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1.7.23
Saturday
12:30

MIÚCHA: The Voice of Bossa Nova

Miúcha had a lovely voice, heaps of musical talent, and a remarkable zest for life, yet she remained in the shadows while the men in her life—her brother (Chico Buarque), husband (João Gilberto), and musical partner (Antônio Carlos Jobim) - took center stage. When the Bossa Nova scene rose to popularity, Miúcha composed, sang, recorded, and performed all over the world alongside these giants of Brazillian music, but when she got married and had a child, she was gradually pushed into obscurity. “I thought I didn’t deserve this,” she said, “not to have this fairytale come true for me". Five years after her death, her nephew, filmmaker Daniel Zarvos, used beautiful and emotionally stirring hidden treasures from the family archive to tell Miúcha’s riveting life story, bringing her back into the 

limelight, where she belongs.

Directors: Lilian Muti, Daniel Zervos

Brasil/France 2022 | 98 minutes | English, French and Portuguese, Hebrew and English subtitles. 

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16.3
Monday
20:00

Illusion: The Placebo Effect and Illusions as an Active Ingredient, a meeting with Prof. Asya Rolls

The second meeting in a new series – dialogues with researchers who have written essays on various aspects of illusion in their fields of research, as appeared in the 2026 edition of ‘Poetry of Science’, a periodical published once a year concurrently with the Weizmann Institute’s annual Ofer Lider prize for encouraging creative writing among scientists award ceremony. The editor of ‘Poetry of Science’ is Idan Barir, a translator of poetry and prose from Portuguese, Arabic, English, and Turkish.


“The neural networks involved in positive expectations, those that incite a sense of hope, satisfaction, and motivation, are not limited to the mental realm. They influence the entire body, activate the immune system, and stimulate healing processes. Placebos, in this sense, serve as a portal to understanding the power of the brain to shape a physiological reality – how thought or faith can stimulate actual biological mechanisms.” (Prof. Asya Rolls)


The placebo effect is a phenomenon in which a patient receives a sham treatment, but the brain and the immune system are stimulated into performing an actual healing process. 


Prof. Asya Rolls in a dialogue with Idan Barir, on the potential of understanding the relationship between body and soul, the extent to which physical reality can be based on illusions created in the brain, and the role of faith and hope in the healing process.
Prof. Asya Rolls – Researcher at the School for Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics at Tel Aviv University’s Life Sciences Faculty.

 

Sponsored by the Berginsky Center for the Interface between Science and Humanities
 


Schedule:
16/2 Travels to the Past as Deceptive Illusion, with Prof. Avner Wishnitzer
16/3 The Placebo Effect, with Prof. Asya Rolls
18/5 The Psychedelic Renaissance, with Prof. Shaul Lev-Ran