The 65th Congress of Phenomenology - November 9-11, 2016

Macerata, Polo Pantaleoni- Via Armaroli/Via della Pescheria Vecchia, 22

Cultivation as a Paradigm For Sustainable Production and Ecological Human Formation

 PROMOTED  BY

The World Phenomenology Institute

William S. Smith, Executive President
Jadwiga S. Smith, Co-President of American Division
Daniela Verducci, Co-President of European/Asian Division
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Founder †

The International Society for Phenomenology and the Sciences of Life

Francesco Totaro, President

together with The University of Macerata (Italy)

Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism “Environment & Territory” Section

Gian Luigi Corinto, President

Department of Humanistic Studies “Philosophy” Section

Roberto Mancini, President

WEDNESDAY, November  9, 2016

h. 8,30-9,00                   On Site Registration

h. 9,00-9,30                   Conference Opening                                                  BLUE ROOM

Welcome address by the Authorities

                                   Chaired by: G.L. Corinto

 - Francesco ADORNATO, Rector of the University of Macerata

 h. 9,30-10,15                 Introductory Session

 - Daniela VERDUCCI

- Francesco TOTARO

 h. 10,15                        Coffee Break

 h. 10,30-12,30                I Plenary Session: On Cultivation as a Paradigm

                                   Chaired by:  D. Verducci

-        Majia KŪLE, Cultivation as creative act and development of the Western civilization (University of Riga, Latvia)

-        Carmen COZMA, Humanness’ Cultivation in the Matrix of the All-Alive-Unity.

A Journey through Phenomenology of Life (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of   Iasi, Romania)

-         Ion SOTEROPOULOS, The Conservation of Life versus the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. A Philosophical Investigation of a Major Contradiction (Independent Scholar, Founder of the “Apeiron” Centre, Paris, France)

 h. 12,30-13,00                Discussion

 h. 13,00-15,00                Lunch  Break

  h. 15,00-18,00                1. Parallel Section:  Commons and Cultivation                                   PURPLE ROOM 1

                                   Chaired by:  G.L. Corinto 

 -  Simone BETTI, Urban horticulture. Critical and potential issues in the Marche (University of Macerata, Italy)

- Edoardo BRESSAN, The Government of Commons in Alpine History (University of          Macerata, Italy)

-  Gian Luigi CORINTO, Vavilov’s Centers and Farming and Biodiversity Today (University of Macerata, Italy)

- Francesco MUSOTTI, Collective Property and Land Use in the Italian Economic Thought between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Theoretical Features and Topicality of Achille Loria’s Thought (University of Perugia, Italy)

-  Catia Eliana GENTILUCCI, The Italian social farming in the current European system, between “Franciscan vocation” and “Lutheran capitalism” (University of Camerino, Italy)

 Discussion                     

2. Parallel Section: Cultivation, Ethics and Anthropogenesis                      PURPLE ROOM 2

Chaired by:  F. Totaro

-   Salahaddin KHALILOV, The Human’s Wave Principle and the Meeting of Times (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences)

 -  Maria Teresa ÁLVARES  MATEOS, The constitution of objectivity from the insight of an Anthropogenesis   (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain)

-  Konul BUNYADZADE, Pre-human, Human and Post-Human in the Context of Time (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences)

-   Silvia PIEROSARA, Critique of Anthropocentrism and Interpretation as Articulacy: Some Analogies between Charles Taylor’s Views on the Human Place in Nature and the Cultivation Paradigm (University of Macerata, Italy)

           Discussion

3. Parallel Section: Cultivation and Aesthetics, Literature, Fine Arts    PURPLE ROOM 3

                                   Chaired by: V. Vevere                                                

-   Francesca BOLDRER, Columella and the philosophy of res rustica: the prefaces to books I and X (University of Macerata, Italy)

-   Rosemary GRAY , An Interval in the Enchantment of Living: Ben Okri’s The Age of Magic (2014) (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

-   Sarah MAPLE, William Congdon & the Harmony in the Cosmos: Cultivating an Aesthetic of Personhood (University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK)

-  Lyudmila MOLODKINA, The Aesthetics of Nature in the A.-T. Tymieniecka's Ontopoiesis of Life (The State University of Land Use Planning and Management, Moscow, Russia)

 Discussion

THURSDAY, November  10, 2016

 h. 8,30-9,00                  On Site Registration 

 h. 9,00-13,00                II  Plenary Session: Transitions to Cultivation                BLUE  ROOM

                                   Chaired by: M. Kūle

 -        Francesco TOTARO, Toward a Cultivating Turn (University of Macerata, Italy)

-        Giovanni SALMERI, Anthropotechnics and Culture: in Dialogue with Peter Sloterdijk (Tor Vergata University in Rome, Italy)

-        Roberto MARCHESINI, Taking Care of World. The Ecology of being in Relationship (Centro Studi Filosofia Postumanista e Siua – Istituto di formazione zooantropologica, Bologna, Italy)

 h. 11,00-11,15                Break

-        Pierluigi FELICIATI, Data curation: the human care of respectful, robust, and permanent pieces of information in the digital era (University of Macerata, Italy)

-    Dario SACCHI, Some Remarks about Teleology in Nature (Catholic University of

     Milan, Italy)

h. 12,30-13,00               Discussion

h. 13,00-15,00               Lunch Break

h. 15,00-18,00                4. Parallel Section:    Cultivation and Nature in the Sciences and the Human Sciences                                                    Chaired by: Ion Soteropoulos                                              PURPLE ROOM 1                      

- Nikolay N. KOZHEVNIKOV - Vera S. DANILOVA,  Comparative analysis of the     metaphysical and phenomenological aspects of the world coordinate system based on the limits of dynamic equilibrium(North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia)

- Roberto CANULLO, Biological potentiality on plants: some insights           (University of Camerino, Italy)          

- Aydan TURANLI , Martin Heidegger on Technology: A Response to Essentialist Charge (Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey)

- Alexander  KUZMIN, Cultivation of the Personality in G.G. Shpet and M. M. Bakhtin's Philosophy (Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, Velikij Novgorod, Russia )

-  Stefano POLENTA, The education as qualitative transformation (University of Macerata, Italy)

-  Mina SEHDEV, Perceptual Vision according to Gibson’s Ecological Theory in an Ontopoietic Perspective (University of Macerata, Italy)

 Discussion

5. Parallel Section: Cultivation and Creativity                  PURPLE ROOM 2

Chaired by: D. Sacchi

 -  Velga VEVERE, Cultivation of Spirit and Man’s Creative Telos  (University of Riga, Latvia)

- Julia PONZIO, “Cultiver l’intraduisible”: language and singularity in J. Derrida (University of Bari, Italy)

- Gale RICHARDSON, Cultivation between the violence of the life force and the art creativity (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland - ME, USA)

 Discussion

  6. Parallel Section: Cultivation, Phenomenology, Eco-phenomenology             PURPLE ROOM 3

  Chaired by: G. Lo Bello                                             

 -  Mamuka DOLIDZE, Phenomenology of Life and Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the Context of Ecophenomenology(Tbilisi State University, Georgia)

-   Aleksandra PAWLISZYN, The Phenomenological Context of that which is Unexpected (Inter-Faculty Department of the Science of Art, Academy of Arts in Gdansk, Poland)

-  Martina  PROPERZI, Biosemiotics and Phenomenology: A New Framework for the Interdisclipinary Dialogue (Pontifical University of Lateran, Rome, Italy)

-  Olena SHKUBULYANI, To a Question of Eco-Phenomenology (Kharkov, Ukraine)

  FRIDAY, November  11, 2016

 h. 8,30-9,00                  On Site Registration

 h. 9,00-13,00                III Plenary Session:  Cultivation and Human Formation              BLUE ROOM

                             Chaired by: C. Cozma

 -        Ella BUCENIECE , Phenomenology of Person and Ecology of Intimacy (University of Riga, Latvia).

-        Anna  ARFELLI, Intersubjectivity plays a key role in the development of the competent infant (University of Macerata, Italy)

-     Giulio LO BELLO,  Logos of life and phenomenological psychiatry between new possibilities   

      and problematics (University of Riga, Latvia). 

 h. 11,00-11,15                Break

 -        Erkut SEZGIN, Philosophical Inquiry as Cultivation of Self-Understanding and  Cultivation in the Sense of Appropriaton of Self-Insight (Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey)

-        Carla DANANI, Rethinking relationships by means of Cultivation (University of Macerata, Italy)

 h. 12,30-13,00               Discussion

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