Festival della Scienza
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The Festival della Scienza is an annual science festival
held in Genoa
, Italy
. It was launched in 2003 combining hundreds of different initiatives and events, designed to fulfill and stimulate the interest of visitors of all ages and all levels of knowledge. Modulation in diverse formats and original languages is always one of features of the Festival. The aim of the array of interdisciplinary proposals is to overcome the traditional opposition between scientific and humanistic culture. Events include scientific exhibitions, workshops, interactive educational experiences, photography and "art-science" exhibitions, conferences, round tables, performances, music and films.
In its first edition, from the 23rd October to the 3rd November 2003, the Science Festival faces the theme of the interdisciplinarity of research, condensing the concept of a scientific culture in continuous expansion into the key word Beyond.
With the participation of :
2004: “EXPLORATION”
In its second edition, from the 28th October to the 8th November 2004, part of the calendar of official events of Genoa European Capital of Culture and into the events recognised by the European Union in the context of the European Week of Scientific Culture (ESW), the Science Festival faces the theme of Exploration: from the new frontiers reached in the most various fields of research to the progressive tendency in many sciences to leave their specific boundaries and to compare themselves with other fields.
With the participation of :
2005: “FRONTIERS”
The third edition of the Science Festival, from the 27th October to the 8th November 2005, is dedicated to the key theme of Frontiers, in the sense of the meeting points between the known and the unknown, of the limits which must continuously be moved back, of boundaries and thresholds of different forms of knowledge, to be constantly overcome by new forms of interdisciplinary research.
With the participation of :
2006: “DISCOVERY”
In its fourth edition, from the 26th of October to the 7th of November 2006, the Science Festival faces the key theme of Discovery and gains a further international ennoblement with UNESCO’s decision to celebrate the World Day of Science for Peace a Development in Genoa on the 7th of November, the final day of the event, organised with IPSO (Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization).
With the participation of :
2007: “CURIOSITY”
The fifth edition of the Science Festival, held from 25 October to 6 November 2007, dealt with the theme of Curiosity, consolidated the popularity of the event and enhanced its international scope.
After having been short-listed as one of the 10 Best Practices in Scientific Popularisation by the European Union Commission, the presentation press conference held at CERN
in Geneva was a further confirmation of the international scope of the event.
A record-breaking edition, in terms of both quality and quantity with over 250 thousand visitors.
With the participation of :
2008: “DIVERSITY”
The sixth edition held from dal 23 October to 4 November 2008, chooses the common thread of Diversity and for the first time divides the over 350 events on the programme in six different theme areas which represents a virtual interdisciplinary "narrative" route depending on which point of view the main concept is to be analyzed.
With the participation of :
2009: “FUTURE”
The 2009 edition is dedicated to the Future
,a topic which science can help us to decode by offering interpretations of that are important to our understanding of what tomorrow will be like.
With the participation of :
From 4 to 13 December, a few of the best of the format is led to Palermo for the first Sicily edition of the Festival.
Science festival
A science festival is a public event featuring a variety of science- and technology-related activities—from lectures, exhibitions, workshops, live demonstrations of experiments, guided tours and panel discussions to cultural events such as theater plays, readings and musical productions, all with...
held in Genoa
Genoa
Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. It was launched in 2003 combining hundreds of different initiatives and events, designed to fulfill and stimulate the interest of visitors of all ages and all levels of knowledge. Modulation in diverse formats and original languages is always one of features of the Festival. The aim of the array of interdisciplinary proposals is to overcome the traditional opposition between scientific and humanistic culture. Events include scientific exhibitions, workshops, interactive educational experiences, photography and "art-science" exhibitions, conferences, round tables, performances, music and films.
History
2003: “BEYOND”In its first edition, from the 23rd October to the 3rd November 2003, the Science Festival faces the theme of the interdisciplinarity of research, condensing the concept of a scientific culture in continuous expansion into the key word Beyond.
With the participation of :
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Franco Malerba Franco Egidio Malerba is an Italian astronaut. He was the first citizen of Italy to travel to space.... Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano... Tullio Regge Tullio Regge is an Italian theoretical physicist. He obtained a degree in physics from the University of Turin in 1952, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Rochester in 1957 under the direction of Robert Marshak. From 1958 to 1959 Regge held a post at the Max Planck Institute for... Giulio Giorello Giulio Giorello is an Italian philosopher, mathematician, and epistemologist.-Biography:Giorello graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1968 and in mathematics in 1971 at the University of Milan. While there he studied under the philosopher Ludovico Geymonat... Piergiorgio Odifreddi Piergiorgio Odifreddi , is an Italian mathematician, logician and aficionado of the history of science, who is also extremely active as a popular science writer and essayist, especially in a perspective of philosophical atheism as a member of the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and... |
2004: “EXPLORATION”
In its second edition, from the 28th October to the 8th November 2004, part of the calendar of official events of Genoa European Capital of Culture and into the events recognised by the European Union in the context of the European Week of Scientific Culture (ESW), the Science Festival faces the theme of Exploration: from the new frontiers reached in the most various fields of research to the progressive tendency in many sciences to leave their specific boundaries and to compare themselves with other fields.
With the participation of :
|
Enrico Alleva Enrico Alleva is an Italian ethologist and broadcaster. President of the S.I.E. since 2008.... Stefano Benni Stefano Benni is an Italian satirical writer, poet and journalist. His books have been translated into around 20 foreign languages and scored notable commercial success... Folco Quilici Folco Quilici is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 22 films between 1952 and 2005.-External links:... Peter Atkins Peter William Atkins is a British chemist and former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics... |
2005: “FRONTIERS”
The third edition of the Science Festival, from the 27th October to the 8th November 2005, is dedicated to the key theme of Frontiers, in the sense of the meeting points between the known and the unknown, of the limits which must continuously be moved back, of boundaries and thresholds of different forms of knowledge, to be constantly overcome by new forms of interdisciplinary research.
With the participation of :
|
Richard Ellis (astronomer) Richard Salisbury Ellis CBE FRS is the Steele Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology .... Richard Wiseman Richard Wiseman is Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.Wiseman started his professional life as a magician, before graduating in Psychology from University College London and obtaining a Ph.D... Brian Fagan Brian Murray Fagan is a prolific author of popular archaeology books and a professor emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA.-Biography:... Neil Gershenfeld Neil Gershenfeld is a professor at MIT and the head of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab spun out of the popular MIT Media Lab. His research interests are mainly in interdisciplinary studies involving physics and computer science, in such fields as quantum computing, nanotechnology,... John Stachel John Stachel is an American physicist and philosopher of science.Stachel earned his PhD at Stevens Institute of Technology in Physics about a topic in General relativity in 1958... Owen Gingerich Dr. Owen Jay Gingerich is a former Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University, and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory... |
2006: “DISCOVERY”
In its fourth edition, from the 26th of October to the 7th of November 2006, the Science Festival faces the key theme of Discovery and gains a further international ennoblement with UNESCO’s decision to celebrate the World Day of Science for Peace a Development in Genoa on the 7th of November, the final day of the event, organised with IPSO (Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization).
With the participation of :
|
Robert Trivers Robert L. Trivers is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist and Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University. Trivers is most noted for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism , parental investment , facultative sex ratio determination , and... Umberto Eco Umberto Eco Knight Grand Cross is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose , an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory... Piergiorgio Odifreddi Piergiorgio Odifreddi , is an Italian mathematician, logician and aficionado of the history of science, who is also extremely active as a popular science writer and essayist, especially in a perspective of philosophical atheism as a member of the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and... Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York of City University of New York, the co-founder of string field theory, and a "communicator" and "popularizer" of science... Anne Treisman Anne Marie Treisman FRS is a psychologist currently at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. She researches visual attention, object perception, and memory. One of her most influential ideas is the feature integration theory of attention, first published with G. Gelade in 1980... Terrence Deacon Terrence William Deacon is an American anthropologist . He taught at Harvard for eight years, relocated to Boston University in 1992, and is currently Professor of Biological Anthropology and Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley.-Theoretical interests:Prof... |
2007: “CURIOSITY”
The fifth edition of the Science Festival, held from 25 October to 6 November 2007, dealt with the theme of Curiosity, consolidated the popularity of the event and enhanced its international scope.
After having been short-listed as one of the 10 Best Practices in Scientific Popularisation by the European Union Commission, the presentation press conference held at CERN
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...
in Geneva was a further confirmation of the international scope of the event.
A record-breaking edition, in terms of both quality and quantity with over 250 thousand visitors.
With the participation of :
|
Marc Hauser Marc D. Hauser is an American evolutionary biologist and a researcher in primate behavior and animal cognition who taught in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. In August 2010, a committee of Harvard faculty found Hauser solely responsible for eight counts of unspecified scientific... Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, born in 1940, is a physicist and essayist.After a doctorate in Theoretical Physics at the université d’Orsay in 1965, he was successively in charge of research at CNRS, lecturer at the université de Nice, a professor at the Paris Diderot University, and at Nice, where he... Jack Steinberger Jack Steinberger is a German-American physicist currently residing near Geneva, Switzerland. He co-discovered the muon neutrino, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for which they were given the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.-Life:... Marc Abrahams Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research, and originator and emcee of the annual Ig Nobel Prize celebration. He was formerly editor of the Journal of Irreproducible Results.... Reinhold Messner Reinhold Messner is an Italian mountaineer and explorer from Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol "whose astonishing feats on Everest and on peaks throughout the world have earned him the status of the greatest climber in history." He is renowned for making the first solo ascent of Mount Everest without... Hilary Putnam Hilary Whitehall Putnam is an American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist, who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s, especially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science... |
2008: “DIVERSITY”
The sixth edition held from dal 23 October to 4 November 2008, chooses the common thread of Diversity and for the first time divides the over 350 events on the programme in six different theme areas which represents a virtual interdisciplinary "narrative" route depending on which point of view the main concept is to be analyzed.
With the participation of :
|
Norman Doidge Norman Doidge MD, FRCP is a Canadian-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, essayist, poet and author of The Brain That Changes Itself . The Brain That Changes Itself describes some of the latest developments in neuroscience, and became a New York Times and international bestseller... Paul Steinhardt Paul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton University and a professor of theoretical physics. He received his B.S. at the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard University... Paolo Giordano Paolo Giordano is an Italian writer who won the Premio Strega literary award with his first novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers.- Biography :... |
2009: “FUTURE”
The 2009 edition is dedicated to the Future
,a topic which science can help us to decode by offering interpretations of that are important to our understanding of what tomorrow will be like.
With the participation of :
|
Piero Angela Piero Angela, Grand Officer OMRI is an Italian science journalist and writer, and pianist. He was born in Turin.- Music :... Sebastian Seung Sebastian Seung is a Korean American multi-disciplinary expert whose research efforts have spanned the fields of neuroscience, physics and bioinformatics. He is a professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a professor of Physics at the... Richard Wiseman Richard Wiseman is Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.Wiseman started his professional life as a magician, before graduating in Psychology from University College London and obtaining a Ph.D... Richard Müller Richard Müller/Muller/Mueller may refer to:* Richard Müller , German chemist* Richard Müller , Slovak singer... Stefano Bollani Stefano Bollani is an Italian jazz pianist from Milan.He made his professional debut at fifteen and received his diploma in piano from the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence. He performs classical music, smooth jazz, avant-garde jazz, Brazilian jazz, and pop rock... Jason Mitchell Jason Mitchell is a wide receiver who was formerly with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.-Professional career:Previously, he was with the Jacksonville Jaguars organization.... |
From 4 to 13 December, a few of the best of the format is led to Palermo for the first Sicily edition of the Festival.
International Partnerships
- Masad - Mediterranean Association for Science Advancement and Dissemination
- Euscea - European Science Events Association
- Ecsite - European Network of Science Centres and Museums
- Marseille Provence 2013 - European Capital of Culture 2013
- SAST – Shanghai Association for Science and Technology