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Seminar of the APURIS Programme

On Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th September the DisComPoSE team will take part in the third seminar of the APURIS Programme focusing on natural disasters and in particular on risk management and on the responses of the Bourbon administration during the 18th-19th centuries. In the next few days we will publish the link to attend […]

The making of emergency response policies

The making of emergency response policies in Early Modern Age is the title of a streaming video by Gennaro Schiano for the cycle of cultural events Non fermiamo la cultura (Do not stop culture) transmitted by the Department of Culture of Naples Municipality during Covid-19 lockdown on 9th April 2020. Through images and texts printed […]

November 13, 2019: “Istoria funesta”. Natural disasters, information and responses

“Istoria funesta”. Natural disasters, information and responses in the Spanish Monarchy Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología of Rome (EEHAR) via di S. Eufemia 13, Rome Wednesday 13th November 2019, 4.00 p.m. Domenico Cecere (Università Federico II di Napoli) Armando Alberola Romà (Universidad de Alicante) Gennaro Schiano (Università Federico II di Napoli) Maria Eugenia Petit-Breuilh […]

November 12, 2019: Environmental disasters in the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish America

Le calamità ambientali in età moderna: esperienze e prospettive di ricerca su Penisola iberica e America latina (Environmental disasters in early modern age: research experiences about the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish America) Tuesday 12th November, 9,30 a.m. Department of Human Studies of the University of Naples Federico II Via Porta di Massa 1, Naples Armando Alberola Romà […]

January 10, 2020: Water: resource and threat in Europe

L’acqua: risorsa e minaccia. La gestione delle risorse idriche e delle inondazioni in Europa dal Medioevo all’Età contemporanea (Water: resource and threat. The management of water resources and floods in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age) January 10th, 2020 Department of Human Studies of the Universitry of Naples Federico II Via Porta di […]

Heroic figures in calamitous times

The current incidence of natural disasters has stimulated, especially in recent decades, a lively debate among academics from different disciplines about the cultural and social connotations of catastrophes. Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and fires are studied as social events, which provide a photographic negative relevant to the culture and imagination of a historical period. In the […]

DisComPoSE joined The European Researchers’ night

DisComPoSE participated in the European Researchers’ Night, a valuable opportunity to bring society closer to the themes, the problems and the challenges of scientific research. Within this framework, two popular events were held on 27th September 2019 by the DisComPoSE reasearchers. Di fronte alla catastrofe. La storia e la memoria dei disastri naturali in età […]

Meeting with Spanish university students

On 19th June 2019 the DisComPoSE team participated in Trobada entre historiadors (Meeting between historians), a stimulating seminar with students and teachers of History, Art History and Archaeology at the University of Barcelona, who were  on a study trip to Naples. Among the lines of research of the Department of Humanities, it was possible to […]