MyExperience Molise




"The Creative Gesture"

International and Interdisciplinary Symposium

University of Molise, Campobasso (Italy)



28 - 29 - 30 May 2024

 
Keynote Speakers


Chiara Ambrosio

University College London


Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at University College London. Her research interests include the relations between art and science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, American Pragmatism and the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, scientific discovery, and general issues in philosophy of science, with a particular focus on scientific representations. Ambrosio is the Secretary of the British Society for the History of Science, a committee member of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, and a committee member of the Charles S. Peirce Society. She is the co-founder, with Núria Sara Miras Boronat (University of Barcelona), of the Women in Pragmatism Network. Co-organiser, with Roman Frigg (London School of Economics), of the annual All-London HPS Reading group, Ambrosio is also an international collaborator of the LSE Narrative Science Project and regularly collaborates with artists and museums and collections (MUSO).

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Marco Berardinelli

Head of Education Google Italy


He has been involved in Education since 2009, first in Microsoft Italy as Head of Schools and since 2018 as Head of Education in Google Italy. Education transformation is his mission, and he has done a lot in Italy in the last few years. For a long time, he has been sharing in dozens of workshops, events, and meetings with teachers and students how technology is a tool that must allow for truly innovative teaching: a conscious use makes children assimilate the skills most in demand today in the world of work.

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Cesare Casiraghi

Creative director and entrepreneur


Cesare Casiraghi, from Brianza, with a degree in musicology. He started working in advertising as a copywriter in 1981. Since 1990, he has been the executive creative director of international agencies. In 2000, he founded his own agency, Casiraghi Greco&, which has produced campaigns that are now true case studies in the world of communication. First and foremost is the "Conto Arancio" campaign, which has forever changed the way the banking sector communicates with its "Mettetevelo nella zucca" (Put it in your head) slogan. He has also successfully launched other brands from scratch, such as Chebanca!, Genialloyd, and Pittarosso, which are now market leaders. Other long- standing clients of Casiraghi Greco& include Parmigiano Reggiano, Curti Riso, Flora, AsDoMar, Kia Motors, Kawasaki, Fondazione Umberto Veronesi.

Giovanni Emanuele Corazza

University of Bologna


Giovanni Emanuele Corazza is a Full Professor at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, founder of the Marconi Institute for Creativity (MIC), and Member of the Board of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI). He holds a PhD in Telecommunications and Microelectronics from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and a PhD in Psychology from the Université de Paris. His research interests are focused on the development of the Dynamic Creativity Framework based on the Dynamic Definition of Creativity.

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Annarita Ferrante

University of Bologna


Annarita Ferrante is a Full Professor in Technical Architecture, a former associate since 2014, and a researcher since 2006. Her research focuses on sustainable design, with particular attention to techniques, technologies, and methods for energy and architectural upgrading of recent buildings (from the 50s-60s to the present). Her current research centers on the topic of rehabilitation of the existing settlement heritage from a demanding and performance perspective, with particular attention to aspects linking energy performance to architectural figurativeness, social instances, and structural behavior. She is actively engaged in several international research projects and collaborates with various academic and business institutions in Europe. She is the author of numerous publications and has received several awards from Centers and Institutes nationally and internationally.

Noel Fitzpatrick

Technological University Dublin


Noel Fitzpatrick (doc ès lettres, Paris VII) is Professor of Philosophy and the Dean of Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (gradcam.ie) at TU Dublin. He is also the Academic Lead of the European Culture and Technology Laboratory (ectlab.eu) of the European University of Technology. Fitzpatrick is a leading member of the European Artistic Research Network, EARN and is a member of Ars Industrialis and a founding member of the Digital Studies Network at the l’Institut de recherche et innovation (IRI) at the Pompidou Centre in Paris. He has been awarded research funding from the Irish Research Council and is a Marie-Curie Research Fellow currently co-ordinator of the Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Real Smart Cities project (realsms.eu) and Networking Ecologically Smart Territories (Nestproject.eu). He also acts as evaluator on H20:20 programmes and the Marie-Curie Action on the SOC panel for the European Commission. He was also chairperson of the Irish Humanities Alliance 2017-2018 and is now chair of the EU working Group of the IHA. His most recent book publication is collective publication with the French Philosopher Bernard Stiegler entitled Bifurcate: There is no alternative, open humanities press, 2021.

Vlad Glăveanu

Dublin City University


Vlad Glăveanu, PhD, is Full Professor of psychology in the School of Psychology, Dublin City University, and Professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology, University of Bergen. He is the founder and president of the Possibility Studies Network (PSN). His work focuses on creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, wonder, possibility, and societal challenges. He edited the Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture (2016) and the Oxford Creativity Reader (2018), co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Domains (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Imagination and Culture (2017), authored The Possible: A Sociocultural Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020), Creativity: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2021), and Wonder: The Extraordinary Power of an Ordinary Experience (Bloomsbury, 2020), and authored or co-authored more than 200 articles and book chapters in these areas. He co-edits the book series Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture with Palgrave and the Cambridge Series on Possibility Studies with Cambridge University Press. He is editor of Europe’s Journal of Psychology (EJOP), an open-access peer-reviewed journal published by PsychOpen (Germany) as well as Possibility Studies and Society, launched by Sage in 2022. In 2018, he received the Berlyne Award from the APA Division 10 for outstanding early career contributions to the field of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts.

Chiara Leva

Technological University Dublin


Maria Chiara Leva (PI in ESHI) is the co-chair of the technical committee on Human Factors for the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA), former chair of the Irish Ergonomics Society and co-chair of the Symposium on Human Mental Workload. In 2016 she was awarded a Female Founder Competitive Start Fund by the National Digital Research Centre and Enterprise Ireland for her Campus Company ‘Tosca Human Factors Solutions’. The company is a spin out of one of the EU project Leva led as a PI, She currently holds a scientific advisory role in the business. Leva has more than 60 publications on Human Factors (HF), Operational Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Science and Engineering Journals. She is a Lecturer in TU Dublin and visiting lecturer for Risk Assessment and Safety Management in the School of Engineering, associated PI in the Science and Technology in Advanced Manufacturing research centre and in the Centre for Innovative Human Systems in Trinity College Dublin.

Peter Osborne

Kingston University London


Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. He has held Visiting International Chairs in the Philosophy Department at the University of Paris 8 (2014, 2019), the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (2015) and Yale University School of Art (2017). He was PI on the 2011–13 AHRC project, “Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts”. He was co-curator of the Norwegian Representation at the Venice Biennale 2011. From 1983 to 2016 he was an editor of the British journal Radical Philosophy. His books include “The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde” (1995; 2011), “Philosophy in Cultural Theory” (2000), “Conceptual Art” (2002), “Marx” (2004), “Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art” (2013), “The Postconceptual Condition” (2018) and “Crisis as Form” (2022). He was a Member & Interdisciplinary Advisor on the sub-panel for Philosophy of the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2019-21.

Roberta Paltrinieri

University of Bologna


Roberta Paltrinieri is Full Professor of Sociology of Culture at the Department of Arts. She received a PhD in Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Parma. She is member of the Board of Scientific Committee of Urban Innovation Foundation, Municipality of Bologna, member of the board of CRICC, Centre for Interaction with Creative and Cultural Enterprises, Research Team of the University of Bologna. Her research interests concern Social and Cultural Innovation, Sharing Social Responsibility, Audience Development and Civic Engagement. She is the Principal Investigation of four competitive Project the Project "Dancing in Your Shoes", Creative Europe 2020, "ALTRUISTIC ENTREPRENEUR, Interreg 2019-2022, "Enhancing the Entrepreneurship of SMEs in Circular Economy of the Agri-Food", Interreg Europe 2019-2023, “Salus W Space”, bando UIA (2017-2021). She has published international articles and books. She is researcher in the project PNRR ECOSISTER, 2023-2026, and in the project Prin 2022 PNRR EASI "SEED Social Ecosystem Development 2021-2024.

Wendy Ross

London Metropolitan University


Wendy Ross is a Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology at London Metropolitan University. Her work lies at the intersection of cognition, anthropology and philosophy and draws on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods. She is interested in how cognition unfolds in the dynamic interaction of people and things particularly in how serendipitous cognitive systems can arise. The author of some 30 published works, she is chair of the “Serendipity Society”, vice-president of the “Possibility Studies Network” and an elected member of the BPS Cognitive Section committee. She is Associate Managing Editor of Possibility Studies and Society and the editor of two volumes devoted to understanding serendipity, the “Art of Serendipity” (2021) and “Serendipity Science” (2023).

Stella Sandford

Kingston University London


Stella Sandford is Professor in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University London. Her most recent book is “Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants” (Bloomsbury, 2022); her current research focusses on Agnes Arber’s philosophy of plant morphology. She is also the author of “Plato and Sex” (Polity, 2010), “How to Read Beauvoir” (Granta/Norton, 2006) and “The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas” (Athlone/Continuum, 2000). She is co-editor (with Mandy Merck) of “Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and (with Peter Osborne) “Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity” (Continuum, 2002) and edited, with an Introduction, Étienne Balibar's “Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness”, Verso 2013.

Anna Lisa Tota

Roma Tre University


Anna Lisa Tota is Vice Rector of Roma Tre University, delegate for the coordination of Third Mission activities, and Full professor of Sociology of Cultural Processes in the Department of Philosophy, Communication, and Performing Arts. Since 2007, she has taught as a Gastprofessor Sociology of advertising at the Universität St. Gallen, Hochschule für Wirtschafts, Rechts und Sozialwissenschaften. From 1999 to 2010, she was an expert evaluator for the European Commission. She was Chair of the ESA RN “Sociology of the Arts” (2001-2003), Chair of the ESA RN “Sociology of Culture” (2009-2011), and Board member of the ISA Research Committee “Sociology of the Arts” (2002-2006). Her main research interests are in memory studies, with reference to public memory related to Italian terrorist attacks. Her research also focuses on art sociology, music sociology, visual studies, gender studies, and ecology of communicative processes. Among her publications are the Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies (2016), Sociologia delle Arti. Musei, memoria e performance digitali (con A. De Feo, Carocci 2020), Ecologia della parola. Il piacere della conversazione (Einaudi 2020), and Ecologia del pensiero. Conversazioni con una mente inquinata (Einaudi 2023).





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