November 23, 2020: Tales of catastrophe

Tales of catastrophe – Remembering 23rd November 1980 To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the violent earthquake that devastated Irpinia in 1980, the DisComPoSE team organized on 23rd November 2020 an on line seminar with the participation…

The memory of the saved

The study of mass emergencies, especially in recent decades, has attracted the attention of numerous scholars who have examined the impact and processing of trauma by survivors through different disciplinary methodologies. Prof. Fausto Greco…

Memory, trauma, history.

Memory, trauma, history. War and catastrophe in the twentieth century The study of the history of the contemporary age requires a specific methodological approach and a particular typology of sources. Prof. Gabriella Gribaudi made this comment…

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…

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…

December 10 and 17, 2019: Landscapes of memory. Trauma, space, history

Paesaggi della memoria. Il trauma, lo spazio, la storia: incontro con Patrizia Violi (Landscapes of memory. Trauma, space, history: meeting with Patrizia Violi)   10th and 17th December 2019 Biblioteca BRAU - Piazza Bellini, 56…

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…

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…

May 23-24, 2019: Telling describing informing. The marvelous and the unheard

TELLING DESCRIBING INFORMING The marvelous and the unheard in the early modern age Seminar organised by S. Bozzola, C. De Caprio, F. Montuori  Naples, 23-24 May 2019 At the Società Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti in Napoli and…

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…