Agenda

May 29, 2012 is the tenth anniversary of the death of Elémire Zolla (1926-2002). For this occasion, A.I.R.E.Z., together with the BERENDEL Foundation in London, is organizing an international study conference “Labyrinths of the Mind. Visions of the Word. Exploring Elémire Zolla’s Spiritual Quest and Legacy” [Labirinti della mente. Visioni del mondo. L’eredità intellettuale di Elémire Zolla nel XXI secolo”], under the aegis of the UNESCO National Commission, the Region of Tuscany, the Municipality and the Library-Archive Piero Calamandrei of Montepulciano, on May 29-30-31, 2012, in Montepulciano (SI). Stressing the great scientific and commemorative importance of this event, the President of the Association would like to thank all members, old and new, who freely contribute to supporting the initiative and take part in it (see section Registration 2012). A series of study days on the intellectual legacy and work of Zolla will take place during 2012, before and after the date of the conference in Montepulciano. The first of these, in collaboration with Fondazione Il Fiore in Florence, will take place on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, in the Sala degli Specchi, Palazzo Vivarelli Colonna, via Ghibellina, 30, Florence, from 3 to 6 pm, on the theme “Passion for truth in Elémire Zolla’s thought” [“Passione di verità nel pensiero di Elémire Zolla”], with the participation of scholars Franco Cardini, Alessandro Giovanardi, Sergio Givone, Don Alfredo Jacopozzi and Grazia Marchianó. The event will be preceded by a series of preparatory classes on the writer’s thinking, held by Grazia Marchianó at Agnolo Poliziano Classical High School in Montepulciano, organized by Prof. Sandra Mariani. In the auditorium of the same high school, January 18, 2012, 11a.m., a lecture by Prof. Marchianó on “Secret Truths and Metaphysical Experience in Elémire Zolla’s Writings” will introduce teachers and students to the theme of the Florentine Study Day. A presentation of the work of philosopher Hervé Cavallera, Elémire Zolla. La luce delle idee, Le Lettere Edizioni, Florence 2011, is scheduled to be held in the Conference Room of the Chancellor’s Building at the University of Salento, Piazza Tancredi, Lecce, on December 4, 2011, at 6.30 p.m., with the participation of the author and of Grazia Marchianó, who will speak about “Faith and the immaterial dimension in Elémire Zolla’s tinking” [“La fede e l’immateriale nel pensiero di Elémire Zolla”] (See in CalendAIREZ). The Tibetan Lama Tenzin Wangyal Rimpoche, will be coming from the United States and has graciously accepted an invitation to hold a seminar onThursday, March 15, 2012, at 5 pm about Buddhist thinking and meditation in the dzogchen lineage in the Conference Hall of Palazzo Cervini, Banca Popolare dell’Etruria, via di Voltaia nel Corso, Montepulciano. Members, especially those of the Juniors Group, are warmly invited to enjoy the benefit of this meeting in 2012, the year of the Dragon.

ZOLLA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2012 co-promoted by the Elémire Zolla International Association – A.I.R.E.Z. and The Berendel Foundation, London, under the aegis of the UNESCO National Commission, Rome, in the tenth anniversary of ELÉMIRE ZOLLA’s passing:May 29-30-31, 2012, Master Hall, Captain’s Palace, Piazza Grande, MONTEPULCIANO (Southern Tuscany, Italy)
Theme: Labyrinths of the Mind, Visions of the World: Exploring Elémire Zolla’s Spiritual Quest and Legacy

2°ANNOUNCEMENT, FEBRUARY 2012

Participants, Topics and related Sections

English Panel :

Prof. Tamara ALBERTINI, Un. of Hawaii, Honolulu (USA): Mystical Landscapes. Places of the Mind: Emptiness and Plenitude in Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism, sec.4; Prof. Sorin ANTOHI, The Berendel Foundation,London-Bucharest: E. Zolla and I.P.Culianu: Elective Affinities, sec.1;  Herman E. BENDER, ASHCO, Fond du Lac, Wis. (USA), ‘Star-beings’ and Stones: Origin and Legends, sec.3; PhD. Candidate Ana Laura FUNES, Understanding the Tradition(s): Hans-George Gadamer and Elémire Zolla’s Hermeneutics of the Spirit, sec.1; Prof. Moshè IDEL, Shalom Hartman Research Institute, Jerusalem: on Androgyny (topic to be defined),sec.4; Dr. Vijaya SUBRAMANI, Lancaster Un.(UK), Calgary (CA): Dissolution of Self in the Advaitic Non-Dualism and its Contemporary Relevance, sec. 4; Prof. Robert WILKINSON, The Open University, UK: The Tale of Gengji as a Buddhist Parable, sec. 4; Prof. Michael ZAMMIT, Un. of Malta: Vague Terrain: Where the Tryst between World (samashti ) and Word (vyashti ) Manifests, sec.3.

Italian Panel

Prof. Daniella BOCCASSINI, Un. di Vancouver (CA): VISTA NOVA: Percorsi orientali e occidentali della speculazione ermetica, sec. 4; Dr. Teodoro BRESCIA, Lecce: La Tradizione e la simbologia perenne: dal taoismo al cristianesimo, sec.4; Dr. Marco CASOLINO, Un. Tor Vergata, Roma-Tokyo: La fede nella scienza e la scienza nella fede: riflessioni di un fisico, sec.2; Dr. Sergio CRAPIZ: La dimensione esoterica della vita nella lettura zolliana di W.B. Yeats, sec.1; Carlo Maria CIRINO, Un. Di Urbino: Sviluppi della filosofia della mente nel XX secolo, sec.2; Dr. Francesca DIANO, Padova: Spazio e tempo umano e sovrumano nella tradizione della lamentazione funebre irlandese, sec.2;

Dr. Paolo GRANATA, Un. of Bologna: Dal Cliché all’Archetipo: McLuhan scopre Zolla

 Prof. Don A. JACOPOZZI, Facoltà Teologica Italia Centrale, Firenze: L’attualità della filosofia perenne nell’itinerario mistico di E. Zolla e R. Panikkar, sec.1; Roberto ONOFRIO, Genova: Il concetto di destino secondo P.D. Ouspenskij nella prospettiva zolliana della liberazione, sec.1; Prof. A.PALUMBO, Un. di Genova: L’archetipo del Maëlstrom: mito e scienza in De Santillana, Poe e Rhys, sec.3; Dr. Francesco PAPARELLA, Un. del Salento (Lecce): Falsificazioni per dire la verità. Opinioni sulla natura della ricerca scientifica, sec.3; Marged TRUMPER, Padova: La separazione e l’unione degli amanti nella tradizione popolare, mistica e cortese del nord dell’India, sec.3;  Alessandro TINELLI, Rodi-Tokyo: Mirror Stone: A Sacred Mirror discovered in the island of Iheya (Okinawa archipelago) documented in a DVD of visual anthropology, sec. 5.Co-authors of the Zolla Dictionary of Key-Words will briefly refer on their entries in the Italian Panel.