Disaster Management in the 17th century
Conferences and SeminarsThe researchers of the DisComPoSE project took part in the first congress of the Italian Society of Environmental History (SISAM) dedicated to Environmental History in Italy: Methods and Research Paths held in Catania on 22nd-24th September.
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Cities of the early modern age and their resources
Conferences and SeminarsDisComPoSE has participated in the Curso internacional de estudios mediterráneos, a summer course organized by the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Barcelona, which took place from 5th to 9th September.
This event,…
Three disciplinary approaches to the representation of catastrophe
Conferences and SeminarsThe DisComPoSE research group took part in a cycle of meetings organized within the Edinburgh Early Modern Network through an online seminar entitled Narrating and Communicating Disasters in the Spanish Monarchy: an Interdisciplinary Approach.
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Information networks and communication policy
Conferences and SeminarsIn old regime societies, after natural disasters, the most powerful social groups and institutions were often driven to compete with each other for the management of the emergency. The circulation of information and the control of opinions were…
Rexpublica and DisComPoSE in discussion
Conferences and SeminarsSeveral members of the Rexpublica project and the DisComPoSE project attended the conference Desastres en la América colonial Hispánica. Redes, circulación de la información y memoria (siglos XVI-XVIII), organized on 13th September at the…
Iconography and history of epidemics
Conferences and SeminarsDisComPoSe is among the official partners of the fifteenth edition of the Jornadas Internacionales de Arte, Historia y Cultura Colonial, organized by the Colonial and Santa Clara Museums of Bogotá which took place from 24th to 26th August as…
Stories of disasters and dreams of the future
Conferences and SeminarsDisComPoSE took part in the eighth edition of Rencontres Recherche et Création. La mémoire du future (At the crossroads of research and artistic creativity. Memory of the future) organized by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and the…
Intervention strategies in the face of disaster
Conferences and SeminarsAs part of the activities of the RED Geride International Network, the XV edition of the Historia & Disastres conference took place on 5th July, aimed at promoting the historical and comparative study of disasters related to threats of…
The lesson of Piero Camporesi
Conferences and SeminarsIn 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…
Communication, politics and emergency management
Conferences and SeminarsHow 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…