Il Simposio si è tenuta venerdì 10 novembre al Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello

PROGRAMMA

9:00 - 9:10 Opening of the Symposium Catia SORGATO (Univ. of Padova; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, IT)

Session I (Chair, Nicholas CONARD, DE)
9:10 - 9:50 Christopher STRINGER (Centre for Human Evolution Research, The Natural History Museum, London, UK) "The evolution of Homo sapiens and 'modern' behaviour" (Video presentation)

9:50 - 10:30 Giorgio MANZI (Univ. of Rome 'La Sapienza', IT)
"Neanderthals and modern humans: big brains, ontogeny, and cognition"

10:30 - 11:10 Emiliano BRUNER (NRC for Human Evolution, Burgos, ES)
"Embodiment, music, and human evolution"

11:10  --  11:30  Coffee Break

Session II (Chair, Steven MITHEN, UK)
11:30 - 12:10 Francesco D'ERRICO (Univ. of Bordeaux, FR)
"Can we envision an evolutionary scenario for the emergence and evolution of musical practices from direct archaeological evidence and other cultural proxies?"

12:10 - 12:50 Andrea RAVIGNANI (Univ. of Rome 'La Sapienza', IT)
"The origins of rhythm: A cross-species approach" 

12:50 - 13:30 Laura FERRERI (Univ. of Pavia, IT)
"Musical pleasure and its influence on human memory"

Session III (Chair, Carlo SEMENZA, IT)
15:00—15:40 Isabelle PERETZ (Univ. of Montreal, CA)
"Unveiling the role of singing in revealing musicality"

15:40—16:20 Nicholas CONARD (Univ. of Tübingen, DE)
"The archaeological record of the origins of music"

16:20 -17:00 Steven MITHEN (Univ. of Reading, UK)
"The co-evolution of music and language"

17:00 - 17:20 Coffee Break

17:20 -18:30 Round Table on "Music: from Necessity to Emotion?" Moderator, Ernesto CARAFOLI (Univ. of Padova; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, IT); Discussants: Sandro CAPPELLETTO (Italian Broadcasting Corporation; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, IT); Angelo ORCALLI (Univ. of Udine, IT); Other speakers of the programme and of the audience

Session IV (Chair, Isabelle PERETZ, CA)18:30 - 18:50 Anna Friederike POTENGOWSKI (Associated with the Univ. of Tübingen, DE) and Nicholas CONARD (Univ. of Tübingen, DE) "The musical survey of the paleolithic wind instrument finds of Ach and Lone Valley (Southwest Germany)

18:50 - 19:10 Anna Friederike POTENGOWSKI (Associated with the Univ. of Tübingen, DE) "A solo concert on reconstructions of the paleolithic wind instruments" 

19:10 - 19:20 Closing of the Symposium Ernesto CARAFOLI (Univ. of Padova; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, IT)

Scientific and Organising Committee
Ernesto Carafoli, University of Padova; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (IT)
Carlo Semenza, University of Padova (IT) 
Maria Catia Sorgato, University of Padova; Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (IT)