Entries by manuelapittera

The Global Circulation of News at the ICARUS convention

The Digital Archive DisComPoSE will be presented at the ICARUS Convention 33 – European Travel Routes through GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums). The Challenge of Becoming Digital, a result of the scientific collaboration between the Museum of Agricultural Sciences and the Department of Humanities at the University of Naples Federico II. The theme of travel, […]

DisComPoSE research at the SISAM conference

The developments of the DisComPoSE Project research will be presented during the second national conference of the Italian Society of Environmental History (SISAM), titled Italian Environmental History from Ancient to Contemporary Times: Themes, Sources, and Methods, which will be held in Naples at the Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II. On […]

Levels of Culture in Italy during the Early Modern Period

The recently published volume Verba manent. Livelli di cultura in Italia nella prima età moderna (Verba Manent: Levels of Culture in Italy during the Early Modern Period), edited by Vittorio Celotto and Gennaro Schiano, takes its cue from a series of seminars held as part of the DisComPosE activities in the spring of 2021. The […]

DisComPoSE Digital Archive

Data related to thousands of sources on natural disasters in the Spanish Monarchy during the early modern age can be consulted through the DisComPoSE Digital Archive. The research group has collected and analysed a huge number of documents and divided them into three categories: manuscripts, printed texts, and images. The period best covered by the […]

Sustainable and Resilient societies

Disruptive transformations such as natural disasters, technological innovations, and demographic, socio-economic and organizational crises make resilience an urgent priority on the research agenda of contemporary social and behavioural sciences and humanities. The fragility of social systems and their underlying institutional foundations was investigated by the scholars and students who participated in the Summer School SuRe […]

New partnership between DisComPoSE and VeLoci

The new collaboration between the researchers of the DisComPoSE project and those of the VeLoci project – Vesuvian Lost Cities before the Discovery: Sources, Experiences, Imagery in the Early Modern Period – began on June 14th 2024, in an evocative location: the crater of Mount Vesuvius. “The Mountain” that dominates the bay of Naples is […]

Experiences of Calamity

The collection of essays in the section La società di antico regime e le esperienze della calamità. Memorie, pratiche di risposta (The Society of the Old Regime and Experiences of Calamity: Memories, Response Practices) in issue 2 of 2024 of the Rivista Storica Italiana, aims to evaluate the impact that extreme, seemingly exceptional, or unexpected […]

Natural Risk in Mediterranean Spain

The DisComPoSE project hosted the 17th edition of the History and Climate seminar from 12th June 14th 2024. The event, organized in Naples by the namesake research group from the University of Alicante, facilitated interaction among scholars from various backgrounds on The perception of risk and catastrophe in the 16th-18th , with special attention to […]

The printed catalogue of the exhibition “Paper eruptions” is now available!

Since 2022, you have been able to visit the virtual exhibition Paper eruptions. Four centuries of printing on volcanoes. The printed catalogue of the exhibition edited by Elisabetta Scirocco, Philine Helas, Golo Maurer, Domenico Cecere, Hanna Sophie Stegemann and Milena Viceconte is now also available. This publication is the result of a close collaboration between […]

Natural and anthropic upheavals in the Mediterranean area

A session on environmental disasters in the early modern era took place during the International Conference on Catastrofi mediterranee. Sconvolgimenti naturali e antropici nella storia dello spazio mediterraneo (Mediterranean catastrophes: natural and anthropic upheavals in the history of the Mediterranean area). Four researchers from the DisComPoSE project participated in the event, organized by the Ruggero […]