NTERNATIONAL MEETING From Carlo Matteucci to Giuseppe Moruzzi: two centuries of European Physiology A satellite of the 15th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences

INTERNATIONAL MEETING
From Carlo Matteucci to Giuseppe Moruzzi: two centuries of European Physiology
A satellite of  the 15th Annual Meeting of the
International Society for the History of the Neurosciences


 Villa di Corliano, (Pisa)
22-26 June 2010

with a special contribution from
Rita Levi-Montalcini


SPONSORING INSTITUTIONS

Club d'histoire des neurosciences de la Société des Neurosciences, Paris.
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze
International Society for the History of Neurosciences.
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Università di Ferrara.
Università di Pavia ­- Sistema Museale d’Ateneo.
Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris.
Université Diderot – Paris.




IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL PARTICIPANTS:
1       Please confirm your intention to attend the meeting at your ealiest convenience  by sending an email to Marco Piccolino or Nick Wade at the following addresses:
                                marco.piccolino@yahoo.com or   n.j.wade@dundee.ac.uk
2          Indicate whether you wish make a presentation. If so,  please provide a title by 15 February.
3          An abstract of your presentation would be appreciated by 31 March. The abstract should be no more than 300 words long.
4          With regard to accommodation, all arrangements will be made through the management of Villa di Corliano: info@corliano.it tel: +39050818193                    
             Please note that all the digits should be used when dialling)

Organizing Committee:
Jean- Gaël Barbara, Cesira Batini, Michel Meulders, Marco Piccolino and Nicholas J. Wade.

Speakers:
Florin Amzica, University of Montreal, Canada.
 Jean- Gaël Barbara, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and  Université Diderot, Paris.
Cesira Batini, Centre  National de la Recherche  Scientifique - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.
Annette Beaumanoir, Hôpital Universitaire de Genève, Switzerland.
Marina Bentivoglio, Università di Verona.
Giovanni Berlucchi, Università di Verona, Italy.
Anne Boullerne, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Marco Bresadola, Università di Ferrara, Italy.
Alberto Cangiano, Università di Verona.
Giancarlo Carli, Università di Siena.
François Clarac, Université de Provence, France.
Simone Contardi, Istituto Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze.
Gerhard Dalenoort, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Brunello Ghelarducci, Università di Pisa.
Armando De Palma, Università di Torino
Camillo Di Giulio, Università di Chieti, Italy.    .
Gabriel Finkelstein,  University of Colorado at Denver, U.S.A.
Helmut Kettenmann, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin.
Henri Korn, Institut Pasteur, France.
Terie L ømo, University of Oslo, Norway.
Lamberto Maffei, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Daniele Marasco, Università di Foggia.
Paolo Mazzarello, Università di Pavia.
Renato Mazzolini, Università di Trento, Italy.
Pierlorenzo Marchiafava, Univeersità di Pisa.
Alexandre Metraux, Universität Mannheim.
Michel Meulders, Université de Louvain, Belgium.
Mara Miniati, Istituto-Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze.
Daniela Musumeci, Università di Pisa.
Germana Pareti, Università di Torino.
Marco Piccolino, Università di Ferrara, Italy.
Enrica Santarcangelo, University of Pisa
Piergiorgio Strata, Università di Torino.
Suzanne Tyc-Dumont, Centre  National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.
Nicholas J. Wade, University of Dundee, United Kingdom.
Alberto Zanchetti, Università di Milano.
Michele Zappella, Università di Siena.
Possible themes of the Meeting:
Culture, science and society in the Risorgimento.
Carlo Matteucci, between France and Italy.
Matteucci and the scientific legacy of Luigi Galvani.
Electric fish research in the nineteenth century Italy.
Johannes Müller and the German school of physiology.
Alexander von Humboldt and animal electricity.
Physics and physiology in the scientific endeavour of Michael Faraday.
Du-Bois Reymond, Hermann and the others: controversies at the origins of modern electrophysiology.
A conservative revolution: Julius Bernstein and the “membrane theory”.
From neurophysiology to neuroanatomy: the transition from Claude Bernard to Louis-Antoine Ranvier.

Morphologic foundations of the modern neurosciences: the functional neuroanatomy of Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
Early contributions of the Berlin school to the neuron doctrine.
How the concept of glia evolved.

Historical perspectives on pain physiology and modern views: from  psychogenic pain to  hyperralgesic pain
The great era of English physiology from Francis Gotch to Hodgkin-Huxley.
John Eccles and the electrophysiology at the mid-twentieth century.
The neuromuscular junction and the development of neural connections: historical perspective and modern views
The English roots of Italian Physiology.
Moruzzi and the connections with Polish physiology.

Moruzzi and the interplay between French and Italian neurophysiology.
The scientific and human personality of Giuseppe Moruzzi.
Memories and aftereffects of a year (1958-59) as student and resident at Istituto di Fisiologia in Pisa.
Moruzzi as a teacher and as an advocate and organizer of science in Pisa
Brain and consciousness.
Moruzzi and Bremer: a link between Belgian and Italian Neurosciences.
Moruzzi and the anatomy and physiology of sleep.
Sleep as an instinct: the last esperimental research of Moruzzi.
The reticular activating system: from Moruzzi-Magoun to modern neurosciences.
From animal to human hypnosis: historical perpsective and new views
Giuseppe Moruzzi and the physiology of the cerebellum..
The "holiness" of the scientist: Moruzzi narrated by Mario Tobino..

Moruzzi  as a historian of science.

Call for papers
In this preliminary announcement we invite colleagues wishing to present a talk in Corliano to send a short abstract.

The  venue:
The meeting will be held in Villa di Corliano, one of the splendid mansions of Tuscany. It was described by Vincenzo Pitti in 1616 as the “most beautiful palace in the neighbours of Pisa”. It is situated within the magnificent  scenery of the Monte Pisano (“… monte  per che i Pisan veder Lucca non ponno.” Dante, Inferno, Canto XXIII).  More information concerning the Villa can be found at the following links:

http://www.corliano.it/home.php?lang=en&redirect=http://www.corliano.it/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_di_Corliano


 In addition to the beauty of the Villa and the hospitality of the hosts, the location is particularly apposite for the meeting. Between 1850-1854 it was a temporary residence of Carlo Matteucci, and it was also frequented by Giuseppe Moruzzi in the period of his historical research on Matteucci. During the days of the meeting visits to artistic and historical sites in the region of Pisa and Lucca are planned; these are connected in various ways to Matteucci and Moruzzi.

Pisa has an airport and is well connected with many European cities, also through low-cost flights (Easyjet with Paris, many other cities through Ryanair).

Accommodation and practical information
Limited accommodation is available in Villa di Corliano. There are hotels in the close vicinity which will apply the special tariff of 40 EU per person, breakfast included.

IMPORTANT
In order to obtain these tariffs, reservations should be made as soon as possible,
and certainly not later than  February  15th 2010.

For reservation please  address to the management of Villa di  Corliano: info@corliano.it (tel. +39050818193,  English spoken).
For any additional information, question or comment, please send an email to Marco Piccolino or Nick Wade at the following addresses:

marco.piccolino@yahoo.com


n.j.wade@dundee.ac.uk