Lingua&Cultura 2005

Incontri aperti

TRA SCIENZA, LETTERATURA E VIAGGI

Faheem Hussain è un fisico pakistano, allievo del premio Nobel Abdus Salam, ha contribuito a fondare la scuola di fisica ad Islamabad e ora insegna al Centro Internazionale di Fisica Teorica (ICTP) di Trieste. Lo abbiamo invitato all’IRSE a parlarci del rapporto scienza e Islam, del suo appello che la scienza rifiorisca in quei Paesi in cui lunghi recenti decenni di conflitti hanno visto scienza e guerra andare strettamente a braccetto.
Sempre dall’ICPT hanno accettato il nostro invito altri due scienziati: Joseph Niemela, che lavora nel campo della dinamica dei fluidi e ci farà capire le connessioni tra… Leonardo e la Formula 1 e Nicolas Cauchy, che è anche appassionato istruttore di parapendio: le sue splendide diapositive di volo sopra le Alpi ci aiuteranno a capire - con poesia - alcuni elementi di aerodinamica e aerologia.
Sono tre degli “Incontri in Lingua” in programma all’IRSE nei primi mesi del 2005: l’avvio di un impegno a contribuire a suscitare nei giovani, e non solo, il piacere del sapere scientifico, e di aiutare, specificatamente, i docenti di scuole superiori in quel Progetto Clil (Content and Language Integrated Learning) che mira al trasferimento dei linguaggi specialistici in un più completo sistema di comunicazione in una lingua straniera.
Ci pare un importante aspetto dell’attività di formazione all’Europa dell’IRSE, che si affianca alle diverse iniziative di formazione storico- politica ed economico-giuridica dell’Istituto, e alla, già trentennale, scuola di lingue con corsi di inglese, tedesco, francese, spagnolo.
Ma non ci saranno solo argomenti scientifici, anche letteratura, e viaggi. A partire da “Joyce triestino” con John McCourt , vincitore dell’ultimo Premio Comisso per il suo libro sugli anni triestini del grande autore irlandese, ad un viaggio nelle musiche della provincia americana e poi ancora una serata di letture dal libro di Hugo Hamilton “Il cane che abbaiava alle onde”.
La maggioranza degli incontri sarà in inglese ma ci sono anche due appuntamenti in francese e tedesco e altri saranno programmati in seguito. E... last but not least si sta pensando anche a qualche incontro di accostamento all’arabo e al cinese. Buon anno a tutti i poliglotti. Laura Zuzzi Direttore Irse

Programma

Compte-rendu d’un séjour au Pakistan lors d’une période de collaboration auprès de l’UNFPA (Bureau d’Islamabad du Fond pour la Population de l’ONU). Panoramique socio-politique du Pays, avec référence à l’action des Nations Unies dans les politiques de développement, expériences personnelles et voyages à l’intérieur du Pays. Avec projection de photos. (dans le cadre du programme de l’Alliance Française de PN).

In this presentation stereotypical images of “the English” will be analysed, questioned and even deconstructed. In the current socio political climate it seems that people are comfortable with their Scottishness, Irishness and Welshness but when it comes to being English, the issue is far more complicated. The content of this interactive seminar will arise from a variety of personal anecdotes and established texts on this controversial subject.

James Joyce wrote most of his work outside of Ireland, and in particular a large part of it in Trieste. John McCourt, an Irishman who settled in Trieste, and who has worked on Joyce related material for over ten years, has recently published “James Joyce Gli Anni Di Bloom” (Mondadori) (winner of the Comisso Prize). “Gli Anni di Bloom” is an extended version of his 2000 “The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920”. His book explores the influence of Trieste’s mixed MiddleEuropean culture on Joyce’s writings and, thanks to his book, the presence of Joyce is far more deeply felt in Trieste now than it once was. McCourt is also co-founder of the Trieste Joyce School and was part of a team which mapped all the Joycean sites in the city and created a numbered Joycean itinerary that tourists can follow around the city. He is also among the founders of the Trieste Joyce Museum, which contains some first editions of Joyce’s work, and also a virtual tour of Joyce’s Trieste.

This talk will take you on a trip which briefly explores the varieties of regionally based musics found in the South and Southwestern United States of America. Genres to be sampled include varieties Country and Western, including Bluegrass; The Cajun and Zydeco music of Southwestern Louisiana; and the Conjunto, Norteno and Native American traditions which follow the border from Texas to Arizona. The talk will be supplemented with audio visual samplings and an abbreviated list of cited recordings, list of videos, bibliography and discography will be provided to help you explore further anything you might find interesting.

“Unterrichten ohne Materialien und Medien” soll nicht nur dort helfen, wo das Fehlen von Unterrichtsmaterialien zu alternativen Unterrichtsformen zwingt, es soll auch Anregungen und positive Beispiele für die bewusste mediale Beschränkung geben und die am Lern- und Lehrprozess beteiligten Personen und ihre Interaktion in den Mittelpunkt stellen. Dieses Lernen über den persönlichen Bezug hat eine verbesserte Gruppendynamik, ein besseres Lernklima und eine bessere Stimmung im Kurs zur Folge. Die Lerner erfahren mehr über sich und die anderen.
Übungen bringen den Lerner in Situationen, die es ihm ermöglichen, sich und die anderen genauer wahrzunehmen und seine Lerngewohnheiten zu hinterfragen. Die Beschäftigung mit Themen von grundsätzlichem Interesse führt dazu, dass der Lerner ganz in der Lernsituation aufgeht, für interkulturelleFragestellungen sensibilisiert wird, Gesamtzusammenhänge erkennt und sein Wunsch, Deutsch zu sprechen, unbedingter wird.

It is time that science flourishes once again in the Islamic countries. This is the sense of the appeal, of two distinguished Pakistani scientists, published recently in the journal Nature. Science and Islam, the past and the future of a rich, productive relationship. We will talk about this and other matters with Faheem Hussain, a student of the Nobel Prize winner Abdus Salam, and who is now working at the ICTP in Trieste. Before coming to Trieste he was a professor of physics for many years in Islamabad where he contributed to the construction of the school of physics in Pakistan.

The swirling motions of turbulent fluids, whether the roiling water of a cascading river, the air streaming over a wing, or the revolving hydrogen gas of distant galalingua xies, have long been a source of curiousity. Leonardo da Vinci considered the flow of turbulent fluids in the 15th century, and today it figures prominantly in engineering and in the basic sciences, from Formula 1 design to the Big Bang.

Nicolas Cauchy graduated from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He later learned to fly paragliders and became fascinated by their aerodynamics and the aerology (micro-meteorology) of the air. Nicolas has flown in France, the USA, and Brazil, and now lives in Trieste. His presentation will give us insight into this popular sport with a world perspective accompanied by photos.

Incontro con Isabella Zani, traduttrice, a cura di Maria Cristina Parzianello “We wear Aran Sweaters and Lederhosen. We are forbidden from speaking English.We are trapped in a language war.We are the Speckled People.” In one of the most original memoirs to emerge in years, Hugo Hamilton tells the haunting story of his German-Irish childhood in 1950s Dublin. His Gaelic-speaking, Irish nationalist father rules the home with tyranny, while his German-speaking mother rescues her children with cakes and stories of her own struggle against Nazi Germany. Out on the streets of Dublin is another country, where they are taunted as Nazis and subjected to a mock Nuremberg trial. Through the eyes of a child, this rare and shockingly honest book gradually makes sense of family, language, and identity, unlocking at last the secrets that his parents kept in the wardrobe.