Programme

Registration required.

28th February 2013 – Opening day

11:00 – 14:00 participant registration at the Grand Hotel Mediterraneo

15:00 – 16:30 - Salone dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio

Video: Sherry Turkle – Alone Together

Welcome greetings

Key note speaker – David Buckingham (Loughborough University – UK)  - Beyond Binaries: Learning, Identity and the ‘Digital Generation’

16:30 – 17:30 - Salone dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio
Plenary session:
A dialogue between Susanna Mantovani and Paolo Ferri (University of Milan - Bicocca) on digital learning versus real life experiences
        
18:30 – 20:00 - Congress centre, Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Discussion groups

20:30 - Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Dinner

1st March 2013 – Second day – morning session Congress centre, Grand Hotel Mediterraneo

09:00 – 11:00 Seminar Groups on "digital learning and real life experiences":

• Antonio Casilli (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Parigi) – Relazioni sociali e culture digitali
• Maurizio Ferraris (University of Turin) – Filosofia e Web
• Elaine Hoter (Mofet Institute, Israel and Talpiot College of Education) – Building online collaboration between people and cultures
• Milena Santerini (Catholic University, Milan) – Educazione morale e neuroscienze. La coscienza dell’empatia
• Corrado Sinigaglia (University of Milan) – Lo spazio del corpo e il potere dell'azione
• Fernando Naiditch (Montclair State University) – Intercultural Education in the Digital Era
• Donatella Nucci (Agenzia Nazionale LLP) – eTwinning: lavorare e studiare insieme in rete

11:30 – 13:00 - Closing panel with short reports from seminar groups – Paolo Inghilleri (University of Milan), chair

13:00 - Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Lunch

1st March 2013 – Second day – afternoon session Congress centre, Grand Hotel Mediterraneo

14:30 – 16:30 Seminar Groups on "youth, intercultural encounters and the web":

• Ida Castiglioni (University of Milan Bicocca) – Embodiment of intercultural experiences
• Bachisio Bandinu – Identità sarda ed esperienze all’estero
• Alberto Fornasari (University of Bari) – Dietro lo schermo. Adoloscenti e comunicazione ai tempi di Facebook
• Gianni Marconato – Chi e cosa perde o guadagna nell’era digitale. Uno sguardo alle pratiche sociali e scolastiche delle nuove generazioni
• Maria Ranieri (University of Florence) – Nuovi media e apprendimento tra divari e opportunità
• Li-Ching Ho – Mark Baildon (National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) – Geographies of On-line Spaces and Intercultural Citizenship
• Kostas Magos – Katerina Spanopoulou (University of Thessaly) – Digital communities and intercultural dimensions in early childhood education
• Aleksandra Wach (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznam) – The role of computer-mediate communication in enhancing linguistic and intercultural competence

17:00 – 18:30 Closing panel with short reports from seminar groups – Susanna Mantovani (University of Milan Bicocca), chair

20:30 - Palazzo Borghese
Gala dinner

2nd March 2013 – Third day – morning session Congress centre, Grand Hotel Mediterraneo

09:00 – 11:00 Seminar Groups on "the web: an aid or an obstacle for intercultural learning?":

• Paolo Balboni / Fabio Caon (University of Venice) – Strumenti interculturali nella rete – due esempi: il dizionario dei gesti degli italiani e il progetto “paroleinviaggio”
• Sara De Angelis / Elio Vera  (Universiy of Messina / CESMA)– Mobilità reale e virtuale; identità culturale e Internet
• Carla Chamberlin-Quinlisk (Penn State University at Abington) – Learning about culture: the web as an obstacle (with opportunities)
• Paige Ware (Southern Methodist University, Dallas) – Teaching Comments: Intercultural Communication Skills in the digital Age
• Geoff Lawrence (University of Toronto) – Building Investment in Intercultural On-line Language Learning Environments
• Nicolas Geeraert (University of Essex) -   Coping with intercultural adaptation, functional and dysfunctional strategies
• Derrick de Kerckhove (University of Naples) - Scuola, schermo e corpo. L'insegnamento visto da una nuova prospettiva

11:30 – 13:00 Closing panel with short reports from seminar groups – Alessandro Mariani (University of Florence), chair

13:00 – 13:30 Conclusions:
Ambassador Roberto Toscano, Chair of the Board of Fondazione Intercultura.

13:30 - Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Lunch