Temporary Exhibition
Zoran Music. extreme figures
curated by Giovanna Dal Bon, promoted by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, the Regione del Veneto and the Arthemisia Group.
OPENING HOURS
Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti
From 10 am to 6 pm

School of Biophysics
Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration
14th annual school of Pure and Applied Biophysics promoted by the Istituto Veneto in association with the Società Italiana di Biofisica Pura ed Applicata.
Young researchers from European universities and research centres will take part.

February

5° International conference ReCS (Rete delle città strategiche)
10 anni di pianificazione strategica in Italia e 20 in Europa
The iniziative is being hosted by the Istituto Veneto.

Temporary exhibition
"Felice Carena in the Venetian years"
curated by Virginia Baradel
The exhibition aims to take a closer look at Felice Carena’s Venice period, from the postwar years to his death in Venice in 1966. But it must also summarise the paintings from his early artistic career, so about 15 important works will be selected from the main periods: symbolism - in the two versions of Bohemian and Nabis, the return to order, the ‘return’ to the museum and the art. There will then be about 40 paintings showing the turning point of his Venice period, giving a total of about 60 works that trace the artist’s career and focus on his Venetian stay and his relations with the city’s cultural milieu. The artistic career of Felice Carena (1879-1966) unfolds through the twentieth century in a way that excellently reflects the complexity and contradictions of that period. In order to take a close look at those years, it is necessary to not only looks at the works, but also to reconstruct the network of relations he gathered about him, creating a favourable environment at a difficult time in his life.

29 - 30
Corfù

Study conference
"The Adriatic: meetings and separations. (18th-19th century)"
The conference is organised in association with the Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Post-bizantini, Venice, and the Rector’s Office at Corfu University.

Italian-French seminar organised with the Institut national du patrimoine on safeguarding the artistic heritage.
As in past years, the Institut national du patrimoine, in association with the Istituto Veneto, is organising a week of studies on problems relating to safeguarding the artistic and archive heritage. The winners of the annual national selection in France for the appointment of executives to state museums, archives and local offices responsible for safeguarding the artistic heritage will take part in the seminar.

Conference
"Art heritage in context: environment and landscape".
The study day, held as part of the European Cultural Heritage Meetings, promoted by the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and the Institut national du patrimoine of Paris, aims to illustrate some particularly significant experiences in this field with the aim of formulating operational proposals.

Conference
Meeting with Peter and Rosemary Grant
(Balzan Prizes 2005 for Population Biology)
on the subject
"Evolution of Darwin’s Finches".
The meeting is being organised in association with the Fondazione Balzan.
The lecture will focus on the progress in the understanding of speciation with particular reference to the recent adaptation of Darwin’s chaffinches.
The Grant couple’s studies have shown how, when and why evolution acts through natural selection, over the course of more than 30 years of work.

International conference (Palazzo Loredan)
"The Majorana secret. From the science to the legend, and return."
"Le secret Majorana. De la science à la légende, et retour"

Conference organised by:
The Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
The Scuola normale superiore
The École normale supérieure
The Laboratoire des Recherches sur les Sciences de la Matière

Scientific Committee:
Charles ALUNNI, Scuola normale superiore / École normale supérieure
Yves ANDRE, École normale supérieure / Istituto Veneto
Milla BALDO-CEOLIN, Istituto Veneto
Riccardo BARBIERI, Scuola normale superiore
Étienne KLEIN, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (Laboratoire de Recherches sur les Sciences de la Matière / LARSIM)
Giuseppe MUSSARDO, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste / SISSA)

Annual Meeting
The Istituto Veneto will end its 172nd academic year, as usual, with its Annual Meeting, to be held in the Sala dello Scrutinio at the Doge’s Palace.
Ordinary member, Prof. Enrico Berti, Professor of the History of Philosophy at Padua University, will give the official talk.

International school on
Biogeodynamics and Earth System Sciences (BESS)
As suggested by the name ‘Biogeodynamics and Earth System Sciences’, the School focuses on the study of interactions between the biosphere and the physical, chemical, geological and geophysical processes that give form to the planet, by means of annual initiatives aimed at observation, conceptualisation and modelling. How can distance surveying provide a suitable characterisation of biophysical processes through the vast range of scales of interest? How can descriptions of the noise of biological processes be mathematically combined with the dynamic equations of physical processes at a planetary scale and at a local scale? How can the difference between time and space scales that are explicitly described by mathematical models and those that are not mathematically decided be resolved? How can the observations of models be best assimilated to improve their ability to predict biotic and abiotic properties? The courses will look at different specific subjects each year in the overall frame of bio-geo-dynamics, in order to offer a presentation for graduate students, research doctors and young researchers, and a discussion forum for the teachers and speakers of the seminars.

Closing conference for the post-graduate History of Art seminar organised with the École du Louvre.

Award of the Premio Istituto Veneto per Venezia (by invitation). The Istituto Veneto announces the third international competition for an article on Venice that has been published in the daily or periodical press and is of note for its insight into various social, economic, naturalist or artistic aspects of the Venetian situation.
The prize will be awarded at the Palazzo Franchetti on the European Heritage Day.
The 2008 Prize was awarded to Prof. John Kay for an article published in The Times.
The 2009 Prize was awarded to Prof. Victor Gomez Pin for an article published in El Pais.

School
"Slow, imperceptible risks: evolving catastrophes. The case of Venice."
The school is organised by the Istituto Veneto and the International Risk Governance Council.
Various perspectives of the slow and imperceptible risks of environmental catastrophes will be examined with the aim of gaining greater knowledge on such phenomena and proposing operational solutions.

International conference
"Science with the Hubble Space Telescope – III"
The conference is sponsored by the Istituto Veneto, NASA and ESA, and organised in association with ST-ECF (Garching, Germany) and the Space Telescope Science Institute (Baltimore, USA).
The aim of the conference is to present the recent update of the Hubble Space Telescope and some important new scientific results from the Observatory. About 200 astronomers and astronauts who have worked with the Hubble will take part in the conference.

Conference being prepared on
"The Eastern Balkans and the Black Sea"
organised in association with the Vienna Academy of Science.

Eleventh Luigi Luzzatti Day for the study of contemporary Italian history (in preparation)

Cycle of post-graduate courses
"Landscape: image and reality"
The Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti and the Fondazione Federico Zeri propose, for the third consecutive year, the ‘Landscape: image and reality’ cycle of post-graduate courses. Themes related to the history, culture and protection of the landscape in Italy will be studied in depth on the basis of perspectives that allow an interdisciplinary approach and introduce new methodologies. The teachers are art historians, historians, geographers, architects, town planners and photography historians. Public institutions responsible for protection of the landscape will also be involved.

First literary meeting of a new cycle entitled
‘Cordial pages’.