In the genre of «Science Fiction» scientific and technological utopias permeate our everyday life. The zest for technoscientific visions is always paired with fears of catastrophy. Archetypical images like Prometheus and Dr. Frankenstein not only nurture our invention but also our attitudes towards existing science and technology.

Our present embodies a dilemma: There is no alternative to science based provision of the future. At the same time we are confronted with problematic consequences of scientific progress. How is the future anticipated and determined by science?

C. P. Snow emphasized the differing identities of disciplines in science and technology and in arts and humanities and coined the notion of "two cultures". The colloquium wants to stimulate a dialogue between the two cultures. Historical continuities of debate shall be detected and ways explored for constructive collaboration.

Within a four years research project an interdisciplinary group worked about "Emotions and their role for human action and in establishing social norms." Researches who have been involved in the project will present their results in a series of public lectures which will be paralleled by a lecture for students and graduates of the ETHZ and UHZ.

It is important for our daily navigation to know, when and if it is necessary and appropriate to show feelings. We experience and learn from other cultures that showing feelings may elicit very different reactions. This causes both practical problems and an uncertainty of what feelings are and for what they are meant.

It is important for our daily navigation to know, when and if it is necessary and appropriate to show feelings. We experience and learn from other cultures that showing feelings may elicit very different reactions. This causes both practical problems and an uncertainty of what feelings are and for what they are meant.

Pain itself is a complex sensoric impression and hence ruled by laws of basic sciences and medicine. In parallel, convictions, personal self-perception and cultural background do influence the individual feeling of pain. The lecture aims to bridge a broad view of the problem by broaching the issues of physiology of pain to experiences of pain and their expression in arts and literature

Pain itself is a complex sensoric impression and hence ruled by laws of basic sciences and medicine. In parallel, convictions, personal self-perception and cultural background do influence the individual feeling of pain. The lecture aims to bridge a broad view of the problem by broaching the issues of physiology of pain to experiences of pain and their expression in arts and literature

The expression of emotions, be it intentionally or not, is among the eldest forms of communication. By facial expression, gesture, tone and posture our emotions are transmitted to others. These facts open a wide fields of social manipulation, where we may play both roles of subject and object.

The expression of emotions, be it intentionally or not, is among the eldest forms of communication. By facial expression, gesture, tone and posture our emotions are transmitted to others. These facts open a wide fields of social manipulation, where we may play both roles of subject and object.

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