1 ^st Intercontinental Academia: An Interdisciplinary Collaborative Study on Time

Documentaries that sum up the spirit and the activities of the Intercontinental Academia 

Produced by a group of audiovisual rapporteurs during each phase of the program, the videos are an artistic point of view over the meetings held by the project. Watch the films that shortly report the first edition of the Intercontinental Academia in São Paulo (March, 2015) and in Nagoya (March, 2016).

News on talks and activities

Conference Discusses the Social Jet Lag Syndrome

The modern lifestyle has led many individuals to develop what chronobiologist Till Roenneberg defined as “social jet lag” syndrome.

Discerning the Biological Clock of Single-Celled Organisms

The biological processes of most living beings are governed by the circadian clock, a natural timepiece that adjusts internal vital rhythms to external environmental rhythms, regulating cellular metabolic activity according to cycles of light and dark.

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Critical reports about the event

Reflections on Time – 13 young researchers take on a multidisciplinary approach and prepare for the future

In their closing report, the young scholars presented a very cohesive and ambitious proposal of what we can expect to see in Japan. 

Kairos encounters Chronos. The ubiquity of ethnography for achieving spacetimes in digital cultures

Last talk was special to reflect about the multiplicity of topics that were treated in the previous expositions and, as Jorge Luis Borges says, the “ubiquitous problem of time”.  

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Videos 

Talk with Karl-Heinz Kohl

Concepts of time across the cultures: an anthropological view 
What people understand by “time” – if an equivalent to the english term exists at all – is always culturally embedded. 

Talk with Eliezer Rabinovici

Constructing Time In Physics - Attempts 
How physicists have been attempting to come to grips with the experience of a time and it's flow. This will involve glimpses at the concepts discovered and developed to study large and small time scales. Such ideas includes Unified theories and String theory.

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Photos

University Axis Album 

Time Axis Talks Album 

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