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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