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Genova, January 25th 2024Toward a scientific lexicon as an interdisciplinary bridge between the “two culture”
Dr. ssa Cristina Marras
Toward a scientific lexicon as an interdisciplinary bridge between the “two culture”
Dr. ssa Cristina Marras
Seminar
Seminar
January 25th
15.30
Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry,
Room 3
Team code: y02x93p
Abstract
The seminar discusses the dialogue between the humanities and STEM sciences with a particular focus on the encounter between philosophy and chemical physics. One of the main objectives is to see whether it is possible to build interdisciplinary working models that foster the sharing and growth of knowledge. In particular, it will explore possibilities for a new interdisciplinary language spanning the humanities, cultural studies and the sciences, and developing a model of research and learning strategies in which the technical-scientific vocabulary is central to an more inclusive and innovative epistemological perception and description of processes. Crossing disciplinary boundaries is very complex, requiring a continuous effort of translation from one “language to another”, a translation between different cultures and different worldviews. What is proposed is a pragmatic perspective of analysis that looks, in particular, at the use of language and its intrinsic possibilities of dialogue across disciplines. Polysemy and metaphors, for example, have in fact come to our aid, enabling us to converge on some common conceptual models for reflecting, organising and transmitting knowledge, thanks to the intrinsic relationship between metaphors and the concepts traditionally conveyed in the history of ideas. The perspective is to overcome the concept of two cultures, i.e. the opposition between the humanities and the exact sciences, through the description of some positive cross- and multi-disciplinary research experiences in the non-conventional and innovative exercise of dialogue and mutual exchange (as for example the exhibition “4.400 km: suolo e sottosuolo. Sud chiama Nord").
Photography Exhibition
Photography Exhibition
January 25th - February 25th
9.00 - 18.00
Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry,
8th floor, nord side
About the Exhibition
4,404 km: Soil and Subsoil is an exhibition that interweaves 21 photographs by Vittorio Tulli, CNR photo-documentarian, taken in Ny-Ålesund, the international scientific research base at the North Pole, with a vocabulary of 21 Italian words:
A. Artificiale/Naturale; B. Buio/Luce;
C. Comunità; D. Densità;
E. Esplorare; F. Fragilità;
G. Galleggiare; H. Umano;
I. Immaginare; L. Luce/Buio;
M. Mobilità; N. Nord;
O. Osare; P. Progettare;
Q. Collegamento QSO; R. Rischiare;
S. Solchi; T. Trame;
U. Universale; V. Viaggiare;
Z. Zero.
The photographic alphabet reflects on the fundamental role of research and its different languages as a means of raising awareness and socio-cultural growth. The aim is to overcome the idea of “two cultures”, of the difficulty and sometimes incommunicability between the humanities and the “hard” sciences, by creating a common language. Namely, a scientific lexicon capable of accommodating the complexity and multidisciplinarity of the contemporary languages of research. The exhibition is part of an articulated research project that works on models and languages of scientific communication, making metaphors and linguistic polysemy the key to reading, interpreting, describing and encountering, research and scientific observation, information and data, nature and technology.
Research is travel and exploration; the project and the exhibition itinerary delve into the depths and travel to the limits and horizons of knowledge: the North Pole as a metaphor for the possibilities and the open horizons of knowledge.
About the Speaker
Dr.ssa Cristina Marras, Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e la Storia delle Idee, CNR, Roma, Italy
Cristina Marras is Director of research at the Institute for European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (ILIESI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), she is a G. Wilhelm Leibniz’s specialist, she has been working for more than two decades on research management, and digital research infrastructure for humanities and in particular for philosophy, focusing on modeling of philosophical and scientific concepts. She couples her research in philosophy, philosophy of language and digital humanities with activities to enhance the interdisciplinary dialogue through the exploration of different languages, technologies and concepts that favor the sharing of research methods, practices and results across disciplines. She is responsible of the ILIESI research area “Digital systems to support knowledge: Open Access, Digital Libraries, Digital Preservation”, and of the projects: “Digital infrastructure and tools for humanities and history of ideas”, and “Modelling of concepts, markup and metadata”. She participates in the activities of the ICDI Competence Center, Italian Computing and Data Infrastructure of the GARR consortium and she represents CNR in the Italian Join Research Initiative of the research infrastructure OPERAS. She lectured and published on (digital) philosophy, interdisciplinarity, and humanities computing; she has organised multidisciplinarity conferences, workshops and training courses and she promotes and organizes public engagement and citizen science activities with interdisciplinary approaches, with particular attention on the dialogue between humanities and STEM.
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