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New call for papers on natural disasters

A Call for Papers is open for two monographic issues of the Griseldaonline journal on the theme “Catastrophes. When the world fails”. The goal is to investigate literary texts as valuable witnesses and at the same time exceptional creators of the means of reading and representing disasters over time, with particular attention to natural disasters. […]

Calamities and societies of the ancien régime

In the face of the emergency of the pandemic, attempts to research in the past similarities and differences between the ways individuals, companies and institutions respond to this type of event have multiplied. This was the theme of the lecture by Prof. Domenico Cecere From punishments of God to wonders of nature. Calamities and societies […]

From punishments of God to wonders of nature

Da castighi di Dio a prodigi della natura. Le calamità e le società di antico regime (From punishments of God to wonders of nature. Calamities and societies of ancient regime) is the title of the conference of Prof. Domenico Cecere organized by the University of Molise that will take place on October 28th at 11.00 am and […]

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 […]