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DIALOGO CON MARYANNE WOLF
"Culture as we now know it is the child of the reading brain."
The advent of digital culture has brought about a paradigm shift that is reorganizing, according to new parameters, the brains of new generations. What do we still not know? What losses and gains for new readers?
Maryanne Wolf, a leading cognitivist neuroscientist and scholar of reading, gives a keynote lecture presenting her recent studies and dialogues with some leading Italian experts.
organization Umbria Region
In collaboration with Embassy of the United States of America in Italy, Center for Books and Reading (MiBACT), Italian Library Association Umbria section
Under the patronage of the Ministry of cultural heritage and tourism
with the participation of Maria Alberta Bajma Riva, Maria Giulia Scarcella, Zoe Solforino students of theNational Academy of Dramatic Art "Silvio d'Amico"
introduce
Fernanda Cecchini, Councillor for Culture Umbria Region
Jeffrey E. Galvin, Press Attaché - Embassy of the United States of America in Italy
Romano Montroni, President Centro per il Libro e la Lettura MiBACT
dialogue with** **Maryanne Wolf
Leonardo Fogassi, professor of Neurophysiology at theUniversity of Parma, was part of the research team of Italian neuroscientists who discovered the existence of mirror neurons
Maria Grazia Mattei, an expert in digital culture and communication, conceived and directs Meet the Media Guru, a program of meetings with international protagonists of digital culture
Gino Roncaglia, professor of Applied Informatics in the Humanities at theUniversity of Tuscia and a member of the Book Forum, is a scholar of the world of books and network cultures
coordinates
Marco Piazza, journalist, television author
A cognitivist neuroscientist and scholar of reading, particularly dyslexia, she teaches at Tufts University (Massachusetts, USA), where she holds the John DiBaggio Chair on Citizenship and Social Services and directs the Center for Reading and Language Research. In Italy, he published the book _Proust and the Squid. History and Science of the Reading Brain _(ed. Vita e pensiero). He collaborates with the humanitarian One laptop per child (Olpc) project chaired from Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).