International Journal of Arts & Sciences

30-10-2011 23:00

 

 

FLORENCE MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
June 19-22, 2012
Online submissions will be accepted until March 21, 2012.
If you need a Schengen Visa, please apply early.
 
 
In our mission to promote multidisciplinary education on a global setting, we receive numerous invitations to host our conferences in various places. Sometimes, we are asked to celebrate particular scholars. Of these, one name stands out both in frequency and stature. How could theInternational Journal of Arts and Sciences not honor Leonardo da Vinci, the father of multidisciplinary education? we have been asked.

Finally, we do. And we do so in his own Florence.

Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in the territory of the Medici-ruled Republic of Florence. Florence is the capital of the Italian region of Tuscany. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance; it has been called theAthens of the Middle Ages. 
 
Renaissance humanism saw no mutually exclusive polarities between the arts and the sciences, and Leonardo's artistic work is as impressive and innovative as his studies in science and engineering. His studies were recorded in 13,000 pages of notes and drawings, which fused art andnatural philosophy (the forerunner of modern science), made and maintained daily throughout his life. His notes and drawings displayed an enormous range of interests and preoccupations, some as mundane as lists of groceries and people who owed him money and some as intriguing as designs for wings and shoes for walking on water. Leonardo, a man of great ingenuity, was the quintessential multidisciplinary scholar.

The historic centre of Florence attracts millions of tourists each year. It was declared a World Heritage Site UNESCO in 1982. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, it has been ranked byForbes as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Florence is believed to have the greatest concentration of art in the world. Thus, cultural tourism is particularly strong, with world-renowned museums such as the Uffizi selling over 1.6 million tickets a year. Florence is also an important city inItalian fashion. The city exerts a strong influence in the fields of art, culture and politics.


 
 
 

The IJAS Conference Series takes place annually in several cities across Europe and North America. The series has three primary aims. 

The first aim is to provide opportunities for academics from a range of disciplines and countries to share their research both through the conference podium and IJAS' double-blind refereed publications. All IJAS conferences are inter- and multi-disciplinary.

The second aim of the Conference Series is to provide opportunities for academics to receive informal in-depth feedback through discussions, and to enable them to establish contact with professionals in other countries and institutions. The tours are the main way of "breaking the ice" away from the formalities of the conference hall, providing an informal setting for discussing different points of view. Even in an increasingly networked world of internet and satellite conferences, there is no substitute for personal interaction—what Edward R. Murrow calls "the last three feet of communication."  It is individuals, not data streams, who must ultimately build the connections that in turn create lasting international research partnerships.

The third aim of the Conference Series is to introduce academics to educational premises in locations that are suitable for study abroad programs and which may meet their students’ educational needs. IJAS draws its inspiration from the Fulbright Program, an integral part of the United States' foreign educational relations, where face-to-face exchanges have proven to be the single most effective means of engaging international publics while broadening dialogue between academics and institutions. 

 

 

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