Emotions in the round
Lectures will develop the exhibition’s theme (EMOTIONAL SYSTEMS) from a multidisciplinary and scientific standpoint, achieved through direct encounters between Italian academics and experts from a variety of disciplines.

Programme of meetings, readings and lectures around the theme of the current exhibition:

On Thursday and Friday at 6.30 p.m.
at Palazzo Strozzi, CCCS, William Kentridge’s room



Video documentation

open video, lecture Andrea Pinotti (streaming flv, 210 MB)
open video, lecture Andrea Ferrara (streaming flv, 180 MB)
open video, lecture Cosimo Chiarelli (streaming flv, 3,4 MB)
open video, lecture Elisa Biagini (streaming flv, 153 MB)
open video, lecture Luigi Pagliarini (streaming flv, 209 MB)
open video, lecture Antonella Anedda (streaming flv, 172 MB)
open video, lecture Emilia Barile (streaming flv, 266 MB)
open video, lecture Leonardo Fogassi (streaming flv, 289 MB)



Programme*

Friday 7 december ’07 18,30h
Aesthetics
Andrea Pinotti (Univ. Milan)
Images, empathy and the visual arts

Friday 14 december ‘07, 18,30h
Interactive multimedia installation
Andrea Ferrara (artist, Florence)
Nomadic Time, live performance
(with Margherita Vestri)

Thursday 20 december ‘07, 18,30h
History of Photography
Cosimo Chiarelli (Univ. Pisa and Firenze)
Recording emotions. Mantegazza and
Darwin and the photography of expressions

Friday 21 december ‘07, 18,30h
Reading and public debate between
poetry and emotions
Elisa Biagini (poet, Florence)

Thursday 10 january ‘08, 18,30h
Theory of Perception and Psychology of Form
Luigi Pagliarini (Academy of Fine Arts, Bari)
Polimorph intelligence

Friday 11 january ‘08, 18,30h
Reading and public debate between
poetry and emotions
Antonella Anedda (poet, Rome)

Thursday 17 january ‘08, 18,30h
Cognitive Science
Emilia Barile (Univ. Osnabrück)
The taxonomy of emotions by Antonio Damasio

Friday 18 january ‘08, 18,30h
Interactive multimedia installation
Andrea Ferrara (artist, Florence)
Nomadic Time, live performance
(with Margherita Vestri)

Thursday 24 january ‘08, 18,30h
Human Physiology
Leonardo Fogassi (Univ. Parma)
The mirror neuron system and the understanding
of other people’s actions and emotions


*All lectures will be held in the Italian language