Cortona Week

The "Cortona Week" is a transdisziplinary seminar which is being conducted by ETH Zürich since 1985 - for more than 20 years by now. 90-100 students, mostly of master or PhD levels, and some 30 teachers exchange for a full week on „Science and Wholeness of Life” during the first half of September every year. A special yearly topic focusses contributions of well selected distingished speakers and workshop leaders from natural sciences and humanities, from arts and politics as well as from religion and spirituality.
The early morning program starts with practical selfexperience followed by a section of learning-by-listening through plenary lectures and panel discussions. After common lunch two blocks of experimental workshops of about 15 different action fields are being offered which foster the learning-by-doing part. A last block in the evening is reserved for theoretical interactions in small groups in order to reinforce topics of special interest, may they be preselected or spontaneously invoked through morning lectures.
The seminar week has the form of a campus, which fosters interdisciplinary exchange in most variable ways. Body work and intellectual activities receive the same kind of attention. The overall concept of the week aims at widening personal perspectives and enhancing creativity in order to amplify personal judgement and leadership qualities. The overture of the Cortona Week is being arranged such that students can gain experience beyond their ordinary fields of interest by choosing their personal set of new activities.

Cortona Week 2012 takes place from September 8 to September 15 in Cortona Tuscany

The main topic of Cortona Woche 2012 is: NO TIME AT ALL the conference should bring together the different aspects of the time constructs in sciences, arts, religions, and cultures.
a selection of main speakers are: Iso Camartin - Florian Dombois - Gerd Folkers - Hildegard Keller - Elham Manea - Helmut Milz - Ramis Movassagh - Ernst Piper - Br. David Steindl-Rast - Thich Thien Son

• Click here to see the list of Speakers and Workshop-leaders 2012.
• Online Registrations are possible from April to June

Cortona Video 2010

Cortona Videos 2007

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(long version 10 Minutes)