24 September, Tuesday

Panel 1: Imagination between affectivity and technological invention

Chairs: Enrico De Martin Topranin, Simone Gasparoni

9:00  - 10:00 Cécile Malaspina (King's College London), Imagination and Invention: Rethinking so-called Artificial Intelligence (AI) as Automated Optimisation (AO) with Gilbert Simondon and Yagmur Denizhan

10:00 - 11:00 Lorenzo Biagini (Università di Firenze-Pisa), Does Negative mean Melancholic? Some Remarks on Phantasy and Affectivity in Adorno's Dialectics   

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30 Fabrice Teroni (University of Geneva), Emotions, Memories, and Narratives 

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch

Panel 2: Imagination across the sciences

Chairs: Lorenzo Biagini, Enrico Maresca

14:30 - 15:30 Lorenzo Magnani (Università di Pavia), Imaginability, Abductive Cognition, and Eco-Cognitive Openness  

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00 Enrico Maresca (Università di Firenze-Pisa), Imagining at the Threshold: Thought Experiments and Constraints for a Theory of Quantum Gravity