Erice International School of Scientific Journalism and Communication

9 May 2010, 08:00 → 13 May 2010, 13:35 Europe/Rome

Erice, Sicily, Italy

Barbara GALLAVOTTI, Enzo IAROCCI (Universita' di Roma "Sapienza")

2nd Course: Frontier Science for Health

Sunday, 9 May ¶

09:15 → 09:30 Welcome¶

09:30 → 10:15 Reporting Science in a New Media World¶

Speaker: Ms Nadia El-Awady (World Federation of Science Journalists)

Slides elawady.pdf.pdf

10:15 → 11:00 Light-Ion Therapy: a Worldwide Vision¶

Speaker: Thomas HABERER (HIT Heidelberg)

Slides Haberer_HadrontherapyVision_ERICE2010_public.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 The Fear Factor: Dealing with Risk Communication between Alarmist Headlines and Confident Declarations¶

Speaker: Mr Fabio Turone (Agency Zoe of Science Journalism)

Slides TUR-Erice2010_fear_factor.pdf

12:15 → 13:00 Frontier Nanotechnologies for and by Life Sciences¶

Speaker: Dr Dario Pisignano (Università del Salento and National Nanotechnology Laboratory CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze)

Slides Pisignano.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 18:30 Communicating Current Research in Museums and Science Centres (working session)¶

Speaker: Mrs Paola Rodari (SISSA Medialab)

Slides Rodari.pdf.pdf

Monday, 10 May ¶

09:30 → 10:15 Advanced X-Ray Light Sources for Frontier Life Science Research¶

Speaker: Prof. Edgar Weckert (DESY)

Slides E_Weckert.pdf.pdf

10:15 → 11:00 Explaining the Latest Achievements in Cancer Research and Therapy: between Hype and Hope¶

Speaker: Mrs Daniela Ovadia (Agenzia Zoe, Milano)

Slides ovadia_cancer.pdf.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Neuroscience through Headline: Social and Ethical Issues in Communicating Brain Research¶

Speaker: Mrs Daniela Ovadia (Agenzia Zoe, Milano)

Slides ovadia_Neuroscience.pdf.pdf

12:15 → 13:00 Angels, Demons and Black Holes - Threat or Opportunity. Experience from CERN through the Start-up of the LHC¶

Speaker: Dr James Gillies (CERN)

Slides 100510ERICECommunicatingtheLHC.ppt

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 18:30 Creating a Radio Broadcast (NO SLIDES presented - working session)¶

Speakers: Prof. Federico Pedrocchi (Radio 24 - il Sole 24 ore), Dr Mariachiara Albicocco (Radio 24 - il Sole 24 ore)

21:30 → 23:30 Welcome in The Nanoworld (screening of a documentary movie)¶

Tuesday, 11 May ¶

09:00 → 09:45 New Particle Imaging Methods for Advanced Medical Diagnostics¶

Speaker: Giacomo Maurizio Cuttone (LNS)

Slides cuttone10.pdf.pdf

09:45 → 10:30 From "M.A.S.H." to "E.R."; the Contribution of Medical TV Series to Public Understanding of Medical Issues¶

Speaker: Dr Ela Bauer (Seminar Ha-kibbutizm Collage Tel Aviv)

Slides elabauer.pdf.pdf

10:30 → 11:15 ELI: a Vision towards Table-top Hadron Beams¶

Speaker: Luigi Palumbo (LNF)

Slides Palumbo.pdf.pdf

11:15 → 11:40 coffee break

11:40 → 12:25 From The Anatomy Theatre in Padua to Body Worlds-500 years of public anatomy, innovation and Ethical Issues¶

Speaker: Dr Tal Berman (The Israel National Museum of Science, Technology & Space)

Slides Tal_Berman.pdf.pdf

12:25 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 18:30 How to handle the Media: Maximizing the Opportunity and Minimizing Risk (working session)¶

Speakers: Mrs Nadia Marchant (iOpener UK), Mr Neil Bennett (iOpener)

21:30 → 22:30 Science Cafè¶

Wednesday, 12 May ¶

09:30 → 10:15 Hadron Therapy in Clinical Perspective¶

Speaker: Prof. roberto orecchia (european institute of oncology)

Slides Orecchia.pdf.pdf

10:15 → 11:00 Communication for the Large Scale Science Lab GSI at Darmstadt/Germany: the example of Tumore Therapy with Heavy Ions¶

Speaker: Dr Ingo Peter (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

Slides GSI-Ion-Therapy.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 coffee break

11:30 → 12:15 Science in Newspapers¶

Speaker: gabriele beccaria

Paper Gabriele_Beccaria.pdf

12:15 → 13:00 Science is our Nature-Science Demonstrations and Shows as a way to Explain Science Phenomena in Science Museums (NO SLIDES presented - working session)¶

Speaker: Dr Tal Berman (The Israel National Museum of Science, Technology & Space)

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:15 Inconvenient Messages Concering the Practice of Biomedical Science, or the Importance of Being Honest¶

Speaker: Mr Fred Balvert (Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam)

Slides FBALVERT.pdf.pdf

15:15 → 16:00 e-Health: Bridging the Gap¶

Speaker: Prof. Manjit Dosanjh (CERN)

Slides Dosanjh.pdf.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 17:15 The World Race for Nano-Beams¶

Speaker: Pantaleo Raimondi (LNF)

Slides RAIMONDI.pdf.pdf

17:15 → 18:00 How Bad Science Communication can Affect a Country: the Case of H1N1 in Egypt¶

Speaker: Ms Maissa Azab (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

Slides AZAB.pdf.pdf

21:00 → 23:15 social dinner

Thursday, 13 May ¶

09:30 → 10:15 The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: How Frontier Physics meets Health Sciences¶

Speaker: Young-Kee KIM

Slides YKeeKim.pdf.pdf

10:15 → 11:00 e-Health: Opportunities and Challenges of a Paradigmatic Convergence Field¶

Speaker: Sergio Bertolucci (LNF)

Slides Bertolucci.pdf.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 coffee break

11:30 → 13:00 Dealing with an Interview (NO SLIDES presented - reverse session)¶

Speaker: Dr Elisa Manacorda (Galileo. Giornale di scienza)

13:00 → 13:15 Closing Remarks¶