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 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 […]
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 […]
A workshop specifically designed for the young DisComPoSE researchers took place on May 31st 2019 in the Banco di Napoli Historical Archives, the largest archival collection of bank documents in the entire world. The content of these documents dates back to the middle of the 1500s, continuing to the present day, and ranges from documents […]
Firefighting and the Narratives of Great Fires in Early Modern Europe Seminar with David Garrioch (Monash University, Melbourne) and Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck University of London)Tuesday, January 22nd 2019, 3:00 pm DSU Room 5 – Department of Humanistic Studies Via Porta di Massa 1 – Naples The seminar was organized as part of the […]
Forms and networks of communication in 16th century Europe: information, censorship, dissimulation Seminar with Elena Bonora (University of Parma) and Brendan Dooley (University College Cork) 21st January 2019, at 3.00 p.m. Department of Humanities – Via Porta di Massa 1 – Naples Read the programme Go to the Report
The history of printing and reading in the modern age: recent trends and studies (La storia della stampa e della lettura in età moderna: orientamenti e studi recenti) Seminar with Brendan Dooley ( University College Cork ) Friday, 18th January 2019, 3:00 pm Room 4 – Department of Human Studies Via Porta di Massa 1 […]
NATURAL DISASTERS, COMMUNICATION AND POLITICS IN THE SPANISH MONARCHY Ancien régime societies facing emergencies (Disastri naturali, comunicazione e politica nella Monarchia ispanica. Società di antico regime di fronte all’emergenza) Monday, December 10th 2018 Pontano Hall of the National Society of Sciences, Arts and Letters in Naples and the Pontaniana Academy Via Mezzocannone 8, II […]
