Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:56:26 +0000

The thirteenth version of the Astronomy Festival in Villa de Leyva has been already scheduled for the 19th to the 21st february of 2010. Villa de Leyva is a very beautiful colonial town of Colombia (South America), which looks practically the same as when it was founded in 1572, and it's also a very well known touristic destination at national and even international level. It poseses one of the biggest main squares of Latin America, the Plaza Mayor, where many kinds of amateur telescopes will be installed to make not only nocturnal sky observations, but Sun-spotting during daylight as well. A special mobile planetary will be available too, as will special activities for children, astronomy lectures, etc. The festival is organized by a Colombian amateur astronomers association named ASASAC (Asociación de Astrónomos Autodidactas de Colombia) and the local major's office, with the support of a few private institutions, like the Astronomical Observatory of the Sergio Arboleda University (Bogotá), Maloka (a scientifical and interactive museum designed for children) and a Colombian firm that represents the very famous Celestron Telescopes brand in Colombia, among many others. Assistance to the event is for free, since the organizers have the goal of spreading the art and science of astronomy in Colombia. The complete program of the festival can be seen HERE (PDF Document in Spanish).

SOURCE OF INFORMATION: http://www.astroasasac.com/

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Aula Magna Regina
8.45 - 9.15
Coffee
9.15 - 10.00 (Chair: Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi)
Hugh Miller, Loyola University Chicago “The Matter of Painting: On the Place of the Sensuous Concrete in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory”
10.00 - 10.45
Lucia Aiello, John Cabot University “Allegories of Praxis: Adorno and Dickinson’s Poetics of Possibility”
10.45 - 11.00
Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.45
Francesco Saverio Trincia, University Of Rome, La Sapienza “The Reification of Democracy. Politics and Critical Theory”
11.45 - 12.30
Martin Matustik, Purdue University “Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope”

Aula Magna Regina
15.00 - 15.40 (Chair: Brunella Antomarini)
Paul North, New York University “The Ideal of the Problem: Walter Benjamin’s Art-Critical Theory”
15.40 - 16.20
Brian Elliott, University College Dublin “Benjamin, Surrealism and the Situation of the Object”
16.20 - 17.00
Beppe Sebaste, Writer “An ethics of prose. Walter Benjamin’s epistolary exchange”
17.00 - 17.30
Coffee Break
17.30 - 18.10 (Chair: Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi)
Arianne Conty, John Cabot University “Profane Illuminations: Walter Benjamin and the Practice of History”
18.10 - 18.50
Milan Jaros, Newcastle University “Benjaminian legacy for developing novel practices of knowledge recognition and acquisition in the post-mechanical age”

Room 3
15.00 - 15.40 (Chair: Luca De Caprariis)
Ian Angus, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver “The Contemporaneity of Heideggerian Marxism: Reflections on Marcuse’s Early Essays”
15.40 - 16.20
Duston Moore, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne “Marcuse’s Surreal Metaphysics: The Rehabilitation of Plato’s Forms”
16.20 - 17.00
Valentina Martina, Università della Calabria “The concept of labour in Herbert Marcuse”
17.00 - 17.30
Coffee Break
17.30 - 18.10 (Chair: Vincent Rocchio)
Iain Macdonald, University of Montreal “Cold, Cold, Warm: Autonomy, Maturity and Intimacy in Adorno”
18.10 - 18.50
Wesley Phillips, Middlesex University, London “What is Melancholy about the Melancholy Science?”

Spartacus Room
15.00 - 15.40 (Chair: Lucia Aiello)
Anders Johansson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden “The Nature of Art: An Adornian Critique of Contemporary Idealism”
15.40 - 16.20
Andy Hamilton, Durham University “Adorno and Political Art”
16.20 - 17.00
Benjamin Frymer, Sonoma State University “The challenge of aesthetic education: estrangement and emancipation in late capitalism”
17.00 - 17.30
Coffee Break
17.30 - 18.10 (Chair: Lucia Aiello)
C. McQuillan, L. Caryer, J. Miller, Emory University “Philosophical Commitments: The Role of Philosophy in Critical Theory”
18.10 - 18.50
Andrew Pierce, Loyola University Chicago “Aesthetic Mediation and the Politics of Technology”