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 floor – Naples
PROGRAMME
9.30 | Greetings
Arturo De Vivo, Vice-Rector of the University of Naples Federico II
Edoardo Massimilla, Director of Humanistic Studies Department
Anna Maria Rao, Head of the Department of Historical Sciences
10.00am First session
Anna Maria Rao presides
Domenico Cecere, University of Naples Federico II: The Discompose project: hypothesis and objectives
François Walter, Université de Genève: Y at-l’époque moderne une européenne de la catastrophe?
11.20 | Coffee break
11.40 | Second session
Giovanni Muto presides
Tamar Herzog, Harvard University: Early Modern Information: Controlling and Knowing in Spain and its Empire
Armando Alberola Romá, Universidad de Alicante: Climate, desastre y crisis en España y América during the Pequeña Edad del Hielo
13.00 | Discussion
13.30 | Lunch break
14.30 | Third session
Giancarlo Alfano presides
Amedeo Quondam. “La Sapienza” University of Rome: Disasters of Nature, Disasters of History: Italian identity
15.10 | Presentation of the volume
Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples. Politics, Communication and Culture , Viella 2018
edited by D. Cecere, C. De Caprio, L. Gianfrancesco, P. Palmieri, translation by EM Ferrara
Speakers:
Sergio Bozzola, University of Padua
Flavia Gherardi, University of Naples Federico II
Elisa Novi Chavarria, University of Molise
16.30 | Discussion with:
Gaia Bruno, Melissa Calaresu, Diego Carnevale, Nicola De Blasi, Chiara De Caprio, Enrica M. Ferrara, Rita Fresu, Manuel Herrero Sanchez, Marco Meriggi, Francesco Montuori, Pasquale Palmieri, Valerio Petrarca, Gennaro Schiano, Alfonso Tortora, Alessandro Tuccillo, Gennaro Varriale, Piero Ventura, Milena Viceconte
Go to an on line article introducing the DisComPoSE digital archive
Go to an on line article about the international conference held on 10th December 2018 in Naples
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