With the seminar The square as a political space: manuscripts, printings and songs held on 9th June, Prof. Massimo Rospocher shifted the focus of reflection within the cycle of meetings Verba manent to the spaces and concrete conditions in which communication takes place. Dwelling on the spaces, the professor allowed us to reconsider the relationship […]
In the final meeting of the cycle of seminars Verba Manent, Claudio Giunta, professor of Italian literature at the University of Trento, enriched the reflection on popular culture starting from the lesson of Piero Camporesi. The seminar, dedicated to Camporesi’s legacy, concerned the current relevance of his studies and the applicability of his methods, and […]
DisComPoSE has expanded the field of investigation into disasters caused by natural events. In the conference of 7th and 8th June Communication, politics and emergency management in the Hispanic Monarchy. Sixteenth-eighteenth centuries, interesting dynamics of transformation of the forms and content of communication, that characterized the different territorial and political spheres of the Hispanic Monarchy […]
The site of the Italian Society for the History of the Early Modern Age (SISEM) hosts the editorial by Domenico Cecere Memorie corte. Le società di antico regime e l’esperienza delle catastrofi (Short memories. Ancien régime societies and the experience of disasters). Drawing on some aspects of public communication observed during the current health emergency, […]
How and to what extent were institutional and extra-institutional communication channels and networks transformed in times of crisis? How was the relationship between the secrecy and publicity of information configured in such moments? Through which socio-cultural and linguistic-textual processes was information reworked and manipulated? These are some of the questions which will be addressed by […]
What is a popular press? This is the question addressed by the DisComPoSe research group to Professor Giancarlo Petrella, who attended the third appointment of the Verba manent series of seminars taking place on May 5th on the Teams platform. The professor, who teaches archivistics, bibliography and librarianship at the Federico II University of Naples, […]
The second online meeting of the Verba manent cycle had as its protagonist Professor Ottavia Niccoli, author of books that have by now become classics of Renaissance history and culture. On April 28th 2021, the historian spoke about the Transmission of news and cultural content in Italy in the 16th century and discussed with the […]
What happens when Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso leave the courts to enter the inns? This is the question that the researchers of the DisComPoSE group tried to answer together with Marina Roggero – author of the beautiful book Le carte piene di sogni. Testi e lettori in età moderna (The pages full of dreams. Texts […]
DisComPoSE will participate in the fifteenth edition of the Jornadas Internacionales de Arte, Historia y Cultura Colonial organized by the Colonial Museum of Bogotà. The event will be entitled Iconografías del desastre: miradas sobre los siglos XVI-XVIII en tiempos de pandemia (Disaster iconographies: views on the 16th-18th centuries in times of pandemic), and will be […]
The number 51 of “Mediterranea” is online, hosting the monographic section “Calamità ambientali e risposte politiche nella monarchia ispanica (secc. XVII-XVIII)” (Environmental calamities and political responses in the Hispanic monarchy -XVII-XVIII centuries)”, edited by Domenico Cecere and with contributions from scholars of the DisComPoSe project. Download the monographic section
