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. Di Bologna: Dal Cliché all’Archetipo: McLuhan scopre Zolla, sec.1; 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.

Conference Proceedings

Final papers  in electronic format, saved as a Word document or convertible, should be sent in attachment by and not later than May 15 to the Editor Prof. Marchiano. Texts in  paper version will be collected at the Conference. Both electronic and paper versions have to be identical.

Guidelines Instructions

• The whole text with footnotes must not exceed 15 pages, type 12, with a 1,5 line spacing and with sufficient margins.
• All quotations are to be set off in quotation marks: «...» (do not use double quotes “... “ for quotations).
• Bibliographic references must be included in the footnotes. The footnotes numbers should appear before any punctuation mark closing the clause.
• If special fonts are used (Greek,Persian,Hebrew,Sanskrit) or transliterations with special characters, a pdf copy must be sent to the editor.
• For technical reasons, revisions of one’s final text is not permitted.
• Texts will be presented and published in English or Italian.

Costs and facilities

Participants’s travel expenses are on their own. Full accommodation in Montepulciano: May 29,30,31 is provided to official speakers only; accompanying persons are to cover costs of board and lodging, guided visits in town and ticket for the Balinese Dance Performance, Teatro Il Cantinone, May 31 night. For the Conference Final Program see next announcement here: www.elemirezolla.org.

Scientific contact: Grazia Marchianò.