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Imperial Forums, Rome

Programme and Addictional Activities
Thursday, October 18th

8.30 - 9.00
Registration

9.00 - 9.15
Welcome Address

9.15 – 10.30Aula Master – Chair: Luca Iani
Key Note 1: Antonella Delle Fave, University of Milan, The Relationship between Virtues and Well-being in Psychological Research

10.30 – 10.45
Coffee Break

10.45 – 13.15
Seminar Session 1

Room 1: Aula Master – Chair: Riccardo Brunetti
  • Valentina  Cafaro, Promoting  posttraumatic  growth  in  cancer  patients:  A randomized  multicenter  pilot  study  of  a  guided  disclosure  protocol
  • Omowumi  Ogunyemi, The  Future  Self,  Narratives,  Habits  for  Human  Flourishing
  • Sabrina  Intelisano, The  paradigmatic  case  of  happiness
  • Marco  Cristian  Vitiello, Work  psychology  for  better  work,  for  better  life
  • Luca Iani, Andrea René Angeramo, Andrea Schiralli, Rossella Quinto, Damiano Abeni, Piero Porcelli, The role of sense of coherence and positivity in the prediction of spiritual well-being and distress in dermatological patients
 
Room 2: CT03 – Chair: Michel Croce
  • Gabriele  Giorgi,  Javier  Fiz  Perez,  Caterina  Pandolfi, The  dark  side  of  negative  behaviours  tolerance  in  workplace
  • Jeroen  Rijnders, Moral  Agency,  Automaticity,  and  Character:  A  Tripartite Model  of  Moral  Agency 
  • Javier  Fiz  Perez,  Dafne  Cataluna, Coping  support  techniques  versus  Stress  causes  with  Positive  Psychology  and  Human  Virtues  approach
  • Paolo  D'ambrosio, Factors  of  Contingency:  The  Variable  Formation  of  Character  Traits  and  the  Uniqueness  of  Human  Cultural  Evolution
 
13.15 - 14.45
Lunch

14.45 - 16.00
Aula Master – Chair: Nancy E. Snow
Key Note 2: Darcia Narvaez, University of Notre Dame, Baselines of Virtue Development

16.00 - 16.15
Coffee break

16.15 - 18.45
Seminar Session 2


Room 1: Aula Master – Chair: Gabriele Giorgi
  • Mar  Álvarez-Segura,  Martin  F.  Echavarria,  Paul  C.Vitz, A  psycho-ethical  approach  to  personality  disorders: The  role  of volitionality
  • Fátima  Ruiz  Fuster, Ethics  and  personality  psychology:  Magda  Arnold’s contribution
  • Fabian  Gander,  Willibald  Ruch, Character  and  virtue  from  a  personality  perspective
  • Roberto  Vacca, Andrea Laudadio,  Serena  Mancuso, Virtues  and  human  strengths:  towards  a  new  classification  Model
  • Renata  Salvarani, The  martyrdom  as  model  of  virtue.  Cases  and  narratives  from medieval Mediterranean context
 
 
Room 2: CT03 – Chair: Alberto Garcia
  • Carmen  Caro  Samada, The  education  of  gratitude  in  the  family
  • Mara  Neijzen, The  Emotional  Process  of  Virtue-Acquisition.  Negative  Moods  Affecting  the  Virtuous  Field  of  Affordances 
  • Marco  Meyer, Developing  and  Applying  the  Intellectual  Virtue  Scale
  • Antonino Tamburello, Psychopathology and behaviour change: the role of virtues
  • Paolo Scapellato, Virtues, faculties and universal tendencies in the process of human development
 
 
 

Friday, October 19th
 
9.00 - 11.30
Seminar Session 3


Room 1: Aula Master – Chair: Damiano Simoncelli​
  • Ettore  De  Monte, Vice  and  mental  illness
  • Alessandra  Tanesini, Vices  and  Implicit  biases  as  Attitudes 
  • Matthew  Jenkins, Deciding  desiderata:  On  modelling  implicit  bias
  • Miriam  Aiello, To make a necessity out of virtue or to make a virtue out of necessity? Remarks on Bourdieu's habitus-based and virtue free model of action
 
Room 2: CT03 – Chair: Rie Iizuka
  • Nafsika  Athanassoulis, What  does  the  student  of  Aristotelian  virtue  need  to  know?
  • Pia  Valenzuela, Aristotle’s  social  virtues  and  the  theory  of  positive  emotions of  B.  L.  Fredrickson
  • Pia  Patricia  K.  Garcia, Growing  or  Accumulating?  Aristotle,  Maslow,  and  What  Makes  Man  Act
  • Katharina  Nieswandt, Ulf Hlobil, Revolutionary  Virtues?  What  Character  Traits  Are  Needed  under  Oppression?

11.30 - 11.45
Coffee Break

11.45 – 13.00
Aula Master – Chair: Angelo Campodonico
Key Note 3: Jonathan Webber, University of Cardiff, Evaluative attitude as the Cognitive Architecture of Virtues and Vices

13.00-14.30
Lunch

14.30 - 15.45
Aula Master – Chair: Claudia Navarini
Key Note 4: Christian Miller, Wake Forest University, The Neglected Virtue of Honesty: Insights from Philosophy and Psychology

15.45 – 16.00
Tea Break

16.00 - 18.00
Seminar Session 4


Room 1: Aula Master – Chair: Maria Silvia Vaccarezza
  • Nancy  E.  Snow  Jennifer  Cole  Wright, Virtue  Measurement 
  • Rie  Iizuka, Intellectual  virtues  as  the  primary  aim  of  education
  • Natasza  Szutta, Willpower  – The  power  of  selfregulation
  • Matt  Stichter, Virtue,  Skill,  and  Self-Regulation:  Working  with  Social  Psychology
 
 
Room 2: CT03 – Damiano Simoncelli
  • Juan  Andrés  Mercado,  Jerónimo  Ayesta, Tell me what you hope in and I will tell you how you live. Hope as the framework of human life
  • Martin  Hähnel, Is  impersonal  benevolence  a  virtue? 
  • Silvia  Panizza, Why  Veganism  is  not  a  Choice:  The  Psychology  of  Moral  Possibilities  in  Animal  Ethics
  • Koji  Tachibana, Virtue  Ethics  and  Psychological  Research  on  Human Performance  in  Space
 

18.00 - 20.00
City sightseeing tour
 
20.00:
Social Dinner

 
 
Saturday, October 20th
 
9.30 - 10.45
Aula Master – Chair: Michele Mangini
Key Note 3: Mario De Caro, University of Roma Tre – Tufts University, Reasons, Emotions, and the Virtuous Mind

10.45 - 11.00
Coffee Break

11.00 – 13.30:
Seminar Session 5
 
Room 1: Aula Master – Chair: Riccardo Brunetti
  • Mª  Dolores  Conesa  Lareo, Human  freedom:  a  possible  articulation  between  ethics  of  virtue  and  psychology 
  • Joan  Vianney  Domingo  Ribary, Right  desire  and  right  action
  • Allegra  Indraccolo,  Anna  Contardi,  Claudia  Del  Gatto,  Riccardo  Brunetti, Carrots or stick? A framing effect on moral decision making and eye movement 
  • Mariantonietta Fabbricatore, Tonia Samela, Virtue  Ethics  from  the  perspective  of  Psychoneuroendocrineimmunology
 
Room 2: CT03 – Chair: Katharina  Nieswandt
  • Chun  Nam  Chan, Justified  Emotions  in  the  Virtue  Reliabilist  Manner
  • Michele  Mangini, Is  Situationism  Ethically  Plausible?
  • Pawel  Pijas, Autonomy  and  Exemplars
  • Guido Traversa, The beauty of nature and human virtues
  • Michel  Croce, Moral Understanding and Advising: The Prospects of The Exemplarist Virtue Theory

13.30 – 13.45: Concluding remarks
 
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Additional activities

Participants in the conference may be interested in the following guided tours (in English):
1. The Vatican and Vatican Museums: 4 hours - minimum 8 participants - €75/hour per group (€37,50 per participant - Museums tickets € 35 per person not included - total per person 72,50)
2. Coliseum and Imperial Forums: 4 hours - minimum 8 participants - €75/hour (€37,5 per participant - individual tickets €25 not included - total per person 62,50)

PLEASE NOTE: 
  • The tours will take place on condition that the required minimum number of participants is reached 
  • Payment will be due only when the minimum number of participants is confirmed
  • Booking deadline: September 10th, 2018

​Please contact virtuesrome@imago7.it to make your reservation and for all other details (time, meeting point, methods of payment)

Convegno Aretai 2018, Roma 18 -20 ottobre - Università Europea di Roma