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

1 Welcome

2 Reporting Science in a New Media World

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

Slides elawady.pdf.pdf

3 Light-Ion Therapy: a Worldwide Vision

Speaker: Thomas HABERER (HIT Heidelberg)

Slides Haberer_HadrontherapyVision_ERICE2010_public.pdf

11:00 coffee break

4 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

5 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 Lunch break

6 Communicating Current Research in Museums and Science Centres (working session)

Speaker: Mrs Paola Rodari (SISSA Medialab)

Slides Rodari.pdf.pdf

Monday 10 May

7 Advanced X-Ray Light Sources for Frontier Life Science Research

Speaker: Prof. Edgar Weckert (DESY)

Slides E_Weckert.pdf.pdf

8 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 coffee break

9 Neuroscience through Headline: Social and Ethical Issues in Communicating Brain Research

Speaker: Mrs Daniela Ovadia (Agenzia Zoe, Milano)

Slides ovadia_Neuroscience.pdf.pdf

10 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 Lunch break

11 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)

12 Welcome in The Nanoworld (screening of a documentary movie)

Tuesday 11 May

13 New Particle Imaging Methods for Advanced Medical Diagnostics

Speaker: Giacomo Maurizio Cuttone (LNS)

Slides cuttone10.pdf.pdf

14 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

15 ELI: a Vision towards Table-top Hadron Beams

Speaker: Luigi Palumbo (LNF)

Slides Palumbo.pdf.pdf

11:15 coffee break

16 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 Lunch break

17 How to handle the Media: Maximizing the Opportunity and Minimizing Risk (working session)

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

18 Science Cafè

Wednesday 12 May

19 Hadron Therapy in Clinical Perspective

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

Slides Orecchia.pdf.pdf

20 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 coffee break

21 Science in Newspapers

Speaker: gabriele beccaria

Paper Gabriele_Beccaria.pdf

22 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 Lunch break

23 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

24 e-Health: Bridging the Gap

Speaker: Prof. Manjit Dosanjh (CERN)

Slides Dosanjh.pdf.pdf

16:00 coffee break

25 The World Race for Nano-Beams

Speaker: Pantaleo Raimondi (LNF)

Slides RAIMONDI.pdf.pdf

26 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 social dinner

Thursday 13 May

27 The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: How Frontier Physics meets Health Sciences

Speaker: Young-Kee KIM

Slides YKeeKim.pdf.pdf

28 e-Health: Opportunities and Challenges of a Paradigmatic Convergence Field

Speaker: Sergio Bertolucci (LNF)

Slides Bertolucci.pdf.pdf

11:00 coffee break

29 Dealing with an Interview (NO SLIDES presented - reverse session)

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

30 Closing Remarks