo, President of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Living Systems, Seeing Systems, Being Systems : Learning to be the Systems We Wish to See in the World
- 10.00 -11.00
- Franco Giovannelli, Astro-Physicist, Scientific Research is “Almost Unusable” without Ethics
- 11.00
- Coffee Break
- 11.45
- Final remarks from students and faculty
- 07.30 – 08.15
- Morning Meditation and Yoga , with Varun Agarwal and Vasudeva Rao
Tai-Ji with Nanni D’Ambrogio
- 15.00 – 16.15
- The Buddha, the Brain, and Bach, with Cliff and Barbara Saron
Complexity Literacy Meeting, with Marinella De Simone and Dario Simoncini
About the Ecological Crisis and our Psyche, with Jörg Rasche This seminar will introduce the participants to individual psychotherapeutic coaching (agreed by appointment with Joerg)
- 16:45 – 18.00
- Perceiving treasures and healing traumas of Todi. Gaia Touch body rituals, with Marko Pogacnik (only on Wed, Thur, Fri)
Transforming through breath, with Doris Lässer Stillwater and Michael Stillwater
Uniting diversity in dance, with Irene Reintjens
Psychodrama in our new world, with Ottavio Rosati
- 18.30- 19.45
- Drumming, with Tony Majdalani
Calligraphy, with Shams Anwari Alhosseyni
Inventing music: Mind matters! with John Wolf Brennan
- 15.00 –
- Stone carving and the pleasure of invention , with Andrea Schneider
Workshops
Morning session, waking practice (daily)
First afternoon session, theoretical work (daily except Wed)
Second afternoon session, self-experience (daily except Wed)
Third afternoon session, creative practices (daily except Wed)
Ateliers