29 May 2017
Coro di Notte – Monastero dei Benedettini, Piazza Dante 32 Catania

15.00 – 15.15 Opening and welcome
Rector Magnificus Francesco Basile
Head of the Department DISUM Marina Paino
Grazia Pulvirenti and Renata Gambino

Chair: Daniela Giordano

15.15 – 16.15 Arthur M. Jacobs & Raoul Schrott, Space, Time and the Literary Brain
16.15 – 16.45 Discussion
16.45 – 17.15 Coffee Break Foyer Coro di Notte
17.15 – 18.15 Agata Copani, How Alzheimer’s affects orientation
18.15 – 18.45 Discussion
20.00 Dinner at the Teatro Machiavelli
21.00 Concert at the Teatro Machiavelli

30 May 2017
Coro di Notte – Monastero dei Benedettini, Piazza Dante 32 Catania

Chair: Renata Gambino

09.30 – 10.30 Patrick Colm Hogan, Affective Space and Emotional Time: Lǐ bái (李白) and Lǐ qīngzhào (李清照)
10.30 – 11.00 Discussion
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break Giardino dei Novizi
11.30 – 12.30 Semir Zeki, Aesthetic experiences and their significance
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion
13.00 – 15.00 Lunch Giardino dei Novizi

Chair: Grazia Pulvirenti

15.00 – 16.00 Daniela Giordano & Alberto Faro, “Disentangling” Time Entanglements Between Mind/Matter And Brain/Environment In Quantum Theories: Implications For Modeling Memory
16.00 – 16.30 Discussion
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee Break Foyer Coro di Notte
17.00 – 18.00 Vincenzo Branchina, From Space and Time to Space-Time
18.00 – Discussion and Final Rountable

21.00 Social Dinner at Dimora De Mauro

Respondents

Lorella Bosco (University of Bari), Maja Gutman (University of California), Juani Guerra de la Torre (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Jana Lüdtke (Freie Universität Berlin), Anne Mangen (University of Stavanger), Pascal Nicklas (Johannes Gütenberg Universität Mainz), Pierre-Louis Patoine (University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3), Teresa Sylvester (Freie Universität Berlin), Orsolya Papp-Zipernovszky (University of Szeged)