The Kanizsa Lecture is a public event traditionally organized by the University of Trieste to celebrate Gaetano Kanizsa, founder of the Trieste school of experimental psychology and a student of Cesare Musatti.
This year the Kanizsa Lecture is being organized in Milan on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 in collaboration with the Department of Psychology of the University of Milan-Bicocca as part of the "23rd Scientific Conference of the Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications" to be held at the Milanese university from Sept. 25-27 (Tellus Building U4-8 Aula Sironi, Piazza della Scienza 4).

Specifically, the free events open to interested citizens on Sept. 27 in Aula Sironi, Tellus Building U4-8, are as follows:

9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. workshop entitled “Elucidation,” with speakers Michael Kubovy (University of Virginia) and Achille Varzi (Columbia University). Free admission event.

4:00 p.m.:6:00 p.m. 32nd Kanizsa Lecture entitled “On Owning a Border” by Achille Varzi, professor of philosophy at Columbia University in New York. Event by registration   

Organizers:

University of Trieste
Walter Gerbino, Tiziano Agostini, Paolo Bernardis, Carlo Fantoni

University of Milano-Bicocca
Mauro Antonelli, Rossana Actis Grosso, Daniele Zavagno

The University of Milano-Bicocca, moreover, is organizing an exhibition in which it is possible to admire the works that are the result of the creative flair of some important psychologist-artists: this and other initiatives open to all citizens are taking place on the occasion of the "23rd Scientific Conference of the Society for Gestalt Theory and its Application", which will be held from September 25 to 27, 2024. The exhibition (with free and open access) will be set up in the FrancoAngeli Academy space at Viale dell'Innovazione 11 in Milan, and will be open from Sept. 24 to Oct. 11 from Monday to Friday (1 to 6 p.m., with the possibility of visits by appointment).

Visitors can immerse themselves in the pictorial works of Alberto Argenton, Gaetano Kanizsa and Manfredo Massironi, accompanied by listening to musical pieces composed by Paolo Bozzi. These are artists who were also professors of general psychology at the Universities of Padua (Argenton), Trieste (Bozzi and Kanizsa) and Verona (Massironi), and have privileged, in their scientific research, the study of perception within the perspective of Gestalt psychology, one of the mainstays of Italian psychology in the second half of the 20th century. The four scholars have systematically cultivated artistic research alongside their scientific research, sharing the results with exhibition activities or musical concerts.