CHAIRS, DISCUSSANTS, LECTURERS:
DAY1: Damiano Sacco, Daniella Mapelli, Fabio Scardigli, Fabio Scardigli, Federico Faggin, Gabriele Gionti, Gabriele Veneziano, Gerard 't Hooft, Giuseppe Vitiello, Ines Testoni, Massimo Cacciari, Piero Benvenuti, Piero Martin, Roger Penrose
DAY2: Alberto Peratoner, Diego De Leo, Dora Capozza, Egidio Robusto, Fabio Farinati, Fabio Scardigli, Federico Faggin, Gabriele Gionti, Giulio Goggi, Guidalberto Bormolini, Ines Testoni, Luca Palmieri, Luigi Grassi, Mario Plebani, Mauro DʼAriano, Paolo Navalesi, Raffaele Mauro, Santo Di Nuovo
DAY 3: Andrea Toniolo, Giulio Goggi, Giuseppe Barzaghi, Ilaria Malaguti, Kurt Appel, Leonardo Messinese, Leopoldo Sandonà, Roberto Tommasi, Santo Di Nuovo
** all conference works will be available in double audio (Italian-English) with simultaneous translation
** attendance at the 3-day conference will give access to the certificate of participation
Scientific direction
Ines Testoni
is psychologist, psychotherapist and philosopher, professor of Social psychology and director of the Master in “Death Studies & the End of life” at University of Padova. She is also a research fellow at University of Haifa (Israel). For her themes of research, concerning the relationship among death, psychological discomfort, existential suffering and the ontological representation of the death related to symbolic or literal immortality, she is recognized among the 100 most important scientists in Italy in the thanatological field. She is the author of about 200 scientific articles and 20 books. She was a member of the bilateral table MUR / Ministry of Health for the teaching of palliative care in Italian degree courses, and scientific director of several European projects including the Erasmus-Plus “Death Education for Palliative Psychology”.
Fabio Scardigli
is a theoretical physicist. After his PhD in General Relativity at the University of Bern (CH), he worked at Yukawa Institute in Kyoto (Japan), at LeCosPA Cosmology Center in Taipei (Taiwan), and at Institute Lorentz in Leiden (Netherlands). Author of more than 60 scientific papers, some quite well known for pioneering work on generalized uncertainty principles, he also published on the quantum physics of black holes, on planetary systems, and on foundations of quantum mechanics. He gave invited talks in many places, notably at KIPAC Stanford (USA), DAMTP Cambridge (UK), Perimeter Institute, Waterloo (Canada). Presently he teaches at the Department of Mathematics of Politecnico-Milano.
Andrea Toniolo
studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University-Rome. He spent some time to study and research in Tübingen (Germany), at the Faculty of Catholic Theology (1993-1994). He attended a semester of study and research in Paris, at the Institut catholique (1999), at the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University in Chicago (2000) and in India and Thailand (2018-2019). Director of the biennium of specialization in pastoral theology from 2002 to 2005. Professor of Fundamental Theology, from 2007, at the Theological Faculty of Triveneto. Dean of the Theological Faculty of the Triveneto from February 2008 to July 2012. Full Professor of Fundamental Theology, from June 2015.
Member of the Committee of the CEI for higher studies of Theology and Religious sciences, from 2013 to 2017. Consultor of the Congregation for Catholic Education, 2016-2021. Member of the editorial staff of the magazine “Studia Patavina”.