Conference Program

AGENDA

Tuesday 11.5.2021

Circolo dei Lettori, Torino

16.30 Opening event

Raccontare le origini: dal mito al Big Bang e oltre

Vincenzo Barone, Giorgio Ficara, Massimo Fusillo, Giulio Guidorizzi, Chiara Simonigh,

Alberto Voltolini

Wednesday 12.5.2021

University of Torino, Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Magna

9.00 Welcome Address (Stefano Geuna, Rettore, University of Torino; Bernard Franco, president of ESCL; Brigitte Lejuez, ESCL and compLit; Alberto Rizzuti, director of the Doctoral School, University of Torino; Paola Cifarelli, coordinator of the Doctoral School in "Lettere", University of Torino; Donato Pirovano, director of the Department of "Studi Umanistici"; Franco Marenco, professor emeritus of Comparative Literature; Giovanni Bottiroli, president of "Consulta di Critica Letteraria e Letterature Comparate"; Massimo Fusillo, president of "Asoociazione per gli Studi di Teoria e Storia Comparata della Letteratura"; Massimo Mori, president of "Accademia delle Scienze di Torino"; Attilio Ferrari, "Accademia delle Scienze di Torino" and director of "Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino"; Giuliana Ferreccio, president of "Centro Le Arti della Modernità"; Marcella Gaspardone, director of Turismo Torino and Provincia).

10.00 Plenary

chair Chiara Lombardi and Cristiano Ragni

Piero Boitani (Comparative Literature, Lincei, University “Sapienza” Rome, Italy), Principia.

chair Carola Barbero

Stefano Piano (Indology, University of Torino, Italy), The Origin of the Universe as Narrated in “Old” Texts of India.

Maurizio Ferraris (Philosophy and Education Sciences, LabOnt, University of Torino, Italy), Archeology as Teleology.

13.00 Plenary

chair Pietro Boitani

Priyamvada Natarajan (Astronomy and Physics, University of Yale, USA), Conceptions of Cosmos from Then to Now.

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15.00 Plenary

chair Paola Cifarelli

Claude Calame (Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques, directeur d'études de l’École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France), Narration des origines de la femme: la naissance d’Êve et la création de Pandôra en comparaison différentielle.

Maria Teresa Giaveri (Comparative Literature, Accademia delle Scienze, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Torino and Milano, Italy), Sur l’Ébauche d’un serpent. L’origine selon Paul Valéry.

17.00-19.00 Parallel Sessions

Thursday 13.5.2021

University of Torino, Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Magna

9.30 Plenary

chair Chiara Lombardi and Cristiano Ragni

Enrico Bertino (Neonatal Care Unit of the University, City of Health and Science Hospital, Turin, Italy), Nature or Nurture? Where Inequalities Begin.

Silvia Romani (Mythology and Religions of the Classical World, University of Milano, Italy), Irrelevant Bodies: the creation of woman as a model of post-natural creation.

11.00-14.00 Parallel Sessions

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15.00-17.00 Parallel Sessions

18.00-19.30 Auditorium "A. Vivaldi", Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, Torino

Reading/Musical Performance The Wooden Dolphin: Alberto Rizzuti (History of Music Civilization, University of Torino, Italy), con Irene Zagrebelsky, Carlo Pestelli e Ugo Macerata.

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Friday 14.5.2021

University of Torino, Cavallerizza Reale, Aula Magna

9.30 Plenary

Alessandro Vitale Brovarone (Romance Philology, University of Torino, Italy), La création: de la Bible au Roman de Renart.

Lihi Turjeman (Visual artist) and Francesca Referza (Art Historian, "Quartz Studio", "Project Space"), Unearth.

11.00-14.00 Parallel Sessions

15.30 Castello del Valentino, Salone d'onore.

Virtual Tour in the "Castello del Valentino": History, Art, Achitecture, with Annalisa Dameri.

16.00 Plenary

chair Alessandra Mascia

Sergio Pace (Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico of Torino, Italy), The Day after the Seventh Day: The Origins of Western Architecture and its Changing Narratives.

Advisory Board

ESCL/SELC Bernard Franco (Université Paris- "Sorbonne"); Emilia di Rocco (Roma “Sapienza”) ; Brigitte LeJuez (Dublin City University); Jean-Louis Haquette (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne).

Torino Clara Allasia, Silvio Alovisio, Erminia Ardissino, Carola Barbero, Elisabetta Berardi, Massimo Bonifazio, Carmen Concilio, Alessandra Consolaro, Emilio Corriero, Paola Dolcetti, Maria Beatrice Failla, Daniela Fargione, Attilio Ferrari, Giuliana Ferreccio, Maria Teresa Giaveri, Chiara Lombardi, Alessandro Mengozzi, Francesco Mosetti Casaretto, Luigi Marfè, Giuseppe Noto, Sergio Pace, Antonio Pizzo, Cinzia Scarpino, Luigi Silvano, Stefania Stafutti, Piera G. Tordella.

Conveners Chiara Lombardi, Cristiano Ragni

Organizing Committee Mattia Cravero, Valentina Monateri, Salvatore Renna, Marta Romagnoli.

The list of invited Keynote Speakers includes:

Vincenzo Barone, Physics, University of Piemonte Orientale; Enrico Bertino, Neonatal Care Unit of the University, City of Health and Science, University of Torino; Piero Boitani, Comparative LIterature, University of Roma “Sapienza”, Accademia delle Scienze e Accademia dei Lincei; Claude Calame, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris; Maurizio Ferraris, Philosophy and Education Sciences, LabOnt, University of Torino; Giorgio Ficara, Italian Studies, University of Torino; Massimo Fusillo, Comparative LIterature, University of Aquila, ICLA; Maria Teresa Giaveri, Comparative LIterature, Accademia delle Scienze di Torino e Accademia Peloritana, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et de Lettres; Giulio Guidorizzi, Classics, University of Torino and Milano; Priyamvada Natarajan, Astronomy and Physics, University of Yale; Sergio Pace, Architecture and Design, Politecnico of Torino; Stefano Piano, Indology, University of Torino; Alberto Rizzuti, Musicology, University of Torino; Silvia Romani, Università degli Studi di Milano; Lihi Turjeman, Visual artist, Torino and TelAviv; Alessandro Vitale Brovarone, Romance Philology, University of Torino; Alberto Voltolini, Philosophy, University of Torino.