Interview with Elena Lamberti, University of Bologna.

Interview with Barbara Crow, York University.

Interview with Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University and Michael Longford, York University.

Interview with Seth Feldman, York University.

Interview with Barbara Valotti, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation.

Interview with Martin Stiglio, The Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto.

Interview with Maria Cioni, Toronto.

Interview with Peppino Ortoleva, University of Turin.

Interview with Gabriele Falciasecca, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation.

Interview with Francesco Paresce, INAF IASF, Bologna.

Interview with Chris Brookes, Battery Radio.

Interview with Riccardo Piacentini and Tiziana Scandaletti, Duo Alterno.

International Interdisciplinary Conference

Marconi Galaxy: Technology, Cultural Models, Myth-Making

ISA TOPIC 2009

Monday 27 – Tuesday, April 28, 2009.

R. Philharmonic Academy of Bologna, Sala Mozart

Via Guerrazzi 13, Bologna, Italy

Scientific Board: Maria Cioni, Barbara Crow, Gabriele Falciasecca, Seth Feldman, Elena Lamberti, Michael  Longford, Sanja Obradovic, Kim Sawchuk, Martin Stiglio, Barbara Valotti

Project assistant: Cecilia Ghetti

Organization: Sara Cwynar, Mel Hogan, Tracy Ma, Tiziana Miano, Christopher Moorhead, Luna Pagani, Carlo Settembrini, Andrea Zeffiro

Webcast: With the collaboration of TRADINVEST.TV (www.tradinvest.tv) the conference is broadcast live at the address: www.tradinvest.tv/livetv/

Information: Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, Tel. 051-846121 - www.fgm.it

Centre for Canadian Studies ‘Alfredo Rizzardi’, Tel. 051-2097190 - www2.lingue.unibo.it/ canada/

Project “Marconi Galaxy”: www.marconigalaxy.net

Languages: Italian & English (simultaneous translation available)

Programme

Monday, April 27, 2009.

9:00 am: Opening and Welcome Remarks

Speakers:

Roberto Grandi, Provost of International Affairs, University of Bologna

Dario Braga, Director, Institute of Advance Studies (ISA – University of Bologna)

Gabriele Falciasecca, President Guglielmo Marconi Foundation

Giovanna Franci, Director Centre for Canadian Studies “Alfredo Rizzardi” University of Bologna

Daniela Gallingani, Dean Faculty of Modern Languages – University of Bologna

Keir D Elam, Chair Department of Modern Languages – University of Bologna

Ravetti Dario, Art Counsellor, R. Philharmonic Academy Bologna 

Luigi Bruti Liberati, President Italian Association for Canadian Studies 

Martin Stiglio, Director Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto

Barbara Crow, York University, Toronto

9:30 am: The Marconi Galaxy: introducing the project and the research group

Speakers:

Barbara Valotti, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation

Michael Longford, York University, Toronto

Elena Lamberti, University of Bologna

10:00 am – 1:00 pm: Guglielmo Marconi: Man, Myth, History, Heritage

Chair: Dario Braga, ISA – University of Bologna

Barbara Valotti, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation

Guglielmo Marconi and the Origins of ‘Wireless’: between History and Myth

Seth Feldman, York University, Toronto

Guglielmo Marconi, Canadian

Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University, Montréal

Tales from the Marconi Trail

Michael Longford, York University, Toronto

Fogo Island: Process, Communication and Change

Lunch Break

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm: Voices from the Past: Radio, Witnesses, Imagination

Chair: Seth Feldman, York University, Toronto

Chris Brookes, Battery Radio Toronto

The View from Signal Hill

3:45 pm – 5:30 pm: Music in the Galaxy (Part One)

Chair: Loris Azzaroni, President R. Philharmonic Academy Bologna

Lelio Camilleri, Conservatory of Music G.B. Martini, Bologna

Sound Transmission: Electro-acoustic Music and Radio

Riccardo Piacentini, composer & Tiziana Scandaletti, soprano, Duo Alterno 

The Poetic of “Photo-Sound”

Coffee-Break

5:45 pm – 7:15 pm: Music in the Galaxy (Part Two)

Riccardo Piacentini, composer & Tiziana Scandaletti, soprano, Duo Alterno

From Telescope to Telegraph, to Photomusic , (1609 – 1909 – 2009)

Concert performance with video projections set in Guglielmo Marconi’s lounge.

Music by: Francesco Paolo Tosti, Gian Francesco Malipiero; Alfredo Casella; Riccardo Piacentini.

Lyrics by: Luigi Cesana, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Galileo Galilei, Trilussa, Francesco  Cimmino

Tuesday, April 28, 2009.

9:30 am – 12:30 pm: The Marconi Galaxy: Exploring the Infosphere

Chair: Francesco Paresce, Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics, National  Institute of Astrophysics, Bologna

Gabriele Falciasecca, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation

A Few Steps into the Infosphere

Barbara Crow, York University, Toronto

Retooling for the 21st Century: Digital Citizenship

Sanja Obradovic, York University, Toronto

Archaeology of Radio Technologies and Cultural History of Imagination

Massimo Temporelli, Museum of Science and Technology, Milan

Exhibiting Actuality: New Museum Models between Obsolescence and What Is Known

Lunch Break

2:30 pm – 5:15 pm: Marconi Galaxy: Cultural Models, Imaginary, Media

Chair: Roberto Grandi, University of Bologna

Peppino Ortoleva, University of Turin – Mediasfera Firenze

The Second Marconi Revolution

Elena Lamberti, University of Bologna

Primitives of a New Sensibility: Wireless Imagination from the Radio to the Global Village

Simone Natale, University of Turin

Magic and Occult Imagination: the Dynamic between Wireless Communication and Telepathy

Maria Cioni, writer, Toronto

The Net Generation and International Education in the Marconi Galaxy

Coffee  Break

5:30 pm: Further Explorations

Conference wrap up and presentation of future events and research activities.

In collaboration with:

Guglielmo Marconi Foundation; Centre for Canadian Studies Alfredo Rizzardi – University of Bologna; Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna; ISA – University of Bologna; York University, Toronto; Concordia University, Montréal; Italian Cultural Institute, Toronto; National Committee for the Celebration of the Nobel Prize to Marconi; Emilia-Romagna Region; University of Turin; National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci, Milan; R. Philharmonic Academy, Bologna; Research Workshops on the Cities – ISS University of Bologna; ETNP – Acume2; City of Sasso Marconi

Supporting Institutions and Sponsors:

Marconi Foundation, Centre for Canadian Studies Alfredo Rizzardi – University of Bologna; Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna; National Committee for the Celebration of the Nobel Prize to Guglielmo Marconi; Institute of Advanced Studies

ISA – University of Bologna; Faculty of Modern Languages – University of Bologna; R. Philharmonic Academy of Bologna; Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, Toronto; Mobile Media Lab , Concordia University, Montréal & York University, Toronto;  Italian Cultural Institute, Toronto; Embassy of Canada in Rome; The Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council, Canada; ETNP, Acume2; City of Sasso Marconi;  Tradinvest.tv.

Location:
Bologna, Monday, December 15, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Oratorio di San Filippo Neri, Via Manzoni 5

In collaboration with the Comitato Nazionale per le celebrazioni del centenario del Premio Nobel a Guglielmo Marconi, the Istituto di Studi Avanzati – ISA, the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies of York University – Toronto, the Mobile Media Lab (Concordia University, Montréal – York University Toronto), the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Toronto, The Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council - Canada.

With the participation of the actor Giorgio Comaschi, author and actor of the theatrical work “Quello della radio. Marconi, la storia dell’uomo che ha cambiato il mondo” (Radio Man: Marconi, The History of the Man Who Changed the World)

MARCONI GALAXY: 100 YEARS OF HISTORY AND SCIENCE
Launch of the Project
Wireless Communications and the Marconi Galaxy: Culture, Technology and Myth-Making

November 6, 2008
6:30 pm

Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Toronto
496 Huron St., Toronto
Free admission
Infoline: 416.921.3802 ext. 221

The project brings together Italian and Canadian scholars and institutions to probe the role that the wireless has played in shaping our everyday practices since Marconi’s single ‘click’ created by an electromagnetic impulse more than one century ago.

The evening features:

A talk by Professor Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University:
Tales from the Marconi Trail

On December 12, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi and his assistants received the first transatlantic wireless communication transmitted from Poldhu, Cornwall to Signal Hill, Newfoundland. In Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton region there still is a driving route called “The Marconi Trail” that runs along the eastern coast of Nova Scotia, from Glace Bay to Louisbourg. It is the shortest and least well-known of the five designated ’scenic’ tourist routes that follow the coastline of Nova Scotia.

&

The launch of the Canadian Journal of Communication
Issue on “Wireless Technologies, Mobile Practices”
edited by Barbara Crow, Kim Sawchuk and Richard Smith.

Presented by:
Istituto Italiano di Cultura

in collaboration with:
Guglielmo Marconi Foundation - Bologna
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies - York University Toronto
Centro di Studi Canadesi “Alfredo Rizzardi” - Università di Bologna
Canadian Journal of Communication
Mobile Media Lab - York University (Toronto) & Concordia University (Montreal)

MML presents: The Spiritual Nervous System by Jeremy Stolow. EV 11.705. Sept. 26, 2008. 1–3 PM.

Jeremy Stolow has just taken up a new position in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University.  A social theorist by training, Jeremy’s research is focussed on religion and media, an emergent interdisciplinary field of study.

This talk is part of a larger, SSHRC-funded project investigating the origins and spread of Spiritualism in the context of the Atlantic world in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It traces some of the ways Spiritualist imagination, ritual practice, and institution-building related to the dramatic processes of technological change during this period, focussing in particular on the introduction and spread of telegraphy.

Contact Andrea a_zeffi@alcor.concordia.ca for more information
Website: http://mmlmtl.worpress.com